I N T E N T I O N S

website for the indie/punk trio from Sydney.

ubiquity vs. persistence

We’ve been near-ubiquitous in Sydney this year – we looked back at the start of September and realised we’d played about twenty shows in eight months… it was starting to wear on us as well. I think we got a bit of perspective on that when Jon was reading Michael Azzerad’s (essential) Our Band Could Be Your Life and Azzerad was describing how Mission of Burma played way too often in Boston – “sometimes as often as twice a month”. Twice a month! Well shit… perhaps we should play less than that? Maybe we would consequently enjoy it more?

So you’ll have noticed not so many Intentions shows happening in Sydney the last two of months, which has been quite a nice (and much-needed) break from playing live – we’re regrouping, writing new songs, chilling out, and finishing off mixing the 7″ we’re putting out (oh yes we are!) &c &c. So we have only two more shows confirmed for the rest of this year, and we’ve resolved to play less often in Sydney next year as well, which I’m sure will come as a relief to most of Sydney’s DIY community.

We’ve just returned from a tour of Adelaide. As always when coming home from a tour, we’re feeling exhausted, but also refreshed, having been reminded:

• why we love DIY
• that we’re not entirely crazy to want to drive nearly 3000km in 5 days
• that we may be crazy to persist at living in Sydney when there are other places that have late-night vegan dessert bars

etc. Seriously, it’s just so great to have an excuse to go to new places, hang out with people, and hear new music that we’d have no chance to otherwise. And we played alright too! Thanks go out to Nick Godfrey for organised the whole darned thing and Johns T and K (and housemates) for hosting us. Hopefully we’ll get some photos and stuff up here of the trip real soon.

-Si

WRECK HOARDING

pitza the action

G’day. We have been taking it easy for a month or so trying to write some new stuff and rehearse it up to the point where we can lay it down with our friend and comrade Jivin’ Josh “The Red One” Dowton.

But we are coming out of our very brief break to play a couple of shows, which you can view to the right. —->

Video of Sun Distortion show up now!

Intentions @ Sun Distortion Studios (Brisbane) – 19 Feb 2011 from Michael Job on Vimeo.

This is, I think, our whole set from our Saturday night show at Brisbane’s Sun Distortion Studios, 19th February. The footage was shot by Michael Job. Cheers Michael! He plays in the extremely excellent Brisbanian emo band Inside The Whale, who also played that night. You are cheating yourself if you don’t go see them at your soonest opportunity.

Darley Street Darlings

We played a housewarming at Mitzi’s new digs on the weekend. Here are some pictures!

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All pictures taken by Simon Unwin and Leah Drielsma.

BRRREAAAK

Anyone who hasn’t heard Nivij’s EPIXdemic remix of Epidemic should listen to it. NOW.

So good I feel guilty for enjoying it so much. If that makes sense. You too can own this track! Because it’s on the BRZBN TOUR EP of which we still have a few copies going for $5. Alternatively you can pick one up at Black Wire Records or from tenzenmen.

Speaking of Black Wire, someone there, probably Tom, wrote a blog about how shit Sydney’s pub venues are which you should read if you wanna know why we don’t care too much about getting pub shows in Sydney.

If you care enough to notice, I’ve had a bit of a tinker with our website, so that’s why there’s the new RELEASES and MULTIMEDIA pages.

Anyway… after a house show at Mitzi’s this Saturday with Sweet Teeth we’re gonna go on a little break from playing shows in Sydney to write a few more songs and hopefully record them. I think we came back from Brisbane with a lot of inspiration and energy and we want to put that into writing new stuff and organising more tours! See you in a bit.

-si

Brisbane tour photo diary (Si’s camera)

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more from Vidan’s proper good camera later in the week.

amendments

Just as an update – Nuclear Summer are actually going to be down here in Sydney while we’re in their usual habitat of Brisbane, so they won’t be playing at the 4ZZZ show on Sunday the 20th. But happily we’ll cross paths with them in Lismore:

Friday 18th February

Nuclear Summer

The Vanguard Tic

Intentions

+ local band/s – watch this space for deets.

Northern Rivers Hotel, Lismore

Brisbane line-ups confirmed; Tour CD-R

Despite the flooding in Queensland, our Brisbane/Lismore tour is going ahead as planned.

Our first show in Brisbania is at Sun Distortion Stud’yo, Albion. with:

the incredibly good QUIET STEPS

myth-referencing garage-glitter-punk  extravaganza PASTEL BLAZE

PLUM’s first show

and indie/post-hardcore kids INSIDE THE WHALE.

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The second show is at the 4ZZZ Carpark in the Valley. It contains:

the apocalyptic goodness of NUCLEAR SUMMER

spiky pop two-piece TINY SPIDERS

and TANGLE whose ingredients have been in Drowned Out, Eucalypt, Harriet, and several other excellent bands we’ve played with.

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Wow. From where I’m sitting these look to be some of the best line-ups we’ve ever been included in, anywhere. Exciting times!

We’re also putting a bit of thought into producing a Brisbane tour CD-R with live tracks, new stuff, remixes, and other surprises/”rarities”. If it comes together in time these will be extremely limited edition, and we’re thinking we should put half the proceeds towards local charities/reconstruction efforts.

In a few hours we’re playing with Simo Soo and we have another eight shows booked in the next six weeks, so I’m sure we’ll see you sometime!

-Si

Review #2

A pretty damn brilliant review of the Unto Dust EP is available for your perusal over at Polaroids Of Androids.

I’m pretty speechless at this one actually. THANKS JONNYBRO.

In other news, we have three shows coming up at the end of January – we are I guess particularly stoked about this because they’re all quite different venues in different parts of town with quite different bands. Hell yes!
See the upcoming shows section on the right hand side of the page for the details.