SicRecords, Brisbane (2026)

16/09/2026

BUGS — HEAD NOISE

Derek normally uses this space to swear about forgotten records and argue that some Australian band should've been fu***ng enormous.

Not today.

Brisbane band Bugs have just released their fourth album, Head Noise.

Under normal circumstances, that's a reason to crack beers, play shows and celebrate making another record.

These aren't normal circumstances.

Bassist Jordan Brunoli was diagnosed with stage-four colorectal cancer at just 29.

After more than a year of treatment, Jordan recently revealed there are no viable medical options left and that he's entered the final chapter of his life.

And somehow, in the middle of all that, Bugs finished the fu***ng record.

Head Noise had been taking shape over three years, but Jordan's prognosis suddenly gave finishing it an urgency nobody ever wanted.

Tonight, Jordan joins Connor Brooker and Brock Weston at Brisbane's Crowbar for the second of two sold-out hometown shows celebrating the album.

It's a venue that's been part of Bugs' story for years.

And tonight it gets to be part of something much bigger than an album launch.

Last year Brisbane's music community already showed what it thought of Jordan, packing the Tivoli for the Saving A Bug's Life fundraiser alongside Dear Seattle, Beddy Rays, Sly Withers, Hope D, The Buoys and a pile of mates.

That's what music scenes are supposed to fu***ng be.

Not algorithms.

Not follower counts.

Not industry bu****it.

People.

People making music together.

People showing up for each other.

And three mates making sure the record they created together actually gets heard.

So Derek has precisely one recommendation today:

Listen to Head Noise.

And if you're lucky enough to be inside Crowbar tonight—

make some fu***ng noise for Jordan.

A lot of it.

❤️

— Derek

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SUPPORT AUSTRALIAN MUSIC. SUPPORT EACH OTHER.

15/09/2026

DEREK DIGS: SCREAMFEEDER

Righto. Time to talk about one of Brisbane's great musical mysteries.

HOW THE F**K WERE SCREAMFEEDER NOT MASSIVE?

Before Brisbane became synonymous with Powderfinger, Regurgitator and later Violent Soho, there was Screamfeeder.

Tim Steward. Kellie Lloyd. Dean Shwereb.

Big guitars. Beautiful melodies. Boy/girl vocals. Enough fuzz to strip paint off a Queenslander.

And absolutely no fu***ng business being as overlooked as they were.

They formed in Brisbane in 1991 and spent the '90s releasing the sort of records that should've put them permanently into the Australian alternative-rock canon.

Burn Out Your Name. Fill Yourself With Music. Kitten Licks. Rocks on the Soul.

Then there were the songs.

Dart. Hi Cs. Gravity. Static. Above the Dove. Triple Hook.

Songs that somehow managed to sound enormous and intimate at the same time.

And Kitten Licks?

That bastard still sounds fu***ng fantastic.

Screamfeeder toured with Sonic Youth, Pavement, Ride, The Breeders and Rollins Band, played the Big Day Out repeatedly and built the kind of fiercely loyal following where, decades later, people still look at each other and ask:

“Why weren't these guys huge?”

Even Something For Kate drummer Clint Hyndman has said hearing Screamfeeder's Burn Out Your Name helped make him want to be in a band.

That's influence.

The frustrating part is Screamfeeder got close.

There was overseas interest. There were attempts at cracking America. There were all the ingredients Australian bands were supposedly required to have.

But the giant international breakthrough never arrived.

And unlike a lot of bands from that era, they're still fu***ng here.

Still playing.

Still releasing music.

Still sounding like Screamfeeder.

So if your knowledge of '90s Australian alternative music begins with Silverchair and ends with You Am I, Derek has homework for you.

Put on Kitten Licks.

Turn it up until something rattles.

Then explain to Derek:

🤘 WHAT'S THE DEFINITIVE SCREAMFEEDER SONG?

And if you've never heard them before, tell us that too.

We'll try not to judge you.

Much.

