MEGALON

Megalon drop for Monster Music

 Cutting the stencil

 finished.

MONSTER MUSIC SET, THE MONSTER DROPS.

Just finished another Toho Monster drop for the April 25th cabana show.

I am making about 14-18 of these, they have all the Toho monsters on them

they are about 2 meters high, and look pretty cool, if I my say so myself.

 Some of the stencils for Rodan

The first couple of colours sprayed on

 The drop nearly finished, just needs the wood 

and twine, and it's ready to hang.

REVOLUTIONARY ARTS ENSEMBLE PROMO FOR MONSTER MUSIC, THE CABANA 25th APRIL 2014

Promo for the gig....
You will have to watch this on utube
the quality here sucks for some
annoying unknown reason

For this project, the Ensemble play the tunes of Akira Ifukube
who wrote most of the scores for the Toho Monster movies
from the original 1954 Godzilla directed by Ishirō Honda to
the 1993 Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II.

We use 8 minute Super 8mm silent Toho film reels,
in  which we adapt Akira's tunes to fit where
we think they fit, and off we go....

 

Printing the posters for the show.

I had a lot of fun doing these, I really love screenprinting.

Especially now I don't do it commercially anymore.

Common Room 11th April

COMMON ROOM 11TH APRIL

REVOLUTIONARY ARTS ENSEMBLE

The Revolutionary Arts Ensemble is a music/art project 

The Ensemble has grown out of a band which was called Thing, until we found out a few years ago that there is of course another band already with this name, and strangely enough doing not a dissimilar 'thing' to us. 
Under the Thing name the band recorded 'Thing vs Albert Ayler' in about 2005, which was four songs, we might release this after the Gordons project is finished.

Our first task as the ensemble was to interpret the Gordons legendary first self titled EP.The project was/is to limited to a couple of gigs, video and a studio recording of 

the result.
http://munarecords.co.nz/revolutionary-arts-ensemble-vs-the-gordons/
Although we would consider taking the set to the main centers if there was any interest...... 

 Poster for first event screen printed by Adrian Thornton

The ensemble of musicians/artists for the first project consists of;

Anton Wuts - Alto,Tenor and Baritone Saxophone, music transcription

Tane -  Trombone and Tuba

Willie DeVine - electric Bass, audio engineering

Clifford Howell - Double Bass

Vinnie - Electric Guitar

Dean - Drums

Adrian Thornton - occasional vocals, design,set construction,screen printing and propaganda

Liam Bourke - occasional vocals, Harmonica 

Lee Hansen - Photography/film camera - truck 

Martin Poppelwell -Occasional Propaganda design

Siobhan McCormack - Propaganda distribution.

The first gig at the Cabana was played with Fane Flaws and No Engine on the 4th May, it was a real hoot, strangely enough and much to our surprise and delight people seemed to really enjoy the wall of noise that the Ensemble put down.

Set for the Gordons project under construction

Rabbit provided by Martin Poppelwell, sprayed  by Adrian Thornton.

THE FIRST SHOW

Cabana 4.5.12

The set being set up above, and with the band in full flight below.

THE RECORDING

 Over the evenings of the 9th and 10th of July we recorded the five Gordons songs at the Cabana, which owner Roy had generously let us use at the last moment, after our original recording venue fell through, many thanks Roy!

The recording was engineered by bassist willie D.

We are in the process of mixing it,will have a finished product real soon.

 

The Last Hawkes Bay Show

We will be playing our last Hawkes Bay show of  this interpretation of the Gordons at the Dome on the 21st July at The Dome in Napier, we will  be playing with Fane Flaws and No Engine and Wellington Jazz outfit The Troubles who are doing their album release tour

booking at bookings@thedome.co.nz

 poster for The Dome event by Adrian

WHATS NEXT...???!!...

We have already started work for a new show tentatively titled 'There are other Worlds out there' which will be a tribute to Sun Ra and his Arkesta, this one will be very interesting.

I will keep you posted...

Animal Forest, some new street art in the Bay.

ANIMAL FOREST BY RED RABBIT

An exclusive look at stencil artist
(and amazing fabric/toy artist) Red Rabbit
with help from Mr D , in action on a really nice piece.

No fancy spray adhesives here pal, just feet and fingers.

Artist Red Rabbit at work.

Love the grey bunny ominously rising over the trees.

Mr D gets busy on the trees

Red Rabbit....Nice work.

Martin Poppelwell

Martin Poppelwell Becomes a Peoples Artist

Great news, Martin Poppelwell has donated a couple of drawings to PRAC for the Freedom Arts Project, hope to start the shirts next week. Keep a look out, will post some photos shortly.
Thanks Martin.