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About Me

It's two men who come from distinct and varied musical backgrounds who were drawn to each other's ways of seeing and interpreting music and ideas. Associated with many of the bands who call (Brunswick Community Arts Warehouse) Irene their spiritual home, as well as the melting pot that is Brunswick and surrounds. Dance Contest is about finding meaning and critiquing people and ideas around us while not getting too fucking serious about it. That's why it doesn't always seem to make sense, or is disguised by crap metaphors, or has no words just inspiring and exciting music to dance to and throw things. The world IS a Dance Contest. When Politicians line up to say "Pick Me!", it's a fucking dance contest with no second prize. When animals, including humans, do their thing to attract other creatures to them, it's a giant and convoluted dance contest. Sometimes they actually dance. When corporate entities dangle carrots for us to buy, they do a little multi-billion dollar dance because it's worth it for them. Just like those freaks we listed in our influences, Dance Contest believes that meaningful music that deals with serious ideas doesn't have to be angry or dreary or dark. Nor does fun dance-able music have to be vacuous pop rubbish. It can inspire you to shake and dance and sing while you're working out what new worlds you're going to build inside the crumbling shell of the old world. Let's DANCE!also you check www.ringtonesociety.com maybe find latest hit single ringtone. Big html will be deleted from comments etc, it takes too long for dial-ups to load and is a pain in the arse (that means bottom in australian).email [email protected] for make love or friendship please xxx I edited my profile with

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/30/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/dancecontest
Band Members: adam & adrian : guitar, bass, synth/keyboard, percussion, programming, various other bits, drums, voice, percussion, melodica, yelling, dancing, rubber chickens, rotten vegetables, vodka, broken equipment. also venue managers telling us 'last song guys sorry'. also you in band make dance and heckle very much encourage yes?
Influences: talking heads, kraftwerk, neu!, devo, lcd soundsystem, tussle, fela kuti, antibalas, the cure, joy division, eno, pil, gang of four, bowie, tackhead, MC5. obviously many more, but you get the idea.
Sounds Like: various frequencies organised into rhythmic and melodic structures, some of which inspire various multi cellular lifeforms to dance, others to vomit, particularly seabirds - although maybe they would have done that anyway, we're not sure. also a number of political statements poorly disguised with crap metaphors.
Record Label: with the what now?

My Blog

Angry shoppers...

(also available in the gig guide)...were relieved last night when Santa returned to work and the great machine of capitalist enterprise was once again able to spin at breakneck speed dazzling all thos...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:47:00 GMT

Did you notice our NEW SONG!

The new song 'Intelligent Design' was recorded at the Rob Roy Hotel in April and is a bit rough around the edges, especially when the drummer gets a bit excited and speeds up too much. We played with ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:10:00 GMT

A manager or a new name?

We aren't sure how to 'take it to the next level'. Maybe we need a less crap name, maybe we need a manager. We'll start with the manager. Anyone interested? I guess we don't want to support the Scream...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:33:00 GMT

Tongues of Phloegm!

A review of our music by the great naturalist Donald Culross Peattie (dec), which describes it better than than we could. The music is..."like the shout of a great army...like tongues of flame...like ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:41:00 GMT

the joy of robot parties

you will be wearing negative virus knitwear and carrying a copy of 'emergency sex..' we will be dancing and speaking in irritatingly logical and humourless tones. 1. can a robot have an afro?2. will t...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:35:00 GMT

this mess

(cue hot bass line)broken hearted masses playplay with toys n simple gamesthey will come but they wont stayyour times have yet to have namesall i want is to end this messsomewhere in the heart or mind...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:04:00 GMT

here's to adventure! (revolution for the hell of it)

thanks for the cards and the flowers everybody. this blog has been put in its rightful place at the adam page: myspace.com/pincenezhere's to adventure!
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:18:00 GMT