"Griffin’s is a particular creativity, delivered with an envious degree of confidence" - The Guardian.

"SPOD’s 'Adult Fantasy' is one of the more interesting Australian records to drop in 2019. A teetering tower of 80’s clichés, somehow it turns every one of them to its advantage" - 4ZZZ.

"Wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful" - The Music.

"SPOD is undoubtably most of Australia’s most versatile musically creative minds, and his latest single ‘Sexual Fantasy’ is another shining example of his talent" - Weirdo Wasteland.

“Righteous” - Ariel Pink.

“Alone pondering the universe's vast complexities, my soundtrack is SPOD.” - Henry Rollins

Australia’s most uncelebrated national treasure!

More than a stage name, SPOD is a loosely worn character: a wild party-starter, a joke, an absolute in charisma and confidence with a loyal cult audience. Mostly, he’s been renowned for the chaotic, high-octane electroclash party sets he’s played for more than two decades; shows packed with confetti, streamers, glitter, backup dancers and red roses handed out to the audience mid-set. With fans including Ariel Pink, and Rollins, his is the ultimate stage presence, which evangelised partying years before Andrew WK made the concept his oeuvre.

SPOD has always been an artist that defies ‘easy’ categorisation. To understand the roots of the man and the myth, one must cast their minds back to 1995 - to a time in which two high school friends in Sydney were able to bond over a mutual admiration of Ween’s ‘Push Th’ Little Daisies’. With a borrowed four-track recorder, the pair looped grainy Beastie Boys beats onto a CD player, unknowingly drafting the beginnings of what would go on to become their new band, SPOD.

Evolving into a one man show, SPOD came of age within Sydney’s booming indie-electronic scene of the early 2000s. SPOD’s in your face live shows became synonymous with the musical landscape of the era, and were marked by an onslaught of a high energy, defiant ‘Up Yours’ attitude and crippling on stage honesty. Spod shows have ranged from shambolic assaults of unrelenting bravado to absurd operas of sad-dad ballads, but like his conceptual works, they’re mostly unplanned.

"[People think] ‘You’re a joke’, and that’s totally fine. I’m not fighting against people who just see the funny side of it — I’ll take anything. If you just think I’m oblivious to what I’m doing, that’s even better. That’s where I kind of want to be: where someone who sees me for the first time doesn’t know if I could support myself, or feed myself, or if I’m just an absolute maniac.” SPOD talking with A.H. Cayley for The Guardian.

Rice Is Nice + SPOD are thrilled to present ‘Adult Fantasy’, the fourth studio album from SPOD, and his first full-length release in over five years.

SPOD is back, sitting somewhere between the cynicism of his youth and the impending doom and wisdom of old age.

'Adult Fantasy' is out now and had received critical acclaim for the likes of The Guardian, The Australian, 2SER's Album of the Week, Beat Magazine and more.

SPOD has also released a brand new video for his ode to lifelong commitment, 'Becomes A Wife'. The clip stars SPOD in his bejewelled showbiz jacket, alongside his best friend Conrad Greenleaf of Richard In Your Mind and Stressless fame..

Read The Guardian's long form feature on SPOD here!.

Titled 'SPOD gets serious', the feature tracks SPOD's 25 year music career, and offers insightful commentary on the motivations behind it all.

RAGE screened SPOD's TV Special across three weekends. Thank you team RAGE! And the beauties at Golden Age Cinema host a private screening, dreams come true.

'Becomes A Wife' was the final track to be lifted before the albums release, be sure to check the clip here.

'Make Things Right' the second single to be lifted from 'Adult Fantasy'. A track about late nights, cold city streets, headlights spread through the fog, sirens splashing on the empty brick walls. Out on the streets, looking for your only son who’s old enough to make his own decisions, but young enough to not respect the consequences. How do you let go? When does having a good time become a bad time? Sure, he’ll learn from his mistakes, but what if it’s the ultimate lesson? That’s not the way this is going to play out, not on my watch.

