Blog : Short To Mid Term Forecast For Brisbane

short to mid term forecast for brisbane

Well, I was going to post some whiney crap about there being nothing on in Brisbane this weekend, but it seems I was wrong, and there's a few things of interest ( or at least of sniggery amusement factor) happening, even if I don't know how much of it I'll be able to get to....

Apparently, since it's the first friday of the month, so Miss Penelope Leisure's Humpty Bunny Barn is on at rics, promising hits from the 50's to the naughties doesn't necessarily bode for the best, but there's a flyer going round of a juggy playboy bunny with a residents style eyeball head, so you might be alright.  They're maybe launching the new Monster Zoku Onsom video too, or something like that.
Also on friday, fucking sick brutal melbourne grinders Fuck.... I'm dead are playing with some who-gives-a-fuck American or Canadian death metal band called Crytposomethingorother.  That's at her majesty's basement, but it's a $50 ticket, so her maj is just gonna have to kiss my arse on that one I'm afraid (I'll be blowing all my money on seeing nickleback at the BEC the night before (hey! - fuck you!!!, their songs are not all the same http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/BL/BL_Nickelback_-_nickelbackthing.mp3 (wfmu, of course)...and then Deep Purple & Staus Quo at the convention center on sunday).  Fuck....I'm dead will be back, though, with their No Escape records lablemates The Day Everything Became Nothing, some time in july for the promisingly titled "Brutalfest".
Members of these two bands participated in one of the gigs of the last couple of years that I'm saddest to have missed - the should be fucking legendary scuzzVSnoiseVSbreakVSgrind core-off put on by black lotus in melbourne last feburary (http://www.desolate-structures.com/blacklotus/blastcore.gif) .  I was fortunate enough to see some of the footage at black lotus hq when visiting mid last year, and some of it was fucking BRUDAAAL!! in particular the motherfucking almighty Passenger Of Shit (if you don't know get a fucking clue. right here, right now, courtesy system corrupt http://www.systemcorrupt.com/music/SYCO%20001%20cd/03%20-%20Passenger%20of%20Shit%20-%20Slice%20My%20Rectum.mp3 vs Matt Saunders (drummer of damaged) and lucas abela playing his feedback glass with two drummers - Sean Baxter from Bucketrider, and another insane melbourne grind drummer called Frog, from Running With Scissors.  Black Lotus are the shit. Black Lotus knows how to party.  Black Lotus got grindcore musicians and breakcore producers to improvise together.  The only other thing you need to know about black lotus is http://www.desolate-structures.com/blacklotus/  click on the dancing gir!!! Fuck yes!!!
oh, I was talking about Fuck...I'm Dead, wasn't I.... ummmm they're emo, as you can see from the url you will now download their music from http://www.myspace.com/fuckimdeadgrind

in possibly more of the point & snigger front, (although i'm simultaneously being chided for being "too cool" for writing this as i fucking write it) Adrian Belew,  King Crimson guitarist will be playing at the Sands Tavern in Maroochydore (no fucking shit... would the internet lie to you??) and then at the Living room on Petrie Terrace on the following (saturday) evening.  To quote the conversation I'm having about this with Lloyd Barrett right this very instant "could be total bollocks - his songs are pretty lame - but I think an opportunity I don't wanna miss regardless - he can play - and he's more inventive than fripp to be honest"  you pays yr money and you takes yr chances..

also on saturday....

Hindustani classical music anyone? Raka Mukherjee, virtuoso thereof, is travelling around Australia (possibly on the tail of going to  New Zealand, where I believe that the sizable Indian community bring out a lot of very well known Indian musicians.  Did I mention I ate a really good curry in Auckland? with these wikkid little entree things I forget the name of, a bit like little poppadoms covered with chutney & some nicely spiced minty yoghurt mixture. Choice.)  I'm not really that much of a pervert for Indian music to know just how virtuoso this woman is, but it seems to me like you don't get a lot of this kinda stuff in Brisbane that's outside the institutionalised IMA/ Powerhouse/ Well funded but soulless 'world' music festival context, and this seems to come much more through the Indian community/ 4EB fm crew, if that means anything to you. Haul arse to the clear view center, seven hills... on the corner of kensington avenue, possibly at the tafe institute... (fuck, I don't know, they say it's UBD page (maybe map??) 24, ref R8...) and they have vegetarian eats & family tickets! when was the last time you saw a gig with that as an option?, anyway, saturday, 6:30pm, at the place mentioned above that I don't know the exact location of, if you're interested....

