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McClane

About Me

McClane (formerly Dead Baby Joke) is Julian, Reuben and Nickamc going spare in a room. Sometimes you're there too.
We just released our self-titled 7 minute opus, available from us right here with select distros and certain record stores. 6 brand new tracks and a re-recording of a part of our demo. Guaranteed to tear your face off!
BUY MCCLANE - S/T for $10 AU

We also released a 9 track demo CD in 2007 titled 'Push Start'. In fact, we've gone through over 100 copies of it, just take it! FREE MUSIC!
McClane - Push Start
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Download an entire live set from the Decolonise Festival, January 26th 2009, recorded by our good friend Nick French right here.
Playing shows with groups like Give Up All Hope (UK), Crux (Syd), The Thaw (Syd), Ex-Spectator (Melb), Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour (Melb), Kill A Celebrity (Syd), Rather Be Dead (Syd), Luca Brasi (Melb), Fireships (Melb), Anal Discharge (Newc) & Moments!, McClane are kicking shit and taking numbers.
Reuben's solo breakcore/metal Dead Baby Joke project (the previous incarnation of the band) had the pleasure of sharing stages with interstate and international acts such as Captain Ahab (USA), Ove-Naxx (JPN), Toxic Lipstick (Bris), Toecutter (Syd), Xian (Syd), Anal Cookie (Bris), Suicidal Rap Orgy(NSW), Crab Smasher (Newc), and DrillBit (Newc), until he lost all the beats in a deletion mishap. Then Julian learned the drum parts and Nickamc joined on vocals and the trio changed name to something much trendier with the kids.
Read a piece on us from the Ausgrind website here.
Punching + Crashing + Exploding + McClane = Proceed With Menace video by Reuben:
Live At The Lewisham Hotel, Sydney - 16th May 2008, filmed by our Crab Smasher hunny Grant Hunter.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/10/2006
Band Website: http://www.last.fm/music/mcclane
Band Members: Reuben - guitar
Julian - drums
Nickamc - wailing, flailing
Influences: iron lung, drumcorps/aaron spectre, pig destroyer, the tony danza tapdance extravaganza, man is the bastard, agents of abhorrence, next life, big black, shellac, dillinger escape plan, frenzal rhomb, mclusky, my disco, jesus lizard, the stooges, one last wish, rites of spring, mindsnare, anal cunt, discordance axis, venetian snares & speedranch, meshuggah, ampere, napalm death, harvest, every time i die, sleep, agoraphobic nosebleed, ....dead, carcass, suicide, merzbow, poison idea, mr bungle, mind eraser, off minor, converge, botch, pantera, justice yeldham, t.s.o.l., brutal truth, the nation blue, robotosaurus, the rivalry, the bronx
Sounds Like: pork chops dipped in apple sauce.
Record Label: Independent
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Newcastle, Street Shows and Band Experiences

It was a fairly interesting weekend in the McClane camp. About a month ago we squeezed ourselves onto the bill of a show called 'This Is Not Part (of the This Is Not Art) Festival', a show that show...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:55:00 GMT

We're still alive!

So I've moved to Melbourne, somewhat successfully, and we're making plans for some shows here right now. We're looking at releasing the tracks we did a few months ago as a run of EP's, and maybe getti...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:51:00 GMT

And now for something completely different...

Well not really. Just a general update.Recording is completely done. Our dear slinky friend Sam King made us sound fucking huge and we're really really keen to get people hearing our new 7 minutes of ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:00 GMT

Entire Lewisham Video Up!

Our good man Grant Hunter (Anal Discharge) quietly filmed us from the corner of the stage on May 16 at the Lewisham Hotel in Sydney. He's upped the entire performance on youtube, and here it all is.Pa...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:08:00 GMT

Good dudes, good brew, good buddies. I feel great man! I FEEL GREAT!

'I dunno man, I hate my father, I hate my life, but I feel great man! You guys are great.... I'm gonna go pick a fight.'Only good line out of Wayne's World 2.Anyways, we're booked in to Blind Monkey S...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:16:00 GMT

Capital Eyes - Zine Interview

1) The band started as a solo project (Dead Baby Joke), how does the sound differ now that it's a full band?Reuben's Dead Baby Joke project was infused with alot of electronic experimentation, and it ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 00:17:00 GMT

Very Rad Show

Can I just say how great it was to play a completely impromptu show with Slowburn and Moments at a lovely house in Downer. Really big honour to play on the same bill as both bands, and big thanks to e...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:59:00 GMT

First shows go great, write up on Ausgrind website

So we played our first two shows, the first one at the Civic Youth Centre was slightly forgettable, with my mike constantly coming loose, but the Toast show was fucking epic and applauded by audience ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:12:00 GMT

Name Change, new EP, etc

Dead Baby Joke = McClane = Reuben, Julian and NickamcNew EP = 10 tracks of brutal-blistering-super-fat-radness, really = out soon for cheap
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:35:00 GMT

worst gig ever

McClane @ Civic Youth Centre, 12th October 2007 w/ Inflatable Ingrid and Yoko Oh NoMcClane @ Toast, 12th October 2007 w/ Inflatable Ingrid, Super Best Friends and Cool WeaponMcClane @ a House Show, 2n...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:32:00 GMT