Black Chrome

Deathpunkfest 2008

2008-05-26T15:45:00.002+12:00

Hey Black Chrome are going to be playing at Deathpunkfest this week.

Here's the details :

BLACK CHROME
HORROR STORY
DISJECTA MEMBRA
DICK DYNAMITE AND THE DOPPELGANGERS
CYCLOTRODE X

Plus Deathpunk DJ Vampy from Melbourne
Zombie Cheerleaders and much more.

@ The Basement, New Plymouth
Saturday 31st May

Tickets $15, Door Sales on the Night: $20.
Tix from: deathpunkfest08@gmail.com
Raw Records (N.P)
Mango Music (P.N)
Eyeball Kicks (Wgtn)

Last.FM Event Page

Fingers and hooves crossed there will be a special Deathpunkfest release avaliable at the show!

Live in May; Live to Air

2008-04-27T01:07:00.005+12:00

Can you read that poster? Then you'll know that Black Chrome are playing at Bar Mode, Palmerston North on May 10. It's part of a warmup for DEATHPUNKFEST 2008.
But more on that later.

Four days after the May 10 show - which would make it May 14 - the 'Chrome are doing a Live-to-air on Radio Control. About 5.30, I'm told.
Wednesday the 14th of May is a special day.
It's Ian Astbury's birthday. You know - the singer from The Cult.
The band that Wolfgang loves so much. Chortle.
So listen in, 1730 hours, 99.4FM if you're in the area, or listen to the streaming at
www.radiocontrol.org.nz

In other news, the lads bid farewell to Jimmy Snuff last month as he flew out to Melbourne. He's having a top time being a top bloke over there - happy trails Jim! Thanks for all the work in getting this site and blog established.

Here's a clip from Jim's last show in Auckland.

Kia kite
Mel
(webmistress, slipper-wearer)

Black Chrome in Auckland this Friday Night!

2008-03-11T14:54:00.000+13:00

Hey all,

Finally after 3 years we'll be playing our debut show in Auckland.

It'll be going down on Friday March 14th at the Ambassador Theatre, Pt Chev, Auckland.

We're supporting The Adicts (UK) w/ Missing Teeth, Horror story, and The Bludgers.

Tickets are available @ Ticketek & Real Groovy Records

It will also be Snuff's last show with BC before he departs NZ so should be a bit of fun.

Regards,

BC

BC, Ska, and Surfing...

2008-01-24T16:10:00.000+13:00

Hey all,

This weekend we are performing at the inaugural 'TOOTS&GROOVES' Ska / Punk festival being held at Tatum Park just south of Levin. We're playing on Saturday around midday so for more details check out their site HERE.

Also our track 'Black Sun' has been featured in an Australian Surfing video featuring current World Champ Mick Fanning, which can be streamed at Go211

Choice, cheers!

BLACK SUN

2007-12-20T12:18:00.000+13:00

So, the bNet Radio Network is running a promotion to win a slot playing next years Big Day Out, with each of the regional stations having a competition where bands submit their songs and each pick a winner.

Our local station Radio Control ran this comp and so we decided to enter a new track, our first recorded as a four piece. Mixing of the song 'Black Sun' was finished around midnight the evening before the deadline and it made it's way to the studio WHERE WE WON!

So now the song makes it's way to the big smoke where along with the other regional winners goes in the draw to win the slot at the BDO.

So if you wanna hear our new track, it's currently up on our Myspace site.

And who knows, perhaps we might even finally end up playing a gig in Auckland!

BC

Laz-y

2007-11-08T15:41:00.000+13:00

Been slack as shit on the updates, but fear not things are picking up!

Looking for a decent night out? Come down to Bar Mode in Palmy (Cnr Coleman and George) as we're playing a set with Horror Story, Bali Bombers + MORE on this Saturday the 10th of Nov.

Laters

BC

Palmy / Welly next week

2007-08-09T18:17:00.000+12:00

Hey all,

Next week Melbourne's 'A Death in the Family' head to NZ and we'll be joining them for a couple of shows.

