Baby 8 are a hard hitting power-pop five-piece band creating quite a rumble with their recent spate of live shows. They play with strength, passion and attitude leaving their audiences wanting more. Their debut release We hate each other, but we hate you more is the talk of the town with it’s raw depth and it’s powerful multi-layered production.
This album is world-class rock ‘n’ roll. Mastered by Lindsay Gravina it has a strong 90s indie powerpop production. Think The Breeders meet Wire at Veruca Salt’s house party, listening to Redd Kross and never talking about boy troubles. The songs are well thought out clever pop-punk tunes with a searing energetic edge.
Baby 8’s lyrics chronicle seedy nights out celebrating hedonism and friendship, nights that turn into the next day’s nightmare. This album is not about being victims of heartbreak. It’s not about being victims at all. It is a celebration of vulnerability, of the search for a good enough time to forget the perils of existence. The best and worst of times, huddling together and bonded by vice.
Supported by Signal Chain Music from midday.
As always your mates UMSU Activities will be there serving up delicious lunch options including BBQ and veggie burgers.
Sound and lights by AVMelbourne
Licensed event | +18 ID required to acquire any alcoholic beveragesUMSU is committed to promoting safe and responsible use and service of alcohol.
UMSU Activities acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our event takes place, and that the land was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded and that no apology can give the land back.
![UMSU will be closed today, but we won't be celebrating anything.
Statement from @umsuindigenous:
TW/CW: mentions of Indigenous Death, Stolen Generations, Racism and Australia Day
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"Leading up to January 26, we see the stores start to fill with all sorts of unnecessarily branded Australian merchandise. Thongs, bikinis, plastic flags, cups, BBQ accessories are all things we frantically try to avert our eyes from, while in our local shopping centres.
It’s a cruel reminder that the day is almost here.
Invasion Day marks a pain that will never really leave us, it is a reminder of the slaughters that have been deliberately left out of the pages of history books. It is a reminder to the people that will never know where they came from because their grandparents and ancestors were stolen from the arms of their parents. It is a reminder that the nation that we are now citizens of refuses to acknowledge or repent for the racialised actions of its past and present.
In a nation that insists it is built upon ideals of mateship and diversity, it becomes increasingly clear that those notions are only bestowed upon the ‘good Australian’. The one that believes in the stories of the underdog and plight of the convict. Those that celebrate their ancestors coming to a strange new land in search of wealth and opportunity.
I am not a ‘good Australian’, nor do I strive to be one. In order to fulfil this stereotype, you must turn a blind eye to violence and injustice and hold an unquestionable belief in the goodwill of the government. You are an active participant in ‘fun-loving Aussie racism’..."
Read the full statement on our Facebook page.
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