Meatwaters Music festival 2001


Birchville Cat Motel Cancer Boy CJA Gook nation Slab
The first meatwaters music festival 2001 was held at the Space on the 4th and 5th of September.
This event was also used as a fundraising event for the Wellington anarchist book shop on upper Cuba St, The Freedom Shop.

The line-up for the Friday the 4th's line-up was as follows:

mr sterile w/ electronic giggery and pokery by Birchville
Gook Nation
Birchville Cat Motel
CJA
The Testies
Cancer Boy
and Thee Strap-ons. Saturday's line-up was this:
Anthony Milton
Sunship
1/3 Octave Band
The Slab
and finally, Loosehead.
The festival started off with the intention of being a festival of extreme music which was being performed at the time, yet not bound by specific stylistic limitations.
However, as the planning progressed it grew into something much larger. The growing line-up was losing what you might expect from 'extreme' and grew into something much better.Powerful solo acts like CJA and Cancer Boy gave deliveries with words and guitar, intensity doesn't need to be complicated with other instruments

Then there were the acts like Gook Nation, The Slab, Loosehead, Thee Strap-ons and The Testies. Rock bands all interpreting the genre from their own independant angles. Possibly the best Sunship gig ever.Anthony Milton, Birchville, and the 1/3 Octave band represnted the free elements to sonic composition. A Milton developed his own style of electronic and random composition within conceptual parameters, 1/3 Octave came to the party with the biggest bass-end in town, and BCM hushed the evening with the quietest performance of the festival. An exhausting but brilliant couple of nights. The event turned into quite an unexpected surprise. It encouraged me with the potential of organising such an event again.
All photo's by Andrew Ross.

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