On Thursday the 16th catch us with them and Not Quite Right at Bar Mode in Palmy, starts around 9pm and will only cost you a fiver.

Then on Friday the 17th, down at the Valve in Wellington it'll all be happening again but with extra support from Strangers and Punchbowl.

Good times? Great times!

BC

FAREWELL COMRADE!

2007-07-31T13:50:00.000+12:00

Black Chrome are deeply saddened by the news that our good friend Slammy passed away yesterday evening.

It was a great honour to have been invited to perform at his 'Ascension to Valhalla' show in New Plymouth a few weekends ago, and to catch up and hang out one final time.

You will be truly missed brother.

BC

New BC Line-up + shows

2007-07-06T12:52:00.000+12:00

Well after a bit of a hiatus Black Chrome will be hitting the stage again, this time with our newest edition to the band, rhythm guitarist "Killer".

As a gang of four BC's sound has gotten a whole lot huger so to drop Killer in the deep end, next weekend we will be performing two shows...

The first:

The Bad Luck Ball 3
Friday the 13th of July
San Francisco Bathhouse - Wellington
w/ Horror Story, Volcana, Thumper + DJ Voodoo Savage and DJ Nightmare 666.
Entry is $13

And secondly (state of emergency permitting)

Slammy's Ascension to Valhalla Benefit Gig
Saturday the 14th of July
The Blue Room, White Hart Hotel - New Plymouth
w/ Sticky Filth, Wrath, and Insidious.
Entry is $15 - Tickets from Missing Link and the venue.

And that'll be us until sometime in August when we'll be out supporting Melbourne's 'A Death in the Family'.

BC

DEATHPUNKFEST - Through the eyes of Blitzer

2007-06-05T18:13:00.000+12:00

so....my beloved pacific presidente arrives at castle blitzer around 6pm on friday.
6.05pm were in the mill clutching 1 litre of beam and, for some reason that only mel can explain, 20 cans of lion brown.
6.35pm. several strong drinks in quick succession and the arrival of the lesser spotted yak of doom signals chrome practice.
pick up snuff and and make full steam for the battle ship king street.
enough bourbon to fill the nile delta and a brazilian rainforest of dope later and our glorious and benevolent leader is treated to a for mels eyes only punk rock showcase.

which would be fucking awesome if we were ac/dc.
a couple of hours of blah blah gibber gibber, wheres dwayne, no you're a cunt later our merciful and all knowing president and her loyal, grimey tank commander find themselves back at castle blitzer with 2 computers, 2 rca leads, one amp input, an aircraft carriers worth of mp3's and the attitude that if i don't play it its shit
match abandoned, mp3 play count ..0

saturday. 6.15. leap out of hammock and scurry to the poop deck, gonna be late for work, bladder the size of glorious roman empire
wrong day moron, its saturday...oh well, up now
coffee and cigarettes while i make some coffee and roll some cigarettes.
7.15am
start the day several jugend sized measures of vodka and redbull
7.20 frantic yet successful scramble to the poop deck
8.15am
figure maybe fortified enough to attempt toast
8.16am
pour another drink, email bono and tell him that i have 2 slices of toast bread that i want to give to charity and does he know any africans that will get more out of them than me
9.23
eat one slice of toast and send a another note to bono explaining that due to the rise in administration costs, starving black child now only gets one slice.
10,30am
all knowing,all seeing, radiant death goddess arises, i have a drink to celebrate and weep tears of pure joy.
noon.
order my my personal honor guard, the lesbian doomkorps vixens, to set up a sliding defensive perimeter in wanganui.
12.30
celebrate my military genius with a very large vodka and tonic, a new garden shed and a blunt to make willy nelson proud.

humbly kneel before my president as she assimilates my impeccable music taste onto her hard drive of despair

the greater spotted slavic plaited yak arrives in the coastal defense cruiser.
we load in the munitions for the evenings assault.
aotearoa jugend has many allies and this is proved as im greeted by a platoon of the undead, my old friend and trusted warrior von toxic proving once again that a great army is nothing without a great hat.

