VBC 88.3FM & VUWSA & Myspace NZ Present... Orientation 09
The VBC88.3FM's 2nd Birthday Party
The Dead C - So So Modern - Rory Storm - Friday 6th March - The Front Room- 5 Hania St - Wellington
Dead C: Founded in 1987, this improvisational New Zealand noise trio consist of Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats. Thurston Moore once told The Wire - the world’s biggest-circulation ‘difficult music’ magazine - that the most interesting bands in the world were ‘The Dead C. and all the bands that follow them’. If this means nothing to you, you’re not that uncool, just a little out of the Dead C. loop, shall we say.
A determinedly international as well as underground loop. A 20-year career, more than 20 albums – most recently ‘Secret Earth’ in 08. Dead C. toured the USA in October 2008, playing with the cream of US underground talent, including Six Organs of Admittance, Alan Bishop and Pink Reason.
Equally at home in an under-populated arts space in small-town New Zealand, The Dead C. were in the forefront of the global noise underground which evolved in the 1990s, recording for Philadelphia’s finest, Siltbreeze Records.
Melody Maker named them one of the two best rock bands on the planet, and they are regarded internationally as one of the more influential of the NZ bands of the last two decades. Inspiring outfits as diverse as Wolf Eyes, Flying Saucer Attack, Pavement, Black Dice, Comets on Fire and Bardo Pond, they are determinedly ‘anti-industry’, self managed, and exist outside most accepted notions of music. Every show they play is different, and 100% improvised on the spot.
http://www.flyingnun.co.nz
So So Modern: In a storm of information So So Modern yield and grasp the weight of authenticity, solidifying sound bytes into knowledge that can simultaneously exist as wisdom, its magnetism assembles a perfect geometric structure designed to crush irony and spontaneously fulfil meaninglessness. Upon this a transference of energy uplifts and reunites the fragments parts back into a balanced, perfect system. This system, the singularity upon which we rest, resonates a perfect harmony that vibrates the emotional sphere of the inner realms. Furthermore, this hypnotic binaural beat will heal all of tranquillity and defy all laws of the universe infinity force power wing eternal light rider.
After spending much of the last two years touring overseas, So So Modern have returned to the fair shores of New Zealand to record their first full length album. Enjoy!
www.myspace.com/sosomodern
Rory Storm & The Invaders: Rory Storm is a singer-songwriter/.../solo experimental; improv musician/.../sometime DJ and founding member Rory Storm and the Invaders.
He has played with...
Ministry of Information/Lzfrkture, Ray Off, Jo Jo Eff Steve, Kindness of Strangers
Opraaaaa plus various other one-off projects!
www.myspace.com/dr_rory_storm
Tickes $10 + BF from Undertheradar or $15 door.
