Sandringham Hotel, Newtown, 9th August, 1987

VENUE: Sandringham Hotel, Newtown

DATE: 9th August, 1987

TIME: 3pm

BANDS: 

• Rocks

Zetland Hotel, Zetland, 18th March, 1989

VENUE: Zetland Hotel, Zetland

DATE: 18th March, 1989

BANDS:

• Have a Nice Day
• Rocks

Journo's Club, Sydney, 2nd September, 1989

VENUE: Journo's Club, Sydney

DATE: 2nd September, 1989

BANDS:

• Rocks
• Subliminal Pressure

St James Tavern, Sydney, 16th June, 1988

VENUE: St James Tavern, Sydney

DATE: 16th June, 1988

BANDS:

• My Heart Bleeds For You
• Rocks
• Mothers

Trade Union Club, Sydney, 8th April, 1987

VENUE: Trade Union Club, Sydney
DATE: 8th April, 1987

BANDS:

• The Damned
• Rocks

Graphic Arts Club, Sydney, 23rd January, 1987

VENUE: Graphic Arts Club, Sydney

DATE: 23rd January, 1987

TIME: 9pm

OTHER: $5 entry.

BANDS:

• Happy Hate Me Nots
• Toys Went Berserk
• Exserts
• Rocks

Hardcore Superbowl, Green Square, Zetland, 31st March, 2001

VENUE: Green Square, Zetland

DATE: Saturday, 31st March, 2001

TIME: 3pm

OTHER: Hardcore Superbowl. $12 entry. Organised by No Deal Records.

• Last Hemeroids
• Within Blood
• Rocks
• Deadstare
• World War 24
• Irrelevant
• Babyshakers
• The Blurters
• Creeping Jesus
• Sewer Cider
  

The Journo's Club, Sydney, 2nd December, 1989

VENUE: The Journo's Club, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 2nd December, 1989

BANDS:

• Rocks
• Subliminal Pressure
  

Caringbah Bizzos, Caringbah, 28th March, 1999

VENUE: Caringbah Bizzos, Caringbah

DATE: Wednesday, 28th March, 1999

BANDS:

• The Hard Ons
• Nitocris
• Throwdown
• Rocks
  

Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, 19th June, 2009

VENUE: Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills

DATE: Friday, 19th June, 2009

TIME: 8pm

OTHER: Organised by Zombie Dog Entertainment. $15 entry.

BANDS:

• Downtime
• Rocks
• The Corps
• Repoman
  

Manning Bar, University of Sydney, Sydney, 14th March, 2009

 

VENUE: Manning Bar, University of Sydney, Sydney

DATE: Saturday, 14th March, 2009

OTHER: Monster Session. $25 entry. Multiple Sclerosis Benefit. 

BANDS:

• Rocks
• Blitz Babiez
• The New Christs
• Downtime
• M!dget
• This Thing
• Lawnsmell
• Crazy Legs Vermin
• Crane No. 6
• Terrible Virtue
• Gilgamesh
• Celibate Rifles
  

Punx Picnic, Sydney Park, St Peters, 21st January, 1990

VENUE: Sydney Park, St Peters

DATE: Sunday, 21st January, 1990

OTHER: Punx Picnic (7th Punx Picnic to be held in Sydney).

BANDS:

• Rocks
• Subliminal Pressure
• Persecution
• Blind Ambition
• Fred Nihilist
• Tutti Parze
• S.U.X.
• Bezerk

 

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

Railway Institute Hall, Central Station, Sydney, 23rd September, 1988

VENUE: Railway Institute Hall, Central Station, Sydney

DATE: Friday, 23rd September, 1988

TIME: 8pm

OTHER: Vegan food. $4 entry. All Ages.

 

BANDS:

• Tutti Parze
• Rocks
• Subliminal Pressure