Saturday 5 September 2015, 8pm
Excited to host the first show of an extensive European tour for fantastic Brisbane, Australia band Cured Pink. Originally the solo project of Andrew McLellan, Cured Pink has subsequently expanded to a full four-piece line-up, including members of Sky Needle, Per Purpose and the Deadnotes. Making the kind of hallucinatory psych-out that should have fans of Wolf Eyes and early Liars licking their lips, Cured Pink's sound spans a restless frenzy of sonic influences resulting in a live set-up both tightly coiled and spontaneously expansive at once.
“Listening to it is like watching a Rube Goldberg machine, primitive industrial vibes of the wondrous kind.” – Rich K., Terminal Boredom
“Cured Pink hail from Brisbane, Australia and sound quite unlike anyone else right now. [...] mixing the sort of crisp clank and coiled shuffle of Cut Hands with a taste for the timbre of Indonesian gamelan and the kind of howling catharsis associatedwith Gnod in peak flow or a candid Sublime Frequencies snapshot of a punk show in Jakarta. Tipped!” – Boomkat
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Once the solo exhibitionism of Andrew McLellan (Soft Power, Greg Boring, Enderie Nuatal, one time Kitchen’s Floor) Brisbane, Australia’s Cured Pink has recently changed pipes, recruiting extra limbs to fracture new song-funks. With members Glen Schenau (Per Purpose, Sky Needle), Mitchel Perkins (Per Purpose, Clever), Stuart Busby (the Deadnotes, Threads) there is a 2015 LP ‘As A Four Piece Band’ coming through RIP Society, following a 2014 12” maxi single on Berlin’s Another Dark Age, and a 2013 single ‘Body Body Body’ on Black Petal. This run has followed numerous releases of spasmodic dub, suburban field recordings and the Queensland Police Force on labels such as Vacant Valley, Sabbatical, Redundancy and more. The project has appeared at VIVID (2014, Sydney Opera House), Liquid Architecture (2014), Overground at Melbourne International Jazz Festival (2011), Sydney’s FBi's Ears Have Ears and Sound Summit festival (2013), Room 40’s MONO supporting Merzbow (2012), Adelaide’s Lost City festival (2012), Jogjakarta’s Jogja National Museum (2011), Sydney’s Serial Space and Dirty Shirlows (2011). Minimal need, maximal elation.
Container is the long running electronic solo project of American-born London-based musician Ren Schofield. Combining his background in noise-rock and tape music with techno and rhythmic electronics, his sound is characterised by propulsive beats and liberal doses of distortion. Container has always danced the absurd space between serious and stupid, and on his latest release, ‘Yacker’ (2024), all elements are turned up to eleven as he delivers a pristine field guide to furious frenzied fun. Citing his inspiration on ‘Yacker' as the Nirvana song ‘Oh, The Guilt’, the Mindflayer album ‘It’s Always 1999’, and the Rah Bras song ‘Sooop Toe Pump Girls’, Schofield strikes an even balance between heavy, relentless, joyful, silly, and sloppy.
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Olan Monk is a musician, performer and writer from Connemara, Ireland. They co-founded C.A.N.V.A.S. with Lugh O’Neill as an events series and record label, established in 2018 to give collective agency to an increasingly dispersed community of artists.
Their practice involves experimental and popular songwriting, performing as a solo act and in collaboration with other musicians, including recordings and performances with Actress, Ashley Paul, Elvin Brandhi, James K, Maria Somerville and Michael Speers. Past releases include Love/Dead (2020) and Auto Life (2021) on C.A.N.V.A.S. and Dubplate 08 (2022) on AD 93.
