Februrary/March Shows
Feb 28th
Francis Plagne & Magic Steven duo
+ works by Jenny Barnes, Jessika Kenney, Oliver Mann, Joe Talia, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Jakob Ullmann, Rohan Drape, Alexander Garsden
at Inland 16.1
Church of All Nations
180 Palmerston St. Carlton
Melbourne
March 8th
Crys Cole & Francis Plagne duo
+ Makiko Yamomoto, Jonny Marks.
at Make It Up Club, guest programmed by Samaan Fieck
Bar Open
317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Melbourne
March 10th
Hanna Chetwin & Francis Plagne duo
+ Islaja, Jasmine Guffond, Half High
at Liquid Architecture 2016: Ritual Community Music
The Tote
71 Johnston St,
Collingwood
Melbourne
March 14th
Hanna Chetwin & Francis Plagne duo
+ works by Jessica Aszodi, Simon Barker, Anthony Pateras, Julia Reidy, Rohan Drape, James Rushford, Alexander Garsden.
at Inland 16.2
Glebe Justice Centre
37-47 St Johns Road, Glebe
Sydney
http://inlandconcertseries.net/
March 16th
Francis Plagne (with Rohan Drape and Alex Garsden)
+Exotic Dog, Laurence & Dean
Life Groove Cafe
325b Paramatta Rd, Leichardt
Sydney
March 16th
Francis Plagne (with Rohan Drape and Alex Garsden)
+Exotic Dog, Laurence & Dean
Life Groove Cafe
325b Paramatta Rd, Leichardt
Sydney
Inland 16.1 Sunday 28th of February
Magic Steven and I will be reprising our duo, last seen in 2014, I believe. Spoken words and stray sounds.
New LP now available
Now available
Funeral Mutes is now available from Round & Round, Polyester Records and AG Picks in Melbourne, from Repressed Records in Sydney, and from Norman Records in the UK. Digital and physical copies are available through Bandcamp. Direct orders also welcome: fplagne@gmail.com
Francis Plagne is pleased to announce the release of his new LP, Funeral Mutes, the second release on his vanity label, Mould Museum. Although there have been some collaborations (with Food Court and
Andrew Chalk) and a tape in the meantime, Plagne's songs were last heard in
long-player form on Tenth Volume of Maps, released in 2011. Here, aided
by long-term collaborators Alex Garsden, Yuko Kono, James Rushford and Joe
Talia, he continues his exploration of idiosyncratic, extended song forms and
fragmentary lyricism. Primarily recorded over a few days in late 2013 in
conditions approaching ‘live-in-the-studio’ (with overdubs added in 2014), Funeral
Mutes
presents six songs that detour through silence, blown bottles, Stormcock-influenced prog folk,
a hint of chicken scratch and a drum solo.
‘Plagne’s songs admit
to another time, and extend to take in another, possible projection of what the
world could be – carefully scripted everyday fantasias, with his backing group
playing in thoughtful service to the song. Stripped back to essentials, this
music plays tricks with the temporal compass. Funeral Mutes’ hermetic spirit
might remind, in passing, of Mayo Thompson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and/or
Canterbury prog. Following singular logic, however, its gilded glide is all its
own.’ - Jade Pillar, 2015
Recorded,
mixed and mastered by Joe Talia, 2013-2015.
Design
by Annie Portelli.
Edition of 300 with glossy A3
lyric insert.
'Hearing Every Drop' video
Hearing Every Drop - from Francis Plagne's upcoming album Funeral Mutes.
Directed by Hanna Chetwin
Cinematography by Thom Neal
Costumes and props by Pat Mooney and Hanna Chetwin
Edited by Mitch Goldberg
Performed by Elizabeth Nabben, Nick Chilvers, Stephen Philips, Alya Manzart and Klara Kelvy.
Funeral Mutes Album Launch 9th of January 2016
Funeral Mutes Album Launch
To celebrate his new self-released LP Funeral Mutes, Francis Plagne will perform in the homely surrounds of Eastmint Studios, Northcote on Saturday the 9th of January, accompanied by Ben Bourke on bass, Alex Garsden on guitar, James Rushford on keyboard and Joe Talia on drums.
Also on the bill: a rare Australian duo performance by Oren Ambarchi and Crys Cole; textural keyboard hermit Tim Coster; and Mad Nanna string squeezer Pat O'Brien.
Francis Plagne
Oren Ambarchi & Crys Cole
Tim Coster
Pat O'Brien
Eastmint Studios, Northcote
9th of January 2016
7PM
$10
$10
Performance with Samaan Fieck and Antony Riddell, Blindside, Saturday September 12th 2PM
Antony Riddell: Fingerprints on the Surface of the Brain
Performance Program: Saturday Sep 12, 2pm
Antony Riddell will perform and read from his various writings with musical accompaniment from Rosalind Hall, Francis Plagne, Samaan Fieck, Dave Brown and Christopher LG Hill.
