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Xavier from Neutral Bay

Ghostwood Farewell Show

Ghostwood are off to the UK! Their farewell show/fundraiser at the Oxford Art Factory last night showed just why the rest of the world needs to see this band live. Less than a year ago when TEETH first saw Ghostwood, they had packed out the Hopetoun Hotel. Yesterday the Oxford Art Factory, a much larger venue, was impossible to move through. Their gigs have become more intense, their songs more impressive and the extended version of “Rest My Soul” with a drum solo finish is amazing. Even the more familiar songs off the EP have gotten a make-over. See them live before it costs you $50 or more to do so because it’s quite obvious this band is going to take over the world, soon.


Beach Road Hotel, Bondi – 1st June
Come Together Festival, Luna Park – 7th June
For UK tour dates, check out their MySpace.





And an honourable mention goes to The Wahas who were one of the support acts last night (along with Under Lights, who we unfortunately missed, and Kirin J. Callinan who was fabulous as always) whose live shows get more impressive each time we see them and get the award for most photogenic band. Oh and the new song “Wahas Theme” is the best thing we’ve heard in a long time! :)


See The Wahas play:
Come Together Festival, Luna Park – 8th June
Sonarbar, Luna Park (with Amy Meredith) – 21st June
Supporting Grinspoon in Wollongong and at The Metro – 27th & 28th June


Photos by ANNIE LY

TEETH LOVES STUFF issue two

Issue two of TEETH LOVES STUFF zine can be read here.

It features interviews with Only the Sea Slugs & The Vignettes, creative writing by Jasmina Berber & Ivana Rnjak, photography by Sagan Culph & ANNIE LY, drawings by The Fetus, Zigwamp & Leesy and much, much more.

MCA Zine Fair Wrap-Up

Photos by The Fetus.

Thanks to everyone who came to the TEETH table at the Museum of Contemporary Art zine fair last Sunday. We had an awesome time and spread the word of TEETH to a few more people. :)

The next zine fair we’ll be attending is at Kinokuniya on the 28th of June. Come down and say hi if you get the chance.

The Vignettes

The Vignettes are a Sydney-based band consisting of Joel on guitar and vocals and Katie on drums. Don’t make a White Stripes connection immediately though; their sound is different and much more fun and their live shows have a much different, wilder energy. The EP Out of Home, On Our Own is a wonderful mix of songs to make you first get your dance on and lose your mind, and then sit back and reflect on life. Any possible review of the EP just becomes a love letter, so we’ll skip straight to the interview…

When and how did The Vignettes become a band?
We met at a New Years Eve party hosted by mutual friends, both totally smashed! Our love of bands like NIN and Muse brought us together.

What’s your best memory so far of being The Vignettes?
Hearing ourselves on Triple J was probably the best thing so far. The second best was being asked to play Come Together.

What influences your song-writing?
The EP is sort of a concept thing, with all the songs being written about my experiences since moving to Sydney on my own. All the usual things are there - love, loneliness, anger (and lots of it), betrayal... The riffs however are an amalgamation of all my favourite songs, but with my twist on them.

What are your favourite bands and biggest musical inspirations?
The bands that inspire us are Muse, Death From Above 1979, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Vines, The Mars Volta and Led Zeppelin to name a few.

(Photo by Margaret Burns)

What was the best gig you’ve played so far? And worst?
Our recent stint on the main stage at the Annandale was probably our best gig. The sound was awesome, the energy was electric, and the crowd was huge.
Our worst was at the Excelsior in Glebe, a while ago now. Ten seconds into the first song we were told to 'turn it down or get the fuck out!" The audience were a bunch of backpackers who weren't paying attention to us too, so it was a pretty demeaning gig. But we got back on our feet.

What would you like The Vignettes to be doing in five years’ time?
Living in Europe, touring off the back of our second album. Possibly snorting copious amounts of cocaine off a black hooker’s ass...

Do you feel crowds have responded well to your music, or has it been tough getting people to pay attention?
"A little from column A, a little from column B." We've had our fair share of haters, but lately we've been really connecting with the crowds. Since our stage show is so in-your-face, you tend to either hate it, or become a lifetime fan right then and there. Everyone's always impressed by the size of our sound though!

