The Tote

[Disease]

The Tote is a Melbourne rock pub which has hosted gigs for 30 years. It is currently manged by the man behind Au-go-go records which was once a label and a store, but both has since disappeared.

I'm having a hard time writing this as it is just so fucking sad that the pub will close this weekend. Sunday night is the last drinks, there is no line up announced but I'm sure there will the Melbourne mafia will be there and somthing will take place.

This is fucking huge, finally I will get my chance to nic that Man or AStro man poster from behind the sound desk.

Fuck it is sad. It is one of the last pubs in Melbourne that has that old feel of the music scene, the floors that still have the vomit of 30 years ago rotting the floor boards.

Fuck. I wish you all could have experienced it.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=16707544

[Elvis_Christ]

Damn that sucks would've liked to have checked it out. Just watched the documentary included in the extras to Dogs In Space about the early days of the Melbourne punk scene it was pretty interesting.

Au-go-go brought out some great shit over the years (sadly which I now have none of).

Have a great night dude.

[Disease]

Yeah I saw that doco "living on dogfood" a while back, Richard Lowestien is now working on a feature length doco on Rowland S Howard. He has allready posted some footage from the funeral on youtube.

So they ended up having a massive lineup on the last day of the Tote, tickets where only available on line and there was probably only 150-200 available, I had no luck getting any.

They broadcast the last 4 hours on RRR and PBS though so I got to listen to a bit, It would have been awesome to be there. The last song played was The Drones backing Joel Silbesher doing God's "My Pal". Fucking amazing.

I did make it there for the protest the night before though, and drank in the front bar till it closed. It was a sad weekend for a lot of people.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck4SrOhc1zE