she had roses coming out of her neck
a smell that even god 
could not understand
she came from far away, yes, she crossed a few oceans
i held her in my arms
it felt like heaven

longer chains and bigger cages was all that she wanted 
but the satan from immigration said no no no 
no no no no no

my baby's gonna get deported

she started crying said she is scared 
shit can go wrong if she goes back
and there's so much room on that stolen land
they took her off my arms 
it felt like hell


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Baby's Gonna Get Deported

got no thread to stitch the hole in my pocket
but who cares it's empty anyway
all that we get is made out of debt
call it what you want but we enslaved to the banks

they say they wanna turn the forest into paper 
and i know this is no good
they wanna cash it over in asia 
but those trees gonna stay where they got their roots

we gonna make
love and a class war 

seen enough of those good looking coffins
stuffed with us the victims of war
we counting the dead, they counting the cash 
and planing the next place to drop their bombs

but we are paving down the road to utopia
its always darkest before the dawn
we gonna revolt, rebuild it all
we put our bodies behind those words

we gonna make


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Make Love And A Class War

i wanna be with her but that would be a sin
don't want to have to tell her about the things my eyes have seen
she never done no harm you can tell by touching her skin
sleeping next to her i'm waking up into a dream

you could be my wife for a couple of years
i'll hold your hand til i get back on my feet
we would be so pretty just like a cemetery
you would be the flowers and i'm the dead thing

i wanna be with her i got to have a sniff
slowly my confidence turns into fears
but i dived the dead sea with my eyes open just for her
she's making me do things no other man can


Written and produced by The Shabbab with help from Zac Milner-Cretney. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Cemetery

we sell the time of our lives for survival
they call it work
every morning like a bullet in the head 
you give up to the clock
you used to shine like a diamond
now you just a burnt light bulb
you someone else's shadow
and you nothing at all

like flies banging against the window
you wanna get out
thinking of the dreams 
you littered behind
as you make your way up the ladder
you realise it was a trap
you sick of being a servant 
you run to the window and jump

but it's not how i wanted to live
there's gotta be an alternative
i'd rather be a primitive
i'm gonna go bush tucking


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Bush Tucking Blues

playing with my freedom is playing with fire
and you shouldn't dare
mind your own business, tax the rich, get off my back

playing with my freedom is playing with fire beware
no more puppetry no more mind control
things are about to change

coz just like smoke
i always find my way out
yes, just like smoke 
i always find my way out

playing with my freedom is playing with fire
and you should be scared
as millions of people all over the world are taking out to the squares

playing with my freedom is playing with fire
and you shouldn't dare
mind your own business, tax the rich, get off my back


Written and produced by The Shabbab with help from Zac Milner-Cretney. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Playing With My Freedom

uncle hitler, uncle sam
you know they all the same
they all insane
they wanna own you
they want your thoughts and working hands
they'll take your heart and fill it up with hate
you yell out 
no one listen

we still tolerate genocide and pop groups
we can't tolerate no genocide no pop groups

the roulette spins and it lands
and it might be where you at
this time around
it's you in danger
did you yell out when you could
for others just like you?
do you realise
we all one?


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Genocide And Pop Groups

i hear the sirens and the boom
i guess they started another war
not a good time to quit smoking 
not a good time to fall in love
mum doesn't stop praying 
and dad wouldn't open his mouth
on tv they singing and digging 
the graves for you and i

and on either side
a mass suicide

i see the fire and the smoke 
it must have been very close
not a good time for day dreaming
not a good time at all
mum doesn't bother cooking
and dad wouldn't open his eyes
on tv they singing and digging
the graves for you and i


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Sirens

i went to rehab just to shut them up
i had to listen to doctors and priests 
talking about blood and god
from the prison of junk
to the prison of life
from being scared of what's out there
to be scared of what's deep inside

I went to rehab just to shut them up

I went to rehab, now i can say i tried
but all i want is those waves of euphoria
to wash down my spine
and i wont look back
all the way to the guillotine
coz i remember you telling me 
i don't worth the air i breathe

I went to rehab just to shut them up


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Shut Them Up

the emperor is naked
the empire is corrupt
your eyes are wide open
but your mouth is shut
you in a safe place
you don't mind to die young
but it's time to wake up
time to see the lie

someone desex the president, please
and set us free

the emperor is naked
in the city square
he thinks he got us in his pocket
but the time has changed
we gotta save ourselves from the rat race 
from the dark age
we gotta ask ourselves is it working
is it fair?


Written and produced by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Someone Desex The President, Please

blood dripping all over my bed
i picked up the needle again
just cant think of
something better to do

it's so cold here and i'm so far away 
from a place i don't like
but it runs in my veins
so i had to pick up the needle again

here i am i picked up the needle again

i'm high and i'm down and it isn't much better
all i want is to be helen keller
just cant think of
someone better to be

now i'm locked in a cave and my body is aching
the rewind button just doesn't working
so i had to pick up the needle again


Written and produced by The Shabbab with help from Zac Milner-Cretney. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image shot by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

Needle

After serving their countries from Tel Aviv and Beirut, The Shabbab met over a pita zaatar one evening in 2011. Shuki, a starving chef from Israel, was attracted to the familiar smells of home from Said's Lebanese bakery. Since then they vowed to make music together.

Unlike the never-ending conflict of their motherlands, they came to realise they're two fish of the same bowl. As months went by they spent endless hours cooking, eating, drinking, talking and drinking some more. Often they found themselves armed with instruments around a bon fire at random house parties in Brunswick. From these moments songs sprouted.

Lyrically strong, their music challenges the same old propaganda.
"The blood test says we can't be friends. We belong to different sides of the fence."
The Shabbab hope to drown these ideals that say we can't live together because of where we were born. We look the same. We eat the same. We talk the same. We swear the same. Let's live together!

Over 2012, The Shabbab recorded a full length album (expected for release in 2013) in lounge-rooms and cold backyard sheds, engineered by Vito of Headrush Productions. After scoring their first shows they realised they needed a bass player, and so Vito became the third brother of The Shabbab.

Finally, after taking hours to write this fucking biography, all The Shabbab are trying to say is "we hope to see you at a show in 2013 and enjoy the upcoming releases."

YALLA, SHABBAB!

All songs written by The Shabbab. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim and Said Choucair. © and (p) The Shabbab 2013. Co-produced by The Shabbab, Aden Senycia and Vito Lucarelli. Mixed by Aden Senycia. Engineered by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Aden Senycia.

Milk & Honey & Blood

The Shabbab
Hailing from Tel Aviv, Beirut and Middle East Brunswick The Shabbab bring their eclectic backgrounds together to create a high energy and original performance. Think Tarantino making love to the Gang of Four and giving birth to an even more punk rock Rachid Taha! 
Known for getting their chest hair all over the crowd their high energy shows have to be seen to be believed. Israeli born front man Shuki lights up the dance floor while banging his djembe and singing his passionate words.
Lyrically their music is personal and political, they talk of their own experiences in war zones as well challenging notions of difference. "The blood test says we can't be friends. We belong to different sides of the fence." The Shabbab refuse to accept the idea that we can't live together because of where we were born. We look the same. We eat the same. We talk the same. We swear the same. Let's live together!
With this passion, musicianship and amazing dance moves it is no wonder that The Shabbab are one of the most exciting up and coming bands in Melbourne.
After two years of playing around Australia and having just finished recording their debut album they are set to explode onto the world stage with a European tour in June next year and many local, national and inter-dimensional shows next year. If you haven't experienced The Shabbab, now is the time!
YALLA, SHABBAB!

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