CITIZEN SEX

We released our 10” with 150 different covers drawn by our...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:30:57 +1100

We released our 10” with 150 different covers drawn by our friend Ben Hammond. Here is a picture of all 150 illustrations. They are faces, mostly of people we know… some of people we stalked on Facebook.

- S

Video

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:01:27 +1100

Sodybob

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:26:59 +1100

We got an EP coming out on March 2nd! Will be available online and on a limited edition run of records. Have a listen to the first song from it here:

This Friday! Hori Smoku!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:53:56 +1100

This Friday! Hori Smoku!

This was a fun show.

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:32:37 +1100

This was a fun show.

It’s ya boy Cass McCombs, done it again son

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:43:57 +1100

It’s ya boy Cass McCombs, done it again son

COME ON DOWN!

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:34:43 +1100

COME ON DOWN!

DICK DIVER

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:18:09 +1100

Maybe not news to most, but two really amazing releases from Melbourne bands this week, Twerps and Dick Diver. Both are great, but Dick Diver is the one I’ve been playing non-stop all week. Sooooooooo good. We ain’t friends with them or nothing! Just really like it.

The album is streaming on Soundcloud for your perusal (see below), or you can buy it direct from Chapter Music. Or, even better, head down to their in-store at Polyester today and pick up a copy there.

Sam CS x.

Dick Diver - New Start Again by dickdiver

PARTIES & COCAINE (NOW I'M IN JAIL)

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:51:36 +1100

Wrote a new song on Saturday, here’s an iPhone recording of our second time ever playing it. That’s some history-making shit right there.

Parties & Cocaine (iPhone recording) by Citizen Sex

I wish i could afford some bananas

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:32:12 +1000

I wish i could afford some bananas

Glenn Branca’s guitar orchestra! Holy catfish! Apparently...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:26:35 +1000

Glenn Branca’s guitar orchestra! Holy catfish! Apparently this is what Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were a part of before they were sonic youth

This guy » theadrianflores: If you look like Audrey...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:19:00 +1000

This guy »

theadrianflores:

If you look like Audrey Hepburn enjoying drinking whiskey around Sydney and are not a psycho, then please get in touch because I would be very interested in shagging you.

You gotta dance with someone. via blackandwtf

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:29:49 +1000

You gotta dance with someone.

via blackandwtf

Video

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:23:58 +1000

SHOW THIS FRIDAY

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:22:00 +1000

We are playing this Friday at Builders Arms with Dearly Wish, Secretive George and ScotDrakula! Set times and deets here.

Sweet new ScotDrakula video:

ScotDrakula Shake Ya Bones Crack Strength (2011) from Matthew Neumann on Vimeo.

Coverage from Debut Show months ago!

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:34:02 +1000

Coverage from Debut Show months ago!:

IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:17:43 +1000

Such a genius video.

IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS (official music video) from EL NINO on Vimeo.

Books, Cities, Cafes.

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:05:00 +1000

3 BOOKS TO DO WITH FRANCE:

1. Bonjour Tristesse - Francois Sagan

- Sagan wrote the book in her late teens after failing the entrance exam to study Law at the Sorbonne, Paris. It has one of my favourite opening lines of all time: A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness.

From memory Sagan died in a car crash - speaking of which, if you haven’t read “How to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing-wang squeezed and not spill your drink” by P.J.O’Rourke then do yourself a favour.

2. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

- Basically the memoirs of a drunk ex-pat living in Paris. Pretty surreal visiting the cafes/bars/gardens Hemingway describes and seeing how little they’ve changed since the 1920s.

3. Down and Out In Paris and London - George Orwell

- Orwell’s first published work. It’s an autobiographical tale that - as the title suggests - recounts Orwell’s penniless time in Paris. Though it describes vermin-filled lodgings, slave-like working conditions and a working class on the cusp of starvation, it does so in a peculiarly romantic way.

10 LITERARY CITIES AND THEIR BOOKS:

Good books can come from anywhere, right? But when you think ‘great literary city’, what comes to mind? … Paris? Flavorwire have compiled their Top 10 Essential Reads from “The World’s Top Literary Cities”. Pretty interesting, save the exclusions of Vienna, Dublin and perhaps somewhere in Russia?

LITERARY CAFES:

If you like books and coffee, or even just history, give this book a go - it’s a compilation of the “Grand Literary Cafes of Europe”. More of a coffee-table book than a guide, these joints are good to keep in mind when you’re travelling. Some of the great novels of all-time have been written in these cafes in Amsterdam, Budapest, Vienna and, obviously, Paris. It also features Deux Magots which, according to my sister, was where Dora Maar and Picasso met. Apparently Maar had become infatuated with Picasso and his work, saw him from a distance and stabbed her hand with a butter knife until she bled and he came to her aid. However, Wikipedia suggests that she was plainly introduced to Picasso by poet, Paul Eluard who, co-incidentally, wrote the poem that inspired the title for Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse.

Now that was a fucking good night. Our first ever gig in a...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:20:13 +1000

Now that was a fucking good night. Our first ever gig in a bedroom in North Melbourne with Datarock. Sexy.

suffshutter:

citizen sex’s secret house gig with datarock.

12/05/2011

north melbourne, melbourne.

Chet Faker Release

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:24:00 +1000

He once ate an entire lemon. His beard is as lush as any European pubic hair. His voice could melt the sweat off the penis of Mischa Barton’s billionaire boyfriend. You guessed it - Melbourne boy, Chet Faker.

Have a listen to Jeans & Wallet - contains more sexual innuendo than a comic called Soap and Locker Rooms. Lyrics: ”lips were parted / before the engine started” - genius!

Anyhow, while he’s sorting out his EP, you can buy a few of his tracks HERE.

If you dig his vibe, then get onto it. And if you need anymore convincing, just stand by for his “No Diggity” film clip by Charlie Ward - you’ll see my cock.

- R.