Forenzics
Forenzics play experimental improvised music with soundscape, noise, psych, drone, art-rock, post-rock and post-punk leanings.
They play what they feel without limits and boundaries, only that it must be created there and then, without restrictions on genre, texture, format or structure.
Bio
Formed in 2005, Forenzics have a very simple philosophy: play what you feel without limits and boundaries, only that it must be created there and then. There are no restrictions on genre, texture, format or structure.
It is completely free music defined by the mood, ability and preferences of the musicians taking part.
It is hard to describe the line up of Forenzics, especially considering their passion for collaboration and experimentation, but there is a constant, that of the two guitarists, Matthew Syres and Dirk Kruithof, both playing through myriad effects, tunings and various degrees of prepared guitar. Dirk may also add voice, bass, banjo or found sounds to the mix. They have also played with some of Sydney's best drummers including Evan McGregor, Aemon Webb, Finn Ryan, Alex Slater, Louis Burdett, and founding member Ben Eadie, various electronics wizards, and current regular collaborator Joe Cummins on Trumpet and Kaoss.
Forenzics have released two albums, 2009's H3O and 2010's Static and Silence. They are currently working on their third release, Build Ruins, the result of a collaboration with Japanese improvising electronic artist Ryota Yamamura and featuring Joe Cummins for the first time on record. They also appear on two compilations: Droning Earth Vol.26 and Art Groupie 2008.
Live they are a force to be reckoned with, taking the audiences on a journey, sometimes wild and tumultuous, sometimes soothing, hypnotic and fragilely beautiful.
Updates
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Awesome gig by Nhomeas at serial space last night, courtesy of the now now. Thanks!
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Thanks to everyone who made it down to The Bald Faced Stag on Saturday, especially the awesome bands Heirs and The Veil for the booking us.
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Forenzics has a show on 2012-05-05 at 20:00 @ Live at the Wall ... in Leichhardt, NSW http://t.co/JxeDAQmw #concert
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Forenzics @ The Gladstone, 115 Regent St, Chippendale, Sunday 18 March 5pm with Psychic Date, Galaxy Fuzz Band & Helpful Kitchen Gods. Free!
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Forenzics has a show on 2012-03-18 at 17:00 @ The Gladstone Hotel in Chippendale, NSW http://t.co/iQEBcUoB #concert
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Forenzics Play The Gladstone Hotel, Sunday 18th March 2012 http://t.co/2VfRra2w
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Our first album "H3O" now also available on soundcloud. Happy Chinese New Year. H3O http://t.co/wzyN9DTx on #SoundCloud
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Our entire 2nd album "Static and Silence" now available on soundcloud for your listening pleasure... Static and Silence http://t.co/KrbTyFek
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An early Christmas present from us here at Forenzics. Free download of Build Ruins, our newest album. Ho, ho, ho.... http://t.co/Q7LYv9Zg
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Posted a new song: "Nightmare Nurse (1973) MA Rpt." http://t.co/NLG1WLHr #music
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Posted a new song: "Palin's Drones" http://t.co/9oTyP7NV #music
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Posted a new song: "Motor Systemz Collisionz" http://t.co/YeSJjmKX #music
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Posted a new song: "Dub Scab" http://t.co/KtkW9XXh #music
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Posted a new song: "Noise Avoider" http://t.co/BBj1ZySV #music
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Posted a new song: "Let's Build Ruins" http://t.co/ls9CnPCj #music
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Thanks to everyone who came along to our gig last night. Extra special thanks to The Now Now for having us!
