Now, this is a bit of an odd one. See, it should be a happy story of a local punk muso winning big and ending up with his dream job, but unfortunately it’s all turned sourer than the cheapest goon.
We’ve been fans of Melbourne punk band Keggin for a while now, following their alcohol-themed careers with interest as they’ve continued to write a series of punk jams all about goon and other cheap forms of booze, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear that the trio’s drummer Dave Holder had scored his dream job with none other than the toy giant LEGO.
While we’re used to punk bands (especially drunken ones) being more inclined to break things than build them, The Music reports that Dave recently won a two-day LEGO contest, with the prize being a full-time job as a builder at the company’s Master Model Builder studio, piecing together large-scale attractions and coming up with new ideas to delight LEGO fans.
Sounds pretty great so far, but it seems the win has had unfortunate repercussions for Dave and his band. The Music point to an article run by The Herald Sun titled ‘LEGO master builder’s double life revealed’, which goes on to explain that Dave “may not get to work a day in his new job after it was revealed he was naked” in one of the band’s music videos. Dave jokingly copulates with a bag of goon in the clip, which has now been taken offline.
In fact, all of the band’s videos have been taken down, as have their social pages. At the time of writing, both of their 2016 EPs Fruity Lexia Makes You Sexier – featuring the alcohol-fuelled ‘GFL (Goon Football League’ and ‘Night Of The Living Red’ alongside the title track – and Red White and Spew are both still available on Spotify, but almost everything else has been scrubbed.
Rather than anything untoward, this clip ends with the pair getting married – wholesome enough for us
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Keggin had only released their recent EP in October of last year, and had just dropped the video for its title track this month, which featured the band pouring goon into the mouth of an inflatable sex doll – now unwatchable anywhere. Dave and the band aren’t making any comment on the matter, but are midway through a national tour, too, with seven dates still remaining across the country, and there’s no word on whether these shows have been affected.
The deletions appear to be a response to the Herald Sun piece and the concern that Dave might be disallowed from his new career based on some lighthearted music video antics. As of now, it seems to be a very unfortunate situation that will either prevent Dave from taking on an exciting new job, or severely impact a band who, while making light of alcoholism, have never done anything to remotely warrant their work being removed from the internet.
While we understand the concerns a children’s toy company may have with being associated with a punk band whose whole image is based around alcohol abuse, it’s LEGO-loving Dave Holder they’ve hired, not his punk band, and there are no reasons that those two worlds would ever cross – we’re hoping for a good result for Dave, and for the rest of the band.
Until we hear more, if you like your musical alcoholic nonsense, give Keggin’s latest EP a listen while you still can:
