GRAVEL SAMWIDGE | Musician/band
GRAVEL SAMWIDGE
Phone: +61 428 131 117
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24.01.2022 We have joined the lineup at the The Cave Inn this Saturday .. no tickets just turn up !! EARLY SHOW!! Mark's Paranormal Dysneyland start at 6:30 !! This gig will dedicated to the memory of Tony Pola who left a lasting legacy on Australian music
24.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE record in the mail #gravelsamwidge #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #australianband #independentartist
24.01.2022 Great photo from a GRAVEL SAMWIDGE tour to Melbourne with Ashley , Paulie , Jules , Brent and Dr Gerald Keaney @paulkidneyexperience
24.01.2022 These absolutely awesome STU SPASM ( LUBRICATED GOAT , CRUNT, BEASTS OF BOURBON, SALAMANDER JIM and the currently hot shit on fire ART GREY NOISE QUINTET) designed band tshirts will be available at the gig on Saturday night at THE CAVE INN .. EARLY SHOW!! NO TICKETS just rock up !! MARK’S PARANORMAL DYSNEYLAND start at 6:30 !! This is an Awesome lineup if u can say that !!
24.01.2022 Photo from an outtake to the music video photo by Dane Beesley
23.01.2022 Unfortunately this Friday’s gig at The Junk Bar has been cancelled cause I’d Covid restrictions but don’t despair We have joined the Saturday gig at THE CAVE INN with Andrew McCubbin from Melbourne and the legendary Mick Medew and Ursula !! It’s an early show .. starts around 6:30 pm !! Stay tuned for more details !!
22.01.2022 More excerpts from the legendary Ex NME , MELODY MAKER EVERETT TRUE’S review of the GRAVEL SAMWIDGE album So true. Ain’t Seattle nostalgia at all: this is specifically Aussie RULES and more specifically Brisbane and also nasty and cuddly and twisted (though, much as I love the new Revillos box, gotta say that it’s mostly irrelevant after the first disc). So that’s that. Gravel Samwidge: two MASSIVE fucking thumbs up from ME! This is like Fontaines DC or Idles or someone, bu...t really fucking good. (NOTE: I like Fontaines DC and Idles and someone.) THEY KICK SOME FUCKEN ASS. As I wrote before: I really appreciate any music that sounds this sludgy and acerbic and sarcastic. Music that captures a moment in time, and doesn’t move forwards, only sideways. I really appreciate any music that makes me feel a little less alone. I really appreciate any music that can remind me of music that’s actually near-impossible to duplicate but tries anyway and gloriously, deliriously fails. Music that makes me shuffle backwards and forwards, rooted on the spot, waving my non-hair in abandon. In my head, I’m dancing. Always dancing. In my head, I’m surrounded by music like this and I’m leaning out of a third-flight window throwing whiskey bottles at the dullards below. In my head, this is the sound to aim for: drawn-out and lingering and not a little woozy. Everything is a failed climax. Everything is anchovies. If there were from Birmingham UK, they’d be called The Nightingales, and Stewart Lee would be making gloriously brilliant documentaries about their sadly never-realised glory years.
21.01.2022 latest review of our album from OxFanzine in Germany ..its not to bad if you can translate it!! with quotes like "Will GRAVEL SAMWIDGE play successfully for the local farmers in their favorite pub? I want to doubt it. "
21.01.2022 Gravel Samwidge ., new vinyl is slowly arriving by mail in these crazy COVID times #gravelsamwidge #newvinyl #promo #australianband #noiserock
20.01.2022 The ghost in the road Outtake of @dane.beesley filming for the GRAVEL SAMWIDGE music video #gravelsamwidge #filming #filminglocation #outtake #musicvideoshoot #clipshoot
20.01.2022 It’s Aus Music Tshirt day I hear .. should I wear my own band shirt ? Probably not but fuck em I say #gravelsamwidge #ausmusictshirtday #ausmusic
19.01.2022 The GRAVEL SAMWIDGE inserts have arrived for the upcoming Album on @swashbucklinghobo Records ! Now if we could get the goddamn vinyl itself we could plan a launch show .. big thanks to all the awesome artists that contributed they know who they are and a massive thank you to Dave Darling for all his hard work and the layout design
19.01.2022 The Great Fold begins .. There will be a few special advance copies of the GRAVEL SAMWIDGE album available on CD tonight at the @swashbucklinghobo Records gig for The Chordites launch @the_flamingalah .. but this is not our Launch !! The vinyl is still to arrive so stay tuned #gravelsamwidge #swashbucklinghoborecords #gig #livemusic #theflaminggalah
18.01.2022 Heh people Mark's Paranormal Dysneyland is a solo offshoot venture from Mark Spinks 1/3 of Gravel Samwidge , the full release will be available from Eternal Soundcheck very soon but here’s the debut music video for your viewing and listening pleasure or not , plus accompanying review from the always impressive Weirdo Wasteland https://youtu.be/41RdRSqqq_4 https://weirdowasteland.com//video-premiere-marks-paranor/
18.01.2022 We lost a true gentleman of Australian music in Tony Pola .. rest in piece Tony from us all at GRAVEL SAMWIDGE ..
