Melbourne, Australia
The first time I saw the Amazing Phillips Sisters, they were dressed in underpants. The singer, Johnny Goldcoast, sat on the floor, wrapped his legs over his shoulders and shot the microphone into a window. The drummer dropped his sticks and started bruising his drum pads with two magnificent black dildos.

A thrash anthem with gay bathhouse lyrics followed a five-minute crack rap over some Quincy Jones instrumental. A wiry gay at the front of the crowd waved his raised middle finger at the band for the whole second half of the set, while my housemate, a bicep brand electro head, stood frozen in a dumb grin for the lot. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.

We played with them once: they wore amazing-technicolor-dreamcoats and made us look like prep school fags.

You might know some of the members. The guitarist, Johnny, fronts Children Collide. The drummer, Jim, now bangs for them too, and twiddles in indie-electro four-piece Outrun. The singer, Johnny Goldcoast, is a Vice powerbroker and looks like Darryl Hannah, if Darryl Hannah looked like a fraction more like Iggy Pop.

Their recorded songs are a triumph. You just can't pin them down. My favourite, 'Feels Like A Man', is a gonzo country-grunge-soul anthem that celebrates cock in the most delicate fashion. To hear the last loop of the chorus - 'feels like a man, oh, sure tastes like a woman, she had bosoms and a thing between her legs' - sung in the spirit of Joe Cocker is a rare pleasure. The 'Bakery of Love' has xylophones, 'Modern Daze' has saxophone. Like I said, You Just Can't Pin Them Down.

The Amazing Phillips Sisters are chaos, a cum shot in the face of civility, and that's exactly why I love them.

The Amazing Phillips Sisters - Bakery of Love.mp3
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This tasty sandwich by Josh of Dardanelles, who this week embark on tour to unveil their much anticipated EP, with sclub darlings Tic Toc Tokyo hot on their tail:

Nov 2: The Basement: Canberra w/Tic Toc Tokyo, The Guests, Kids From Russia
Nov 3: Candy's Apartment: Sydney w/ Tic Toc Tokyo, Kids From Russia + DJs
Nov 9: Rocket Bar: Adelaide w/ Tic Toc Tokyo, City Riots
Nov 10: Eurotrash Bar: Melbourne w/ Tic Toc Tokyo, Outrun + more

Labels: Children Collide, Dardanelles, Outrun, The Amazing Phillips Sisters, Tic Toc Tokyo