12 metres of yellow twine, 4 pink clothes pegs and a man sized dollop of camo netting and the flagship of the jugend wolfpack, the u-666, is to the untrained eye, nothing more than a pub with some plastic camo netting hanging from the wall....genius.

back on battle ship king i leave andy to watch for ice bergs and gather my most trusted generals around me. the overlord scowls, the trendwhore mutters irritably.....we hate the kids, we hate their silly clothes.
we discuss tactics and pour over the maps. betty, resplendent in her makos battle armor gets a tea towel.
i hurriedly quench my thirst and inhale deeply, war doesn't wait for the lazy or the tardy.
there is barely time to wonder why the charts now resemble a red hot pussy liquor cd and several healthy rails of cheap biker crank before its time for WAR

Wall of Silents improve with every outing and they have always been good.

they are unfuckable
thundering
nice turnout of denim warriors, scum, freaks and swamp mutants lap it up.
some people can look fucking stupid in a sailors hat, trendwhore isn't one of them.
now that j has throttled the liberator back to a manageable 500 watts their crushing war hammer swings with a headroom straight from the swirling heat of hades itself.

Horror Story

ive been stumbling, hallucinating, heckling, vomiting and above all else shaking my ass to various toxic incarnations for over half my life now.
Flesh d-vice aside ,when i think of new zealand rock n roll(the real stuff) a high percentage of it invariably comes from new plymouth.
one of lifes little pleasures is throwing your goat in the air, spilling beer over someone infront of you and yelling mister monster as loud as possible.
i dont care what other people think, yelling at bands is FUN
and like most things in life consistency pays dividends
they played angelique, one of the greatest songs ever
toxic jnr fucked up the key change, was promptly fired, then rehired later at what i hope was a lower rate
classy.

BC

black chrome choir
gave a 120% from the get go
ensured that although i was crap i had a fucking good time

and how could i not
trendwhore nailed denim demon

Dick Dynamite and the Dopplegangers

rounded off the evening brilliantly
i danced, i yelled, i bounced, i spilt more beer on people
i whooped and hollered as he stood on his bass
i screamed and gibbered as they did pet cemetery
fucking perfect
what a hell of an evening

it was a game of two halves
a good hard fight
and rock n roll was the winner on the day

having fun is...fun

a 21 howitzer u-666 salute to everyone of you misfits and miscreants that put in an effort to fly, hire cars, hitch, turn off the tv and the stove and came along to take one for the team

the lion brown mvp award - tyrone..good work, gave it everything

arnotts soggy biscuit shield - mutante...just excellent

couldnt do it without you..can i pay you on payday cup - andy, jamaine, ben and betty...thank you

fucking hell its matt barnes medal - matt barnes

i couldnt give a shit what you think cos my president could beat the crap out of you and still give me shit at the same time ribbon of valor - melanie

- Wolfgang Blitzer

**photos and video by Maleficient.

Maiden DEATHPUNKFEST Voyage!

2007-05-29T22:28:00.000+12:00

That's right!

This Saturday at Bar Mode in Palmerston North, Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666 are hosting the first ever New Zealand "DEATHPUNKFEST"!!

Featuring bands from all over the North Island including Horror Story (New Plymouth), Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers (Hamilton), Wall of Silents (Palmy), ourselves, and DeathPunk DJ's from as far away as Gisborne "DEATHPUNKFEST" will be a great night of entertainment and debauchery!

Essentially a fan network founded on the love of Norwegian band Turbonegro and associated good times, the Turbojugend now boasts nearly 2200 chapters worldwide and was a huge help for us when we toured Europe last year with one of our shows being at a Turbojugend Festival in Tilburg, Holland.

Entry is only $10 and guarantees a great night out so hopefully we'll see some of you there!

