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By: Dylan Rainforth
Date: 23rd Oct 08
Format: Book
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
What:
Hi God People on the Astral Plane - Melbourne Music from the Late '70s to Last Week
Where:
Sunshine & Grease, 117 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Launch at Hells Kitchen, Centre Place, Sat Oct 25, 7pm
How much:
$35
Lou Reed famously said, "One chord is fine, two chords is pushing it, three and you're into jazz." Hi God People on the Astral Plane celebrates DIY music flyers of the one colour, photocopied kind. The appropriate aphorism would be "One colour is fine, two colours is pushing it, offset CMYK and you're into Eurotrance."
Drawn from the collections of many of the key players of Melbourne's multifarious music scene this wee book - beautifully designed by The White Studio on paper stocks of many colours (but only one at a time so that's ok) - will be launched this Saturday at Hells Kitchen. With music (duh) from Super Melody, Slo-Mo Speedboat and Thugquota.
Editor Lisa Radford's approach is a fanzine-like partisan history rather than aiming for a complete overview of every gig that Melbourne's ever seen. Which is a good thing: reading this it's as if all those three-chords-and-up record-industry groups never existed. And in case you're wondering, the title comes from a flyer for a hypothetical heavenly gig - where jazzbos and Paul van Dyk ain't on the bill.