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REVIEW OF KEITHS YARD EP - JULY 2004 Keith's Yard launched their debut ep at The Vic recently and then promptly announced that they were breaking up the very same night. Which points to the highly volatile nature of the music contained on this, the only released document of this unique band. Built around the looping, throbbing, concrete-slab-heavy bass-lines of Dannie ‘Bean’ Johnston (ex-Little Ugly Girls), the rock-steady drums of Duncan ‘Pisserman’ Blachford, the duelling noise guitars of Adam ‘Digga’ Rowell and Kris (no nickname) Buscombe, topped by the 70s punk styled vocals of Colin ‘Kowboy’ Henry Jr. Keith’s Yard stood out like a towering inferno among the ramshackle fibro shacks of the Melbourne indie music scene. Not for them the slavish imitations of Nu-Rock™. They might have taken their initial cues from the industrial blues of ‘Funhouse’ era Stooges, but channelled it via 70s Kraut rock drones, Steve Albini guitar shenanigans, The Jesus Lizard and The Melvins, sideswiping the best of Oz-post-punk in the form of early Cosmic Psychos, X and Venom P. Stinger… only to emerge as a totally unclassifiable entity when melding all the above. Personally, I blame it on their mis-spent youths in the rural backwaters of Tasmania. It seems to do something to people that makes them not care about the self-conscious fashion posing and popularity contests so prevalent among bands in this town. Keith’s Yard won people over by simply putting on the most devastating live shows imaginable, slapping them around the head with hypnotic riffs that could shift tectonic plates. Jeez, I miss these guys... Frankie Teardrop We Keep Our Shirts On Artist
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