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AUSTRALIANS KNOW HOW TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN

 Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 10:00am by

I’d love to talk to the talent booker that set up death metallers Blindfolded and Led to the Woods with a gig on the Australian children’s television show The Erin Simpson Show; what was he/she thinking? Is that person a metalhead attempting to purvey metal to the masses? Did they lose their job over this? Did someone pull a family favor? Is the “they practice in the shed behind our building” line really true or are Australian childrens’ television show producers just really open minded? For what it’s worth, the band ain’t bad (if generic). Thanks to Christian for the tip.

-VN

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  • Sophus

    Actually Britain beat Australia twenty years ago in that regard, and with Napalm fucking Death instead of this boring band

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsytdmYtcf8

    • Goro923

      Yeah I was about to same thing… can’t beat Napalm Death on What’s That Noise.
      On another note, THAT WAS NOT TECH DEATH YOU FUCKING MORONS.

      • bob

        i think someone might be a little upset that their metal band isn’t on a kids TV show…. and i also think if ur music is sweet enough to make it onto TV and get urself out there does it really matter

    • Insomnivore

      I know it’s not exactly brutal but you can have Nicko McBrain on The Sooty Show as year zero for Metal meets Kids TV –

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnE_8oeDj88

    • David Corke

      This is not Australian. They are a bunch of sheep shagging Kiwi’s Please don’ t give us Aussies a bad name by saying these toss pots are Australian.

      Cheers

      • http://www.auscam.org Shannon

        LOL obviously Vince can’t tell the difference between Kiwi and Aussie accents :P

        I heard that chick start talking, then I went “Oh thank FUCK that these guys are Kiwis”. Us Australians don’t make crap like this hahahaha!!

        • ansiie

          lol fucking oath! i had a mini heart attack at the beggining and was about to start packing my bags.. this is absalutly emeberressing shit!

  • Driven9

    seriously… ?

  • http://slowlyweblog.wordpress.com Cody

    Perhaps thy should’ve covered “Chased Through The Woods By A Rapist”?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Garrett-Weinstein/530091298 Garrett Weinstein

    I’m not sure how this happened, but I’d like to believe that the general public is just accepting metal now.

  • Josh

    Ummm, they’re not Australian, they’re from New Zealand. Just thought I’d clear that up.

    • orbital

      came here to post the same thing. Definatly Kiwi accent.

      • Adam

        Is that what that was? They seem to like substituting i’s for other letters. I’m pretty sure she called them a “dith mittal bihnd”

    • jibbler

      You’d think that bloggers who live their life on the Internet would’ve heard of a thing called Google wouldn’t you? A 2sec search for, surprise surprise, “the erin simpson show” gives this result http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=&q=the+erin+simpson+show&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBAU359AU365&ie=UTF-8&aq=0&oq=the+erin+simp and the first result is, surprise surprise, the official page for The Erin Simpson Show which, surprise surprise, rshows it’s from NZ. But seeing as NZ isn’t even on maps in US schools it’s not surprising that they think the only country south of the equator is Australia ;)

      • twistedfreak

        Fucking aussies aye…. they can still have Russell Crowe!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Koch/100000785018253 James Koch

        I can assure you that NZis on our maps in school, thanks.
        Why would you want them to be from your country anyway? They sound shittier than a fucking cesspool.

        • jibbler

          Woohoo they’ve come out of the dark ages and probably have maps that show the world isn’t flat too. Pity they still think they were the first to fly.

    • BTK666

      Yup, a bunch of Uncle Fuckin Bully’s! Get it right people.

  • Nihilist Entombed

    I’d hate to be an idiot who can’t distinguish a New Zealand accent from an Australian accent.

    • Strapping Young Lad

      its hard for us dummy New Yorkers :-(

    • Dirtman73

      It all sounds like prison island accent to the rest of the world, unfortunately.

      • danbags

        hahahahaha funniest thing i have ever read on this site, and im a kiwi.
        new zealand sucks schlong btw.

        • aeanominae

          Fuck off to aussie then, I’m sure they’d love to have you. :D

  • Mitch

    Ok, I’m in Australia and obviously don’t watch nearly enough children’s shows lol…
    Also, from the accent I’m guessing it’s from New Zealand, not Australia

  • Brian

    Too bad that band sucks

  • http://fantasyh.wordpress.com fantasyh

    Wow, does this band suck ass,

  • Douchechill

    Did anyone not laugh at the fact the sixth band member didn’t show up because he jumped off a roof and broke both his legs?

    • Strapping Young Lad

      1

      • Jamie

        makes me wonder

        1. what his role is in the band (probably keyboards or something)

        and 2. how hilarious that must have been to watch.