17.01.2022 Complied from nuggets of old 1970’s Australian Ozploitation films by one time Samwidge guitarist Paul Curran now celebrated author of the Left Hand .. this track was part of a trio that Phil McKellar from @triple_j recorded and engineered during Gravel Samwidge’s @triple_j_unearthed win a week after GRINSPOON won and we all know how that went !! PLAY LOUD !! #gravelsamwidge #musicvideo #music #video #noiserock #sleazerock #undergroundmusic #indiemusic #australianband #triplejunearthed #jjjunearthed #triplej #grinspoon #ozploitation #ozploitationfilms #ozploitationclassics #unearthed #australianfilms @insanereading
16.01.2022 Another image of GRAVEL SAMWIDGE during filming of the new music video PHOTO by @dane.beesley #gravelsamwidge #musicphotography #musicphotographer #lamingtonnationalpark #musicvideoshoot #australianband
16.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE Home Brand rerelease on @chemical__imbalance Records cover redone by Caroline Milne (RIP) at our favourite local record store @phase4recordstore and cassettes #gravelsamwidge #rerelease #cassettetapes #cassette #cassetteculture #tape #indiemusic #australianband #sydneylabel #indielabel #music #musicrelease #recordstore #localbusiness
16.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE live at Sunday RNRBBQ shot by @pania_bowler_pumpkin #gravelsamwidge #live #livemusic #livemusicrocks #gig #australianband #postpunk #noiserock #undergroundmusic
15.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE at The Flaming Galah .. we have a very cool announcement soon regarding a particular legend of Australian Underground Music supplying the artwork for our T-shirt’s for the new vinyl so stay tuned Photo by Eyes Ninety bludgeoner Xavier #gravelsamwidge #livemusicphotography #gig #livemusicphoto #bandtee #newalbum
14.01.2022 Stu looking a million bucks in his Namesakes designed GRAVEL SAMWIDGE tshirt .. just invoke some spazazam and heh presto .. one @stuart.gray.332 née Spasm designed masterpiece !!
13.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE photo by @dane.beesley
12.01.2022 During filming of the GRAVEL SAMWIDGE clip we ran into @kindling_house from fellow Brisbanites @primitivemotion which was pretty bizarre photo by Leighton Craig #gravelsamwidge #brisbanemusicscene #musicshoot #musicvideoshoot #australianbands
12.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE a few years ago with Alex playing drums on the keyboards #gravelsamwidge #livemusic #livemusicphotography #gig #gigphotography #australianband
09.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE at the @the_chordites @swashbucklinghobo Records launch last night unfortunately we had to go after EYES NINETY who were simply smashing it last night
06.01.2022 The much respected Robert Brokenmouth has done an excellent review on the equally as respected I-94 Bar readers, writers, users & abusers site for the Recent GRAVEL SAMWIDGE vinyl Complaints .. you can read below or click the link but it’s clear to any underground Australian music aficionados that Mr. Brokenmouth knows his stuff .. Sean Tracey from @swashbucklinghoborecords did an amazing job on the record .. it’s all a labour a love for him .. Samwidge may have miraculo...Continue reading
06.01.2022 Here’s a sneak peek of the music video for Wrong Way which will be in the new album from Swashbuckling Hobo Records .. Superbly directed by Dane Beesley !! Love your work
06.01.2022 This Sunday we are dusting off the cobwebs as the record from Swashbuckling Hobo Records is not to far away with Vibrations From The Void and others great acts https://facebook.com/events/s/gravel-samwidge-vibrations-fro/325930001948003/?ti=icl
06.01.2022 Back in the day when GRAVEL SAMWIDGE won triple j Unearthed we were approached by Danny Devitos agent as they wanted a track of ours to appear in one of the movies he was producing which we assumed was Get Shorty .. to cut a long story short I think they probably heard the other tracks which weren’t as radio friendly and it never happened so that was our brush with fame in saying that we probably should have followed it up pretty funny they had us as thrashers though
05.01.2022 Back when people could properly go to shows Samwidge played a few shows with the legends that are THE BEASTS and ADALITA at @thetriffid in Brisbane and @solbarmusic In Maroochydore.. the toilets at the SolBar went in the whole complex ( not Solbar’s fault ) but it was kinda appropriate considering it was a BEASTS gig and THE BEASTS OF BOURBON were pretty infamous for fucked up RNR .. still we all soldiered on .. it was the best of times it was the blurst of times . Shot by Thomas Oliver
02.01.2022 GRAVEL SAMWIDGE photo by Dane Beesley during filming of the music video for the upcoming album Complaints on @swashbucklinghobo Records #gravelsamwidge #swashbucklinghoborecords #danebeesleyphotography #musicvideoshoot #bandphotography #bandphoto #bandphotographer #photographer #musicphotographer
01.01.2022 Nice little advertisement from @roundandroundrecords in Melbourne about our new album Complaints .. keep posted for tour announcements!!
