Ivory Battle of the bands is a load of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by One Year Later on March 31, 2009 at 11:58

Thanks dave for letting everyone know the insite to this badly organised "band battle".

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Permalink Reply by Samuel Diklich on April 3, 2009 at 1:12

HEY THIS IS DIKLICH FROM HELL AND WHISKEY
I've never been onto this site before but I've heard about this forum through a friend.

For starters Dave you asshole, what’s your deal?
What’s with this mile long message slagging me and my mate Benny for the music we play? Yeah I worked at the Ivory at the time, but they came to me and asked me to play. We play as much as we can because it’s all I can do besides work, we love it so I accepted. I knew this shit would come back to bite me in the ass but fuck, you make it sound as if we crashed a Harley onto stage, spat on an old lady and dove into a stage show resembling GG Allen’s. I only swear in the chorus of ONE of my songs.

If we were that bad why then did you come up to me after shake my hand and say it was great? Say something to my face not on some blog you serpent.

I hate the Ivory as much as anyone, I just walked out of the place the other day because of things like this, it shits me. But apparently according to you, I'm best mates with the place.

And what the fuck is this shit?

"One acoustic guitar being bashed senseless and the chef screaming obscenities and jumping on & off furniture like a lunatic with a blues harp. Funny stuff. Every drunk yobbo in the joint was magnetically drawn to the front to scream 4-letter words at the top of their lungs, while those consuming wine & meals kept a safe distance at the dining tables outside............Totally inappropriate for any self-respecting entertainment venue - more like a Hell's Angels' Xmas party - but good for a laugh."

A lot of these "drunk yobbos" are my friends and people having a good time on the day. We play energetic music so you can't expect everyone to stand back twiddling their thumbs saying "what a lovely band, I might go sit down and enjoy a shandy with the wife while I watch them jump around." People were having fun and if you’re going to criticize them for that then you’re fucked! We got so many compliments that day from people I’ve never met it was amazing. Besides most of these "drunk yobbos" actually go out every weekend to venues supporting Gold Coast bands like MISDIRECTION, CONCRETE STREET, THE WRATH, TH F1 ELEVENS, THE MEANIACS, VICIOUS, TWIN CITY RIOT, BILLY CONDEMED, MOURNING TIDE, SECRET DEATH, NINE IRON, THE BIG RIGS, THE FERRY ROAD DIASTER, ONE80DOWN, AVERICE, MY AURORA to name a few. All these original bands are talented musicians and play their own style of rock n roll, but obviously they wouldn't appeal to a lot of the clientele at places like the Ivory (like yourself) on a Sunday afternoon. So your telling me all these bands are "Totally inappropriate for any self-respecting entertainment venue" even though a lot of them have achieved more success in the music world than you ever will.

It’s shit that that they wouldn’t let Planet Fiction play, there was no reason for not letting them and it pisses me off, but after hearing you tear my band apart it wouldn’t surprise me if you had a say in that. That whole comp was a joke and as for the Ivory I won’t say much as I just walked out and it may come back at me, but if you’re going to attack them don’t use us. We got asked to play so we played, and got an awesome crowd reaction and I can’t thank everyone who cheered for us enough. It was the best crowd I’ve played to and I can’t believe we have people singing our lyrics. It’s a spin out.

Also, (sorry to go on but you really hit a nerve you chicken hawk)

“…..you couldn't book them in a fit”, at the moment we average about three gigs a month from the coast up to brissie which is fine for us. We played to five hundred people on the sixth of March with Acca Dacca, which was unbelievable to see so many people, hands in the air cheering and dancing.

I'm proud of my band and the music I've written and enjoy getting a buzz running around stage singing with all I’ve got, Benny is one of the most talented guitarist I know. We practice hard and are in the middle of recording so don’t you dare call us a fucking “clown act.”

And, “As for the winner getting 12 months of gigs at the Ivory...we'll forgive the boss for breaking that promise!” Fuck you, that’s all I can say about that you disgruntled washed up muso, still grasping hopes of making it big while criticizing people having fun.

Well I’ve got that off my chest, I feel better now. I hope no one has ill thoughts about hell and whiskey because of what this jackass wrote or because of the Ivory, I think we put on a kick ass show and if you’re in doubt, come check us out. Our gigs are on www.myspace.com/hellandwhiskey.

I need a cigarette.
Cheers

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