Liquid Architecture presents Fingerprints on the Surface of the Brain, the first ever solo exhibition by the artist, writer and musician Antony Riddell.
Originally from Adelaide, Riddell moved to Sydney in the early 1980s where he connected with a lively underground scene of artists, punks and other experimenters. His early band Nada shared stages with the likes of The Laughing Clowns, The Triffids, Jon Rose, Fetus Productions, God Meat God, Carnival Headgash, Browning Mummery and more.
Then, in 1985 Riddell suffered a life-altering accident. Falling through the roof of a Redfern squat, he sustained serious brain injuries that would permanently affect his balance, speech and movement. Riddell’s remarkable artistic works since that moment bear the mark of, and also self-consciously confront, what he has called the “fingerprints on the surface of the brain”.
Following studies at the Sydney College of the Arts in the late 1980s, making ‘monstrous’ sculptures in clay and concrete, Riddell moved on to Melbourne. In 1991 he formed the group Volvox, with Dave Taskas of legendary punks Grong Grong and noise artist Glenn Normann. Operating as the project’s frontman (under the pseudonym Lester Vat), Riddell delivered extraordinary and profoundly influential performances — his aggressive physical impropriety and neurologically-disordered vocals sat alongside other lyrical interventions, simultaneously absurd, yet strangely elegant. Despite never playing outside Melbourne, Volvox made a lasting impression in Australia and beyond. Musician and ‘What Is Music?’ founder Oren Ambarchi characterised the band as “outside of everything” while Bananafish’s Tom Smith judged them “worth the lives of ten thousand Cobains”.
Beyond musical performance, Riddell developed a prodigious writing and drawing practice, which he continued following Volvox’s dissolution in the mid-1990s, generating countless artist books, many published on his own imprint Meniscus. His texts — typically hand-drafted in miniscule barely-legible cursive script, and later transcribed to computer — narrate uncanny and irrational stories marked by surrealist wordplay. Riddell’s illustrations manifest as fine line-drawings and cartoons using felt-tip pen on art paper, and typically depict anthropomorphised organisms, animals and brains in various states of relation.
Antony Riddell will perform and read from his various writings with musical accompaniment from Rosalind Hall, Francis Plagne, Samaan Fieck, Dave Brown and Christopher LG Hill.
Liquid Architecture presents Fingerprints on the Surface of the Brain, the first ever solo exhibition by the artist, writer and musician Antony Riddell.
Originally from Adelaide, Riddell moved to Sydney in the early 1980s where he connected with a lively underground scene of artists, punks and other experimenters. His early band Nada shared stages with the likes of The Laughing Clowns, The Triffids, Jon Rose, Fetus Productions, God Meat God, Carnival Headgash, Browning Mummery and more.
Then, in 1985 Riddell suffered a life-altering accident. Falling through the roof of a Redfern squat, he sustained serious brain injuries that would permanently affect his balance, speech and movement. Riddell’s remarkable artistic works since that moment bear the mark of, and also self-consciously confront, what he has called the “fingerprints on the surface of the brain”.
Following studies at the Sydney College of the Arts in the late 1980s, making ‘monstrous’ sculptures in clay and concrete, Riddell moved on to Melbourne. In 1991 he formed the group Volvox, with Dave Taskas of legendary punks Grong Grong and noise artist Glenn Normann. Operating as the project’s frontman (under the pseudonym Lester Vat), Riddell delivered extraordinary and profoundly influential performances — his aggressive physical impropriety and neurologically-disordered vocals sat alongside other lyrical interventions, simultaneously absurd, yet strangely elegant. Despite never playing outside Melbourne, Volvox made a lasting impression in Australia and beyond. Musician and ‘What Is Music?’ founder Oren Ambarchi characterised the band as “outside of everything” while Bananafish’s Tom Smith judged them “worth the lives of ten thousand Cobains”.
Beyond musical performance, Riddell developed a prodigious writing and drawing practice, which he continued following Volvox’s dissolution in the mid-1990s, generating countless artist books, many published on his own imprint Meniscus. His texts — typically hand-drafted in miniscule barely-legible cursive script, and later transcribed to computer — narrate uncanny and irrational stories marked by surrealist wordplay. Riddell’s illustrations manifest as fine line-drawings and cartoons using felt-tip pen on art paper, and typically depict anthropomorphised organisms, animals and brains in various states of relation.
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