Pig City – The symposium

Posted on | June 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

Locals may have seen the posters around town for Pig City, a concert being held at UQ in a couple of weeks. Inspired by the book, and UQ’s association with festivals past, the day features a bunch of bands that helped build the underground rock scene during the darker days of Brisbane’s past, setting the foundation for its ongoing rock credentials. As part of the same event the CCCS is organising a symposium that’s bringing together some of the key figures in Brisbane rock, past and present, to talk shop. Here’s the blurb: feel free to spread this within your own networks. And please come!


PIG CITY: THEN & NOW
A symposium on the past, present and future of the rock music industry in Brisbane
Friday 13th July, 1 pm – 4 pm
UQ Centre Lecture Theatre
(Building No. 27A, located on Union Road)
Cost: FREE but bookings are essential. RSVP to cccs@uq.edu.au with PIG CITY in the subject line.

As a companion event to the Pig City concert at UQ on July 14, The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland is holding a symposium to review and discuss the past, present and future of the rock music industry in Brisbane. The author of Pig City, Andrew Stafford, will join other music historians, journalists, writers and performers to discuss the early days of the Brisbane music industry, to be followed by a panel of contemporary artists and industry representatives who will discuss the present and future of rock music for practitioners and audiences alike.

Partly a celebration of the past, and partly a think-tank on possibilities for the future, this event is designed for those considering a career in rock music, and anyone interested in the development of Brisbane’s music industry.

Speakers include:

The Future of Brisbane Rock Music Panel

  • Panel Chair:  John Birmingham – Author of He Died With A Felafel In His Hand and the ‘Axis of Time’ trilogy.
  • Graham Ashton – Head of Marketing and International Licensing at Dew Process Records (home of Bernard Fanning and The Grates)
  • Paul Curtis – Manager of Valve Records and Brisbane bands Regurgitator and I Heart Hiroshima
  • Deb Suckling – Project Officer for Qmusic, label manager for Sugar Rush Records and Funk Folk Records and current member of Brisbane band Brindle
  • Ian Rogers – Member of Brisbane band Iron On (MySpace site)
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4 Responses to “Pig City – The symposium”

  1. Club Troppo » Missing Link - 27 June 2007
    June 27th, 2007 @ 9:17 pm

    [...] Home Cooked Theory has a great backgrounder on the upcoming ‘Pig City’ symposium (named for both the city of Brisbane and music writer Andrew Stafford’s book). 22. SL: Since I went to uni with Andrew (and told him that he should be writing about music before he wrote about anything else), I’d better give the event a plug. [↩] [...]

  2. Larvatus Prodeo
    July 11th, 2007 @ 6:42 pm

    Pig City the Symposium…

    Long time LP readers would be aware I’m a fan of Andrew Stafford’s excellent book on the history of music and politics in Brisvegas, Pig City. People around town may have also heard about the concert of the same name taking place on Saturda…

  3. Some musical musings on Black Friday » The Bartlett Diaries
    July 13th, 2007 @ 11:43 pm

    [...] In the afternoon, I went to the Pig City Symposium to hear some people talk about some of the mythologising of the Brisbane music (and related) scene/s of bygone decades.  As the song Pig City, which underpins the whole thing, demonstrates, you can’t really talk about the music (and other parts of Brisbane’s culture of the time) without talking about politics.  (Seeing I’ve already mentioned John Tracey once, go read this piece on his blog for one sample). [...]

  4. David Fitzpatrick
    June 19th, 2008 @ 4:43 pm

    I was in Brisbane in the nineteen seventies. I remember the brutality vividly.
    I was beaten by the police and hospitalized as a consequence, effectively ending my sojourn in the deep north. As the years passed and Bjelke’s grip weakened, I would tell my friends I would throw a party when he lost office, then when he was arraigned I said I would throw a party when he was sent to jail. More years passed and finally he died and someone demanded laughingly said party. My only response was to quietly think to myself that I would throw a party when someone with sufficient authority confirmed that he was safely burning in hell.

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