Kes
the multi-talented narrator / librarian / careers advisor...
I directed, wrote, plotted the lights for and ran the sound in 2009's Year Nine Play at Melbourne Grammar; the result was a half-an-hour adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel For A Knave interwoven with edits I'd done with Acoustica Mixcraft of Out Hud, The Breeders, and one of the poignant songs New Order had written for the Control Soundtrack. I don't really want to wax hysterical about the play itself as this is ostensibly a music blog but here's my speech from after the production, just because I can (as an aside, the other "place" should be pretty obvious to those who know me well, although the Year Nines made a lot of questionable jokes as to both its nature and location...)
caught in the act of speeching...
"There are only two places where I'm truly happy, and up here is one of them, where a shy person can take revenge on the world...and its been both a challenge and a privilege to offer that to these boys, just as it was once given to me..." - Eric Gardiner
I edited all the songs for the production, especially the Breeders' track which I "drastically reworked" (this is code for "changed the tone/looped the drums") and these songs hosted below are in those shortened forms. New Order purists will realize I've cut a significant part of the introduction of Get Out, oh well.
(first 39 seconds)
(I changed this enough to warrant a bracketed name change, I think)
(last 2.20)
The Presets
HEAR ME OUT ALRIGHT
For far too long precious indie busybodies have derided not only mainstream music but alternative music which has been successful enough to warrant popularity...there is something inherently wrong. In particular, with the Presets, a lot of seemingly intelligent people will say something along the lines of "oh I don't like the Presets but I do like My People, Talk Like That, etc...."
This is their latest single; personally, I like it because of the singer's extremely distinctive voice over the hypnotism of the downplayed percussion, who knows?
In other news...
The majority of Haze (www.myspace.com/cupidswounded) are turning 18 (with the bass-player's honourable exception) in the coming month or so which opens up an untold wealth of gigs within the massy entrails of Brunswick St and its surrounding environs, and as one of their managers-at-large I really need to get onto organising such events, which I'll start doing on Wednesday arvo Cal, if you're reading this instead of measuring the length of land crocodiles...
good photo of the black cat; yesterday i was sitting on the couch in the foreground, what do you know?
Speaking of Brunswick St, I had a perfect experience there yesterday verging on Nirvana; sitting in the Black Cat drinking iced coffee while they played the Best of Joy Division over the speakers...doesn't get much better than that (AND ON A SCHOOL NIGHT!1!)
Plus, I got the role of Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, so naturally I've made a glorious return to the wonderful world of pilates, not just for punning's sake.
Finally, I just found one of the best music blogs I've had the fortune to come across and I'll share some of its beauty next time...
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