pfe

no.21


who said there was nothing to do in Sydney?
   I think it was me along with a few hundred others.

         I'm sitting in the Opera House outside
   The Studio telling this to Phil on a Monday night
in which things went on.

      A performance in   The Studio by    New Zealand pianist/composer
 Dan Poynton called
   "you hit him he cry out".
       He's lying under the piano doing the NZ lad in Oz thing before
playing a number of pieces by NZ composers including
  Douglas Lilburn, Jack Body, Gillian Whitehead and John Psathas.
        Also a piece written in 1987 by Philip Dadson.
 The piece is not what I would have expected,
    piano music.
      Dadson has recently been quoted as saying
 "My training as a composer comes purely out of what I do.
 In many ways I'm an amateur and I'm probably viewed as an
                     amateur on the academic music front."
    based on this piece it seems he is seen as more than that at least by
         Poynton...
                   but still piano music?

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then off to the Hills....
    to a pub to watch Trans Am play their third Sydney outing...
 I feel more in place here, beer in hand,
        loud badly mixed pub amplification etc etc.

and do they rock...if the first gig at Goldman's was their nice set,
     played to please the fans esp. new
then this was their
    'you guys love us so we'll play what we want
        and get fucked if we are playing an encore for ten bucks" set.

first couple of songs were very hard, two basses and drums,
            from which airy seventies new agey moments emerge.

    then some of the popular ones, new and old, heaps from
  Surrender to the Night...   .    and the image which stuck in my
   head from the first, sounds of the processed voice from recent songs,
     trying to connect it to the synth playing,
 seventies-gold-track -suit  -wearing guy.


     we could have done with a lot more
             but for $10 on a Monday night
 in Sydney....


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