8 december 2006
happy yess, darwin city. $5, 9pm start

After three years in the making, Blastcorp releases his new 10 track album entitled ‘Chrysanthemum’. Blastcorp is the project of Kris Keogh, and is best described as indietronic; a blend of heartfelt songs, wrapped in lush acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Kris has written, performed, recorded and produced everything on the album from his studio in Larrakeyah.

“I guess it’s the Prince influence coming through, if he could do everything himself, why can’t I? It’s also a case of knowing what you want. Because the album has a strong electronic element, it takes hours and hours of tweaking and refining individual sounds, something which you just can’t do when the band is waiting around for you,” Keogh said.

‘Chrysanthemum’ was originally planned to be released on Berlin / Manchester based record label City Centre Offices, which Keogh signed to in 2005. After having initial test pressings of the album made, the process ground to a halt. “Last year was tough, a real learning experience for me. I spent a lot of time dealing with a lawyer, negotiating contracts, and negotiating with the label how the album should look and sound. In the end it became clear to me that there were too many compromises involved, so I decided to continue to release my music myself.”

The album is being released on Keogh’s own Collapsed Records label, and will be the first ever Darwin release on vinyl picturediscs.“I wanted to do something special with this album, and I love the sound and feel of vinyl. I did some research and found a manufacturer in Germany that could produce vinyl picturediscs. ”Picturediscs are vinyl records with a full colour print over the entire surface of both sides of the record. The initial run will be limited to 300 hand numbered copies. The picturediscs come with a free CD of the album for those who don’t have a record player!

The Launch Party

The album will be officially launched in Darwin on Friday 8th December at Happy Yess. Blastcorp will be performing the entire album live, from start to finish. “I’m looking forward to getting the music out to the public, and for the chance to play the album live as a whole,” Keogh said.

Also performing are special guests The Bionic Hearts, who play sweet songs using just acoustic guitar and voice. “Gemma (songwriter from The Bionic Hearts) is one of Darwin’s hidden talents. It will be a pleasure to have her play,” said Keogh.

Chrysanthemum will be available from Happy Yess, from Blastcorp’s website and through selected specialist music retailers throughout Australia from 8th December 2006.

happy yess , darwin city
fri 13th october 9pm
$5
my ‘other band’ is playing with my new favourite singer songwriter gemma nourse AKA the bionic hearts.
mike and will used to be in a punk band called crumbs. now theyve only got acoustic guitars.

friday 29th september
happy yess, bennett st, darwin city 9pm $5

my first ever solo guitar and vox performance. im leaving the computer at home just to keep things exciting and scary.
will be playing lots of new material!

browns mart, darwin city
friday 1st september 7pm $8/6

10 local bands:
blastcorp
the weathermen
scarlet revenge
zephyr
enth degree
pipeline dreaming
simple complexity
the kytes
hollow zero
french for raditation

a night of great up and coming young bands also featuring one old guy playing the laptop and singing!

here’s a dodgy archive of old shows from 2005-2006.
im too old to remember anything before that….
something for old times sake, or for those hardcore fans!
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RED PLUM & SNOW LIVE!!!
happy yess, 5 bennett st, darwin 8pm $5
saturday 2 september
red plum & snow
leah flanagan & band
This will be a very nice night of singer/songwritering.
red plum & snow is my new band with gretchen, of course.
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Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
friday 28th july 2006
blastcorp
snapsuit
red plum & snow
a traditional beats and vox blastcorp set, but now with added distortion and general bad attitude!
snapsuit is damien from the herd. this is his new projects first outing. im playing guitar with his band. its layers of dreamy guitar with some nice breaks and bass, nice.!
red plum & snow is my new band with gretchen!
$5
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red plum & snow
comedy night
sat 12th august
browns mart
darwin city $10

kris and gretchens new (serious) band play in between comedians. im gonna have to work on my between song banter….
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Festival of Darwin
Star Shell, Botanic Gardens
thursday 24th august 8pm $8(i think)
blastcorp
cooperblack
worldfly
the groovesmiths
supposedly a showcase of people ready to make it big from darwin….you can decide for yourselves. should be fun though!
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Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
saturday 15th july 2006
electro night!
blastcorp vs subsonic
chuan
blastcorp dj set as well!
ive been working on a live set with marineboy aka subsonic.
its dark distorted dance music. im djing a dubsteppy set too!
$5
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Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
friday 30th June 2006
Kris & Gretchen
France is Burning
my new acoustic project is playing this friday. its really sweet.
our default name is being upgraded at present. i think we will be called ejects stars.
france is burning is franciss gypsy band. they are really good.
$5

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Black Bunny Sound System
Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
Thurs 8th June 8pm till 12am
Blastcorp and friends teaming up to skank the night away! This is a once off not to be missed! dj sets and live band all filtered though one big dub desk and FX!
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Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
Saturday 17th June 8pm till 1am
Horse Trank and Scarlet Revenge

Horse Trank – this is my part time rock band!
Long time Darwin swamp rock institution.

