Things Ben bought whilst visiting Melbourne:
- Diskonto – “We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About” LP (“Raging dis-core; possibly Swedish, maybe Japanese people singing in Swedish”)
- The Curse of Shank – self-titled LP (“Scottish power-violence”)
- Combat Wounded Veteran – “Duck Down For The Torso” 10″ EP (“Awesome screaming artcore”)
- Dead Silence – “Hell, How Could We Make Any More Money Than This?” 7″ (“Colorado guys making fun of Bad Religion“)
- Spazm 151 – self-titled LP (“Raging Texan hardcore”)
- A-Ha – “Take On Me” 7″ (“I can’t believe I paid $5 for this”)
- Blondie – “Parallel Lines” LP (“Did you know Hanging On The Telephone was a cover?”) (NB I didn’t.)
- Joe Satriani – “Surfing With The Alien” vinyl LP (“Fuck yeah!”)
- Brian The Dog from Family Guy (“He might be based on Snoopy“)
- Video of John Woo‘s Bullet In The Head (“John Woo! Fuck yeah!”)