Ohana
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Absolute Boys
Minimal Wage
Tuesday, Mar 23|by Tim Scott
Like the perfect amalgam of This Heat, Bill Laswell, Fugazi and the Tom Tom Club, 'Minimal Wave' – the debut 12” by Absolute Boys – comes strutting out with a ritualistic groove. While recorded by Neil Thomason at Head Gap studios in Melbourne, parts of the song actually sound like they could have e…
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Wide Open Road
Thursday, Dec 18 2008|by Adam D Mills
With no pressure from record labels, Ohana tell ADAM D MILLS they can do whatever the fuck they want – even break up. The future of Ohana hangs in the balance. In January, drummer Kino Versoza is leaving Thirroul – the northern Illawarra suburb from which Ohana hail – for the bright lights of Melbourne, while his bandmates scatter themselves across the globe. It won’t be until mid-2009 that all four members of the …
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Ohana To Split?
Thursday, December 18 2008 at 12:00 AM
The imminent relocation of drummer Kino Versoza could well spell the end of Sydney’s Ohana. Versoza will leave Thirroul – the northern Illawarra suburb from which Ohana hail – for the bright lights of Melbourne in January. And with the rest of the band scattered across the globe in early 2009, the …
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Ohana And Friends In Sydney
Thursday, November 27 2008 at 12:00 AM
A quartet of bands will celebrate the beginning of summer/a mock engagement/the end of exams at Megaphon Studios in Sydney this weekend. Ohana, The Laurels, Ghoul and Hungry Lung will perform at the all-ages, BYO show in Sydney’s inner west on November 29. Finding the venue, which is located on the…
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Ohana
Dead Beat
Friday, Nov 7|by Adam D Mills
It’s tempting (although perhaps not particularly useful) to compare Ohana to My Disco. Not because the two bands sound similar (they do, but not in any meaningful way), but because they seem to both be drawing from the same pool of influences, anchored at one end by Jeff Mueller and at the other by …
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Ohana Split 7” And Tour
Monday, June 30 2008 at 12:00 AM
Former Mess+Noise cover boys Ohana will team up with Brisbane “indie-jazz noodlers” To The North for a tour and accompanying split 7” in July. The Wollongong math rockers will roadtest songs from their forthcoming second album on the tour, which will encompass plenty of all-ages shows in “various …
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