An Australian’s journey from the suburbs to original punk-era Sydney and beyond. Operating record labels, designing & printing rock posters, running amok with fireworks into the night – all to the soundtrack of some of the region’s best-ever contemporary music. In pursuit of even more, he evolved into a Global traveller and World Citizen of no fixed address.
Within ‘CRAIC as it happened’ you will find discourses on: Radio Birdman / Lou Reed / The Saints / The Birthday Party / Television / Lydia Lunch / Bob Dylan / Neil Young / Kraftwerk / Iggy Pop / Punk-Era Sydney / White Light Records / Phantom Records / Red Eye Records / Beasts of Bourbon / The Crystal Set / Mixed Relations / The Cruel Sea / Steve Kilbey / Killing Time / The Clouds / Buying Toys / Selling Antiques / Dealing in Art / Living in Paris / Living in New York / Visiting Cuba / Ralph Records / Polydor Records & PolyGram / Designing Posters / Making Records / Buying & Selling Collectable Records / Bands Seen / Books to Read / Being a Kid / Becoming a Teenager / Friends, Lawyers & Lovers. Loads of observations, laughs and pictures - all as it happened.
John Foy is a former graphic designer and poster artist who also ran two prominent independent record labels during Australian music’s particularly golden era in the 1980’s & 90’s.
John is also a great friend to us here at Trash Cult and we are super excited to have signed copies of his his new book in stock.
Masterful music producer-engineer Tony Cohen defined Australia’s punk and rock sounds in the late ’70s and ’80s. His long and celebrated career took him from the studios of Melbourne to West Berlin and Abbey Road. Half Deaf, Completely Mad is an exuberant, hilarious, tragic and triumphant memoir that reveals a chaotic genius who lived hard and loud.In candid reflections, Tony’s decades-long relationship with Nick Cave and his bands – Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – is well documented, along with behind-the-scenes classic recordings by Laughing Clowns, Models, The Reels, The Birthday Party, The Go-Betweens, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel, Beasts of Bourbon, The Saints, X, The Cruel Sea, Paul Kelly and so many more.
Author: Jane Gazzo, Andrew P Street
The ’90s was a magical time for Australian music. The Big Day Out and Triple J went national and suddenly everyone was getting a 3-piece together and gigging in the inner-city pubs of their town. This volume is a celebration and a documentation of this fertile period with never-before-seen photos and archives from the time and never before told stories about the songs, bands, festivals and break-ups from the artists and industry folk who were there. Sound As Ever is named after the eponymous Facebook Group co-founded by Jane Gazzo that is a very dynamic space with over 18,000 members.
The ‘80s were so good because you could experiment without any kind of fear of consequence. – Kate Ceberano
The ‘80s.The era of Hawke, a booming economy, big hair, genderbenders and the new-wave synth-pop explosion.
Every Sunday night, Australians would be glued to Countdown to watch the latest and local bands strut their stuff. Bands who became household names and soundtracked our lives in one of the most colourful and creative decades in Australian music.
I Hear Motion is a celebration of the Aussie bands we loved: Models, Machinations, Wa Wa Nee, Real Life, Kids in the Kitchen, Do-Re-Mi, Koo De Tah, Eurogliders, Boom Crash Opera and more – and what happened to them following the end of the decade. With interviews, never-before seen photos and archives of the time, plus never-before told stories about the songs, bands, excesses and break-ups, I Hear Motion is a must-have for every Australian music fan.
Paul Yore is one of Australia’s most thought-provoking and consequential multidisciplinary artists. Born in Naarm/Melbourne in 1987, he lives and works on Gunaikurnai Country in Gippsland, Victoria, and completed his studies in painting, archaeology and anthropology at Monash University in 2010. Yore’s work engages with the histories of religious art and ritual, queer identity, pop culture and neo-liberal capitalism, recasting a vast array of found images, materials and texts into sexually and politically loaded tableaux and assemblages which celebrate hybrid and fluid identities, unstable and contradictory meanings, and the glowing horizon of queer worldmaking.Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH is an expansive and exciting monograph on the work of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. The book brings together work and themes emergent from throughout Paul Yore’s career as well as new work, imagery and insights from his 2022 survey exhibition at ACCA, also titled WORD MADE FLESH.
The 416-page publication is an object that is comprehensive in its written content and deeply considered in its design. The design and materiality of the book directly responds to iconography, principles, materiality, histories and ideas that the artist explores in his practice. For example, the die-cut hole on the cover gestures a subversive perforation – the breaking and pushing of a medium – while internal pages thread together thought-provoking forms and ideas by layering drawings, images, colour, typography and scale to invite an active reading experience. Rich and detailed imagery of Yore’s multidisciplinary practice is accompanied by specially commissioned texts by leading Australian and international artists, scholars and commentators such as Tony Albert, hanna baer, Mikala Dwyer, Daniel Fountain, Helen Hughes and Bruce LaBruce. An extended interview with Paul Yore by Max Delany delves into the artist’s biography and provides further context to the references that are threaded through his practice to date.
