Circle Stomp, Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria, 26th October, 1996

VENUE: Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria

DATE: 26th October, 1996

OTHER: Organised by No Deal, This Fate zine, and Snapshot Records.

BANDS: 

• Blitz Babiez
• Forward Defence
• Self Reliance
• Noisam
• Pitfall
• Straight to a Tomb
• Rock Spiders
• Hate is Enough
• Nihilist

 

Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria, 20th July, 1996

VENUE: Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria

DATE: 20th July, 1996

TIME: 6pm

OTHER: Organised by No Deal and Resist Records.

BANDS: 

• Mindsnare
• One Inch Punch
• Forward Defence
• Toe to Toe
• Drawback
• Pitfall
• Ceasefire
• Straight to a Tomb 

Feedback, Newtown, 19th August, 1995

 

VENUE: Feedback, Newtown
DATE: 19th August, 1995

OTHER: Organised by No Deal

BANDS: 

• Fallout
• Kiarra
• Crank
• Drawback

Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle, 18th August, 1995

VENUE: Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
DATE: 18th August, 1995

OTHER: Organised by No Deal

BANDS: 

• Fallout
• Kiarra
• Poison Bruno
• Anomie

 

Vulcan Hotel, Sydney, 14th October, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Sydney
DATE: 14th October, 1994

TIME: 8:30pm

OTHER: $5 entry. Put on by No Deal Records.

BANDS: 

• Downtime
• Lawnsmell
• Nation of Hate
• Flycop
• Subversion

Sean Lipsett

Sean Lipsett

• Skrimshank (1989) - Bass
• Toe to Toe (1991-1993) - Bass
• Moral Panic (1994) - Bass
• Boiling Point (1994, 1997-1998) - Bass
• Downtime (1994) - Bass
• Melancholy (1995) - Bass
• AVO (1998-2001) - Bass

OTHER:

Sean was involved with Toe to Toe's original label Punchdrunk and then later also ran his own label No Deal, who put out the following releases:

• Blitz Babiez - Time's Ticking (1993) - 7"
• Various - Circle Storm (1993) - 7" compilation featuring Subversion, Minute Minder, Savage Cabbage, Persecution, and Toe to Toe. 
• Moral Panic - Your Decline (1994) - 7"
• Subversion - Pignation (1994) - 7"
• Downtime - Self-Titled (1994) - 7"
  
• Crank - Cranked (1995) - 7"
• Minute Minder - Self-Titled (1998) - 7"
• Various - Offensive/Defensive (2001) - compilation album featuring Rocks, Creeping Jesus, The Last Hemeroids, Irrelevant, World War XXIV, Within Blood, Sewer Cider, The Blurters, and The Babyshakers.

No Deal also put on the following shows:

