My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia is the latest exhibit to pass through the always brilliant Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and, as they do so well, they will launch the series with a big, one-off Up Late performance.
The brilliant and inspiring Archie Roach will headline the opening of the exhibit and there is few, if any, artists more deserving of the honour. He has been one of the most powerful voices in the world of indigenous contemporary music for the past couple of decades and, with his Into The Bloodstream LP of last year, he proved that he has plenty more to give as a songwriter and performer.
Young Cairns-bred, now Brisbane-based rockers The Medics also showed last year that they're a band who deserve a great deal of attention. The release of their debut LP Foundations saw the band turn plenty of heads and their aptitude on the live stage has always been well respected.
Rounding out the bill for this special show will be Bunna Lawrie, the very well respected founder and frontman of the great Coloured Stone. The chief songwriter of the group, Lawrie has a sense of charisma that he has carried through his music since first coming to success with his band in the mid-1970s and he's still a treat to watch perform today.
These three acts play a massive show at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art on Saturday 1 June. Tickets are available through Qtix
