the primitive calculators

and, no, it doesn't include the studio recorded single - the only studio recordings they ever did. not sure why. baffling.

(& yeah, I've still gotta mail some cash to the UK for the slugfuckers reissue. hope there's still copies!)

Reforming for ATP Australia 2009!

neat!

hope they actually play in australia as well

lol, mt buller.

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oh hang on yr luck's in wilter:

2. A series of one night stands in Brisbane culminating in one large outdoors afternoon/evening show featuring both local and international acts.

from chapter music, with a typically self-derogaroty comment from a band member:

"The Primitive Calculators used to make fun of us for being private school boys." - Mick Harvey

"The Primitive Calculators were so far ahead of their time that neither the technology nor audience could keep up with them." - Clinton Walker

"Nobody in their right minds would have been interested in working with the Primitive Calculators."-Roger Grierson

Primitive Calculators, Australia's savage synth-punk legends, are reforming to play next January's All Tomorrow's Parties�festival. Since breaking up in 1980, they have sworn black and blue that they would never play again (apart from a brief reunion to appear in Richard Lowenstein's cult 1986 film Dogs In Space).

But in the end, old cohorts Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds proved very persuasive. In their late 70s incarnation The Boys Next Door, Cave and sideman Mick Harvey shared bills with Primitive Calculators at classic lost St Kilda venue The Crystal Ballroom. Almost 30 years later, Cave and Harvey have successfully lured the band out of retirement to repeat the experience.

With typical caustic charm, Primitive Calculators singer Stuart Grant has this to say on the subject:

"It will be refreshingly disgusting to study a bunch of stupid old crocks who are still living out their adolescent stupidities. The whole thing smacks of the imminent death and obdurate delusion of a group of sad old people, about whom you couldn�t even find the compassion to say they should know better. It's so wrong, so bordering on evil, so dripping with ignorant desperation that we just couldn't resist."

Primitive Calculators' two reissue CDs on Chapter Music, Primitive Calculators and Primitive Calculators�And Friends�have earned ecstatic reviews around the world, with UK glossy Wound�magazine recently describing the band's 1979 single I Can't Stop It�as "possibly the greatest synthpunk single of all time". Primitive Calculators also appearead on Chapter's pioneering compilation Can't Stop It! - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82.

So come and see Australia's most scathing and electrifying band on stage again for the first time in nearly three decades, next January on the ski slopes of Mount Buller. They will be sharing the stage with the likes of the similarly reformed, original lineup Saints, plus Spiritualized, Harmonia, The Laughing Clowns, Silver Apples and many more.

Knowing Primitive Calculators, this will most likely be a one off affair, so don't miss out!

All Tomorrow's Parties
January 9 & 10
Mt Buller Ski Resort
tickets via www.atpfestival.com

Primitive Calculators website -http://www.project.net.au/primitivecalculators/

For more information, contact Guy Blackman at Chapter Music.

this exists btw

http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/primitive-calculators-the-world-is-fucked

Huh, I never followed up on them after hearing the utterly incredible "Pumping Ugly Muscle" on the "Can't Stop It" comp. I shall rectify that.

the end of "god" is particularly classic

http://www.backyardopera.com/primitive-calculators.html#.UtkznNJ_uyV
recent interview with member Stu Cook

Looks like the lp got launched in physical form yesterday too
http://chaptermusic.com.au/