— Derek

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AUSTRALIAN MUSIC DESERVES A F**KING ARCHIVE.

14/09/2026

VIOLENT SOHO ARE F**KING BACK

There are certain things Brisbane does exceptionally well.

Humidity. Roadworks. People driving Rangers six centimetres from your ar****le.

And VIOLENT F**KING SOHO.

After four years on hiatus, the boys from Mansfield 4122 have plugged the guitars back in, located the distortion pedals and returned to remind Australia what happens when four blokes from suburban Brisbane make an unreasonable amount of noise.

And apparently Australia missed them.

Because the comeback tour is SOLD THE F**K OUT.

Sydney. Melbourne. Brisbane. Perth. Adelaide.

Brisbane gets the homecoming at Fortitude Music Hall, September 25 & 26.

But Derek's favourite bit?

Before heading around Australia, Soho went back to where this s**t belongs:

THE MANSFIELD TAVERN.

Their local.

The venue was temporarily renamed Mansfield Rock Arena, tickets were sold physically through Brisbane record stores, and the band were presented with Platinum plaques because Hungry Ghost has officially gone Platinum.

That's the album recorded with Bryce Moorhead in a Brisbane shed with basically no expectations.

It debuted at #6, gave us Covered in Chrome and Saramona Said, and thirteen years later has racked up more than 120 million streams.

Not bad for four blokes from Mansfield.

And if you've forgotten how ridiculous their rise was:

Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth signed them to his US label.

They went overseas.

Came home.

Made Hungry Ghost.

WACO went #1.

Everything Is A-OK went #1.

Then in 2022 they basically went:

"Yeah nah, we're cooked."

And disappeared.

Four years later?

They're back.

Australia has produced plenty of great rock bands.

But Brisbane produced Violent Soho.

And some bands just hit different.

4122 FOREVER.

🤘 ONE SONG.

The lights go down at Fortitude Music Hall.

Derek gives you control of the first song.

WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING?

— Derek

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AUSTRALIAN MUSIC. LOUD AS F**K.

13/09/2026

DEREK DIGS: AMMONIA

Righto, children. Gather around while Derek reminds Australia about another fu***ng excellent band we somehow left behind in the '90s.

AMMONIA.

Three blokes from Perth. Loud guitars. Huge hooks. Absolutely no interest in fu***ng around.

And in 1995 they dropped MINT 400.

If you were anywhere near Triple J in the mid-'90s, you probably remember “Drugs” — a glorious three-and-a-half-minute slab of fuzz that sounded like somebody had shoved Cheap Trick, grunge and six warm beers into a blender.

But here's the bit people forget.

Ammonia were the FIRST band signed to Sony's Murmur label.

The second?

Some kids from Newcastle called Silverchair.

Yeah.

That Silverchair.

Mint 400 hit #15 on the Australian album chart, “Drugs” broke through internationally, MTV picked up the video, and suddenly these three Perth blokes were touring the US, UK and Europe.

And the whole album still fu***ng holds up.

Ken Carter.
Sleepwalking.
In A Box.
Suzi Q.
Face Down.

Big filthy guitars wrapped around melodies that had absolutely no business being that catchy.

Then came Eleventh Avenue in 1998 — stranger, more ambitious, more psychedelic — and by the end of the decade...

Ammonia were gone.

Two albums.

A handful of years.

Then p**f.

Meanwhile Derek has spent the last 30 years wondering why Mint 400 isn't mentioned alongside the great Australian alternative records of the '90s more often.

So today we're fixing that.

Put Mint 400 on.

Turn the bastard up.

And if you've never heard Ammonia before, congratulations — Derek has just improved your Saturday.

🤘 AMMONIA FANS — what's the track?

And don't all say “Drugs”, you predictable bastards.

— Derek

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12/09/2026

🔥 DEFTONES JUST PLAYED THE BIGGEST UK HEADLINE SHOW OF THEIR CAREER.

And apparently the year is 2026 and Deftones are getting BIGGER.

