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The Butcher

Count bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums

About Me

I play 5 string bass, 7 string guitar & a little bit of keys, currently bass player for group Fuxton

My Interests

Besides music I am generally interested in weird things, mainly the occult and other stuff like that....

I'd like to meet:

Ihsahn, Trent Reznor, Davey Havok, Jeordie White & James Iha

Music:

Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Type o Negative, Rammstein, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Emperor, The Tea Party, Murderdolls, Slipknot, Ministry, AFI, Decoder Ring, underground punk & metal music+labels....

Movies:

Requiem For A Dream, Spun, Pi, Fight Club, Lost Highway, Muholland Drive, all of Kevin Smith's films, The Omen, Hellraiser Inferno, Evil Dead Trilogy, The Exorcist....

Television:

The Simpsons, South Park & Family Guy...

Books:

Any literature by Stephen King, Clive Barker, H.P Lovecraft, William Peter Blatty and some Edgar Allen Poe...

My Blog

Utopia Records 1st March ’08

This gig has been the first one for Fuxton in about 5 months and the first one for this year. Same line up, not much changed in the way of image but the sound is now different. A new style f...
Posted by The Butcher on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:03:00 PST

Gaelic Theatre 14th September

Ahh the Gaelic Theatre our second time there. We played with an awesome line up of bands that night (Synthetic Distortion, Curse At 27 to name a few) and we played an ok set although for some reason m...
Posted by The Butcher on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:18:00 PST

Buxton Hall 18th August

There is nothing like a hometown gig. The turnout was great & a lot of locals from our childhood turned up to help us with our cause, to save the hall we grew up in so that future generations can ...
Posted by The Butcher on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:53:00 PST

Emergenza Competition 5th August

I'll keep this short- this gig was at where they have club blink. The voting system they have, while apparently effective, did not really work in our favour. The bass amp was good, the guitar amps wer...
Posted by The Butcher on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:47:00 PST

Club Blink 6th July '07

This should have been a good gig but as it turned out it was just the opposite. I don't want to think about it too much so this is just a basic outline. First there was a traffic jam to deal with, nea...
Posted by The Butcher on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:29:00 PST

Ambarvale Youth Centre 3rd June

Ok onto the last gig that happened about a week ago.... I remember the first time fuxton did a gig at the ambarvale youth centre and I also remember me saying I was never doing another gig there again...
Posted by The Butcher on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST

Gaelic Theatre 19th May with special guest John

Ok the next gig for posting..... What I remember of this gig is that this was that it had only half the potential of making it a great gig. It was good nonetheless but could have been better if someon...
Posted by The Butcher on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PST

Sandringham Hotel Newtown 13th May

I have been very lazy in posting new blogs about gigs & this isn't the only one that is going up tonight. Anyway that gig.... What I remember of it was a pretty stressful drive through peak hour t...
Posted by The Butcher on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:44:00 PST

Liverpool Idol '07

What started out as a disastrous start to the afternoon eventually became one of those memorable gigs, despite being on a monday night. Anyhow we hired a bus that was driven to the meeting point....
Posted by The Butcher on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:34:00 PST

Parramatta Hotel

"welcome to the hotel Parramatta, such a waste of time such a waste of time..." There. Despite it being an alright set, I think I pretty much summed up in one sentence how it was. Playing to about 7 p...
Posted by The Butcher on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:27:00 PST