Acid
Brass came about through a frenzied
conversation in a pub one hot summer’s
night. The idea was simply for a brass
band to play Acid House anthems. As
The History of the World diagram (map)
attempts to illustrate, the two musical
forms have much in common, with obvious
traces to folk music and political activism
in each case. The UK’s number
one brass band, the Williams Fairey
Stockport, were the first to perform
the material in Liverpool (with Tony
Wilson as Master of Ceremonies). Their
arranger, Rodney Newton, did all the
work transposing the scores.*
On the occasion of the Monument to Now
opening, the performance was recreated
with the one-hundred-and-twenty-member
brass band of the Municipality of
Athens. |
