you know what to do.

February 19 2008 (Tuesday) Australia Melbourne The Toff
Damo Suzuki with the Holy Soul: Jon Hunter (Guitar), Trent Marden (Guitar), Kate Wilson (Drums) and Sam Worrad (Bass)
http://www.thetoffintown.com/


February 22 2008 (Friday) Australia Sydney The Annandale
Damo Suzuki with the Holy Soul: Jon Hunter (Guitar), Trent Marden (Guitar), Kate Wilson (Drums) and Sam Worrad (Bass)
http://www.annandalehotel.com/anh/

Have a meme.
Stolen from oh it doesn't matter. Were all theives here. Let's just say Madam Squeeze.

Bands wot I saw
Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list, etc.

1. Pere Ubu
2. Robyn Hitchcock
3. Faith No More
4. The Beasts of Bourbon*
5. Bob Dylan
6. Billy Bragg*
7. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
8. Mudhoney
9. MC5
10. Love
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Pharoah Saunders
14. Vashanti Bunyan
15. Yo La Tengo
16. The Drones
17. The Stooges
18. The Darling Downes
19. Jurrasic 5
20. Placebo** (eewwww...)
21. the White Stripes
22. Garbage*
23. Digger & The Pussycats
24. The Holy Soul! (never seen them...) Patti Smith
25. The Inflatable Voodoo Dolls!**

Did everyone see my head explode during the writing of that last post?
anyway the deal is

COME TO THE HOPETOUN HOTEL TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!

I DON;T CARE WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU CLAIM TO HAVE DONE TO ME
JUST FUCKING BE HERE (IF YOU ARE IN REASONABLE DISTACE - LIKE WITHIN 100KM)




27 Jul 2007 8:00 PM
Hopetoun Hotel Surry Hills

WE START AT 10:30PM

JUST BE THERE.

From Re-Pressed Chris...


We are having another in-store gig on saturday 16th June at 3pm. We haven't had one for ages, but The Holy Soul are nice enough/ feel sorry for us enough to spend money here occassionally, have a cd out and perform live in real live venues, so thus have fulfilled the requirements to perform on the Re-pressed floor. . Come along, and together we shall outnumber the doomed ferrety little guys with upturned collars and white caps who have taken over the streets here lately. It's free, fun and something to do.

WHAT UP Y'ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DJ REVEREND JEMIMA IN FULL EFFEKT THURSDAY NIGHT AT @NEWTOWN!!!!!!!

SPINNIN DEM UNDANCEABLE TUNES WOT I LIKES SO WELL!!!!!!

BE THERE AND SHIT ALL Y'ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOYYYYYYYYIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!


or something like that.
i'll probably play some beefheart, pere unu, numan, zappa, dungen, comets on fire, beach boys, robyn hitchcock, hawkwind, kool keith.... you know, the usual shit i rant about...

Ok so the idea - everyone track down a copy of this and listen to it and post whatcha think about it




Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (1987)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Abortion_Technician

yeah. i'll do this every week with a different album or until i get bored with the idea...

Be at this gig! We're back!

ok so Wednesday night everybody in the universe will submit and attend this show

http://www.annandalehotel.com/anh/eventdetails.asp?id=986

but it must be noted that my last name is actually Marden.



and now the e-mail interview i did about this night

1. Complete this sentence: “Punters would be mad to
miss our set because…”

it will never happen ever again. That particular set i
mean. Unless they have a time machine, in which case
they can miss and unmiss our set multiple times.

2. Jagermeister: a hindrance or a boon to the
performing band?

It depends on what it is mixed with...

3. Jagermeister: a hindrance or a boon to the punter?

It depends on what the band is mixed with...

4. What significance does the Annandale have for you
as a musician/fan?

Well they put on some good bands, pay them, and beer
is reasonably priced. That's all i ask.

5. What do you think about these sort of multi-band,
multi-genre bills?

I still havent seen a grindcore band support a
symphony orchestra performing Wagner's Ring Cycle,
then headlined by a Uganden folk song artist... I
think "Think outside of the rock genre".

6. What’s the plan from here?

Intergalactic domination. The world is not enough.
Mwahaha! (evil laugh)


As spoken by Trent Marden, Singer, Guitarist and
Dictator of Trent Marden And His Future Ex-Wives.

oh yeah someone asked me to do a DJ set in a few weeks in NEWTown.
I have some ideas for the set but, fellow live journalists, i would love some suggestions. So sock it to me!

so far i'm thinking

Dance magic - Bowie
I just droped in to see what condition my condition was in - The First Edition
Point me at the sky - Pink Floyd
Rocket soul music - Country Joe & The Fish
something by Captain Beefheart
something by Serge Gainsbourg
something by Gary Numan
something by The Fall
something by The Soft Boys/Robyn Hitchcock
something by Pere Ubu
something from the Nuggets box set

and anything else that doesen't really fit - prokoffiev, King Crimson...

i'm gonna dance in north-west france
where The Gimmicks play,
i'm going where the wine is wine,
or so the locals say. coz some people are Goodfellas,
some are Born In Flames,
i'm gonna dance in north-west france
under a different name

but i'll be back for the honey
i'll be back for the honey
i'll be back for the honey
and you

now i gotta live a factory life
and get paid day to day
there's a pretty girl who's never seen the world
because it doesn't pay
her aunty has a broken arm
never leaves the house
i gotta leave this factory life,
gotta leave the south

but i'll be back for the honey
i'll be back for the honey
i'll be back for the honey
and you

Once or twice upon a time there existed an ant. He was about three (3) millimeteres (mm) long (long)as many ants of his length are, and coloured black. He called himself Larry, (he was an English speaking ant) but it was a bit of a waste of time because as far as he knew ants couldn't hear, but he did like to think that somebody was hearing about him somewhere in the world.
So one day young Larry (because he was not yet old) went for a walk to the edge of the chunk of the cement slab that he called home (which was also useless because as far as he knew chunks of cement slabs couldn't hear, being inanimant objects and all - and as far as he knew the word 'inanimant' was spelt that way, or in anycase that was his story and he was sticking to it). When he got there the teller of the story that he was in got bored and posted the livejournal entry that he was writing, thus ending his existance for the moment, but then again Larry the ant will always exist in the memories of those who read or wrote this message, that is unless they have bad memories for such things.
Hear endeth the lesson.
Here endeth the lesson also.

