Bicycle Music Festival in Oz?

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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on May 10, 2009 at 1:53am

Grouse, will do. Could also assist with promotion and/or recording stuff via YarraBUG Radio, so contact me!

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 10, 2009 at 8:13am

Thanks ChrisS, that'd be wonderful. Now all that's needed is to find those bicycle riding musicians.....I can probably talk a few people into it ;-).....perhaps YarraBUG Radio knows a few??

Also, just a note, in America they use bicycles to power the PA (combined with solar and battery)...so the audience actually pedals to help make the music happen (audience participation at it's best). I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to rig up something similar. www.rockthebike.com has a bit more info.

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Permalink Reply by RobK on May 10, 2009 at 4:54pm

Does part of this idea involve turning your bike into an instrument? This idea has been in the back of my mind for a few years. I've ridden to a few folk festivals around NSW/ACT (latest was from Sydney to the National Folk Festival in Canberra over Easter), and would love to be able to 'play the bike' in some form. Carrying the 13kg piano accordian with luggage is not really an option. Tuned spokes maybe? Or convert the bike into some form of Bush Bass (Don't think the aluminium frame would produce quite the depth of sound or resonance that the original wooden tea chests produced....) Anyone seen anything, or have other ideas?

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 11, 2009 at 9:24pm

Welcome RobK, turning your bike into an instrument...why not!! I think the only requirement for a Bicycle Music Festival is that you have to turn up on a bicycle. As to the Piano Accordian, it's a fantastic instrument...sure you can't get it on ya bike? My cello in it's hard case weighs 10kg and all the electronics (loop stations, pedals, effects, mini stage, mixing desk) weight about 15kg...I am on a cargo bike so that makes it a bit easier to load.

I've just finished doing some recording for a band called Dirtbird (www.myspace.com/dirtbirdaus) and they said they'd be into riding to a Bicycle Music Festival.....I also found a gutarist who's riden around Oz (http://www.myspace.com/robsawyer).

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Permalink Reply by fxh on May 11, 2009 at 11:38pm

Careful - those old hippies on YarraBugRadio will have you listening to old bootlegs of Grateful Dead Live with 20 min jams.

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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on May 11, 2009 at 11:51pm

Oh do piss off, our tastes steer towards Flamingo favourites, Rammstein, early Australian punk and a nice sprinkle of death metal for good measure. Kristin mentioned shes got a cello - are you familiar with any of Apocalyptica's stuff?

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 12, 2009 at 10:05am

Yes, I've got a cello and I'm familiar with (and like) Apocalyptica. I can play a few lines of Smoke on the Water, House of the Rising Sun and a few other Pub Survival Hits (not Stairway to Heaven, so don't ask). Mainly I play my own stuff, I'm a 'qualified' (Bmus VCA) composer, whatever that means?

20min jams are great fun for musicians but generally pretty darn boring for the audience.....?

Old hippies will be most welcome at Bicycle Music Festivals...as long as they can still ride a bike! :-)

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Permalink Reply by fxh on May 12, 2009 at 10:55pm

Sorry - I've gone all Ballardian - as one does - and it's reverberating around my social skills.I'll swot up on death metal - old skool and post -ironic.

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 13, 2009 at 7:27am

FXH - sounds like you're now truly ready to join the 'BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL" group now!

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Permalink Reply by fxh on May 14, 2009 at 12:42am

But aren't we all Ballardians now?

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 14, 2009 at 7:38am

By Ballardian, are you suggesting that I/we/you/'the whole of society' is subscribing to the idea of a dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments?

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Permalink Reply by fxh on May 14, 2009 at 10:59pm

Partly - or that there are parallel /time shift /doppelgängers. Especially when biking - sometimes i feel i'm in another world with black 4wds full of school mums wanting to run me down or just not seeing me cos i'm alien other times I feel equally disconnected from just as aggressive bunches of men in stretchy testicle display units - "on ya right" and "passing"..

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