Scarlet Revenge – Female led power pop three piece taking the town by storm.
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Happy Yess, 5 bennett st, darwin city
Friday 30th June 8pm till 1am

France is Burning plus Kris & Gretchen

France is Burning – Francis Diatschenko’s massive new gypsy jazz outfit! A melting pot jazz styles performed by some of Darwin’s most talented musicians.

Kris & Gretchen
this is my other, other band!
– Kris (Blastcorp) and Gretchen (Luckstar, Crimplene) join forces. 2 guitars, 2 voices.

opening of HAPPY YESS,
darwins new local original music venue!
BLASTCORP + THE WEATHERMEN + DJs
8pm, $5
friday 2nd june 2006
bennett st , darwin city
venue capacity is 50 people so dont be late!
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MAY DAY CONCERT
my other band, HORSE TRANK are
playing!
the esplanade, darwin city
may 1 , from 5pm, free entry
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OFF THE PAGE
at The Groove- Nightcliff -Darwin
FRIDAY 31st MARCH 2006 from 7:30pm

live music:
BLASTCORP
KRIS + GRETCHEN

live spoken word performaers:
LIAM MONKHOUSE (culture connect)
PRU GELL
TIBOR
FINN
+lots more

$8/5
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blastcorp live in SYDNEY!!!
Next Saturday the 14th January
at the mandarin club
corner of pitt and goulbourn streets
sydney city!

> Blastcorp
> Pretty Boy Crossover
> Lakes
> Dsico

> 8pm, $8
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SYDNEY!!! ROUND 2!
Blastcorp LIVE at frigid!
Newtown RSL (@newtown)
Sunday 15th January
7pm till late
BLASTCORP live set 9pm!!
also DJs: Sir Robbo, Ollo, Sub Bass Snarl

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bands by the bus stop 6
10 bands including blastcorp!
blastcorp
roymackonkey
the cools
the dooms
flesh petal
leroy
floom
+more!!
saturday 19th november from 7pm
browns mart, darwin city
$6/8
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blastcorp LIVE
this friday 4th november 7pm
railway club, darwin
with: the dooms, cooperblack, space trank and flesh petal.
$5!
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blastcorp live!
friday 27th october 7pm
railway club, darwin
with: horse trank, cooperblack and more!
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blastcorp (dj set)
saturday 28th october
browns mart, darwin
with: lots of other djs i dont know…its an all night thing.
think im on at 2am or something!
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blastcorp dj set @ earthdance
charles darwin park, darwin city
saturday 17th september
9pm till noon. im on at 12:45am
6 bands, 15 djs.
will be flouro stuff there….
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STIMULUS:

Saturday 27th August
Promised Land, Stuart Tce, Alice Springs.
When: 8pm - 2am
Presented by Music NT & Watch This Space
$10 on the door

Blastcorp - (just some guy with messy hair)
Jim Denley - (improvised wind instruments and electronic compositions)
Rob Curgenven - (environmental sound art)
Sonic State - bent local sounds
DJ Mustaphaa
DJ Petria
Visuals by Watch This Space Artists

Nationally renowned experimental sound artists and local DJs explore the landscape of sound in all its fascinating forms - improvised, live and pre-recorded. Enhanced by WTS visual artists delving into new realms of possibility. Come with open ears and eyes - prepare to have
your horizons redefined.
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surrounder
part of the festival of darwin

blastcorp
rob curgenven

Two Australian musicians recently signed to two European labels (almost!!!) present a night of minimal and evocative music in the underground of Darwin´s WWII Oil Storage Tunnel. Rob Curgenven (privatelektro) and Blastcorp (City
Centre Offices) will bring the 170 metre tunnel to life with the warm resonances and haunting harmonics of their sound sculpture using a unique surround sound system and visual projections.

Rob Curgenven works with harmonics, field recordings and acoustic resonances. He will be presenting unusual, unprocessed recordings from a grand piano mixed with field recordings from his time living in and around
Darwin and the desert, alongside recent sounds from the urban landscapes of Berlin to the quiet sonic vistas of rural Poland in winter.

Blastcorp will perform using live guitar, piano samples and self designed sound processing software.its gonna be arty!!

