Art Objects played their first gig at the Aston Court Festival (mini-stage) in the summer of 1978. At that point the lineup consisted of poet Gerard Langley, dancer Wojtek Dmochowski, and guitarist Jonathan J. Key (AKA Jonjo) producing a variety of musical and non-musical sounds from his Vox AC-30 and WEM Copicat. They quickly became renowned as the most pretentious band in B...(展开全部) Art Objects played their first gig at the Aston Court Festival (mini-stage) in the summer of 1978. At that point the lineup consisted of poet Gerard Langley, dancer Wojtek Dmochowski, and guitarist Jonathan J. Key (AKA Jonjo) producing a variety of musical and non-musical sounds from his Vox AC-30 and WEM Copicat. They quickly became renowned as the most pretentious band in Bristol - quite a feat in those psilocybic post-punk days - but soon became a local fixture as an opening act (no sound-check or drum set-up required) --------------- The drum-free era ended when Gerard's brother John sat in for three numbers at a show in June of 1979. A week later Bill Stair - that is to say, me - added bass to the same three songs at a Hope Centre gig. Shortly after that Jonjo's brother Robin joined on guitar and we were apparently a band --------------- As the set developed, songs would be written the night before they were debuted live - having a poet instead of a singer meant we could happily play outside the constraints of traditional song structure, even if it did make it hard to sing along. Some songs would be largely improvised, some would be fairly structured, and the early, three-piece soundscapes would intersperse our set to make sure no one in the audience got too relaxed --------------- Astoundingly, some people seemed to enjoy it and we recorded our first single - the Hard Objects EP - for Fried Egg Records in early 1980. It shot to number one in the indie chart of the New Music News (or something like that), a scab music weekly that briefly existed while the NME staff were on strike --------------- A second single - Showing Off (To Impress The Girls) - was recorded for Heartbeat Records soon after but failed to chart due to the NME being back in production --------------- In the summer of 1980 we went into Crescent Studios, Bath, and recorded and mixed the album Bagpipe Music in the space of five days - without quite managing to organize a rehearsal beforehand. We continued to gig and, one happy night, were delighted to see audience members with "Art Objects" ironically embroidered on the back of their denim jackets. A spot opening for The Monochrome Set ended with hordes of would-be Wojteks invading the stage. The Moonlight Club in West Hampstead oddly became one of our regular venues --------------- Bagpipe Music eventually came out in the summer of 1981 and lurked around the lower end of the NME indie chart for a few weeks, despite having garnered the rare distinction of a five-star review in Sounds. We then did the expected Bristol-band thing and broke up --------------- Gerard, John and Wojtek recruited some new musicians and played a few more gigs as the Art Objects before re-emerging as the Blue Aeroplanes with the album Bop Art - partly comprised of late Art Objects songs and demos, and featuring contributions from Jonjo, Robin and myself. I continued to guest with them now and again for the next few years when they were short of a bass player or needed someone else on stage. Jonjo and Robin also continued to occasionally play and record with them as they went on to win the hearts of millions the world over --------------- Art Objects: post-punk, pre-post-prog, arrogant, experimental, often pretentious, occasionally inspired, willfully perverse, and very much a product of their time and place.
I bought this CD expecting(as its title promised)a CD devoted to "modernistic" BAGPIPE music! What a CHEAT these pretentious creeps are! there is only ONE track with any BAGPIPES on it! And this is mixed so badly that the BAGPIPES are all but inaudible. The...
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0 有用 meiconte 2010-04-05 18:47:00
这张听过的人还真多,其实很不出名的一张,也一般
0 有用 MIKEbye 2010-01-16 22:00:27
Gerard Langley (The Blue Aeroplanes) early band+f**kin' spoken words
0 有用 cinvro 2009-09-16 20:29:38
有几首还好听。整张有点累人。不是太喜欢。
0 有用 寂静猫WISEFAKE 2009-11-19 01:40:36
Blue Aeroplanes主唱的乐队
0 有用 MaTown 2009-04-21 15:19:25
post-punk味不浓,
0 有用 MIKEbye 2010-01-16 22:00:27
Gerard Langley (The Blue Aeroplanes) early band+f**kin' spoken words
0 有用 MaTown 2009-04-21 15:19:25
post-punk味不浓,
0 有用 playdead 2007-02-20 20:30:40
The Blue Aeroplanes的前身
0 有用 cinvro 2009-09-16 20:29:38
有几首还好听。整张有点累人。不是太喜欢。
0 有用 DJ苏克西 2008-11-16 14:34:32
这主唱开始听着像来捣乱似的,太不和谐了... Passengers of fortune喜欢那鼓机,What Am I Supposed To Do还放克了一下,估计是主唱rap失败哈哈~