The Long Player Sessions
A Celebration of Classic Albums: Part III
Brisbane’s very own celebration of classic albums – The Long Player Sessions – will draw to a close this August with a truly massive event taking over the Brisbane Powerhouse Turbine Platform on Saturday August 18.
Closing out the first installment of the Long Player Sessions series will be Brisbane’s own 10-piece live phenomenon Dubmarine performing The Prodigy’s ‘The Fat of the Land‘ and one the country’s most respected artist Jackie Marshall performing Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ – backed by her all-star Black Alles Band.
If there is one thing that has long represented the pinnacle of a musicians career, it’s ‘the album’. More than just a collection of tunes, the past decades have seen albums become cultural institutions. From Sgt Peppers… and Dark Side of the Moon, to Purple Rain and Nevermind classic albums have become one of our most loved – and most debated – music obsessions.
And this year Brisbane Powerhouse has been playing host to a celebration of some of the finest records ever dedicated to tape with this series of very special shows. Staged across three separate nights in June, July and August 2012, each Long Player Session finds two Brisbane bands performing a classic albums that is close to their heart from start to finish.
In June we saw Texas Tea take on Paul Kelly’s ‘Post’ alongside Sue Ray performing Nina Simone’s ‘My Baby Don’t Care For Me’. Just last month Silver Sircus turned in a stunning version of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ followed by Rattlehand tearing down the house with You Am I’s ‘Hourly Daily’. And now Dubmarine and Jackie Marshall & The Black Alles Band bring home the final night.
In June we saw Texas Tea take on Paul Kelly’s ‘Post’ alongside Sue Ray performing Nina Simone’s ‘My Baby Don’t Care For Me’. Just last month Silver Sircus turned in a stunning version of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ followed by Rattlehand tearing down the house with You Am I’s ‘Hourly Daily’. And now Dubmarine and Jackie Marshall & The Black Alles Band bring home the final night.
Over the past couple of years Dubmarine has built an international reputation as an extraordinary live band. Driven by bass, brass and irrepressible frontman Kazman, the band has toured Europe, been invited to perform an impressive run of national and international festivals, and are currently wrapping production on the follow-up to their debut album ‘Depth of Sound’.
Dubmarine: “The choice of album had to be consistent with how and what Dubmarine perform., which is dance music played live as songs. The Prodigy’s Fat of the Land was really one of the first albums which bought dance music into the mainstream with songs and live music instrumentation amidst the programming and sampling of dance music and breaks.”
Jackie Marshall is an AMP-Award nominated artist whose last album ‘Ladies’ Luck’ earned praise around Australia and abroad. Returning from some time away from the stage for this show, she will be joined by the Black Alles Band featuring: Greg Cathcart and Adrian Mauro (Silent Feature Era), Liam Griffin, Dan Mansfield (The Gin Club), Anthony Aggs, Adam Bodkin (Petulant Frenzy) and Geoff Green (George).
Jackie Marshall: “It (Grace) is the kind of album for me that, if you’re into an album, will send you right back to that place where you are free to explode as yourself without thinking, that space people associate with youth but that you needn’t lose as you age, just, freedom to poeticize any experience and take it and bend it and send it into another dimension, and, all the joy and pretty pain that this entails.
Show details…
SATURDAY AUGUST 18: POWERHOUSE TURBINE PLATFORM
DUBMARINE perform The Prodigy’s ‘The Fat of the Land’
JACKIE MARSHALL AND THE BLACK AIIES BAND perform Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’
Tickets for the final August Long Player session are on sale now and available at: http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/the-long-player-sessions-august
