Sludge Records

05/05/2023

Last 24 hours - please - if you haven’t already pledge a little to save a lot !!

Well… a big day!
We’re going to make it bigger.
In reality we only need 600 more Life Members and we’ve reached the Pozible Goal.
We’ve had this poster up in the pub for the last 7 weeks.
If you tag all your mates who could potentially Pledge in this post we’re going to enter you in a draw to win this poster that will be framed with the thermometer showing nothing but red, a years worth of free entry to the Last Chance (and with all fingers crossed the Tote) plus we’re going to give you a years worth of free Tuesday Night Family Dinners at the Last Chance!
It doesn’t matter if you can’t afford to get a Life Membership either!
Every Pledge counts!
All you have to do is head to https://www.pozible.com/project/the-last-chance-to-save-the-tote and support something that’s pretty damn incredible.
From our family to all of you we can’t thank all you beautiful humans enough!
42 hours to go.
This community is just the best.
Get around it.
Thank you.
Lots of love
Shane & Leanne

04/05/2023

The DEADLINE APPROACHES !!!
Get on board and pledge some $$$ please !,. 48 hours to go - follow the links

HERE WE GO!
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!
MASSIVE!
Only $700k to go and this Pozible Campaign is over the line.
Head to https://www.pozible.com/project/the-last-chance-to-save-the-tote/ and the Tote will be a live music venue forever.
Tell everyone.
Pledge.
48 hours to make this happen.

01/04/2023

Help save the Tote ,..!!!!!
Become a lifelong ‘member’ - the Tote is THE most important venue in Melbourne - please help, pledge and share ,…!!!

The Last Chance to Save The Tote?
Well, we might as well have a crack…
As some of you will know the Tote (the actual building and business) is up for sale.
It has an asking price of 6 to 6.6 million dollars.
In all likelihood it will be purchased by a developer and the Tote will no longer exist.
We’re not going to let that happen.
Leanne and I can afford (with a lot of hard work, begging, borrowing and using every dollar we have) to come up with around 50% of the asking price.
We’re hoping to sell enough merch, good times and a future to make sure that the Tote remains the Tote forever.
It will also be the last time the Tote will ever need to be saved because if we’re successful we will be putting the building in trust with so much red tape, caveats and legal protection that it can never be anything but a live music venue let alone sold ever again.
It will always be a live music venue for future generations of Melbourne bands.
We know that this is a seemingly impossible task but we think it’s worth it.
We’ve got under a month to make it happen and we’re going to give it everything we’ve got.
We’ve set up an all of nothing Pozible Campaign that you can click through to here:

https://www.pozible.com/project/the-last-chance-to-save-the-tote

This is it.
If you can contribute in anyway whether through by merch or simply sharing our posts it will be truly appreciated.
We’re truly going to need thousands and thousands of people to make this happen.
We will be adding more to the campaign as artwork comes in (thanks to all the artists who are working so hard on a tight schedule) and we come up with some other amazing things.
Strap yourselves in.
Lots of love
Shane, Leanne & the Last Chance

25/01/2023

‘Lismore Bands of the 80s and 90s’ had this posted today - an old flyer from back in the day ….

23/08/2020

Awesome book —- !!

Full colour poster book. A collection of gig posters from Lismore and the surrounding areas from 1977 to 2020 Compiled by Ned Cain & Matt Mason Front Cover art by Kim Mclean Layout by Dougal Binns

23/08/2020

This ! This wonderful publication exists ! Memories thanks Michelle .. there was around 50+ different hand bills that went around in the day ... please support and purchase link in comments!

14/06/2020

A very early photo of the shop. A bit light on stock in the very early days . .

14/06/2020

ZZZ Market Day - Brisbane 199? - Sludge on the road

Sludge set up for sales on ZZZ market days - and the (very) early Livid Festival. Hard to make out the merch - but there's a table set up amongst the people milling around in this photo . . .

10/06/2020

Hey there .. anyone got any old posters, handouts etc from “ back in the day” ...
would love to see !

02/06/2020

01/06/2020

Candid shot someone took showing the shop around 1992.

01/06/2020

In the era where "everything old is new again" and everything has a page- I decided to create this spot where bits and pieces of memorabilia from a short period in time (1991 - 1994) where some plucky 'kids' decided to open a record store to pass the time, meet new like-minded folk, seek out new alternative music and promote local and touring bands through Lismore NSW.