Documenting Brisbane Music
Not everyone wants to write a song, play in a band, make records and play live music in front of people; some people just want to talk about it, write about it, photograph it or record in some shape or form. But, as Justin Edwards explains,
musicians and the music industry can be a cruel and unkind bunch; Frank Zappa described music journalists as “people who can’t write”, Van Halen’s lead singer, David Lee Roth thinks most music critics like Elvis Costello because they look like Elvis Costello, Peter Hook, Joy Division’s/New Order’s bassist, sides with his lawyer in calling music photographers “morally bankrupt” and even the Splendour In The Grasses organisers wrote on their Facebook page to denigrate “aspiring music hacks” as “dysfunctional nerds who did quite well at English at school”.And yet some people still just want to document their local music scene.
Justin has assembled a panel of writers, bloggers, photographers and videographers with years of experience in documenting the local music scene to discuss what they do, how they do it, why they do it, whether they think it is important or not and what keeps them going in the face of adversity and apathy. As documenters and mainstays of the local music scene the panel also intends to discuss the wider issues affecting Brisbane music as they see them.
To hear Justin, Jeremy Staples, Paul Gordon, Stephen Booth and Bianca Valentino chat about documenting the Brisbane music scene grab yourself a ticket and head along to UnConvention this weekend.
