Mach Pelican

• Mach Pelican    The official site seems to be gone. This is just the myspace. It's a mess of spam though.

Mach Pelican have called it quits. They played their last Oz show at the Tote in Collingwood on August the 25th. Then they played their last ever gig at Lush in Shibuya on the 17th of September and truly awesome it was too.

I'm planning to put up some final tour photos when I get time and I'm doing it in reverse order starting with the final show.

I'm leaving the profile as was for the moment.

So what's an Australian band doing on this site? Being that fucking good that I can't leave them off, that's what.
I heard of Mach Pelican through the 50 Kaitenz and my friend Martin hunted me down some of their older stuff which is not easy, unfortunately. Anyway, I caught both of their Kinki gigs during their 2006 tour and they were 1) awesome and 2) really fucking awesome. Tight, fast, intense and with great tunes. They play a few Ramones covers, which go down really well, but I prefer their original material. They're not the only band I know where I like their stuff better than their heroes' stuff. K Rock is on guitar and vocals (he does the most lead), Atsu C Roll is on bass and vocals and Toshi 8Beat is drums and vocals.

Their third album 'Radio Action' was released in Japan (VSCD-3413) on May 17th 2006. It's a brilliant album. All three of the guys have written great songs for it, there's not a single dud, and there are a couple of cool covers as well. The Oz version has come out too, as well as the single "She's a Mod".

Photos.

• September 17th 2007 at Loft, Shibuya    The official 800th and final show. Completely brilliant. It was great to finally see them with the kind of crowd they deserved all along.
• September 15th 2007 at Varit, Kobe



• February 23rd 2007 in Melbourne    Apparently Mach Pelican are even more awesome with the home ground advantage on their side. Martin's photos.





• February 17th 2007 in Adelaide    Apparently it was bleedin' 'ot. And not just because of the awesome rock n roll. Martin's photos.





• March 16th 2006 in Adelaide    Adding insult to injury these photos weren't even taken locally. I knew I had these ones that Martin took in Adelaide and with only two chances in a year to see Mach Pelican I wasn't going to spend any of my dancing time focusing a camera.