Heaven 90210

It's party season again folks, and even Canberra is fired up!...

The days are longer, the beers are colder and everyone's got that look in their eyes. That's right, it's summer in the southern hemisphere and we're not wasting any time!

Naturally with all this good weather the festivals are hitting town, the first of which myself and LDK were fortunate enough to catch last weekend. Stonefest at the University of Canberra, it's name has something to do with the laying of the first stone of the university or something... hrmm... whatever... Basically it boils down to a drunken 2-day festival, exhibiting the best of electronic music on friday night followed by a rock-n-roll romp on the saturday (not to mention lots of young uni girls out on the prowl in t-shirts with stupid slogans printed on them.. yum). This year's lineup was somewhat surprising tho.

Friday night we were graced with the presence of Regurgitator... a band that we hadn't heard from in quite some time, I think I speak for both LDK and myself when I say we were impressed.. they churned out the classics, which is probably what most people wanted to hear, I don't recall hearing any new songs but I could be wrong.... I'm no expert on the 'gurge.. The rest of the night was a mess of beats/breaks and booze, had a great time but don't remember paying too much attention to anymore acts that night.

The saturday was decidedly less popular with the punters, I assume this had something to do with the debauchery of night before, the people that did make it out looked pale and a little past it... not that that affected the atmosphere any. Saw Cog, almost fell asleep watching them... methinks they are overrated, 'nuff said. The Mark of Cain brought a tear to my eye, they might be old fellas but they still rock hard, in true Adelaide style (even tho they relocated to Melbourne... we still love 'em).

But the highlight for myself, and I'm sure everyone else who's old enough to remember them (certainly not this year's first-year students), was none other than Chicago-bred rockers Urge Overkill... They pumped out an awesome set, showing the crowd what early 90s stars are capable of when they don't die at age 27... Nash Kato was sporting the sinewy, zero-body-fat Iggy Pop physique and Eddie "King" Roeser's hairline looked as though it had receeded a little since back in the day, but hey, it's been eleven years... and heroin does that to you. They made no attempt at playing anything new, they just churned out the classics, and I gotta say it was like stepping into a time machine... we rocked out to Erica Kane/Bottle of Fur/Sister Havana/Somebody Else's Body and all the other classics from the 2 albums that etched them into my memory when I was young and impressionable. All up I reckon that these victims-of-bad-timing have still got it... Who knows if they'll release another album, who cares really... it's just good to know they came out the other side and can still rock-out-with-their-cocks-out.. Urge gets a big stallion salute for that.

Stay tuned for more stallion summer news, next week is Metal For The Brain, LDK and I will be on the scene once again as official CIH Stallions correspondents...