Eugene Chadbourne Promotional Poster
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Dualplover presents the legendary Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne will be performing
in sydney for the first time since the 80′s along with Special guests
SUZANNE GRAE & THE KATIES and Crab Smasher.14th January, $10, 8pm start, La Campana, 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney.
Eugene Chadbourne (USA)
A seemingly endless — and endlessly eclectic — series of releases
made the innovative guitarist Eugene Chadbourne one of the underground
community’s most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics. Born January
4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY, Chadbourne was raised in Boulder, CO, by
his mother, a refugee of the Nazi death camps. At the age of 11, the
Beatles inspired him to learn guitar; later exposure to Jimi Hendrix
prompted him to begin experimenting with distortion pedals and
fuzzboxes. Ultimately, however, he became dissatisfied with the
conventions of rock and pop, and traded in his electric guitar for an
acoustic one, on which he began to learn to play bottleneck blues.Perhaps Chadbourne’s most significant formative discovery was jazz;
initially drawn to John Coltrane and Roland Kirk, he later became an
acolyte of the avant excursions of Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton.
Despite the huge influence music exerted over his life, however,
Chadbourne first studied to become a journalist, but his career was
derailed when he fled to Canada rather than fight in Vietnam; only
President Jimmy Carter’s declaration of amnesty for conscientious
objectors allowed the vociferously left-wing Chadbourne to return to
the U.S. in 1976, at which time he plunged headlong into the New York
downtown music scene. After releasing his 1976 debut, Solo Acoustic
Guitar, he began collaborating on purely improvisational music with
the visionary saxophonist John Zorn and the acclaimed guitarist Henry
Kaiser.Quickly, Chadbourne carved out a singular style, comprised of equal
parts protest music, free improvisation, and avant-garde jazz, topped
off with his absurd, squeaky vocals. A complete list of Chadbourne’s
countless subsequent collaborations and genre workouts is far too
lengthy and detailed to exhaustively document, although in the early
’80s he garnered some of his first significant attention as the
frontman of Shockabilly, a demented rockabilly revisionist outfit
which also featured the well-known producer Kramer. Following the
group’s breakup, Chadbourne turned to his own idiosyncratic brand of
country and folk, accurately dubbed LSD C&W on a 1987 release, the
same year he joined the members of Camper Van Beethoven for a one-off
covers project. In addition, he recorded with artists ranging from
Fred Frith and Elliott Sharp to Evan Johns and Jimmy Carl Black, the
original drummer in the Mothers of Invention; in between, he continued
exploring unique styles inspired by music from the four corners of the
globe, all the while issuing a seemingly innumerable string of
records, most of them on his own Parachute label.http://www.eugenechadbourne.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_ChadbourneSUZANNE GRAE & THE KATIES (MELB)
Inspired by their namesake fashion icons responsible for bringing
shoulder padded style and geometric glamour to the suburbs of eighties
Australia, Suzanne Grae and the Katies are a 6 piece all gal sleaze
rock band based in Melbourne, Australia.It was just this spring season of 2008 that Suzanne Grae met the
Katies at a discount outlet over the 50% off rack. The Katies all had
their nails into the one peach power suit, and things were getting
hairier than a Poison after party. However Suzanne stepped in to
suggest the divvying up of the garment between the ladies, shoulder
pad by pleat by precious polka dot, and the Katies could not help but
come to their fashion senses. They offered to Suzanne both the peach
power suit and a promise – To together form a band that would let no
obstacle, not broken heels nor lack of musical ability, stand in the
way.Suzanne Grae and the Katies are…
Texta as Suzanne Grae: `singer’, tamborinist, stylist
Lou as Katie Tutti Frutti Pan Flutti: keys, back up vocals
Anna as Katie Ramone Bomb: guitar, back up vocals
Marian as Katie G: saxophone, drums, guitar, back up vocals
Bec as Katie Kaos: bass, trianglist, back up vocals
Alex as Katie uber Alles: drums, basshttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group … 7836002939
Crab Smasher (NEWCASTLE)
“Crab Smasher’s music isn’t as gleefully violent as their name might
suggest. Based in Newcastle, the duo released two documents of their
pop-inflected experimentalism last year: a Trapdoor Tapes cassette
vividly entitled Doom+Doom=OMG! as well as this twenty minute EP.
Despite its brevity, Impossible Monsters – their tenth release to date
- manages to cram at least eight largely contrasting styles across
twenty minutes, with a sense of wistfulness permeating most of the
proceedings. Wistful, because despite Crab Smasher’s noise-orientated
means their music is ultimately approachable and illustrative. While
it’s common for bands of Crab Smasher’s ilk to extend their
abstractions over a longer period of time, to give ideas the
opportunity to crystallize, these guys don’t stuff around. The two
opening tracks start the EP on harsh terrain – clinical white noise
bursts puncture through barely-audible hum on `I Am Error’, while
`Killing With Kindness’ wields scraps of noise in a more
confrontational and less ominous way. Pleasantly enough, `The Moon
Rattled Inside Her’ takes a complete left turn into bedroom pop cum
science fiction soundtrack, while `A Sad Day For Everybody’ recalls
Italian instrumentalists Larsen in the way the slowly paced rhythm
breathes starkly and threateningly, mapping the ascendancy of noise
and murk in the mix. Indeed, it’s these colourful contrasts that make
Impossible Monsters a compelling, if slightly puzzling listen. There
doesn’t appear to be any common thread running through these tracks,
and often the brevity of the tracks can be frustrating. Still, Crab
Smasher get it right most of the time because they have the audacity
to do what isn’t expected of them, and if that means sometimes they
lose a bit of focus, that’s a worthwhile compromise.” – Shaun Prescott
@ Mess&Noisehttp://www.myspace.com/crabsmasher
+ DJ Smallcock will play other peoples music between sets
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