Zoso - a ritual of rock, runes and magick

By: Dylan Rainforth
Date: 24th Oct 07
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag

What:
Zoso - A ritual of rock, runes and magick, by Ian Haig, Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts

Where:
Project Space / Spare Room, 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton

When:
Opens Mon Oct 29, 5-7pm
Exhibition runs until Fri Nov 16, Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm

How much:
free
Some summer's day. The nineteen-eighties. Led Zeppelin IV on a Walkman as I complete my paper run. My first exposure. Magic. I saved up for the matching tie-dyed T-shirt with the angel logo, only to be laughed at by the metallers at school who - unbeknownst to me - owned this stuff. I was a nerd and Zeppelin were metal. Lesson learned.

Only really it was the other way round. I was a nerd into Dungeons & Dragons, which, if you believed Christian hysteria at the time, was an occult plot to lure kids into Satanism. Really it's just a hodge-podge of Tolkein and escapist power fantasies. Which could be the one-line review of Led Zep's entire career. But, any way you look at it, I knew more about rock, runes and magick than those hair-Metallers ever would.

Next Monday three cool nerds, Haig, Samartzis and Tofts, step inside the Pentagram - protected only by their back-issues of Uncut magazine ?- to summon the spirits of Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page. The occultist and the demon guitarist will be united - like Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver - in an unholy alliance consummated by the evil ministrations of live band Black Dog.