You’ve played with some amazing bands. Who would you like to play with in the future?
I'd like to actually 'play' with the Vines. I do say we 'shared the stage' with them, but it was just a DJ set they did. Opening for someone ridiculous would be cool like Muse, The Hives or our new favourites Future of the Left.

(Photo by Margaret Burns)

Do you believe in the tooth fairy?
He's a 47-year-old paedophile that lives in Rhode Island. He steals teeth from small children the rolls around in them in his underwear.

Katie – five words to describe Joel.
Gorgeous, talented, cute, witty, funny.
Joel – five words to describe Katie.
Beautiful, powerful, opinionated, funny, strong.

Do you get a lot of White Stripes references, and if so, do they get annoying?
Not really... We've had it maybe twice. Since we have such a different (and bigger!) sound people don't really make the connection. They're pretty cool though, White Blood Cells changed my life.

What’s up next for The Vignettes? A new EP? An album perhaps…?
Well the EP 'Out of Home, On our Own' hasn't even been released yet due to the fact we have no label, so the plan is …

1. Get a label
2. Get some money
3. Make devastatingly good debut album that puts us on the musical map world wide.
4. Retire with our black hooker and our cocaine habit...

If anyone wants an EP just drop us a line at vignettesband@gmail.com with your address and we'll post one out to you for free. It's not about money, it's about EXPOSURE!

Visit The Vignettes on MySpace!

Check them out in the latest issue of TEETH LOVES STUFF: page 1 & page 2

See The Vignettes live at:

Come Together Festival at Luna Park – 7th June
Annandale Hotel – 17th June
World Bar – 11th July
Excelsior Hotel – 17th July

SUPERSTAR

Gina from Jannali

Only the Sea Slugs

TEETH talked to Sasha from Only the Sea Slugs, who are currently recording their debut EP, to find out a little more about this Sydney band that is yet to get the sort of exposure their wonderful sound and beautiful lyrics deserve.

Tell us – who are you and where are you from?

We are SASHA, ZORAN, DEAN, LUKE & SCOTT. Five humans. Sydneysiders stretching from the deep south to the far north.

When and how did Only the Sea Slugs become a band?

Three years ago, Zoran & I started writing music together, just keyboards and guitars. We played really shitty venues in our local areas, but they felt so good. Last year, we met Dean & Luke and started the band. Now, Scotty just rolled up, clean. Its just seems to keep growing, but we definitely don't want an orchestra.

You have quite possibly the most interesting band name ever. What does it mean and how did it come about?

This story is strange and funny. We came up with SEA SLUGS amongst 30 other ‘tough’ names, so we thought, yeah, its unassuming...and we love the ocean, but the "ONLY THE" part was soon after an addition, when one night we were eating pizza and someone offered me the last slice and I took it, and Zoran yelled out in hysterics..."ONLY THE FAT CUNTS EAT THE LAST SLICE!" So that’s....

What is your song writing influenced by/what inspires you?

It’s impossible to sum it up, but the major ingredient is emotion. Listening to other bands is really an influence for me particularly. I believe every band copied off other bands either consciously or sub-consciously...they just don’t admit it. LOVE INFLUENCES ALL MUSIC. It’s the LOVE for anything....

What can we expect from the EP? Will it be very different to what we’ve heard so far?

We are planning for it to set another level of intensity. The songs are all very powerful in their own element, we have hardly written any slim, watered-down tracks, they are all quite layered and melodic, but beefy.

You’ve played at some pretty awesome venues around Sydney. (Including the Oxford Art Factory, the Annandale Hotel and Spectrum.) Where would you really love to play in the future? And with which bands?

We are very happy with the exposure and opportunity we have been granted in the last year. As for the near future, we would love to play all respected underground venues around Australia, New York, London...We think our sound would fit in those settings well. And bands??? TV on the Radio! And local bands we love from Sydney, there is a swell little underground scene going on.

How would you describe your sound?

Melodic. Layered. Driving. Interesting. Oceanic.

Do you believe in the tooth fairy?

That’s how we made enough cash (as kids) to buy guitars!

Add Only the Sea Slugs on MySpace!

Check out Only the Sea Slugs in the new issue of TEETH LOVES STUFF: page 1 & page 2.