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Forenzics has a show on 2011-11-21 at 19:00 @ Serial Space in Chippendale, NSW http://t.co/1nXorEn8 #concert
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Forenzics has a show on 2011-11-21 at 19:00 @ Serial Space in Chippendale, NSW http://t.co/yrKiudM4 #concert
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Forenzics has a show on 2011-11-15 at 20:00 @ Serial Space in Chippendale, NSW http://t.co/HUxX6E3H #concert
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Forenzics has a show on 2011-11-15 at 20:00 @ Serial Space in Chippendale, NSW http://t.co/vx2LTPo7 #concert
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Forenzics are playing a free gig with Psychic Date, Galaxy Fuzz Band and Helpful Kitchen Gods, Sunday 18th March 2012, at The Gladstone Hotel, 115 Regent Street, Chippendale. We’re on first, a little after 5pm. Dirk (guitar), Matthew (guitar), Joe (trumpet), will be joined once again by Forenzics regular yet quite extraordinary Alex Slater (drums). We’ve also got the awesome RedCell Disorder doing visuals for us once again. Come along for some cheap beer and even cheaper live music. We’ll also be selling our latest CD Build Ruins released on the New Weird Australia’s New Editions label.
Realtime Arts have posted a review of Sound Series #15, as part of their look into Sydney’s experimental music scene. We played this gig back in July at Hardware Gallery, Enmore alongside Textile Audio, Secrets and Toydeath, who were in fine form. On the night we played with Alex Slater on drums for the second time and Joe Cummins on trumpet as usual. I feel that we may almost have a regular line up now at long last with these awesome players. Anyway here’s an excerpt from the review.
Forenzics have been around since 2005 but I hadn’t heard them play. With Matthew Syres on guitar and way too many effects pedals, Dirk Kruithof on lead guitar, Joe Cummins on trumpet and Kaos pad and Alex Slater on drums they play loose yet utterly cohesive improv inflected with jazz, rock, drone and psychedelia. Joe Cummin’s trumpet loops and soaring melodies are a particular highlight creating a smoky, sensual atmosphere and the rhythmic interplay, pushing against the metre with loping rubatos, gives the sound an intriguing elasticity. It occurred to me that music is best when it picks you up and takes you somewhere you didn’t know you wanted to go, and Forenzics did just that.
Gail Priest, Realtime Arts, Issue 104, Aug-Sept 2011
For the full review of the entire gig and also a look at The Now Now’s show from round about the same time, go to Realtime Arts website here. The images from the gig are taken by Lucien Alperstein, Sound Series’ official photographer.
Just a quick one, we’re playing this Friday night at Hardware Gallery, 263 Enmore Road, Enmore, with Textile Audio, Secrets, and the circuit bent madness of Toydeath. Our line up for this one will be Dirk Kruithof on toy guitar, Alex Slater on drums, Matthew Syres on guitar, and Joe Cummins on trumpet/kaoss. Awesome visuals once again provided by RedCell.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
Running Times:
8.15 – Textile Audio
9.00 – Secrets
9.40 – Forenzics
10.20 – Toydeath
It’s also the last chance to see Lucien Alperstein’s exhibition ‘Water and Music’ which features some stunning ocean photos alongside a photographic retrospective of the last 18 months of Sound Series.
Free beer, wine and soft drink!
More info and RSVP on Facebook here.
Our new album Build Ruins was officially released on the 13th June 2011 on New Weird Australia‘s, New Editions Label. You can purchase the album as a limited edition CD or pay what you like digital download here.
Thanks again to Michelle Barry, William Bowden and Ryota Yamamura for helping us make such an awesome sounding record, and Stuart Buchanan for releasing it.
We are proud to announce the imminent release and launch of our third album, Build Ruins, recorded back in 2009 with Japanese artist Ryota Yamamoto on electronics and Joe Cummins on trumpet. The album was recorded and mixed by Michelle Barry, mastered by William Bowden, and is being released by New Weird Australia’s New Editions label. The album and poster artwork was created by Heath Killen, New Weird Australia’s resident designer and looks great. Without a doubt this is our best album to date, both sonically and visually, thanks so much to everyone who’s helped to make it so.
Anyway come help us celebrate at FBI Social, Level 2, Kings Cross Hotel, 248 William Street, Kings Cross, Thursday 16th June, 8pm. $10.
Supporting will be Domeyko/Gonzalez, Jusgo Mosh and Robot House with visuals supplied once again by RedCell. It’s also being simulcast on FBI Radio from 9pm, thanks FBI!
For more info check out the facebook event here.