On August 23, Deftones walked onto the main stage at All Points East x Outbreak in London's Victoria Park and stared out at around 50,000 fu***ng people.

Chino's reaction?

“Holy s**t.”

Fair assessment.

This is a band that formed in 1988.

A band whose breakthrough records are now old enough to have mortgages.

And somehow, nearly four decades into their existence, they're playing the biggest UK headline gig they've ever done.

The setlist was ridiculous:

Be Quiet and Drive.
Around the Fur.
Rocket Skates.
Sextape.
Rosemary.
Change.
My Own Summer.
Cherry Waves.
Lotion.
7 Words.

Plus tracks from 2025's Private Music.

And look at the fu***ng support bill:

IDLES. Interpol. Amyl and the Sniffers. AFI. JPEGMAFIA. Basement. Wisp. Deafheaven.

That's not a support bill.

That's another festival.

The really interesting bit, though, is why Deftones are suddenly this enormous again.

Songs like “Cherry Waves,” “Sextape” and “Be Quiet and Drive” have found an entirely new generation through TikTok and streaming — meaning you've now got teenagers discovering Deftones alongside people whose original White Pony T-shirt no longer fits around the stomach.

And instead of becoming a nostalgia act?

They're releasing new records and 50,000 people are turning up.

That's fu***ng cool.

Some bands survive.

Some bands become heritage acts.

Deftones somehow became relevant twice.

Derek approves.

Although Derek would also like everybody to stop referring to albums from the 2000s as “classic rock.”

It's upsetting him.

🐒💿🤘

11/09/2026

🦇 OZZY OSBOURNE HAS HIS OWN F**KING HAUNTED HOUSE.

And somehow, it's taken Universal Studios this long to realise that Ozzy's career was basically a Halloween attraction already.

Universal's Halloween Horror Nights has opened OZZY OSBOURNE: PRINCE OF DARKNESS, an entire haunted house dedicated to the life, music and gloriously fu**ed-up imagination of the Prince of Darkness.

And it's running at both Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.

This isn't just a room with Crazy Train playing while some bloke in an Ozzy wig jumps out of a cupboard, either.

They've gone FULL OZZY.

Guests travel through a twisted fantasy world inspired by Ozzy's solo career, with imagery and music pulled from records including:

💀 Blizzard of Ozz
💀 Diary of a Madman
💀 Bark at the Moon
💀 No More Tears
💀 Scream
💀 Ordinary Man

There's Madman Ozzy.

There's Werewolf Ozzy.

There's a Crazy Train.

There's an Ozzy asylum.

And then Universal looked at the most infamous moment in Ozzy history and thought:

"How can we make the bat thing even more fu**ed up?"

Their answer?

A GIANT ANIMATRONIC DEMONIC BAT BITES OZZY'S HEAD OFF.

Forty-four years after Ozzy bit the head off a bat onstage, the bats have apparently organised their revenge.

Even better, the Osbourne family worked with Universal's creative team on the attraction, helping make it a genuine tribute rather than just sticking Ozzy's name on a haunted house.

It's completely ridiculous.

It's theatrical.

It's loud.

It's dark.

It's funny.

It's full of monsters.

Basically, it's Ozzy.

Derek would like to formally request Universal build one of these in Australia immediately.

Preferably inside a Westfield.

🐒🤘🦇

10/09/2026

🎸 TONY IOMMI + BRIAN MAY. THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

Apparently having one of the most recognisable guitar sounds in the history of rock wasn't enough.

So Tony Iommi has recruited Queen's Brian May for his new solo album From The Dark.

May plays the guest solo on a track called “Death Wake” — which Iommi has described as one of the record's properly doom moments.

So just to clarify:

The bloke who basically invented heavy metal guitar...

plus the bloke who built his own fu***ng guitar and then used it to make Queen sound like Queen...

ON THE SAME TRACK.

Excellent.

And this isn't some record-company-engineered celebrity collaboration either.

