The chaotic, joyful, noisy home of Brisbane’s underground. Splurt wasn’t just a label — it was a lifeline, a ladder, and a big messy green paint explosion across the face of the city’s punk history. This page preserves what we know, what we’ve found, and what we’re still hunting.
Splurt Records emerged in the early 1990s as a rough-and-ready response to Brisbane’s need for a label that didn’t care about polish — only heart, noise, and community. Fronted (chaotically) by Brentyn “Rollo” Rollason, Splurt supported Blowhard, Bad Ronald, Burna Stone, and an entire constellation of bands that didn’t fit neatly anywhere else.
Splurt releases were part graffiti, part love letter, part disasterpiece. Some came with photocopied covers, some with handwritten credits, and some with no credits at all. What mattered was that the music existed — and that it was loud.
Splurt begins as a whispered rumour: dubbed tapes, Club Splurt chaos, 4ZZZ shout-outs, and Rollo’s early noise experiments.
Blowhard’s Blowin’ Off (1993) Discogs.
Give It A Name (1994) becomes a snapshot of the subculture.
Blowhard release Hornbag (1996) and tour Europe. Splurt grows from basement label into the backbone of Brisbane’s DIY circuit.
Samplers, EPs, one-offs, and impossible-to-find CD-Rs. Splurt fosters bands who had no other door to knock on.
Blowhard re-emerge with brass-heavy punk theatrics; Splurt stands behind them as always — loud, messy, alive.
Rollo becomes a scene elder: helping bands record, improvise, find gigs, and believe in their own noise.
After Rollo’s passing, Splurt’s history becomes a community project. This archive is part of that ongoing reconstruction.
A mix of confirmed releases, rumoured tapes, impossible-to-find CD-Rs and the glorious mess that made Splurt the loudest green-splatter in Brisbane punk.
These titles circulate in scene lore, personal collections, shoeboxes, and garage-stored CDR stacks. Inclusion here means: mentioned by musicians, fans, or ex–Splurt collaborators, but not yet confirmed in Discogs or physical archives.
Splurt Records was never a traditional label — it was a green-splattered, volunteer-run, late-night operation held together by punk goodwill, caffeine, and Rollo’s unstoppable force of will. These are the people who kept the chaos moving.
Founder • Label Head • Goblin King of Admin
The engine, mascot, promoter, pack-mule and mischief-maker. Booked records, gigs, bands, barbecues, and often did them all at once.
Co-Conspirator • Event Wrangler
Helped launch early Beerstock events, coordinated with Club Splurt, and lent the label its community-radio backbone.
Volunteer Promoter • Logistics Support
Brought 4ZZZ links, guests, random equipment, and the kind of organising skills that balanced Rollo’s glorious chaos.
Promoter • Community Glue
Long-time Brisbane punk promoter; helped run gigs, helped new bands, and is cited as one of the steady hands around Club Splurt shows.
Session Crew • Load-in Heroes • Studio Helpers
When you run a DIY label, your bandmates become your staff: carrying gear, dubbing tapes, getting signs made, burning CD-Rs, and somehow still making it to soundcheck.
Volunteer Recordists • Drivers • Photocopier Ninjas
Numerous unnamed contributors taped shows, photocopied flyers, lent vans, repaired gear, and kept Splurt running in the spirit of “If it breaks, fix it with tape.”
Names lost to time but remembered in spirit — the kids who held doors, ripped tickets, packed merch boxes, drove Utes full of amps, and dubbed cassettes at 2am. If you were one of them: add your name to the archive.
We’re still piecing together the full Splurt catalogue. If you have a flyer, a photo, a CD-R, a bootleg tape, or any rumour from the green-splatter years — we want to hear from you.
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