If you missed our intense gig with Louis Burdett a couple of weeks back, here it is in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure. Also available for free download if you just can’t live without it…
Sydney ambient, industrial, trip hop act Film Theory have kindly invited us to support them at the Sandringham Hotel, Sunday 8th May 2011. We’ll be playing as a two piece featuring Dirk Kruithof and Matthew Syres, both on guitars, for a more stripped back, moody and soundscape inspired set. RedCell will be joining us once again with his visually projected insanity. Also supporting on the night will be solo artist Phebe Starr.
As promised in my last blog post, finally got the official forenzics site up and running. Direct link to the new site is www.forenzics.net and to this blog forenzics.net. There’s also a feed from the blog on the new site so you can keep up to date from the one spot. I’m still tweaking some things but it’s all pretty much there now. Go have a look and feel free to comment – now that you can!
My apologies if you’ve been trying to access forenzics.net today, I had some issues linking this new blog to the also brand new Forenzics site. I’ll hopefully resolve these issues in the next couple of days but for now you’ll have to make do with this blog. Click on the links to the right to access all our content; music on bandcamp, video’s on vimeo, images on flickr, news on twitter etc. I will be bringing all this content together again in a new forenzics.net site – I just need to work out some of the web tech stuff that I am (obviously) crap at.
This new blog does allow us to have posts by the other members of Forenzics now, and is also comment enabled should you feel the urge to engage us outside of the realms of facebook. Give it a few days, then feel free to let us know what you think of the new blog and site design, features, function or whatever.
Posts
Albums
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Let's Build Ruins!10:45
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Noise Avoider09:53
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Dub Scab05:06
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Motor Systemz Collisionz12:33
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Palin's Drones04:17
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Nightmare Nurse (1973) MA Rpt.10:36
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Accumulations, Aggregations and Aggravations14:24
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City My$tic$15:48
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Contemporary Morality Noises10:20
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Surry Hills Noir / The Stakeout09:51
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Internal Sludge of the Toxic Mind01:44
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Womb 1.011:15
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Static and Silence22:37
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Surface Scratches17:28
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The Book of Time and Space13:58
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Dead Sea01:47
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Swamp03:42
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Submariner08:27
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Virtual Tides09:33
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Perfect Storm03:54
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Water Torture03:13
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The Parting08:09
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The Diving Bell / The Deeps07:57
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Faultlines (Brown Seas)13:11
Tracks
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Tone Deaf24:38
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Forenzics gig at new venue Tone.
I usually don't post full gigs but I just couldn't trim this one down, Forenzics played with so much veracity from beginning to end without taking a breath that it deserves to be seen. By far my favourite performance of theirs I've seen (the footage gets better 45 seconds in).
Thanks to the Bird's Robe Collective for putting on a great show with The A Band, Violence in Action, and Hinterlandt.
Improv projections using VDMX with Akai APC40 controller. Word up to memo.tv's glitch plug ins. And Quartz Composer.
Forenzics:
Bass - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Trumpet - Joe Cummins
Drums - Louis Burdett
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera - 'Hoplite and Packhorse' and Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllab.com.au
hopliteandpackhorse.blogspot.com
birdsrobe.com
Cast: Shahane Bekarian, HOPLITE & PACKHORSE and Matthew Syres
Tags: vj, redcell, projection, experimental, noise, music, live, improv, vdmx, akai, apc40, quartz, composer, glitch, improvise, gig, performance, Video Jam, birdsrobe and tone
Forenzics live performance presented by 1/4 inch at the Headlands Hotel, Austinmer, Thursday 11th November 2010. Live visuals by RedCell.
Forenzics:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Drums - Finn Ryan
RedCell - Shahane Bekarian
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera and Editing - Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllabs.com.au
matthewsyres.com.au
1-4inch.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and Shahane Bekarian
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, jam, video, Forenzics, RedCell, art, rock, post, live, 1/4 inch, vdmx, quartz composer, glitch, memo, abstract, projection and VJ
Forenzics live performance presented by 1/4 inch at the Headlands Hotel, Austinmer, Thursday 11th November 2010. Live visuals by RedCell.
Forenzics:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Drums - Finn Ryan
RedCell - Shahane Bekarian
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera and Editing - Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllabs.com.au
matthewsyres.com.au
1-4inch.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and Shahane Bekarian
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, jam, video, Forenzics, RedCell, art, rock, post, live, 1/4 inch, vdmx, quartz composer, glitch, memo, abstract, projection and VJ
Forenzics live performance presented by 1/4 inch at the Headlands Hotel, Austinmer, Thursday 11th November 2010. Live visuals by RedCell.
Forenzics:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Drums - Finn Ryan
RedCell - Shahane Bekarian
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera and Editing - Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllabs.com.au
matthewsyres.com.au
1-4inch.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and Shahane Bekarian
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, jam, video, Forenzics, RedCell, art, rock, post, live, 1/4 inch, vdmx, quartz composer, glitch, memo, abstract, projection and VJ
Forenzics live performance presented by 1/4 inch at the Headlands Hotel, Austinmer, Thursday 11th November 2010. Live visuals by RedCell.
Forenzics:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Drums - Finn Ryan
RedCell - Shahane Bekarian
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera and Editing - Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllabs.com.au
matthewsyres.com.au
1-4inch.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and Shahane Bekarian
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, jam, video, Forenzics, RedCell, art, rock, post, live, 1/4 inch, vdmx, quartz composer, glitch, memo, abstract, projection and VJ
Live performance by Forenzics at their Static and Silence album launch.
Recorded live at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia, on the 17th February 2010.
Forenzics Lineup:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Trumpet and Kaoss - Joe Cummins
Drums - Evan McGregor
Audio Credits:
Live Sound - Dylan Mitrovich
Desk Recording - Dylan Mitrovich
Room Sound Recording - Matthew Syres & Edwin Budhi
Audio Mixing and Mastering - Matthew Syres
Video Credits:
Stage Lighting - Tim Dennis
Camera One - Edwin Budhi
Camera Two - Matthew Syres
Editing/Grading - Edwin Budhi
Links:
forenzics.net
dwhmedia.com
matthewsyres.com.au
hopliteandpackhorse.blogspot.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and HOPLITE & PACKHORSE
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, forenzics, art, rock, post, soundscape, live, gig, australia, drums, guitar, effects, trumpet, kaoss, surry hills, the excelsior hotel and static and silence album launch
Live performance by Forenzics at their Static and Silence album launch.
Recorded live at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia, on the 17th February 2010.
Forenzics Lineup:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Trumpet and Kaoss - Joe Cummins
Drums - Evan McGregor
Audio Credits:
Live Sound - Dylan Mitrovich
Desk Recording - Dylan Mitrovich
Room Sound Recording - Matthew Syres & Edwin Budhi
Audio Mixing and Mastering - Matthew Syres
Video Credits:
Stage Lighting - Tim Dennis
Camera One - Edwin Budhi
Camera Two - Matthew Syres
Editing/Grading - Edwin Budhi
Links:
forenzics.net
dwhmedia.com
matthewsyres.com.au
hopliteandpackhorse.blogspot.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and HOPLITE & PACKHORSE
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, forenzics, art, rock, post, soundscape, live, gig, australia, drums, guitar, effects, trumpet, kaoss, surry hills, the excelsior hotel and static and silence album launch
Live performance by Forenzics at their Static and Silence album launch.
Recorded live at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia, on the 17th February 2010.
Forenzics Lineup:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Trumpet and Kaoss - Joe Cummins
Drums - Evan McGregor
Audio Credits:
Live Sound - Dylan Mitrovich
Desk Recording - Dylan Mitrovich
Room Sound Recording - Matthew Syres & Edwin Budhi
Audio Mixing and Mastering - Matthew Syres
Video Credits:
Stage Lighting - Tim Dennis
Camera One - Edwin Budhi
Camera Two - Matthew Syres
Editing/Grading - Edwin Budhi
Links:
forenzics.net
dwhmedia.com
matthewsyres.com.au
hopliteandpackhorse.blogspot.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and HOPLITE & PACKHORSE
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, forenzics, art, rock, post, soundscape, live, gig, australia, drums, guitar, effects, trumpet, kaoss, surry hills, the excelsior hotel and static and silence album launch
Live performance by Forenzics at their Static and Silence album launch.
Recorded live at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia, on the 17th February 2010.
Forenzics Lineup:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Trumpet and Kaoss - Joe Cummins
Drums - Evan McGregor
Audio Credits:
Live Sound - Dylan Mitrovich
Desk Recording - Dylan Mitrovich
Room Sound Recording - Matthew Syres & Edwin Budhi
Audio Mixing and Mastering - Matthew Syres
Video Credits:
Stage Lighting - Tim Dennis
Camera One - Edwin Budhi
Camera Two - Matthew Syres
Editing/Grading - Edwin Budhi
Links:
forenzics.net
dwhmedia.com
matthewsyres.com.au
hopliteandpackhorse.blogspot.com
Cast: Matthew Syres and HOPLITE & PACKHORSE
Tags: improvised, experimental, free, noise, forenzics, art, rock, post, soundscape, live, gig, australia, drums, guitar, effects, trumpet, kaoss, surry hills, the excelsior hotel and static and silence album launch
Excerpt from experimental improv projection gig with Forenzics, projected onto a scrim screen in-front of the band while still seeing the band behind. Thanks to the 1/4-inch crew at the Headlands Hotel, Austinmer, 11th Nov 2010.
Improv projections using VDMX with Akai APC40 controller. Word up to memo.tv's glitch plug ins. And Quartz Composer.
Forenzics:
Guitar - Dirk Kruithof
Guitar - Matthew Syres
Drums - Finn Ryan
Video Credits:
Audio Recording and Mixing - Matthew Syres
Camera and Editing - Shahane Bekarian
Links:
forenzics.net
redcelllab.com.au
1-4_inch.com
Cast: Shahane Bekarian and Matthew Syres
Tags: vj, redcell, projection, experimental, noise, music, live, improv, 1/4, 1-4 inch, vdmx, akai, apc40, quartz, composer, glitch, improvise, gig, performance and Video Jam
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A design featuring a white version of the logo for The Sounds Unsound Festival, being held in Sydney, Australia, April 2nd, 2010. For more info go to: www.thesoundsunsound.com
A design featuring a black version of the logo for The Sounds Unsound Festival, being held in Sydney, Australia, April 2nd, 2010. For more info go to:
www.thesoundsunsound.com
Design featuring the image from the cover of our H3O album. Photography by Matthew Syres
Design featuring the cover of our H3O album. Photography by Matthew Syres
A design featuring the logo for The Sounds Unsound Festival, being held in Sydney, Australia, April 2nd, 2010.
For more info go to:
www.thesoundsunsound.com
T-Shirt based on Forenzics H3O album artwork. Original photography by Matthew Syres
Updates
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Awesome gig by Nhomeas at serial space last night, courtesy of the now now. Thanks!4 hours ago
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Thanks to everyone who made it down to The Bald Faced Stag on Saturday, especially the awesome bands Heirs and The Veil for the booking us.4 hours ago
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Thanks to Heirs, The Veil, At Dark and Seance Records for having us at The Bald Faced Stag Saturday night. Was a short but intense set for us. Thanks to Mert for filling in on Drums at the last minute and of course RedCell Disorder for doing his visual thing.4 hours ago
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Forenzics has a show on 2012-05-05 at 20:00 @ Live at the Wall ... in Leichhardt, NSW http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/1078525434 hours ago
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Forenzics @ The Gladstone, 115 Regent St, Chippendale, Sunday 18 March 5pm with Psychic Date, Galaxy Fuzz Band & Helpful Kitchen Gods. Free!4 hours ago
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Forenzics has a show on 2012-03-18 at 17:00 @ The Gladstone Hotel in Chippendale, NSW http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/960320324 hours ago
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Forenzics Play The Gladstone Hotel4 hours ago
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Our first album "H3O" now also available on soundcloud. Happy Chinese New Year.4 hours ago
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Our entire 2nd album "Static and Silence" now available on soundcloud for your listening pleasure...4 hours ago
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Posted a new song: "Nightmare Nurse (1973) MA Rpt." http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/764378994 hours ago
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Posted a new song: "Palin's Drones" http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/764371564 hours ago
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