(Photos by ANNIE LY)

MCA Zine Fair

Look how hard Ivana Stab is working to put everything together in time for the MCA zine fair. ANNIE LY was so busy she couldn't even feature in the photo! Zomg! To show your appreciation for all their hard work, make sure you come down to the MCA this Sunday and say hi (and maybe pick up a zine or two).

THE NEW ISSUE OF TEETH LOVES STUFF WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS SUNDAY. For only $2 you can get 24 pages of awesomeness. There will also be TEETH badges for $1. Plus, free teeth! And lots and lots and lots of other good stuff. IT'LL BE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES!

See you at the MCA!

SUPERSTAR

Cass from Mosman

TEETH Poetry

Dirty couches,
Cigarette holed pouches
And then the little person crouches,
Behind a wall because he wasn’t very tall,
He hangs for dear life before he falls,
And crawls
And rawls
And mauls,
At her stockings.

Impostor

I want to exist and nothing more but my heartbeat is slower than it should be and it is an unavoidable reminder that two months seems much longer when trying to trace its boundaries in a foreign language.

By Ivana Rnjak

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Michelle from Penrith

Line Drawings

By Zigwamp

Home

Home is the smell of my mother's cooking
and the sound of my father laughing on the phone to relatives
over sea and sky.
Home is my unmade bed 400km from where I shield my eyes
and watch the sun set,
day in, day out.
Home is solemnly frozen and laced with heather,
whilst I swelter in the heat of summer.
And home is a teardrop in the ocean,
a harbour town,
a place that I have never been.

By Zigwamp

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Kate from Kensington (via Kempsey)

Happy Birthday, ANNIE LY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNIE LY!

It's now officially ANNIE's 19th birthday. Ivana Stab will accept presents on her behalf...

Love and toothpaste and mind-rape.

Nowhere Places

Nowhere places all have the same layer of surrender covering them. It seeps beneath the skin and grows inside the residents. Their eyes become lifeless pools of no questions, no answers and flies litter their bodies. I float above that layer, drawn from it by the scratches on my fingertips and the sticky-sweet smell of a stranger’s aftershave. Sometimes the click of coins on metal surfaces pulls me down towards the layer but I always levitate just high enough to lightly skim the surface with my toes.

There are five down but there is still one more to go.

I levitate, listening out for growling stomachs and looking out for yellowing fingernails. We are all in this together but we are not alike. I watch as ants crawl up my legs and as pale boys roll their cigarettes in windy weather. The air smells like tobacco and nicotine-stained dreams of clear thoughts. No filters, no triggers. Five down, one to go.

One to go.

Words and photos by Ivana Rnjak

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Jack from Cremorne

90s Kid

It's 3pm and school has just finished. Big lunch was way cool, Samantha let me push in the canteen line so I could get my Zooper Dooper. Instead of giving me a backage in the canteen line, she gave me a frontage. It was because I split my apricot log with her the other day. Our canteen was probably the best in the west. Bubble-O-Bill's, Chocolate Buds, Yummo Milk, Pizza Pockets, Chicken Niggets, Zooper Doopers, Wizz Fizz. One time, I didn't realise Zooper Doopers went up 5c so I asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so I could split it with a friend. One of my favourite people ever at lunch time was Justine. She made worms by squeezing her Vegemite crackers together, then she'd lick the worms off. Everyone except me thought it was gross. We loved Vegemite. We were the only people we knew who could eat it on its own.

Another reason school was awesome today: Healthy Harold Day. Healthy Harold Day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe. I had to sit next to Milan because Justine was making me laugh too much. I hated sitting next to Milan because he always wore his Chicago Bulls hat, even though it was all ripped, and he was always the first to give me "a pinch and a punch for the first day of the month - no returns"- and it actually hurt. He looked at me and said "you're real pretty. NOT!" and started laughing with his friends. I just looked at him and said "That's so funny, I forgot to laugh" and turned away. Stupid.Healthy Harold was running late, so Miss Goodwin made us sing a ram sam sam, a ram sam sam, guli guli guli guli guli, ram sam sam, a rafi, a rafi, guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam. I hated singing that! I liked open, shut them better.