When: 9.30pm, Sun 21st August
Where: WWII Oil Storage Tunnels, Darwin Wharf Precinct
Price: $10/$7
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blastcorp
plus hiphop jam with dj dexter and friends!

when: tuesday 16th august, 9:30 to 11:30pm
where: darwin botanic gardens, star shell

(this is after the DJ Dexter concert, free if youve already been to see dexter, $5 for the blastcorp show only)

blastcorp to rock the house with beatsy/ song based set.
airi and dexter are planning to jam out some tunes too (after my set) with some guest MCs. will be fun. id go if i was you!

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opening of darwin fringe festival!
when: friday 22nd july 2005 (blastcorp on at 8:15pm)
where: browns mart, darwin city
who: blastcorp, shellie morris, lilla, lotus
how much: im not sure…maybe $8???

blastcorp will be playing a traditional computer/vox beatsy set. gonna try play the new album song for song. shellie is playing too (yay!) and there will be arty dance performances between bands!

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blastcorp LIVE at darwin international guitar festival
date: Thursday 7th july, 10pm
where: charles darwin university, sound shell, darwin.
$$$$?:5 bucks

this will be a special show of live treated guitar. francis will be playing, kris will be on the computer tweaking. it will be good.
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Bands by the Bus Stop 5

Where: Browns Mart, Darwin City
When: Friday June 10, from 7:30pm (yes, the bands start at 7:30 sharp!!!)
Cost: $7/5
ALL AGES!!!

Performing are:
PLONKER (legendary darwin punks)
TEST THEORY (chosen for Bass in the Grass 2005)
BLASTCORP (kris keoghs live thingy)
BLACK CHAPEL (acoustic soul/reggae, also chosen for Bass in the Grass 2005)
BROTHA BOY FAMILY (darwin hip hops finest)
THE DOOMS (alternative ROCK!!)
THE COOLS (great new band, FIRST LIVE GIG!)
NIRA QUINN (amazingly gifted singer/songwriter)
TIFFANY CORNELL (another amazingly gifted singer/songwriter)
FLESH PETAL (hard rockin girls,and boy!)
INNER TENSION (metal, straight outta taminmin high)
LEROY (acoustic soul,great voice and a great guitarist)

Bands by the Bus Stop 5 is organised by Darwin High and Taminmin High
VET Music students.

It is an ALL AGES gig, with ID required to access the bar facilities.

And its a bargain!!! 12 bands, 7 bucks (or only 5 concession!)

See you there
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blastcorp APRIL 2005 sydney/melbourne baby-tour!

SYDNEY———————
friday 1st april EARLY SHOW 6pm-10pm
at Space 3, corner of Regent and Cleveland St
(all ages)
> 6.00 - 6.25pm OH! BELGIUM
> 6.30 - 7.00pm LAKES
> 7.15 - 7.45pm THE EMERGENCY
> 8.00 - 8.45pm BLASTCORP
> 9.00 - 9.45pm GOLD MICE

SYDNEY———————
sunday 3rd april
EARLY SHOW TOO!! 6pm-10pm
at the Lansdowne
with dsico that no-talent hack and DJ broken cowboy
FREE ENTRY!!!

MELBOURNE—————–
blastcorp
dj littletree
diamond williams
@glitch
318 ST GEORGES RD NTH FITZROY
sunday 10th april 2005
from 8pm $5 entry

littletree is a top notch ragga/jungle/leftfield dj. he is also a doctor in his spare time.

diamond is byron from the herd/cinco locos goin solo.
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blastcorp LIVE at the Kitchen
19 bishop st, stuart park, darwin
saturday 5th march ,from 9pm
also playing: pop fantastic, plus more!!!!
happy birthday nathan!
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this friday 25th february, 9pm, FREE
damaged disco in my loungeroom
live: blastcorp
djs: kris, deb,chuan, whoeverelse
email for directions! kris@blastcorp.com

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KONGO 10th anniversary party
saturday 19th feb 2005 4pm till 1am
aviation institute, darwin, $20

to celebrtate kongos tenth anniversary, all the djs and bands that have played there over the years are gonna do one big show. i used to be a dj there from 1997 to 99. im gonna do a now rare dj set!

lineup:
1.bands
birdwave
cinco locos
the rimshot chillaz (im gonna play guitar with them too!)

2. djs
blastcorp
loose cannon
eflip
kanaka
fatlip
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blastcorp????? blues band
blues jam @ the hog shed
gove
sunday 26th december 2004 from 4pm

kris plays blues classics with cliff and lucas and his brother mark. when in rome……
you are guaranteed to hear:
roadhouse blues
red house
jailbreak
back in black
and more!!!!!