• Max's, Petersham - 2nd October, 1993 (Toe to Toe, Anger in Motion, Subversion, Blitz Babiez, Minute Minder, Scapegoat)
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 18th February, 1994 (Subversion, Savage Cabbage, Price of Silence, Minute Minder, Persecution)
• Hornsby PCYC, Hornsby - 19th February, 1994 (Subversion, Savage Cabbage, Price of Silence, Minute Minder, Persecution) Organised with Cosmic Snail.
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 16th April, 1994 (Beanflipper, Magnacite, Subversion, Madhouse)
• Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham - 20th May, 1994 (Anger in Motion, Subversion, Smut, Omnicide)
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 21st May, 1994 (Anger in Motion, Downtime, Stalin's Organ, Minute Minder)
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney /Sean's House - 26th August, 1994 (Propagandhi, All You Can Eat, Blitz Babiez, Downtime, Flycop)
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney /Punx Picnic - 27th August, 1994 (Propagandhi, All You Can Eat, Subversion, Lawnsmell, Minute Minder)
• Hunter on Hunter, Newcastle - 28th August, 1994 (Propagandhi, All You Can Eat, No Reason, Minute Minder) Organised with Spiral Objective
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 14th October, 1994 (Downtime, Nation of Hate, Lawnsmell, Flycop, Subversion)
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 26th November, 1994 (Beanflipper, Anger in Motion, Savage Cabbage, Subversion, Persecution) Organised with Spiral Objective
• Vulcan Hotel, Sydney - 3rd December, 1994 (Blitz Babiez, Gilgamesh, Mad Circle, Minute Minder, Savage Cabbage) Organised with Spiral Objective
• Journo's Club, Surry Hills - 17th March, 1995 (Pothole, Price of Silence, Gilgamesh, Savage Cabbage)
• Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle - 18th August, 1995 (Fallout, Kiarra, Poison Bruno, Anomie)
• Feedback, Newtown - 19th August, 1995 (Fallout, Kiarra, Drawback, Crank)
• Harbour Cruise, Sydney - 26th November, 1995 (All You Can Eat, Blitz Babiez, Lawnsmell, Crank)
• Feedback, Newtown - 9th March, 1996 (Mindsnare, Drawback, Forward Defence, Anomie, Ceasefire)
• Iron Duke, Alexandria - 20th July, 1996 (Mindsnare, One Inch Punch, Forward Defence, Toe to Toe, Drawback, Pitfall, Ceasefire, Straight to a Tomb)
• Iron Duke, Alexandria - 26th October, 1996 (Blitz Babiez, Forward Defence, Self Reliance, Noisam, Pitfall, Straight to a Tomb, Rock Spiders, Hate is Enough, Nihilist)
• Iron Duke, Alexandria - 4th July, 1997 (Heads Kicked Off, Forward Defence, Drawback, Arms Reach, Pitbull Attack, TBK)
• Iron Duke, Alexandria - 11th July, 1998 (Heads Kicked Off, Arms Reach, Grim Reality, Mugshot, Straight to a Tomb, Downfall, Pitbull Attack, Nihilist, AVO)
• Hardcore Superbowl, Iron Duke, Alexandra - 26th February, 2000 (Shank, Rocks, Found My Direction, Frontside, AVO, The Blurters, Murder, The Kill, Damage Control, One Step Ahead)
• Green Square, Zetland - 20th October, 2000 (The Kill, The Blurters, The Rats, Sewer Cider, Three Found Dead)
• Hardcore Superbowl, Green Square, Zetland - 31st March, 2001 (The Last Hemeroids, Within Blood, Rocks, Deadstare, World War XXIV, Irrelevant, The Babyshakers, The Blurters, Creeping Jesus, Sewer Cider)
• Hardcore Superbowl, Green Square, Zetland - 9th March, 2002 (World War XXIV, Deadstare, The Kill, AVO, Frontside, Fuck... I'm Dead, The Blurters, Toe to Toe, Creeping Jesus, Bulldog Spirit, Loyal, Three Found Dead)

REGION: Sydney, NSW

Vulcan Hotel, Sydney, 3rd December, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 3rd December, 1994

OTHER: $5 entry. Organised by No Deal.

BANDS:

• Minute Minder
• Mad Circle
• Blitz Babiez
• Gilgamesh
• Savage Cabbage
  

Max's, Petersham, 2nd October, 1993

VENUE: Max's, Petersham

DATE: Saturday, 2nd October, 1993

TIME: 7:00 pm

OTHER: Organised by No Deal. $5 entry.

 

BANDS:

• Toe to Toe
• Anger in Motion
• Subversion
• Blitz Babiez
• Minute Minder
• Scapegoat
  

Iron Duke, Alexandria, 11th July, 1998

VENUE: Iron Duke, Alexandria

DATE: Saturday, 11th July, 1998

TIME: 6 pm

OTHER: Organised by No Deal.

 

BANDS:

• Heads Kicked Off 
• Arms Reach
• Grim Reality
• Mugshot
• Straight to a Tomb
• Downfall
• Pitbull Attack
• Nihilist
• AVO
  

Vulcan Hotel, Sydney, 26th November, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 26th November, 1994

TIME: 6:30 pm

OTHER: $5 entry. Organised by No Deal Records.

 

BANDS:

• Beanflipper
• Anger in Motion
• Savage Cabbage
• Subversion
• Persecution
  

Vulcan Hotel, Sydney, 16th April, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 16th April, 1994

OTHER: Organised by No Deal Records.