This special video clip for 'Sexual Fantasy' is taken from SPOD's upcoming "Adult Fantasy TV Special” a live full-length performance video of 'Adult Fantasy'. Shot and edited LIVE direct to tape created by SPOD and Alex Smith.

Recorded in a self-built studio within a broken-down bus in Tasmania, ‘Adult Fantasy’ stays true to SPOD’s DIY creative process, one that he describes as “just open the gate and hang on for dear life”. The stunning album artwork is an original portrait painted by Tasmanian artist Zina Kurtschenko.

‘Adult Fantasy’ ruminates on the joys and pitfalls of growing older, and sees SPOD adopt a lyrical poignancy that journeys from the romance and sexual energy of making a life-long commitment, looking after yourself, fearing for your loved ones, getting online and a general terror of our mindless march into a political apocalypse.

'Sexual Fantasy' was the first single to be taken from the new record. A song about ways love can survive in the long stretch of a committed relationship. Keeping that candle alight, keeping the fantasy alive. Sensitivity, respect, passion. That’s the ticket! The kids are at Grandmas, the dogs are fed, work can wait. This secret is ours.

‘Adult Fantasy’ concludes with the finale track ‘Golden Gaytime’, which is a contender for The Guinness World Record for most special guests within one song. Some featured include; Henry Rollins, Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), DZ Deathrays, DJ Douggpound (Doug Lussenhop) Jack Ladder, John Early, Vic Berger IV, Ariel Pink, Stella Mozgawa, Rebel Yell and many more.

'Adult Fantasy’ is about accepting the inevitable fate of life, celebrating the march alone through the dark abyss of time, and of growing up and growing down, simultaneously.

‘Adult Fantasy’, the fourth album from the genius that is SPOD, will be released worldwide on July 19th via Rice Is Nice.

Launch dates below and be sure to head to SPOD'S BANDCAMP HERE.

SPOD returns with new single 'Day In The Sun'.

PURCHASE / STREAM DAY IN THE SUN HERE.

Is 'Day In the Sun' SPOD's ticket to final fame and fortune? That guest spot on Rove?Topping the charts?

In SPOD's words "Keeping the pedal down through the mud of life can be an arduous task. Careening towards an unmarked goal, always looking forward to that lofty platform where you can look back at your tracks and think ‘hey, I made it, I kept the wheels spinning and now I’m here, having a cool time!’. Or did you just plough right through it, too busy to look up to see the clouds lift years back while you kept going at full speed toward the glory of personal success, never realising it’s blinking into oblivion in your rearview mirror. Was the platform just unremarkable or did it even exist? I’m watching my friends find their rays of light, mines gotta be just around the corner, right? Oh well, you just gotta keep the pedal to the metal till you run outta fuel coz life is a one-way street, and i'm takin’ this caffeine fuelled 1997 Toyota V6 Camry Vienta straight to hell through the gateway of broken dreams… LA, baby!!"

Sydney's original party starter has been making us all taste the radness for over a decade. The dance rock pioneer electrifies brainwaves and creams pants wherever and whenever he graces the stage. He's also a bit of a renaissance man, not only kicking arse and taking names as a performer in his own right, but also produces records and directing videos for others. And when he's not stimulating your eardrums, he's over-coming your taste buds with his own, delicious, organic range of beef jerky.

SPOD  is back for the summer with new track 'Boys Night'.

