The Null Device

Qua

Tonight I went up to Good Morning Captain to see Qua, a local electropop act. It turned out that Qua is one guy with an iBook and that he was doing more of a DJ set sort of thing, playing and mixing tracks from his album and unreleased works. Nonetheless, it was quite good; in places like some of the German/Austrian laptop music you find at Synæsthesia, though not as sterile as some. He played a new track of his, which featured acoustic guitars and a vocal from Jason Sweeney (of Other People's Children, Simpático et al.), which sounded like the laptop equivalent of Northern Picture Library or something. (Given Sweeney's Bobby Wrattenesque delivery and Field Mice fandom, that's hardly surprising.)

There were a number of people from the local indie electro-pop scene; I ran into Cailan from PBXO, and ended up talking with him about the cultural significance of Slowdive. And thus I found out that Other People's Children may be releasing their own Slowdive cover (I think they're doing Catch The Breeze or somesuch.

Anyway, Qua is playing on Thursday at the Rob Roy, I believe. If I'm not dead tired, I may well rock up.

There are 2 comments on "Qua":

Posted by: GJW
http://the-fix.org
Sun Sep 8 05:33:24 2002

Jason Sweeny has got to be Adelaide's biggest loss. Check out his work in Sweet William if you can find it. I wish I could get my hands on the first OPC demo, from about 5 years ago, because it was brilliant.

Posted by: cos
http://polydistortion.net/monkey/
Sun Sep 8 08:10:49 2002

I gave that Qua CD a listen in Missing Link last weekend. I almost bought it. Maybe soon.

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