Friday 12 March

Tickets are $21.50 and are available through qtix or phone 136 246 (includes booking fee).

Performances

Little Scout (7.30pm)

Four-piece Little Scout formed in Brisbane in 2008. During that year the group released their first EP The Dead Loss and was named as one of Triple J’s ‘Next Crop’ Artists.

In 2009, Little Scout played in Q Music’s Big Sound Showcase alongside some of the country’s best new artists. They also toured with Scottish group Camera Obscura, Philadelphia Grand Jury, and joined a regional Queensland tour with Josh Pyke and Brisbane band The John Steel Singers.

Little Scout’s follow up EP, Different in the Distance, was released in July 2009, engineered by Neil Coombe at The White Room Studios in the surrounds of Brisbane’s Mt Nebo.

Little Scout’s blend of intimate dream-pop allowed for a much more focused and deliberate attempt at how to go about wowing your audience. The song Paper Aeroplanes and singer Melissa Tickle’s effortlessly bittersweet vocals were a perfect scratch to settle into a world that sits well between the girl and next door. (Drum Media, Sydney)

Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective (8.30pm)

Since co-founding the seminal punk band the Saints in the early 1970s, Brisbane musician Ed Kuepper has led several influential groups including experimental post-punk band The Laughing Clowns, and a number of successful solo projects with backing bands such as Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes On Forever, The Oxley Creek Playboys, The New Imperialists and Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective.

With over twenty solo albums, in 2007 Kuepper released Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog, his first album of all new material since Smile (2001, Pacific), which was recorded and produced by Kuepper at his own Everest Royal Sound Recorders Studio. 

In 2008, Kuepper re-convened the Laughing Clowns for the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, curated by musician Nick Cave (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), and also played in the original Saints line-up as part of the program. Kuepper has since joined the Bad Seeds as a touring guitarist upon the departure of founding member Mick Harvey in early 2009.

Kuepper will perform at the Gallery of Modern Art for the third time at APT Up Late — as Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective, featuring the Jeffrey Wegener (Saints, Laughing Clowns, Birthday Party) on drums and Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys) on bass. Kuepper previously showcased his Jean Lee album during the Andy Warhol Up Late program in 2008, and presented the Laughing Clowns at Australia Up Late in 2009.

You'll have to look hard around the world to find examples of great rock and roll pioneers still making music as interesting and listenable as this: Ed Kuepper is truly one of the great figures of Australian music. (Jarrod Watt, ABC music review, 2007)

 

Curator's talk

Weekly curator’s floortalks explore artists, projects or places included in APT for the first time.

 

6.30pm/Pacific Reggae

Maud Page, Curator, Pacific Art

 

APT6 Cinema

Promised Lands
6.00pm | Bahman Ghobadi Turtles Can Fly 2004 (98mins) | Cinema A

APT6 Filmmaker: Takeshi Kitano
8.00pm | Takeshi Kitano Zatoichi 2003 (116mins) | Cinema A