  Premiered via the almighty Pilerats (thank you very much!). Shot by SPOD with an iPhone on location in Los Angeles California on a Boys Night with a couple of mates. Featuring "Pete": Brendon Walsh from the almighty Bonezone amongst other thangs and "Rob": Doug Lussenhop aka Dj Douggpound (Tim & Eric, Eric Andre Show, Poundhouse, Poundcast). Another strong cameo goes to Whalehouse who close the clip as SPODs chorus. GET BOYS NIGHT HERE. Phillip Crandall, author of Andrew WK's 'I Get Wet 33 1/3', gets behind the track 'Boys Night' here: SPOD. Purveyor of party. From the 1900s until today, each and every song from the Spod-alogue had been written, recorded, rad-ified, rip-roared, rear-end-tested, radio-blessed-ed, and road-perfected specifically for the partiest people SPOD has ever met on Earth: girls. Today, SPOD has a jam for the boys. Boys Night AKA 2016's Song of the Damn Year AKA 2016's Amends for the Damn Year, doesn't represent some seismic political shift or even thematic turn-of-face for our always-been-woke-and-also-always-had-a-face hero; rather, it represents a cool party zone rarely explored via sweet synthy vibes and Bandcamp compatibility. A critical read of the Boys Night text assures that, somewhere along SPOD's intra-planetary travels, it was witnessed just how the other 50.1% lives. Indeed, it was from those assholes that this festive phoenix did arise. During the song's ascension, SPOD invited thousands if not literally billions of people to participate in a once-in-a-life, party-making opportunity. History will show that, on an otherwise totally 2016 Wednesday, SPOD posted a snippet of Boys Night to a social media account, inviting man and woman alike to sing along and send back their recorded takes. The result? An anthemic gang-style chorus with slightly less than a billion but definitely more than 30 triumphant entries all synced up, uniting partiers the whole wide webbed world over in a celebratory experience one cannot begin to put a price on (though, if a Kickstarter project were to offer "Your Recorded Voice On a SPOD Song" as a pledge perk, it would totally be one of those end-all million-dollar pledges that has to incorporate all the previous perks too like the commemorative "Kickstart The Radness" t-shirt and autographed "Nerds!" bookmark)."   Prior to unleashing Boys Night upon the world, SPOD was a bit lonely, so he made a new song 'Party of One' with an accompanying video featuring a lonely man looking for friendship and satisfaction with aid of the internet and computer tablet technology. Spending a lonely night in with his semi broken synthesisers, SPOD created an ode to some personal time out. Lyrics: Um, yes no that will be a Party of One, thank you very much. His last album 'Taste The Sadness' is a mature nod to his debut album 'Taste The Radness' (2003). In celebration of getting older and wiser, SPOD has reinterpreted the debut album to reflect life 10 years on. This beautiful record reminiscent of Harry Nilsson and all things adult and sad is sure to tug on them depression strings. And then you laugh in the face of it all because getting old is scary. The painful truth is that all pleasant evenings of nightclub-dwelling debauchery must come to an eventual end, in both the literal and metaphorical sense. Local sweat-pop, dance-rock legend, SPOD, has passed the partying pinnacle of his life, where throwing streamers at strangers, maiming innocent people with missile champagne corks and slow-grinding unsuspecting pub attendees isn't as much fun as it once was. Taste The Sadness, explores hitting the second half of your existence in full-stride, dislocated your hip in the process and then spending the rest of your days in an extremely comfortable armchair explaining to everyone about how much significantly more enjoyable everything was when you were able to enjoy things more. 'TASTE THE SADNESS' AVAILABLE HERE & BELOW. SPOD 'Last Dance' from SPOD on Vimeo. A few words from SPOD.  "Mates, it’s been a while, but I figure it’s time to come back to remind people what’s good, y’know? Y’can’t just be the greatest all the time, y’gotta take some time out for yourself & take it easy for chrissake. But it’s been a while, and summer is right around the corner, so I figure it’s time to make a tune & a video and line up some cheeky shows to remind everyone of the important things. No biggie, just sayin’ g’day and reminding you deadshits i’m still alive. Y’know, as time rolls on, you can’t fire it up night after night without kicking back every now and then as the ravages of time shine a light on the delight of a cheeky brew with your mates. Nothin’ suss, just a couple of drinks to shake off the cobwebs, y’know? You don’t wanna give your significant other no hass, just looking to take a load off with ya mates, coz there ain’t nothin’ wrong with havin’ a real good time, right? The time seems just right to get out there and hit the magnetic tape with Owen Penglis & play some live instruments for once & stop being a computer deadshit, so thats what I did. A case of beer, couple of laughs, a cheeky wednesday and boom, new hit single by Australia’s favourite bloke, SPOD."

 

SPOD - TASTE THE SADNESS

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