Iommi and May have been mates since the early 1970s. May even recorded his part at Iommi's home studio, where apparently these two guitar gods casually muck around with guitars like normal blokes muck around with a barbecue.

Iommi actually asked May if he wanted to play on more tracks.

May basically told him no — it's your album, your solos are already good.

Which might be the most ridiculously wholesome exchange between two men responsible for several billion decibels of guitar ever recorded.

And they've got history: May previously appeared on Sabbath's “When Death Calls” and Iommi's “Goodbye Lament.”

From The Dark lands October 23, Iommi's first solo album in more than two decades.

Derek has one request:

TURN DEATH WAKE UP F**KING LOUD.

🐒🤘💿

09/09/2026

WELL, THIS JUST GOT F**KING INTERESTING.

Mike Patton.

THE AVALANCHES.

Together.

Yep — the Faith No More / Mr. Bungle lunatic has turned up on THREE tracks on The Avalanches’ new album No Bad Memories.

Because apparently The Avalanches looked at their new record and thought:

"You know what this needs? Mike Patton doing whatever the f**k Mike Patton does."

Correct.

Patton appears on:

💥 Paradise Island — with Khadija Al Hanafi
💥 Superfun!™ TV Spot — with Haley Joel Osment
💥 Total Recall

And the rest of the guest list is completely cooked too — Karen O, Rivers Cuomo, Jamie xx, Panda Bear, Carly Simon, Barry Can't Swim, Haruomi Hosono and a stack more.

No Bad Memories lands October 16.

Australian sample maniacs + one of music's greatest weirdos.

Derek approves this nonsense.

Who else desperately wants to hear what an Avalanches/Patton collaboration actually sounds like?

🐒💿

08/09/2026

BUSH. THE SUPERJESUS. YOU AM I. AT THE F**KING CORNER HOTEL.

Melbourne, this is ridiculous.

On Thursday 24 September, Bush are ditching the arena-sized surroundings for one night and heading into the Corner Hotel for Triple M Fest.

And they're bringing The Superjesus and You Am I with them.

Yes.

Bush. At the Corner.

The same band responsible for Glycerine, Machinehead, Comedown, Swallowed and approximately 73% of the haircuts seen at alternative clubs in 1996.

The Superjesus kick things off with an early-morning performance, You Am I play later in the day, and Bush close the whole thing out at night.

Even better, this lands right in the middle of Bush's Australian tour with Shinedown — their first Australian headline run in decades.

There's only one slight complication:

You can't just buy a ticket.

Triple M is giving access away through the station/competition, which means somewhere in Melbourne right now a bloke who only knows Glycerine is probably going to win entry while an actual Bush tragic screams into a copy of Sixteen Stone.

Good luck, Melbourne.

Derek would like everyone to know he's suddenly extremely interested in winning radio competitions.

🐒💿

BUSH + THE SUPERJESUS + YOU AM I
📍 Corner Hotel, Melbourne
📅 Thursday 24 September

07/09/2026

RADIOHEAD. AUSTRALIA. 2027.

Okay. Nobody panic.

Actually, f**k it.

PANIC.

Something is very clearly happening.

Mysterious “Radiohead 2027” cards have started appearing around Australia — including Melbourne, Sydney and Perth — with QR codes sending people directly to Radiohead's official W.A.S.T.E. network.

Which would be interesting enough.

Except Radiohead used basically the same mysterious-card trick before announcing their European shows.

And guitarist Ed O'Brien has already said Radiohead intend to tour again in 2027, with Asia/Oceania specifically mentioned as one of the regions they're looking at.

So...

👀

Nothing has officially been announced yet. No dates. No venues. No tickets. Live Nation currently has no Australian Radiohead shows on sale.

But considering Radiohead haven't toured Australia since 2012, we're allowing ourselves to become irresponsibly excited.

FIFTEEN YEARS, THOM.

Derek has already started emotionally preparing his wallet for the inevitable ticketing bloodbath.

If this happens, who's going?

And more importantly...

BRISBANE. PLEASE.

🐒💿

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