BC

SWAMPFEST '07!!!

2007-05-07T12:01:00.000+12:00

Oh yeah!

This Saturday night we'll be performing at the fourth annual 'SwampFest' Palmerston North music festival.

It's on at the Globe Theatre on the cnr of Main and Pitt St's in Palmy and you can pick up tickets from Mango Music's new premises on George St.

We'll be playing along side our good buds Wall of Silents, and Cathedra (amongst others) so head along early (show starts at 8pm) cos it's an all ages show and man it should be a goodin!

In the meantime check out the official SwampFest website to see the great history behind this event.

http://www.creativesounds.org.nz/swampfest07/

xxx

BC

PICS... AND NEW RECORD?

2007-04-16T12:32:00.000+12:00

Well the show at Mode was a bit of fun, Steve from Gigantic Photography popped down and snapped a few pics which can be viewed over at his online portfolio HERE.

Fingers crossed we should be doing some recording of some of our new songs on Anzac Day down at the BC practice bunker.

Some of the likely songs to be recorded are:

I Did You No Wrong
Scimitar
The Claws
Gonna be Malicious
Devil Dolls Kiss
Cheating Man
Welcome to Woesville
Gutter of Blood
Baby you’re a Fool to Care

+ theres a few more we might have a crack at if time's on our side...

SMOKING!

2007-04-11T20:46:00.000+12:00

Well the UK SUBS gig was a blast!

Nicky Garrett even blew up Wolfgang's amp!

Wicked to catch up with the NPHC crew again.

Playing a FREE show tomorrow night at Bar Mode in Palmy so come along...

BC

Injuries and Gigs

2007-04-05T15:14:00.000+12:00

Well the "One for the Yoof!" show went wickedly but unfortunately BC never played it... Matt dealt himself some hand damage the night before so alas we had a last minute withdrawal from the lineup, that however didn't stop all the other bands from delivering top notch performances!

This Saturday sees us in the capital opening up for punk legends the UK SUBS, and because of public holiday licensing restrictions it's gonna be an early show so head on down to Bar Bodega to catch us at 8PM SHARP!

We'll be joined by New Plymouth's Horror Story and Auckland's City Newton Bombers. Tickets are $26 from the venue and Real Groovy.

And heres a few more upcoming Black Chrome shows FYI.

Thursday April 19th - Bar Mode, Palmerston North.
w/- Kill the Fake Patient (Dunedin) and Collapse (Palmy)
FREE ENTRY starts 9PM

Friday April 27th - Valve, Wellington.
w/- The Bludgers (Hamilton), Sick66 (Welly) and The Bali Bombers (Palmy)
$7 starts 10PM

xBCx

ONE FOR THE YOOF!

2007-03-12T21:38:00.000+13:00

Hell yeah!

Well Mel has been a gem and gone and put our blog (from the European Tour) right here in the main part of our site so now we can fairly easily keep people up to date with whats happening in BC world!

Coming up soon were putting on a great all ages show at the Stomach in Palmerston North featuring a massive lineup of bands from around the North Island of NZ.

As well as us playing our first Tummy show in what seems like an eternity, we'll be joined by our mates The High Lords from Wellington, The Wrongmen from Auckland who will be dropping in as part of their NZ tour, OneBadWeekend who will also be touring the country at the same time, and local dudes Stiletto!

It's a pretty solid lineup and guaranteed to be a wicked night out!

But remember it's an early start (8PM) and will cost ya $8 to get in (theres a fair amount of gas to pay!) and no doubt there will be an assortment of merch available on the night so hopefully we'll see ya there!

BC

p.s Don't forget to check out links to those other bands from our links page!

Like all good things...

2006-07-30T19:46:00.000+12:00

Well the tour has come to an end, and now the long haul begins!

Thanks to everyone involved with making this a great success, and a great time!

A special thanks to Toma for making sure we got everywhere and making sure all the shows went well!

