Hard-Ons

And they always had like crazy production value and pyro and all that.

And then I'd seen Sydney punk bands and I'd gone to the Hard Ons and, you know, bands like that.

But there was something about seeing this like huge transcendent punk rock experience that Nirvana was, you know, that it just sort of connected like all these things.

And I went, oh, humans can do this.

When I say we all, I sincerely hope you don't experience that sensation much, but most performers do a lot, particularly now, even in the different art forms, not just in, in music.

I mean, talking to anyone in the, in show, the business of show, that there and how you deal with that so The one thing never want to talk about, even in theater last week, whether it's touring Europe with the Hard Ons and we were approaching somewhere in Denmark and one of the band will go, oh, have we sold any tickets? I'll just have to go, no, I can't think about it now.

When you get on stage, you just have to deal with it.

But it's the four hours backstage or wandering around trying to stay out of the pub that you don't want to think about that.

There might have been one band where I was like, I think I've heard of them.

There was a band called The Hard Ons.

Ew.

And I thought, I can't spend $28 on this unless I were to frame it because it

Working out the track listing was easy for the start.

You'd kick off Disc 1 with Alimony by The Hummingbirds, go into That Ain't Bad by Rat Cat, Where Did She Come From by Hard Ons, and make your way over to Clouds, Frente, and then UMI, Silverchair, and so on.

Pretty much make your way as you would as I've told it.

But what the hell would be the end of Disc 2? What is the final track? That was tough.

I had a Suicidal Tendencies T-shirt.

I had a shirt for the Hard Ons was a band that I listened to.

And nobody blinked an eye at this stuff in my household.

I'm throwing

So this is a refined idea of what their sound should sound like.

Their first gig apparently was supporting the Hard Ons, like the manly Bolo or something like that in 2005.

It is very Cosmic Psycho's Hard Ons, Meats, Helicopters, that kind of stuff.

I think this is way better than Cosmic Psycho.

The

Both labels had scattered success playing the Triple J crowd.

Festival had teamed with Waterfront at the start of the '90s and had worked on bands like Tumbleweed and Hard-Ons.

Mushroom's history with Triple J and the alternative music scene was more complicated.

Mushroom, run by Michael Gudinski, was so tied to the Melbourne scene that they always had an advantage when it came to signing Melbourne bands.