Bad Habit Records started with a totally unplanned release.
In the second version of the Bad Habit retail shop in Ipswich City, every Saturday a local guy would come in and proceed to tell us how shit all the records we had were. If you've ever worked in a record shop you'll understand how you grow a pretty high tolerance for punishers and wacky regulars. But one Saturday I cracked it at this guy and said he can't come in here and bag everything out until he's produced something that blows everyone else away.
The guy laid low for a few weeks and didn't come in, at which point I started to feel a little guilty and wondered if my response had been too harsh. Turns out I shouldn't have worried. A few weekends later, he comes in with a box of tapes. He'd recorded a demo. A homemade one-person demo just using free to download programs. And it's actually some half-decent programmed drums death thrash.
As I looked at one of the pixelated ink jet printed covers he'd made for the tapes, I noticed it said Bad Habit Records #1. Hence a label was born. Old mate earned his right to be an annoying punisher I'd say.
Release date - August 2018
Print run - 100 I think
Format - Cassette Tape
Listen - Return To The Sewer, by Clone Mutant
Encierro "Doomsday Still Bleeds Red" LP
Seven songs of dark crust played in the key of despair. Encierro formed in the wake of Australia's savage Black Summer bushfires, an intense and catastrophic fire season that consumed large parts of the country in late 2019 and early 2020. The cover artwork for this LP is inspired by this horrific event, which wiped […]
Oratory — Inner Pyre 7 inch
After the great plague, Oratory reformed with a clear vision to forge Sepultura's Chaos AD with Celtic Frost, Discharge, Neurosis and Abscess into some hardened weapon-grade steel in the form of three songs. Hence the Inner Pyre EP spews forth from the gates of Brisbane City, resulting in some of the best extreme songs to […]
Gudgeon — Self Titled LP black vinyl
How does one describe Gudgeon? They have existed as a band for nearly a decade. They have been jamming and writing songs that whole time. In isolation, they evolved. Like some sort of Galapagos Island music project. Their closest relatives would be the already weird and outsider brands of punk. Think Nomeansno, Man Is The […]
Tonight in Noosa @angstrom_space is throwing an event. It got @electricprawns_2 on the line-up who are sort of devo/coneheady and have Members of Canetoad, from Rockhampton. We`ll have afew boxes of records for sale at the show.
Get along and get amongst it.
T-shirts out this Saturday. Online on Sunday.
This Saturday at the Black Box is No No Fest. If you`ve been to any of the recent gigs in Namba you`ve probably meet Kerley, the mastermind behind No No Records. He`s super active, with a real butt ton of shows and releases coming up. No No Fest is a showcase of the stuff he`s been working on. Its a bunch of bands but @trashvideoarchives is showng some movies aswell. We pinned him down to ask some questions. Hit the Bad Habit blog to read and get tickets.
5 Lps with Minimal text on the front cover. And a tape.
New @blindgirlss lp is here. Gold Coast screamo. It`s been a joy watching this band go from strength to strength and conquer the world. I don`t really need to spruik this record. You already know if you need it because you`ve seen them destroy stages and floor shows.
New @diploidnoise tape plus their 4 lps. Awkward and intense grindcore made by outsiders. Really, one of the best Australian bands.
These are online and instore now.
Record of the week alert
Hog - True Romance 7" on Shipping Steel Records.
"Hardcore Kids" playing "Dirty Rock n Roll" can go two ways. It sucks because the people playing it aren`t raw dog idiots who`ve set off the fire hose and been kicked out of numerous shows for beer theft and general punisher antics. They navigate social hierarchies with an eye of climbing some ladder made of dicks.
Or it rules because the people playing it are fucking idiots who continually sabotage their life by ruining everything around them. And they play music with the swagger and loose agressionn of someone who has failure in their DNA.
This record feels like the later. It has that punk aggression that`s about to fall apart cause they are playing like real maniacs of rock.
Like the best bands to play this style, Annihilation Time / Lecherous Gaze even Moterhead or maybe closer to Tank or Power etc.
They are from New Zealand. That mysterious land to the south of Australia, or maybe its east? Nobody knows.
Get it instore or on the webstore.
Gaoled coming to lay waste to the Queens Land.