Jan for stepping up and making sure BC was looked after and constantly partying!

All our hosts, Micha, Freddy, Laurant, Robert, Ingo, Tony Slug, TJ Tilburg, Eugene, and Michelle... everyone who came to the shows and partied with us, all of the venues, and of course all our families and friends without whom none of this would have been possible!

See ya back in the Swamp sometime around 2pm on Monday!

Till next time, heres a final pic from the last flight of the tour from Auckland back to Palmy... after all the sunny goodness of Europe, good to see NZ was in fine form!

Graeme, Jimmy, Matt and Ben.

what what what...

2006-07-27T23:08:00.000+12:00

Well had a well hurried start to the morning with the alarm not going off and us missing our train to London... got the next one and made it here eventually!

Caught the metro to Camden where Eugene from Flesh D-vice meet us to take us back to his place where we were staying. Got settled in, had some food and decided what we should do tonight.... we know...

AGNOSTIC FRONT!!!

Yup, AF were playing down the road so we jumped on the bus and went and saw a great sold out show.

Next day we went into the centre and went to the British Museum and went record shopping in Soho.

Today I think the plan is to go to Trafalger Square and then tonight go and watch The Suicide File who are playing down the road...

Sorry for the lack of photos, this PC doesn't have photoshop on it so I can't resize... oh well!

See ya all again soon!

BC

P.S Here are a couple of photo galleries from some of the shows that people have put up online.

St. Pauli

Tilburg

Tilburg2

WOW!!!

2006-07-25T04:20:00.000+12:00

Alright, well heres a recap of the previous week...

GERMANY

First stop, Köln (Cologne).

First noticable difference to Black Chrome between Germany and France... cheaper booze!

Yep, we rolled into Köln and found our way to the venue the 'Sonic Ballroom' and waited for the owners to turn up and let us in, in the meantime a nearby dairy was found to be selling bottles of Jägermeister for NZ$16! The owners turned up and let us in and we set up and sound checked in front of possibly the coolest stage backdrop ever!

We then got shown upstairs to where we would be staying and what a surprise! More than enough bunks for everyone, a great party lounge, and this...

Plus we had an additional bar tab, and they cooked everyone up a great hot meal!

The gig itself was pretty lowkey turnout wise due to a few things, but we still had a good show and it gave us the chance to play with 'Bolle and the very good looking boys' who were playing their first show at the Sonic Ballroom.

Also this night as well as Bolle and the very good looking boys we ended up partying till the next day with the mighty Björn from Turbojugend Köln.

Ben, Björn, Bolle, and Snuff

The next day we only had a short drive ahead of us so we missioned into the centre of Köln and took in some of the sights including the magnificent Cologne Cathedral whose building began in 1248 and took nearly 600 years to complete!

We then made the short drive to our next stop, Düsseldorf.

After getting into town we had a wander and got some supplies for the night ahead and saw some very cool things...

Then we drove to the venue which was an underground punk bar in an industrial area of Düsseldorf. The turnout was pretty good and we played well and got a really great response!

After a goods night sleep we packed up and headed to Hamburg via Münster to pick up our good friend Jan...

First stop in Hamburg was for a pint at 'Fred's Schlemmer-Eck', home of TJ St. Pauli, the worlds first chapter of the Turbojugend.

After loading in at the venue 'King Calaveras' we had a look around the surrounding streets... i.e the legendary 'Reeperbahn' red light district!

St. Pauli went off! The Turbojugend turned up on masse and even some old friends of BC's turned up from Berlin bearing gifts. After a few hours sleep we began the arduous drive the next day to Amsterdam.

HOLLAND

Well Amsterdam is everything it's cracked up to be... just with more bikes! We played a great show to a packed audience at a great little blues club called 'Meloe Melo'. Post show we headed to our host for the evenings house, Tony Slug from the band 'The Nitwitz'. The night was spent partying and trading rock n roll stories til the early hours. We got up and took in some of the sights, then headed to Tilburg.

