dissent

Vital Mess in Canberra
Vital Mess at Dissent Cafe
Vital Mess at Feedback Festival
Ash Vital Mess
Vital Mess
Matheus Vital Mess
Vital Mess

Last weekend, we went on a mad mission down to Canberra to play at Feedback Festival, held above the epic Dissent Cafe, to fund raise for the Canberra Food Co-Op. First gigs with Matheus on the guitar! We’re getting ready to play in Nimbin this Sunday.

Power to the people and as always, kisses.

gateway drugs are out!

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Our (mostly) live album is out just about everywhere, including Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and here! Blast it at full volume and enjoy. Play the whole thing for a full trip or pick your favourites and loop them to your heart’s content. We love it when you love it!

You’ll find the best sound quality if you order it as a digital download here under music or listen/buy on Bandcamp.

We value our sovereignty and relative independence so we encourage you to use our website for those things, if you already know us and care about what we’re doing.

Kisses, enjoy, don’t swallow the poison, and keep strippin’!

rolling along!

I wrote ‘A Good Cause’, the song in the clip, exactly a year before we recorded our Gateway Drugs live at the Neve studio at SAE and played our first gig proper at Howl & Moan, the record store in Byron, on the same day. When I wrote it, I was staying in my friend’s bus, between places. It was the first song to become part of the album. And we’re rolling. That was all beautiful.

Thanks for singing along!

to go on the record

Here are some snippets from practice! We’re getting ready to record our Gateway Drugs with a line-up update, Guilherme on the electric.

we played!

We played some of our songs at SAE in Byron Bay the other day. We’re cooking up our first release. We’ll be getting in the studio to record in July!

the process

This is what we look like when we practice (+ green colour grade):

Number One

When You Least Expect It

the trip

We’re travelling steadily. I found a place in the hills on Widjabul Wia-bal country from where I can work in what I can only describe as a birthday miracle. It’s a lot more comfortable than a bedroom. We were doing practice here for the past weeks.

Songs keep coming, one at a time, and we’re looking forward to sharing them out in the physical realm before heading to the recording studio later this year. Sometimes, I write them at home, sometimes I write them at Koonyum Range (that photo’s from there) and other special places around this beautiful Country.

Nature punk.