or you could go to the jubilee and see Vineland, whom I'm yet to see, but they're made up of members of other bands you may or may not have heard of, like Briztronix, Prussia, Manhandle Spiders & Flamingo Crash (I think...) that's downstairs starting from 8, also playing are the appalingly named Bertha Control, Samedi Sounds and Anarchist Duck. I can't vouch for any of those bands, and the street press might have called Vineland "indietronica" but you should give them the benefit of the doubt and ignore that.... if that all gets a bit stressful, you'll only have to get yourself upstairs to enjoy a whole bunch of dub, reggea and whatever offshoot jamiaca's pissed out in the last week or so with the rythmn collision sound system.

then, on sunday, if you're a fan of getting talked at very fast, Speedpoets are returning for vengence.  This takes place at the alibi room on brunswick st in new farm, 2pm.  They'll be giving you free shit, like zines and so on.  Fans of dada sound poetry will be delighted to hear that your best friend on the interweb, ubu.com has put the impossibly rare "live in the west" album by classic 60's/ 70's performance poetry group The Four Horsemen.  The Four Horsemen were first seen by yours truly in the film "poetry in motion", which screened as part of the beat retrospective at BIFF a few years back, and have been sought after by me ever since.  They were the absolute highlight of this film (which consists exclusively of poetry/ prose readings by the likes of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Gysin, etc etc).  Filers are fairly low bitrate, but they exist, and you'll be saving yourself several hundred dollars on ebay pices (no shit! none of this stuff has EVER been on cd to the best of my knowledge). http://www.ubu.com/sound/4h.html if you just fucking love this kinda shit, and you're prepared to REALLY dig through ubuweb, it also seems they have what must be pretty close to the entire 7lp(!!!) box set "Futura Poesie Sonora" released in 1976 or 77 by classic (and I mean classic!) Italian avantgarde lable Cramps Records.  This box is an indispensable guide to sound poetry form 1890's through to the mid 1970's.  Unfortunately, they're all listed under the individual artists names.... but there's pretty close to 4 hours worth from the box on there...earlabs, however, has posted some of the older stuff. so you can get a taster of this shit...http://www.earlabs.org/label/LC/LC002.htm

Looking a bit further ahead......
Robin Fox is bring his lazer show up here!!! woo!! finally!!! he'll be presenting it alongside some kind of work by Sound sculptor/ installationiser Ernie Althoff. Ernie is one of Australia's national treasures, and I'm really looking foward actually seeing his work in person, rather than merely hearing it on his very fine recordings, like this one http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=20
all happens at the IMA, may 18th, 7pm. DO NOT MISS.  More details as they come to hand.

Don't forget "SET" on Tuesday nights, ABC 10pm.  Next week features Francis Plagne, whom I will refrain from referring to as an "avant pop wunderkind" and then Anthony Pateras, whom I will not refrain from calling a "muppett" the week after that.   And the link between these two fine gents? (apart from them both having releases on Synaesthesia) Pia Borg!.  Well, I'm sure there's more, Melbourne's creatives being as prone to incest as our own, but this is an easy one, and it gives me an excuse to repost a link to Pia's animation "Footnote".  Pia plays drums in Francis' live group (well did, until she did what drummers do and got some reason to go & live overseas for a while.) and has had some of her films, including the one mentioned, scored by Pateras.  http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/Extras/media/piab_download.zip it's not the best quality video, but it's a fine little film, and will give you an idea of Pia's work if you've never seen any.

also at the IMA..... hold onto your hats people, as local artist, no wait... local RAELIAN artist Luke Roberts (is he responsible for that bizarroid "sculpture" at what used to be the roundabout in west end???) presents "an evening at the Lemurain Embassy" thursday, 25th of may 6pm.  No religious persuasion exerted, apparently, but really, the raelians holding an art opening.... prying ppl with piss, then NOT trying to win them over....where would be the fun in that for anyone?
 
There also seems to be a proliferation of screenings of Forbidden Planet cropping up all over the place.  The Globe will be showing it on the 11th & 13th of may, at 7 & 2 pm, respectively.  Then as part of a series of Shakespeare films at Metro arts, on sunday 25th of june at 2pm.  It's screening in a series of Shakespeare films because it's based on "The Tempest".  In the same batseries, same battime one batweek later, you can see Derek Jarman's reimagining of the same play. It will have little, if anything, to do with batman (not that I doubt Jarman's ability to throw left field curvballs into anything, the alien sequence in Wittgenstein, for example) .  Two weeks before Forbidden Planet (11 june) they'll be screening my favourite Kurosawa film, "Throne Of Blood".  If you didn't know, Fobidden Plant features on the earliest electronic music soundtracks to a feature film, by Louis & Bebe Barron, and is worth checking out if you haven't seen it.  For it's classic Sci Fi cheesness, if not its historical important to folks with a serious/ passing interest in the history of electronic music.

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Added by jpeatt on 4 May 2006