Mark Laughton Motors - New Year’s Eve Concert
Dunedin’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are as unique as the city itself and the Dunedin City Council and sponsor Mark Laughton Motors have great plans to once again see the New Year in in style.
Starting at 7pm with a motley crew of family entertainment, face painters and balloon artists, the upper Octagon will host local band Catgut and Steel featuring Anna Bowen and her puppet fiddler. Good quality street theatre, the Community Express Train, along with food stalls, games and activities for children, will ensure continuous entertainment until 9.30pm.
From 9.30, the Oxo Cuban Collective will dazzle the crowds with the ultimate ''All Ages Gig''.
A new stage in the lower Octagon will mean that you can get closer to the action than ever before, and see the performance from almost any angle! Some of the greatest Dunedin talent and rising stars have worked together for months to produce a set that will have everyone dancing in the streets.
This year the Oxo Cubans Collective will expand to take in the exciting talents of the University of Otago’s Contemporary Rock Course led by Graeme Downes (formerly of the Verlaines) and will also feature former Pink Floyd bassist Rob Bruce, who now lives in Dunedin.
Stay for the countdown to mid-night and be rewarded with a spectacular firework display to herald in the new year.
Now what were we saying about musical legacies? Where is Peter Chin in this line-up? How can I escape? And just how long have the Oxo Cubans been a collective?
Just wait 'til I dig out what is on for Dunedin's Christmas in the Park
3 comments:
hahaha. they mean rob burns, not rob bruce. if he ever played bass for pink floyd, it likely was as a session musician.
Surely, and an unpopular one at that or he would still be touring with them. I sometimes think of bands like this in terms of that Odysseus's ship philosophical conundrum. So off he's sailing for about a decade. In the time he is away from Ithica pretty much every plank of wood on the boat gets replaced. Is it still Odysseus's ship? Is the constant trajectory through time sufficient to retain identity, or is the identity broken on the space continuum? what if you reassembled all the discarded pieces?
And so with Pink Floyd - is it really Pink Floyd? What if we regrouped all the session musicians?
hahahaha.
rob is one of the dept guys who gave me a bit of dumb shit about my research at past symposiums, by the way.
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