Pig City From the Saints to Savage Garden

by Stafford, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780702233609
• ISBN10: 0702233609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Summary

From cult heroes the Saints and the Go-Betweens to national icons Powderfinger and international stars Savage Garden, Brisbane has produced more than its share of great bands. But behind the music lay a ghost city of malice and corruption.Pressed under the thumb of the Bjelke-Petersen government and its toughest enforcers - the police - Brisbane's musicians, radio announcers and political activists braved ignorance, harassment and often violence to be heard.Pig Citymaps the shifts in musical, political and cultural consciousness that have shaped the city's history and identity. This is Brisbane's story - the story of how a city finally grew up.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction --- Know Your Product	1	(6)
PINEAPPLES FROM THE DAWN OF TIME (1971--1979)
A Million People Staying Low	7	(13)
Brisbane (Security City)
Guerrilla Radio	20	(24)
The difficult birth of 4ZZZ
The Most Primitive Band in the World	44	(21)
The Saints
The Striped Sunlight Sound	65	(14)
The Go-Betweens
Task Force versus the Brisbane Punks	79	(16)
Early punk on the Brisbane scene
Swept Away	95	(12)
The Riptides; The Apartments
UPS AND DOWNS (1980--1989)
Last of the Leather Age	107	(10)
The Fun Things; The 31st; The End; The Screaming Tribesmen
Everybody Moves	117	(13)
The bands leave home
Brisbane Blacks	130	(11)
Aboriginal rock
Too Much Acid	141	(12)
Sydney or the bush
SS Brigade	153	(18)
The eviction of 4ZZZ
Cyclone Hits Expo	171	(12)
The impact of the Livid Festival
AFFIRMATION (1990--2000)
Rock Against Work!	183	(16)
The Brisbane scene post-National Party
Spring Hill Fair	199	(14)
The Custard collective
Black Ticket Day	213	(16)
4ZZZ in the 1990s
The Human Jukebox	229	(15)
Regurgitator
New Suburban Fables	244	(13)
Powderfinger
Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World	257	(13)
Savage Garden
Epilogue --- No, Your Product	270	(7)
Notes	277	(10)
Appendix A --- Cast of Characters	287	(10)
Appendix B --- Soundtrack	297	(11)
Bibliography	308	(9)
Index	317