...to be continued or retracted...

Yes yes yes! this must not go unmentioned!
Last wednesday night my failing rock and roll superstar career was ressurrected by the first performance of Trent And His Future Ex-Wives. It happened at @Newtown (at Newtown), the all-star lineup included members of (alphabetically speaking)

-The Architects
-Belles Will Ring
-Bumhead Orchestra
-The Counterfitters
-The Holy Soul
-Jesus Vs Satan
-Loene Carmen Band
-Mama Voltash
-Menstral Puss
-Pink Sharks
-Pip Smith & Red Star
-Reverend Jemima
-Splinter Orchestra
-Sway

and many more! wow! so many bands! 7 people in the tahfex band and 15 bands listed! that is over 2 each!

anyways we rocked the place like it was was a cheap canoe!

songs played included

-Dream Last Night
-First Edition Lover
-Just Another Day
-Scenes From A Carpark
-Train
-Another Man's Blues
-Cars
-Be Back For The Honey
-Jesus Caught The 5:19
-Wolfman
-A Day In The Life

A big thanks to Sam, Jon, Jacquie, Kate, Chris and Alex for having enough faith in me to go through with the whole ridiculous situation (I had a week to get the band together, everyone did not meet until the performace itself, much respect and thanks from me to the band)!

So anyways I just found this little amusement (as taken from -

http://contribute.fasterlouder.com.au/forum/printthread.php?t=1677&pp=200

Best voices in Rock

Who makes your top 5 in female and male vocalists?

citizen snips Sun 29th Jan 2006 11:12 AM

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Some that haven't already been mentioned:

Dionne Warwick - voice like honey, that one.
Ben Salter (Giants of Science/Gin Club)
Trent Marden (Holy Soul)
Roger Daltrey - Best rock scream ever. And then shiver-inducing doing that "see me/feel me" bit.
Johnny Rotten - I like how he rolls his Rs.

pretty good company to keep! it is a humbling moment for the Reverend. (if anyone else wants to stroke my ego in this or any way, feel free! oh i feel so dirty for posting that. too bad!)

i bought my first pair of thonges in 15 years yesterday. The gap between my big toe and the next one is hurting a bit but i'll get back into the swing of it. AND i found a pair of shorts. And am wearing them. (sorry to anyone who has to see me wearing such a getup).

Yeah.




















that was way worth it.

Ok today's bad song lyrics...

This is the opening song of the as yet unrecorded Reverend Jemima album. I think I wrote the song in 2004. Think of a Who type guitar flourish when you read it...

$5 KINGDOM
(T. Marden)

She's selling coffee out on the weekend
She's selling what he's addicted to
They sold their souls for a deck of cards
The highest bidder wins through and through

She's got the art and she know how to use it
She's painting the blank spaces on the outskirts of town
He's seen it all and he knows how to fuse it
It's hard to get up and a long way down

They've got a five dollar kingdom on loan from a neighbour
A big sack of dreams are taken for a saviour
Three cigarettes form the Holy trinity
Ain't no one can deny this divinity

So dream and dreaming, dream it away
The future's a game but who wants to play?
The past has been lost or conveniently forgotten
And I'll see you tomorrow if the train runs on time

She's selling coffee out on the weekend
She's selling just what he needs
THey sold their souls for a marked deck of cards
Then they ripped it all up just to watch it bleed

(But that's alright)

They've got a five dollar kingdom on loan from a neighbour
A big sack of dreams are taken for a saviour
Three cigarettes and the Holy trinity
Ain't no one can question this divinity
Ain't no one can question this divinity
Ain't no one can question this divinity
Ain't no one questioning divinity

So i have decided to post the lyrics of the songs that i have written in an attempt to make me write some more, and so that they also exist (in lyric form anyway) in the world outside of my head. They aren't poems, just as poems aren't lyrics, although each can have the essence of the other.

So here is the first thing i wrote that i still occasionally play in public - a little piece of teen anxt from the year of our lord 2000. It is a waltz as all of my best stuff seems to be.

Till The Dawn
(T. Marden)

No one can help me
I don't want your sympathy
Dragging me down alot
I don't need what you've got

Making me feel like inferior, ignorant
Give me a makeover, let me stay in a tent
Hiding in your back lawn
Till the dawn

Please don't explain to me
why the cup is empty
It looks so full to me
What is it that you see?

Making me feel i'm inferior-ignorant
Give me a makeover! Let me stay in a tent!
Hiding in your back lawn
Till the dawn!

I've got my own time zone!
Be gone! Leave me alone!
You smell like turpentine!
Oil and water won't combine!

I feel i'm inferior and ignorant!
Give me a makeover! Let me stay in a tent!
Hiding in your back lawn
Till the dawn
Till the dawn
till the dawn

Heellooo! I am the Reverend! I have been a Reverend (self proclaimed - yeah like Dr. Dre has a Ph.D) since 2000.
La di da well i strted this thing today and therefore felt I must make something of a journal entry to kick the whole thing off.

So now I have.











(i will probably delete this in a few hours... it is all a bit silly really)



















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