        3. how much of a bitch physiotherapy is gonna be with 2 broken legs.

        • 7Hz

          1. He is a third guitarist.
          2. None of us saw it. It was at a party in town, he climbed out on the roof for some reason and was found by a stranger. We didn’t hear him fall.
          3. He does fine with crutches on stage, but yeah, a long recovery for him.

          Amazing achievement for a band that has been round for such a small time. I believe that was their second or third performance.

    • aeanominae

      He didn’t jump, he fell. It’d be real funny if it was someone you knew, I’m sure…

  • GoingDeaf?

    In what way is this band not bad? Being generic is only one of many reasons watching that was painful.

  • thelump

    Wow, I guess New Zealanders almost raise their kids as good as finns

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

    i can’t stand bands where all the vocals just sound like “REET REET REET REET.” I mean, if you’re going to be unintelligible, at least make a cool noise. What the hell is “Reet?”

    • Strapping Young Lad

      Agreed. And the singer’s stage presence sucks as well.

  • Crack Hitler

    I can offer y’all an explanation:

    “So basically we practice in these storage sheds, and they are right behind the studio where The Erin Simpson Show is filmed. Plus a number of other shows. Anyway one day before practice, we were waiting outside for the band member with the key to get in and this lady comes up to us and basically says she is one of the producers from the show and they are looking for bands to be on the show.

    She then went on to say that they hear us practicing when they leave work etc etc, (we then realised that it was quite possible that they wanted the funk band that practice a couple of sheds down from us) and would we want to be on the show. Thinking it was going to amount to nothing we said yeah sweet as, she gave her card and took our details etc. She also asked how we would describe our music to which Stu replied with “Kinda like the Strokes… crossed with Disfiguring the Goddess”.

    So anyway a few days passed, and we’d pretty much forgotten about it, when Stu got a call saying we were gonnna be on the show and we had to come in and film the next week. The rest of the band didnt believe us when we told them. So, we had to fill out this form about our band etc, and we clearly stated that we were Technical Death Metal etc etc.”

    http://spreadinglikewings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=255&p=10764#p10764

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

      technical death metal, my ass. power chords and frog noises =/= technical

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

      okay, just watched more of the video. the other music was a lot better than the tease at the beginning.

      • Con

        Great job at talking shit after listening to 10 seconds of it.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

          waaaaaaaaaaaaah.

  • gnarlk

    sgt. d would likely pull his wire while listening to this. how very “broootal”…

  • Vlygar

    I don’t care that there was a Metal band on a kids show or what part of “Down Under” they come from. That Fila kid needs a good slap upside the head.

  • NL

    I don’t hear anything particularly technical. Sounds just like generic slam to me.

  • lkgf09

    SHREDDED WHEAT

  • M.

    Wow, I have never heard of “ticknicol deeth metal” before…

    • nz

      No one has the upper hand when it comes to accents, but in NZ when this kinda bollocks is on tv or radio it does somehow get exaggerated.

      • M.

        I have a few buddies from New Zealand and they have accent but they can say it perfectly lol. I can see them exaggerating accents, the do it for TV and stuff all the time.

  • nz

    that Erin simpson chick used to be on a kids after school show that my kid brother was once in the audience for. She took over on that show from the sister of a mate (sorry yanks, pal/buddy) of mine.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/JT-OBrien/568906438 JT OBrien

    this is gay sex not technical death metal

  • viridianx

    LOL WHAT THE SHIT

    If that’s what it was supposed to sound like… : /

  • http://www.jasonvincion.com Kodiak

    I think they need a little more time in the shed, nahmean?

  • Vinsanity

    honestly heard worse. im suprised something like this was played on a kids show. pretty funny cuz a lot didnt know what to do but tried to look like they were having fun. fuck all you people, its cool they are playing extreme shit out there. you have to admit these fools have more fuckin talent than nickelback or whoever, whom i would be much less suprised to see on this show. seriously just go kill yourselves now theres no point in living when you hate even your own counterculture. honestly guys why do a lot of you even still exist? i woulda ended myself if i hated absofuckinlutely everything, and i already hate most everything. u guys are on another level. im not a fan of these guys but shit.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Gingras/691170904 Michael Gingras

      Agreed dude, I wonder sometimes if anyone on this site even likes metal. It’s a kid’s show with dudes making loud noise with guitars and shit, that’s awesome. I would love to see any shitty death metal band go play on any tv show in America. Except for Emmure. Fuck Emmure.

      • Vinsanity

        for real man.

    • axem

      Hi!

    • aeanominae

      Best post on this whole fuckin’ story.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alejandro-Aldana/683878171 Alejandro Aldana

    every country but the US has awesome tv shows. all we’ve got are shitty reality shows with whiny fuckers.

