Don Caballero are on tour in Europe. They rule. So go see them. Why not get your ears alternately raped viciously and then gently massaged by the best drummer in the world? Especially if you can get in for free? That’s right. We have free tickets for all their dates in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and loads of goodies to give away, including posters, records, and cds of their awesome new album, World Class Listening Problem. You don’t really have to do anything to win the goodies. Just send us an email at Vice Italy, Vice Netherlands, or Vice Germany, with the word “Don” in the subject line and we’ll send you free stuff. Please specify what date you are interested in. The dates are posted below.
Archive for October, 2006
Don Caballero European Tour
Scotland - Bottle of Fight the World
It’s known as ‘Buckie’, ‘Brown Sauce’, ‘Commotion Lotion’, ‘Wreck-the-hoose Juice’, and ‘Bottle of Fight the World’. Buckfast is a fortified wine that is the favoured tipple of Neds (Scottish council estate kids) because it’s cheap, strong and tastes like sweeties.
But Scotland’s health minister wants to ban Buckie because, he says, it encourages underage binge drinking and violence (glass Buckie bottles are said to be responsible for 80 per cent of the head injuries at Scottish A&E wards every weekend)…
Italy - Transexual Toilets
Here’s more proof that the end of the world is pretty fucking nigh. Italian MPs have proposed a motion to discuss the opening of a third lavatory in the parliamentary halls. Next to the usual Gents and Ladies, the politicos are discussing the opening of a Transgender toilet to accomodate MP Vladimir Luxuria, after right-wing MP Elisabetta Gardini was "shocked" to run into her in the ladies’ loos. Seriously. It would be nice to have them spend their time trying to find a way to lower our taxes, prevent nuclear catastrophes, and make sure I won’t be paid in Yuan next year, but apparently a transgender toilet is pretty high in the Italian political agenda…
Melbourne - Halloween Costume Competition
So, it’s that time of the year again when the creative amongst us get to shine at all the parties while those more artistically challenged really just look forward to when it’s all over so they can just go as themselves again.
Our friend had a Halloween party on Saturday night and won fairly and squarely when he turned up as a demented rabbit that was eating himself. It was a stroke of disturbing creative genius and was so well executed that he must be shitting himself about having to top it next year.
Last year we put out a Horror issue and kind of obsessed over dressing up for a month. This year we want to see your best efforts again. The person who sends us a picture of the best costume to stuff@viceaustralia.com will win a VICE Dos & Don’ts Doll to treasure forever.
New York - Black Sabbath Video Collage
For the past three Halloweens, Luke Crotty and Christy Karacas from Cheeseburger have been putting together an exquisite corpse video with all their artist buds for each Black Sabbath album (they both also do video stuff–Christy made this little gem and did all the animation for the Guide to Travel DVD). They take the record, chop it up into little 30 second clips, draw their friends’ names out of a hat to assign them each a part, then wait for them to send back 30 seconds of video magic and stitch everything together into one seamless holiday loop to play at parties. They’ve been doing them in order, so last year’s was Paranoid and this year’s is Master of Reality (before they got locked into Sabbath, Luke put together two others using War of the World and some Disney haunted house album he found, though now they’re booked for at least the next five years). The finished product is being screened tonight only along with a couple past selections at Monkey Town in Brooklyn for free, so please feel free to drop by and also feel free to be stoned out of your mind when doing so.
London - Battle of the DJs
Even though we all know that DJing is bullshit and anyone can rock a party, The Old Blue Last is hosting a DJ battle this Thursday (02/11/06) featuring various up-and-coming turntablists (ipodists more like) including Klaxons, Tapedeck, Team MegaMix, Jiro, ElPlate, People Are Germs, Young Turks and Lost Penguin. Expect tears and tantrums and drinking and dancing.
Video Games Killed the Radio Star - GTA
So, yeah, Rockstar’s releasing a new version of GTA: Vice City called Vice City Stories. I didn’t think it’d happen, but it’s actually reached the point where we’re all secretly hoping they’ll haul out some piece of shit and we can finally let the barbs fly. We thought we had an in with that Ping Pong game, but then it somehow turned out to be genuinely really good. Even with this guy we went to put it in the machine going, “Whatever, I’ve played Vice City, this is going to be boring, rehashed, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah…” and suddenly two hours had passed and we were rubbing our thumbs between missions and yelling at the sticky R buttons on the controllers.
What a bunch of fucking dickheads. They’re like that kid who always did well in school but was also really nice so you couldn’t just lay into him. I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of fiery rage the nerds at other game companies are channeling into their programming. Anyway, here’s the trailer for the new guy. It’s supposed to be like that episode of Miami Vice with Phil Collins, but for some reason they gave him the benefit of not being a bald, pudgy greaseball. Click here to watch the trailer.
Mexico - His Majesty Silverio
Silverio is the hottest thing to come out of old Mexico since being kidnapped by a gang of street kids. With the motto "Mucho Macho Poco Brain", his live show sees him strip off to electro synth alongside a team of gyrating dancers - one of whom is a former Playboy Queen of Mexico. Silverio’s releases, on the Nuevos Ricos label, have been banned by MTV, Telehit and most TV channels after a performance at Mexico City’s Modern Art Museum was broken up by police.
TWO DADS
Homosexual couples in the US should be given the same rights as married heterosexuals, according to a landmark court decision in New Jersey yesterday. Gay activists are claiming the ruling as a victory ahead of next month’s ballot, when eight states will vote on same-sex marriage laws. The US is still way behind Europe on the whole gay marriage issue. In Holland it’s totally normal, as this kid singing about his two dads is really keen to point out.
Mothers against whatever
Mums have found a new musical menace to campaign against. Mothers Against Noise was formed in response to the sonic threat to kids posed by bands like Wolf Eyes, Whitehouse, Smegma and Lightning Bolt. "Noise Music is an awful form of music that is more unpleasant and psychologically destructive than the worst forms of heavy metal, rap, and punk rock," writes one concerned mummy. "It has no musical structure and spreads a gospel of desensitization, anger, degradation and harm. It is growing in popularity and is a threat to families and children that can’t be ignored…"
Paris - French riots, again
Suburban French kids are celebrating last year’s riot anniversary one week early with a fun game. Basically it begins with kids smashing and burning vehicles. When the fire department and the police show up the kids then hurl rocks and molotov cocktails at them. It’s a hoot! The most recent incident took place in Grigny, the exact same spot that this video (showing how fun French kids are) was shot.
Scandinavia - Imperial Gift
Our friends at Imperial (softie favourite José González’s label) just gave us a free MP3 to give away. It’s an exclusive with shoegazers Samuraj Cities. Enjoy.
Listen: Samuraj Cities - "Fire"
