Introducing ‘The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper’, the first live band experience of Ed Kuepper’s solo material since 2009. Tickets for the show in The Brewery at The Imperial Hotel on Saturday 30 September are now on sale, and music lovers would be wise to get in quick.
Ed Kuepper is the co-founder of ’70’s proto-punks The Saints, chief architect of the uncompromising Laughing Clowns and The Aints! and master songsmith over some 15 plus solo albums.
The band features Ed’s legendary sparring partner Mark Dawson on drums, Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, celebrated pianist Alister Spence, and brass maestro Eamon Dilworth.
The Exploding Universe will tackle the best of Kuepper’s recent vinyl reissues ‘Electrical Storm’ and the classic ‘Honey Steel’s Gold’.
The reissues are the result of a deal Kuepper has struck with Melbourne-based Remote Control records, who have licensed the rights to all his post-Saints catalogue – Laughing Clowns, The Aints, 15 plus studio solo albums and more, which will see a select run of limited edition vinyl plus Kuepper’s long-overdue catalogue addition to the digital realm.
“Friends, as you know, I’ve been full of happy announcements recently but announcing the shows I’ll be doing with this bunch of nifty musical dudes is one of my happiest,” says Ed.
“We’re going to be delving – as they say in rehearsals – into both the ‘Honey Steel’s Gold’ and ‘Electrical Storm’ albums, including some of the deeper cuts hardly heard since back in the day.
“We’re also going to be hammering through a fine selection of the many chart-topping hits that have become associated with me,” he says.
‘Electrical Storm’ of course, was Kuepper’s first solo outing having spent the previous 10 years spearheading two of Australia’s most pioneering and productive bands, The Saints and Laughing Clowns. Recently married, and on his honeymoon, Ed took an acoustic guitar and surprised even himself writing an album’s worth of material including some of his most enduring tracks Electrical Storm, Car Headlights and Master Of Twin Servants.
It was the beginning of a whole new phase for Kuepper that saw him become a leading drawcard across Australia’s burgeoning pub-scene of the 1980s and taking him ultimately to 1992’s ARIA-award winning ‘Honey Steel’s Gold’, featuring his most well-known solo tracks Everything I’ve Got (Belongs to You) and The Way I Made You Feel.
The time of the Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper is now. Joined by some of Australia’s most creative musicians, The Exploding Universe aims to both recreate and expand on the original forms and presents something totally unique.
Tickets: $60 (plus booking fee) through Oztix. 18 plus event.
Doors open at 7.30pm