Whenever I got home from school I'd change into my bike shorts and Tweety Bird t-shirt and sit on the couch. ABC was the greatest station in the world. I loved when John was on Playschool, he always made me laugh. My favourite Playschool pairing was Monica and John. I also didn't mind Noni, and that bald guy named George. Sometimes I invited Justine over to watch Blinky Bill, Mr Squiggle and Gumby. SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats. Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls. Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear. The Secret World of Alex Mack. Rocko’s Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!. A*mazing. The Ferrals. Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, eyeless doll named EC).

Mum used to tell me I'd get square eyes if I watched TV for too long, so I used to go next door to play the Nintendo. We always made sure to blow on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to make sure it worked properly. I always left their house at 6:00 because his parents liked to watch the news with Brian Henderson. The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn’t a folded piece of paper.

I liked Wednesday afternoons especially because Mum did shopping on Wednesdays, and there was always the best food to eat when I got home. I always begged her to buy those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so I could have a different one each day, and then I'd open the packets really carefully and remove the cereal so I'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. She hardly ever bought them though. She also hated when I stayed up past 8:30 because then it was difficult to get me up for school the next day. I liked getting up super early to see Gibbo on Agros Cartoon Connection though, so she didn't have to worry. Sometimes when Mum fell asleep early I'd check to see if SBS had any naked people so I could laugh about it in class the next day. Alas, I was face to face with Jana Wendt on SBS World News. Screw that, I'm going to bed.
Not.

By Leesy

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) just got dumped, by none other than TV’s hottest crime fighter, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). After numerous one-night stands and wallowing in his misery, he follows his brother’s advice and books a holiday to Hawaii. This attempt to get over his ex is foiled however, when he (of course) finds that Sarah and her new beau, Brit rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) are vacationing at the same resort. Luckily, the staff at the Oahu resort (including Paul Rudd and Jonah Hill) and the lush guest-services co-ordinator, Rachel (Mila Kunis) are willing to help the broken-hearted Peter forget Sarah Marshall.

I was actually surprised to discover that this film was not directed by Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) as its visual style and sense of humour is pretty similar. The cast of Forgetting Sarah Marshall is rounded out with Apatow favourites. Though I didn’t like it as much as Apatow’s work, Nicholas Stroller (long-time friend of both Apatow and Segel) does well with this as his first feature film. The script is well written and has the right combination of below-the-belt jokes and romantic comedy.

Jason Segel is excellent as Bretter, the slacker whose only career aspiration is to write a Dracula inspired musical. You genuinely feel sorry for him, but can also laugh at him as he becomes the butt of some pretty awkward situations. Bell is suitably snippy as the divalicious title character. Mila Kunis is naturally charming and surprisingly likeable as Rachel, Peter’s possible love interest. Props must also go to Jack McBrayer (best known for his role in Mariah Carey’s ‘Touch My Body’ music video), as a Christian newlywed with consummation difficulties.

The standout performance, however, is of English bad boy, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). Brand channels British rockers including Pete Doherty, the Gallagher brothers and Keith Richards to create the totally self-absorbed Snow. His effortless brand of cool and complete obliviousness to the sensitive nature of many scenarios he finds himself in (like crushing an ambitious fan’s dream of a demo “I was just gonna listen to that, but then, um, I just carried on livin’ my life”) is priceless.

The film’s final ten minutes are its greatest. Without giving away too much, Peter’s Dracula musical opens and no one will be disappointed.

My only issue with Forgetting Sarah Marshall is that the editing, to be frank, sucks. It lacked natural transitions and was very jumpy between scenes, which really disrupted the flow of the narrative. Besides this, the film has the makings of a great comedy, and one of the best of the year to date.

By Steph

Contribute to TEETH LOVES STUFF

The second issue of TEETH LOVES STUFF will be ready in time for the zine fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the 25th of May.

If you would like to contribute, make sure you send us your work before the 10th of May.

We’re not looking for anything in particular, so anything goes (unless it is racist, sexist, in really bad taste, any other negative stuff). Send us creative writing, drawings, drugs, reviews, photos, love letters, etc.

Send your work to teethmag@gmail.com.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Check out issue one here.

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Jasmina from Liverpool