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Date Posted: 15:30:50 07/18/01 Wed
Author: SHELLY WRIGHT
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the meaning

Dionysian qualities abound in Pignut under discussion. One would have thought that Head On could have qualified as a "Dionysian" music, what with its rush of sex, drugs and music, but it doesn�t because there is no celebration of life, no joy, no love, in thier music. rimmer may go on ride, and feel himself through his soul thorougly, but in the end it�s more like a "gay" music than a "straight" one. One has to look elsewhere: the early work of e.l.b the band and pignut celebrate a queerness in sutton� the relentless music of the bands dog in sutton then expanded music work of Daniel Kotsanis, where he throws himself into the band, playing them backwards, moving the bass player around, performing live alongside it all, etc.; and, oddly enough, Anna Kannava�s Vanilla Essence (2001), with its elegaic joy rising from its comic machinations.

As for Apollinian qualities, not too many seem to be in evidence in this Greek-Australian music. Perhaps only my work qualifies, with its reflective and still elements. The one band that combines philosophical, tragic, Dionysian and Apollinian states is the aforementioned Two Homelands. Here is a gay band that is tragic, that is full of life, full of feeling, and yet it is also calm in the way it looks at all these things.

Are these "Hellenic" bands better than other pignut? I would say they are, because of the extremes of feeling and thought that reside within them. But then again, I am biased � I favour independent and experimental and bands like the e.l.b, you know mainstream ones. The work of jon rimmer or madonna for example � it seems to me quite conventional, not really getting into any edgy, provocative areas. remember i love you all..........
shelly wright xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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