It was only a short drive to Tilberg, but due to there being a giant fair on in the middle of the city right where our internet directions told us to go it took a bit longer than expected to get there!

But when we did, what a welcome! The Jugend was out in force, with people traveling from chapters in Holland, Germany, Belgium, and of course Aotearoa!

We played a really good set to an energized audience full house, Jan even managed to get an inpromptu BC choir going! We got showered with gifts including shirts, badges, and just after we finished playing some kick arse patches from Bartman from the band Peter Pan Speedrock.

After loading out we said goodbye to everyone including Jan who had been with us since Münster, and drove through the night back to Paris where we are now.

Tomorrow... we head to London!

xxx

BC

Storming the Bastille...

2006-07-19T10:25:00.000+12:00

Well today we got up and had a sweet French breakfast and then caught the train into the centre of Paris, and then the metro (underground) to Bastille.

Toma then took us to 'Born Bad' Records where we found possibly the most dangerous place in Paris...

Everyone quickly realised that all our money could easily be spent here so we left with this small bounty...

We then got out of the sun and took refuge at a cool metal bar where Wolfgang displayed his recently gained expertise at ordering beer in French...

After this we hoped back on the metro and went to another bar where the bass player from Tomas band 'The Lipstick Vibrators' was having the launch of his gig poster exhibition. Once again beer and pastis (a French liquor) were on the menu along with a huge spread.

And then we hoped on the train and missioned back to base to have a record party with all our new purchases, tomorrow we head to Germany where we play 5 shows in a row... stay tuned!

xxx

BC

2006-07-17T23:26:00.000+12:00

Well what a fun few days!

We have just returned to Paris after being out on the road to Rennes and Rouen. Rennes was cool we partied with some guys from a local horror/psychobilly band called Banane Metalik who had just returned from playing in Hollywood. Went to this crazy surreal street that looked like it was built by MC Escher! Meet heaps of cool people and drunk until the next morning when we left to Rouen...

The ride took ages because of everyone returning from their holidays and big jams from the toll stations, we finally got to Rouen and the venue was this closet sized punk rock bar called Le Prado one block from the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, after finding out the PA speakers were busted and sourcing out alternatives we rocked out about 15 songs in what must have been 40° heat!!!

Afterwards we went to the house of the owner of the venue and we had this fantastic home cooked french meal, by this stage everyone was pretty shattered so we went to the flat of the punk rock barman from Le Prado and after some brief entertainment by a bat trapped inside the house we crashed...

Got up this morning and drove back to Paris where we well spend the next few days chilling and sightseeing before heading to Germany!

Love to all!

Wolfgang, Jimmy, Matt, and Ben.

Black Chrome lurking in alleys is a worldwide trend...

Aïna and Karine at the entry to 'Liquid Alley' were we hung out and drunk and watched some cops cuff some street thieves who we'd been watching rip people off all afternoon!

Our host Laurent in Renne.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen

One of the greatest bars in the world!

Figured we might play some songs since we were here...

New friends.

Well the flights are over...

2006-07-14T21:23:00.000+12:00

Sweet well we made it!

30 something hours from PN to Paris... Turns out the show tonight isnt happening now which means we can catch up on some sleep, and the duty free liquor/smokes!

Heading into Paris tonight to party which should be a ball, and heres some pics so far!!

G and Matt in Bangkok

Thats actually Warsaw down there would you believe!

And finally the view from our crib in Paris... quaint eh!

We are off to party in Rennes tomorrow, so who knows what will happen!

Last night in the swamp...

2006-07-12T21:50:00.000+12:00

Well we just finished up our final practice, the rains coming down... Palmy really turned it on tonight!

Fly out of PN around 8am tomorrow and then onto Paris.

STAY TUNED!!!

Check 1...2...

2006-06-22T19:41:00.000+12:00

Aight well we are about 3 weeks away from heading off so it's time to see if this interweb milarky is gonna work!