  • Optimus Rhyme

    This is what I heard from one of the band members:

    ‘So basically we practice in these storage sheds, and they are right behind the studio where The Erin Simpson Show is filmed. Plus a number of other shows. Anyway one day before practice, we were waiting outside for the band member with the key to get in and this lady comes up to us and basically says she is one of the producers from the show and they are looking for bands to be on the show.

    She then went on to say that they hear us practicing when they leave work etc etc, (we then realised that it was quite possible that they wanted the funk band that practice a couple of sheds down from us) and would we want to be on the show. Thinking it was going to amount to nothing we said yeah sweet as, she gave her card and took our details etc. She also asked how we would describe our music to which Stu replied with “Kinda like the Strokes… crossed with Disfiguring the Goddess”.

    So anyway a few days passed, and we’d pretty much forgotten about it, when Stu got a call saying we were gonnna be on the show and we had to come in and film the next week. The rest of the band didnt believe us when we told them. So, we had to fill out this form about our band etc, and we clearly stated that we were Technical Death Metal etc etc.

    The whole thing was kind of surreal when we walked on the set. Erin Simpson was such a babe, and she was real amped off us haha. So the first take we did which is the bit right at the beginning of the show, the producer came up to us and questioned us about our lyrics, cos they wanted it to be PC. Haha.

    Then the kids were bought in for the 2nd 30 second segment and the song at the end. They were forced to go crazy but some of them seemed to genuinely enjoy it, especially this 10 year old who screamed after we finished the 30 second segment “Are they gonna play again?!?!?!”. During Portraits, a little girl got smashed in the face, which you cant see on screen. But yeah everyone was really accommodating surprisingly. They asked us if we would do the dance and we said why the fuck not. And the chick who taugh us the dance who is the production assistant was a total babe which made the whole thing way more enjoyable.

    So yeah thats it… I have no idea if there were any complaints or anything, I guess I’d be able to find out somehow. I did hear though that once we started playing the first time, the producer through the window said to someone “Who the fuck organized this?”.’

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Beercore/707673007 Alex Beercore

    THIS IS JUST WHAT THIS CUNTRY (NEW ZEALAND BTW NOT AUSTRALIA) NEEDS!!!!!!

    Blindfolded fucking rule for pulling this off… at least one of those kids went home that day affected by heavy ass music… and thats all you need. Maybe we will see less fucking hip hop and rnb techno emo shit whatever the fuck on the radio and on tv now.

    fucking landmark moment for new zealand metal In my opinion.

    GOOD STUFF FULLAS!!

  • Sarah

    i know the makeup artist who works for the erin simpson show and they all had no idea what kind of music they played when they booked this band

  • CemeteryRapist
  • freakybaby13

    Baha this is elite – the show was awesome and the kids rocked out! Stop being hating whiny little beetches!

  • Jim

    Ha, i’m Aussie and from the initial explanation, i had no idea what the fuck was going on, then I heard their accents and went, oh New Zealand, all sorts of fucked up shit goes on there…

    • aeanominae

      Damn straight :D

  • Nathan

    i have seen these boys live… they have great stage presence and really get the club rocking they have not been around that long and for NZ have risen through the ranks very quickly… also the whole tech metal thing that obviously wasn’t the whole song so you cant really judge aye

    later haterz

  • erik

    Hah, perfect for a kids show. Good for them, all kid bands sound like this. I guess this is cutting edge for NZ tv. I recommend they grow their hair, wear makup, and get a terminal disease so elites take them seriously.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Stamopoulos/575083326 Steven Stamopoulos

    being an australian, i have never heard of this show.

  • Ruddiger Jones

    Good for these kids. Any metal on these teeny-bopper shows is approved by me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christian-Voltaggio/1409575074 Christian Voltaggio

    4:16
    ahahahaha miss the beat much?

    i mean uh

    oi bru mees theh bit mach?

  • tobes

    You fuckin’ retarded American cunt, those are Kiwis. Never write anything about other countries ever again.

    • Howie

      It’s not a big deal. yeah it’s a silly mistake, but it is not the end of the world. I’m Canadian, but I don’t flip out if someone confuses some Canadian thing as being American. You know why? Because it doesn’t fucking matter.

  • Nathan

    Sounds like the person who wrote this artical is Canadian

  • Pixie

    The are quite a few things I find funny about this article, but to mention a few…

    Get your facts straight before you write an article..It’s actually in New Zealand.

    And they got approached by the broadcasting company when they were at their band practice…my band practices not far down from their band room. They came and shared the news..

    \m/