Renegades the fifth

This September and October is being celebrated by Not Ok. A punk band originating in New Zealand but we now get to claim them as our own. Just finishing up a tour with Horace Pinker (USA) they are ready to step up to claim their rightful position as Renegades first punk band to hold the cover position. We love these guys and wish for you to all take them in and listen to everything they have to say whether it is in their lyrics, over a beer at the pub or in their very own words published within our pages. For more information on Not Ok check out their myspace http://www.myspace.com/notokband (more…)

Revolution Rock Talks

In the week leading up to Revolution Rock in Sydney we had a chat to event organisers Basil and Evan. Here is what they had to say…
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Meet the stars of Edition # 4

Graveyard Train

www.myspace.com/graveyardtrain3051

We met our cover band for our 4^th edition when enjoying the splendors that the Tamworth Country Music Festival had to offer earlier this year. Like many other bands before them they were braving the sweltering heat to entertain the crowds on Peel Street with 4 other bands all from Melbourne under the collective name of the Gut Rot Tour (more…)

Brand spanking new!

We have a new and improved website giving you more information about punk music in Australia then you ever wanted to know. We’ll be updating gigs weekly and adding photos as we get them.
We also have a bunch of new competitions coming in each week so you can win really cool stuff by only jumping through a few hoops!

Also all of our past editions plus the current edition featuring Graveyard Train are all half price ($5) so buy them all.

More reasons to buy…

I hate the Australian Customs people. It is because of their horrible mistakes and poor judgment that our fourth edition was late hitting news agencies and we couldn’t send it out to you guys on time. To make up for it and because we are in a good mood today I’m saying for the remainder of this month ALL our magazines including our brand new one (which we only picked up this morning and we had to wear horrible hi-vis gear which wasn’t attractive at all) will be only $5 plus postage.

Buy it. Read it. Buy one for ya mum – make her read it. (more…)

Keep on the sunny side of life.

Here’s a fun game to play in between sets at gigs.

Sit somewhere where their is a steady flow of traffic through the bar and smile at everyone who walks past. People will either think your completely crazy or they’ll come talk to you and volia you’ve made a new friend.

Be smiling at you all soon.

Renegades

P.S. Buy our new magazine online and in newsagencies now. It’s sick! It’ll make you smile, even if I can’t.

Issue # 4

Featuring…Horror Country band Graveyard Train www.myspace.com/graveyard3051 it really is an intriguing story we got out of them and we felt we needed to share with you all the mystery that is Graveyard Train. They are also releasing their new album on the 23rd of July at The Corner Hotel, Melbourne through Spooky Records. Everyone get out and experience a great band.

Also featured in Renegades Empire Magazine # 4 is the Go-Go Haunters another spooky band but this one from the ironically sunny Gold Coast. Don’t let their beauty scare you these guys will bite. Then their is Marching Orders, Melbourne OI punk band set to take over the OI scene with a vengeance, Jack Flash from Toowoomba the Folk Punk masters and last but not least Kujo Kings, young ska lovers from the beautiful Melbourne. (more…)

The week that was: 1

This week at Renegades Empire we jumped straight back into work after realising that there is no rest for the wicked.

Back to working on issue # 5 and preparing to receive issue # 4. I will admit that some of the articles in # 4 I glanced at and didn’t read completely does that make me a bad editor? Probably but it also make me excited to read the mag when it gets sent to us. Because we were a little late getting it to the printers I don’t like our chances of having it this week like I hoped but the suspense always makes me that little bit more eager, which is cool.

# 4 introduces you guys to a heap of new bands in Australia we’ve got QLD and SA representing in this one and even a Perth band. As for the elusive cover spot, I’m not going to tell you who scored that just yet but I will tell you they are the craziest by far and if you haven’t heard of them yet you will be chanting their name very soon.

As for whats happening in the rest of the world. Here is the stuff I got told about this week:

1. Carpathian will be heading out on the road this month joined by Ghost Town, before returning to Europe throughout July and August.

We took a holiday

and now we are back.

For those of you who follow us on Facebook and Twitter or can hear our screams you will know that issue # 4 of Renegades Empire Magazine was sent to the printers 2 weeks ago. Then we took a break. Now we are back and scouting for stuff for Issue # 5.

We’ve uploaded some photos of Chopdogs Ska Weekender held in Sydney at Hermanns Bar on the 5th of June to our Flicker for your veiwing pleasure and i’m STILL uploading videos to YOUTUBE of the SKA bands that graced the stage to entertain. (it takes so dang long)

Now I’m back to work and looking for bands. If you want in the magazine email us and let us know about your band. Cover spot is still up for grabs and I’m open to all suggestions.

Keep your ears to the ground. Renegades Empire is going to be giving you alot more in the next couple of weeks.

Well that happened..

- The Snowdroppers at The Gum Ball. Have you ticked them off your to do list yet?  http://www.snowdroppers.com/shows

So this weekend we went the The Gum Ball. A music festival near Maitland in NSW. What can I say really. It rained, it was wet and gross and my hair was frizzy but the food was hot the drinks were cold and the bands rocked my soul.

The day before The Gum Ball we procrastinated from driving and went and bought a sick camera so now we have some great photos to publish in the next edition of Renegades Empire Magazine. So keep an eye out for that. We got to see the Brothers Grim and The Blue Murders again and they made us fall in love again. Those boys are good at that. And we also got the experience The Snowdroppers once again. Johnny Wishbone playing that banjo what else is there really to say. I love a good banjo….

We got the chance to discover some new bands as well which you can read about soon in #4 of Renegades Empire Magazine.

Now that i’m home and dry and drained from the Renegades business meeting we just had i’m off to bed so I can get up tomorrow morning and finish off #4 and get to the printers on time so you can all enjoy a good read. Your going to love the next issue it’ll scare your socks off.

Get to a gig. Fall in love with a new band. Tell us about it.