Mural will be launched with concert and recording by Ed Kuepper and mark 40 th anniversary of album (I’m) StrandedThe Queensland government is bankrolling a $60,000 mural project to honour punk pioneers the Saints, continuing Brisbane’s penchant for venerating its rock bands via city landmarks. It follows the renaming of a park in Oxley near Kuepper’s childhood home as Ed Kuepper Park, which the Brisbane city council approved in July after a local resident’s petition. The Saints mural and music project was driven by former Go-Betweens bassist John Willsteed, who is now a Queensland University of Technology creative industries lecturer. Initially ignored by local record labels, the Saints’ first recordings coincided with the very beginnings of punk as a worldwide musical movement. Kuepper in concert would “reimagine songs from the first three Saints albums” in collaboration with Robert Davidson of Topology, she said.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2017 07:30 UTC