BANDS:

• Beanflipper
• Magnacite
• Subversion
• Madhouse (Downtime)

Hunter on Hunter, Newcastle, 28th August, 1994

 

VENUE: Hunter on Hunter, Newcastle

DATE: Sunday, 28th August, 1994

OTHER: $10 entry. Organised by Spiral Objective and No Deal Records.

BANDS:

• Propagandhi (Canada)
  
• All You Can Eat (USA)
• No Reason
• Minute Minder
  

Harbour Cruise, Sydney, 26th November, 1995

VENUE: Harbour Cruise, Sydney

DATE: Sunday, 26th November, 1995

TIME: 6:30pm

OTHER: $15 entry. Organised by No Deal Records. BYO alcohol.

BANDS:

• All You Can Eat (USA)
• Blitz Babiez
• Lawnsmell
• Crank
  

Superbowl, Iron Duke, Alexandria, 26th February, 2000

VENUE: Iron Duke Hotel, Alexandria

DATE: Saturday, 26th February, 2000

TIME: 3pm

OTHER: 5th Annual Hardcore Superbowl. Organised by No Deal.

BANDS:

• Shank (UK)
• Rocks
• FMD
• Frontside
• AVO
• The Blurters
• Murder
• The Kill
• Damage Control
• One Step Ahead

ORAL HISTORY:

NEIL: This was my first trip to Sydney as an adult. There was also a Friday evening show at Hornsby with a few of the Violent Hornsby Straight Edge bands and a couple of out-of-towners, and a Sunday boat cruise in Sydney. We didn't get to the boat cruise but it looked awesome. My impressions of the weekend, as a highly interested outsider who bought all the records and read the impressive volume of zines that were coming out of the scene in the late '90s, was that NSW hardcore had recently fractured. For example, there were almost no crusties at these Shank shows, possibly due to being made to feel unwelcome by the swatches of Blood For Blood T-shirts and the overpowering musk of Brut 33 in the air, which I thought to be a shame given how much the crusties I knew (from NSW) would've been blown away by Shank. Also - the absence of a very stylistically-complementary-to-Shank band, Arm's Reach, and the lack of Newcastle representation altogether, seemed notable. Given that Arm's Reach had recently broken up, and based on the fairly well-documented schism at the time, Arm's Reach probably wouldn't have been asked to play. Overall, it felt like less people travelled for the gigs, but Sydney hardcore was pumping locally, albeit with a totally different mood to the 'NSW Network of Friends' vibe that the scene projected only a year beforehand. Despite feeling like I'd missed an important time to witness NSW hardcore, it was still a ripper weekend for a wide-eyed 19 year-old from the then-starved-for-hardcore QLD. Shank were incredible, AVO were abrupt and intense, The Kill and Three Found Dead were two sides of a menacing coin retrieved from the gutter, and it was great to witness One Step Ahead, the earlier incarnation of the soon-to-be-life-altering Deadstare.

Neil Bramley, punter, 2024

Circlestorm Comp Launch, PCYC, Hornsby, 19th February, 1994

VENUE: PCYC, Hornsby

DATE: Saturday, 19th February, 1994

OTHER: Launch of 'Circlestorm' Comp by No Deal Records. Organised by Cosmic Snail.

BANDS:

• Subversion
• Savage Cabbage
• Price of Silence
• Minute Minder
• Persecution

Circlestorm Comp Launch, Vulcan Hotel, Sydney, 18th February, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Sydney

DATE: Friday, 18th February, 1994

OTHER: Launch of 'Circlestorm' Comp by No Deal Records.

BANDS:

• Subversion
• Savage Cabbage
• Price of Silence
• Minute Minder
• Persecution
  

Vulcan Hotel, Ultimo, Sydney, 21st May, 1994

VENUE: Vulcan Hotel, Ultimo, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 21st May, 1994

OTHER: Organised by No Deal

 

BANDS:

• Anger in Motion
• Downtime
• Stalin's Organ
• Minute Minder
  

Lewisham Hotel, Parramatta Road, Sydney, 20th May, 1994

VENUE: Lewisham Hotel, Parramatta Road, Sydney

DATE: Friday, 20th May, 1994

OTHER: Organised by No Deal.

 

BANDS:

• Anger in Motion
• Subversion
• Smut
• Omnicide