Mess and Noise today published an in-depth review of the New Weird Australia live show at Sound Summit:

“A picture of the Pope is propped on a ledge behind the stage at Newcastle‘s Renew Church. People drift in from the rain outside and sidle quietly into chairs. Trapped within the cheap frame, bathed in mellow red stage lights, the Pope watches on, fading even further into weary benevolence.

“It’s Sunday afternoon and the church is home to the second installment of New Weird Australia’s artist showcase at Sound Summit. It’s a dry and comforting space and there’s no reason to be here but to sit and listen. No bar, no smoking area, no swelling rumble of chatter.”

Continue reading at messandnoise.com

Above: Photo of Kyu by Eliza Sarlos

Thanks to everyone who came down to the New Weird Australia mini-fest at last weekend’s Sound Summit in Newcastle NSW.

Over three spaces, we presented eleven artists: Lucia Draft, Polyfox & The Union Of Most Ghosts, Brutal Hate Mosh, Go Genre Everything, Kyu, Alps, Moonmilk, Blastcorp, Castings, Gugg and Holy Balm. Special thanks to Grant Hunter for the Arthive event and to Eliza Sarlos, Andrew Tuttle and the Sound Summit team for pulling it all together.

If you took photos at the event, please get in touch such that we can collate them all together.

We’ll be announcing our next show – in Sydney – in the next few days.  As for the next compilation in our series, New Weird Australia Volume Three will  be released in early November.  Join our email list to keep in touch with releases and events.

NWA was featured in today’s Mess & Noise, ahead of this weekend’s Sound Summit Showcase, in a Q&A article by Kate Hennessy.

“New Weird Australia (NWA) slipped onto the scene in July 2009, releasing Volume One in a compilation series featuring new, eclectic and experimental Australian-only music. Available for free from the NWA website, it has so far racked up 3000 downloads, with Volume Two released this month.

“There’s no specific theme or genre. Bluegrass glitch and free-jazz nestle alongside “sprawling sample ephemera” and psychedelic folk on the two compilations, which total 31 tracks. If it’s fucking with conventions, NWA founder Stuart Buchanan will give it a discerning ear.”

Click here to continue reading on Mess & Noise.

On Sunday 4th October, New Weird Australia presents a one-day free, live showcase – in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Newcastle’s Sound Summit Festival. In borrowed terminology, NWA shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle. Across three spaces and nine hours, eleven bands play live, representing a cross section of New Weird Australian music from New South Wales, Northern Territory, Victoria and Queensland.

FEATURING: Go Genre Everything, Polyfox And The Union Of The Most Ghosts, Brutal Hate Mosh, Lucia Draft, Alps, kyü, Moonmilk, Castings, Blastcorp, Gugg, Holy Balm, and DJ sets from Faux Pas & Stuart Buchanan

From 15:00 at ArtHive, Level 1/111 Hunter St
LUCIA DRAFT
POLYFOX AND THE UNION OF THE MOST GHOSTS
BRUTAL HATE MOSH
GO GENRE EVERYTHING

From 17:00 in the Renew Newcastle Church
ALPS
KYU
MOONMILK

From 19:00 at the Festival Club (Masons)
CASTINGS
BLASTCORP
GUGG
HOLY BALM
Plus DJs
FAUX PAS
STU BUCHANAN (NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA)

For more information on Sound Summit, visit . Download a free Sound Summit mixtape, featuring NWA showcase bands Castings, Kyu, Holy Balm and Lucia Draft, plus music from other artists playing at the Festival – Ducktails, Vivian Girls, Tiny Vipers, Cleptoclectics, Crab Smasher and more at soundsummit.com.au.

(Clarification: contrary to the note cited in the Drum Media article, NWA is very much a two-person operation, co-curated by Stu Buchanan and Danny Jumpertz.)