This book is limited to 1000 copies
Ephemerality is all Very Well: Portraits of Rowland S. Howard is an ode to the late rock musician Rowland S. Howard, and the influence he had over Lyndal Walker and Tony Clark. Through Walker’s writing and Clark’s gothic portraits of Howard, a nostalgic vignette is constructed, immortalising their shared reverence for the 80’s idol.
This is a limited edition book of 750 copies.
French language edition. Great volume showcasing Weinberger’s images of rebel youth of 1950s and `60s Switzerland, who channelled American rock-`n`-roll culture and made it their own with their rolled-up jeans and denim jackets, bouffant hairdos, striped T-shirts, and customized belts boasting images of Elvis and James Dean. Lusty, free-spirited and self-confident portraits posit the defiant attitude of youth as a response to the conservative post-war era. The volume also includes homoerotic images of rockers, bikers, construction workers and athletes.
Growing up in a strict Muslim community in south-east London, Alom Shaha learnt that religion was not to be questioned. Reciting the Qur’an without understanding what it meant was simply a part of life; so, too, was obeying the imam and enduring beatings when he failed to attend the local mosque. Shaha was more drawn to science and its power to illuminate. As a teen, he lived between two worlds: the home controlled by his authoritarian father, and a school alive with books and ideas.
In a charming blend of memoir, philosophy, and science, Shaha explores the questions about faith and the afterlife that we all ponder. Through a series of loose ‘lessons’, he tells his own compelling story, drawing on the theories of some of history’s greatest thinkers and interrogating the fallacies that have impeded humanity for centuries. Shaha recounts how his education and formative experiences led him to question how to live without being tied to what his parents, priests, or teachers told him to believe, and offers insights so that others may do the same.
This is a book for anyone who thinks about what they should believe and how they should live. It’s for those who may need the facts and the ideas, as well as the courage, to break free from inherited beliefs. In this powerful narrative, Shaha shows that it is possible to live a compassionate, fulfilling, and meaningful life without God.
Gang Wars! Rock n' Roll! Fine Knits! Step into the world of the sharpies, Australia's answer to mods and skinheads. A world of custom-made clothing and blood n' guts street brawls. Packed with first-hand accounts from sharpie veterans and rock n' rollers like Lobby Loyde and Angry Anderson, illustrated with over fifty photos of teenagers in cardigans, Top Fellas is smart as a pair of Acropolis shoes and lively as a Q-Club punch up. "...a fast-paced, slang-laced, laddish style - plenty of first hand recollections... loaded with photos... highly enjoyable" Mike Stax, Ugly Things
Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of Punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favourite bands are jammed into this menacing volume. Punk is Dead is massive, featuring a wide spectrum of bands that initially catalysed the scene, and later fuelled its global expansion. Contributing writers such as Wayne Kramer, Arturo Vega or Kid Congo flesh out the visual assault. This long awaited follow-up to the highly influential bestselling book Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement also features hard hitting interviews with Ian Mackaye, one of the most respected voices of the DIY music underground, and Malcolm McLaren, likely the most impactful promoter of the early punk movement. From the unknown to the infamous, they will likely be found within the pages of Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything!
Originally published for a 2022 New York Times article on “The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex after 70,” this photographic series by Marilyn Minter explores the almost uncharted territory of sex late in life. Intimate, fantastically bold, sometimes shocking and very Marilyn Minter in the best way, these photographs cast an uninhibited look at “unconventional” bodies and challenge our traditional and often stereotyped vision of sex.Ultimately, these joyful, empowering and body-positive images remind us that the frontiers of sexuality are unlimited and that we can choose the type of pleasure we want at every stage of our lives. An afterword by acclaimed New Yorker writer Naomi Fry dwells on the feminist implications of Minter's work as it addresses the issues our society faces when it comes to ageing.In paintings, videos and photos, Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has been exploring the intersection of desire, feminism and modes of representation since the late 1960s. She has had solo exhibitions at White Columns in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among other locations. Her retrospective Pretty/Dirty was presented in 2016 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and MCA Denver, before travelling to the Orange County Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
The follow up to the critically acclaimed 'Untitled. Street Art in The Counterculture. Untitled II the irreverent book of street art has again been created without the collaboration of the artists and certainly without the permission of the wall owners. There are blatant statements that embody outrageous lies, articles laced with satire, plus cynical synopses of attempts to commercialize street art and make it fashionable via celebrity endorsement. Consideration is given to the question What the hell is it about the color grey that makes it appeal the powers that be and their ridiculous minions? and Outsider Art is it an expression of artistic impulse without interference from the idea of personal gain? All of this amongst a collection of graffiti collected from all over the world and preserved on these pages before the legions employed to destroy them chip them off the walls. Artists featured include Miss Van, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Swoon, Os Gemeos, and Herakut.
