Andy Warhol Up Late

Friday 7 March 

Tickets are $20 (includes exhibition entry) and are available through qtix or phone 136 246 (booking fees apply).

Ed Kuepper (8.00pm)

In October 2007, Ed Kuepper released Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog, his first album of all new material since Smile (Pacific, 2001).

The album was recorded and produced by Kuepper at his Everest Royal Sound Recorders Studio and was inspired by the story of Jean Lee, the last woman hanged in Australia. It features, amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (The Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (The Sunnyboys), Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three) and Chris Bailey (The Saints).

Feeling that Jean Lee's life and death had already been well documented and had entered Australian folklore, Kuepper took a more personal and, at times, reflective look at the conflicted personalities and ambivalent relationships of this story, rather than a literal narrative.

In addition to the 11 original songs by Kuepper and partner Judi Dransfield-Kuepper, the album also features a cover of the Grant McLennan track Finding You, which in its original form appears on the final Go-Betweens' album Oceans Apart (EMI, 2005).

Ed Kuepper co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints in 1974, the experimental post-punk group The Laughing Clowns in 1979 and later the grunge-like group The Aints in the early 1990s. He has recorded over a dozen albums with a variety of backing bands, including Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes On Forever, The Oxley Creek Playboys, The Institute Of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, The New Imperialists and, currently, Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective.

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, October 2007

Kuepper’s dexterous use of noise and texture come to the fore on Jean Lee, making it aurally captivating and one of the finest releases of his already impressive catalogue.
Pat McGrath, Mess and Noise, October 2007  

Brisbane music playlist by Andrew Stafford (from 5.00pm)

Andrew Stafford is an author and freelance journalist whose first book, Pig City, made history in 2007 when it was turned into a key event — headlined by the original line-up of seminal Brisbane band The Saints — for the Queensland Music Festival. He is the Brisbane-based AFL correspondent for Melbourne’s the Age and has written for a variety of other newspapers and journals including the Courier-Mail, the Bulletin and The Monthly. Andrew is currently researching his second book for the University of Queensland Press. 

At Andy Warhol Up Late, Andrew will DJ a specially curated playlist of Brisbane music from the 1970s to today.   

'15 Minutes of Fame' talk: Andrew Leavold (Trash Video) (6.00 and 7.00pm)

Andrew Leavold is the founder and co-owner of Trash Video, Australia’s largest alternative video rental store, situated in Brisbane’s West End. Leavold is also a filmmaker, writer, critic, and television presenter of the Channel 31 film program Schlock Treatment.

As a filmmaker, Leavold’s first feature in 2003 was the 1960s-style mini-epic Lesbo-a-go-go, which was followed in 2006 by Bluebirds of Peace and Destruction, a netherworldly reimagining of the infamous 1989 Brisbane vampire murder. His latest feature is a guerrilla documentary shot in Manila. The Search for Weng Weng (2007) chronicles the ‘James Bond’ of the Philippines and references the country’s B-grade film history.

At Andy Warhol Up Late, Andrew Leavold will present a talk on Warhol’s film works and his relationship with other filmmakers of the period such as Paul Morrissey. 

Andy Warhol film program (from 6.00pm)

The Australian Cinémathèque presents an in-depth survey of Andy Warhol’s film productions, together with accompanying programs exploring the social and artistic context of New York during the 1960s, and the influence of Warhol’s films on later independent and experimental cinema from North America.