First Failure

LOCATION: Wollongong, NSW

GENRE: Punk, Music

YEARS ACTIVE: 1997-1998

NUMBER OF ISSUES: 3

ISSUES IN THE NOISE LEVELS ARCHIVE: Issues #1, #2, and #3

EDITOR: Hedge

CONTRIBUTORS: Clint Chapman, Dan Stewart, Unity, Simone

Issue 1 - July 1997

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Not For You, No Grace, Arms Reach, Eightfold, Heads Kicked Off

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Magnacite, Subversion, Ceasefire, No Grace, Stanley Knife, Forward Defence, Mindcrack, Found My Direction, Nextstep, Drawback, Fahrenheit 451, Shadowcast, Force Fed Nine, Straigh to a Tomb, Kiarra, Ultimatum, Fallout, Drawback, Heads Kicked Off, Not For You

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: Arms Reach, Frontside, Ballistic Allshorts, Burning Bridges, TBK, Forward Defence, Pitbull Attack, Drawback

Issue 2 - February 1998

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Adverse Reaction (Record Label), Bleeding Face, Gacy's Place, Self-Reliance, Conation

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Ballistic Allshorts, Bastard Squad, Conation, Disengage, Downfall, Forward Defence, Found My Direction, Gacy's Place, Grim Reality, Heads Kicked Off, Kermit the Fascist, Mid Youth Crisis, Mindsnare, No Grace, Not For You, Remission, rupture, Stamanech 6.40, Stand Against, Standard, Straight to a Tomb, TBK, Toe to Toe, Tutti Parze, Two Right Hands, Wrong Body, Yokel, Zero Tolerance

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: Arms Reach, Bleeding Face, Ceasefire, Drawback, Found My Direction, Frontside, Grim Reality, Kokosha, Mid Youth Crisis, Mindsnare, Next Step, No Grace, Put It Aside, Standard, Tank O'Piss, TBK, Ultimatum, United Youth, Warcry, Zero Tolerance

Issue 3 - September 1998

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Downfall, Mugshot, Pitbull Attack

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: The Pact, XClaim, Frontside, Arms Reach, Conation, Fallout, Without a Reason, No Grace, S. Van, AVO, Bleeding Face, Heads Kicked Off, Grim Reality, Minute Minder, Stamanech 6.40, Found My Direction, Toe to Toe, Swallowing Shit, One Inch Punch, Forward Defence

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: Conation, Mugshot, Grim Reality, Found My Direction, Frontside, Arms Reach, XClaim, Zero Tolerance, The Pact, AVO, Subversion

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