Tolbooth Auditorium
Sunday 25 May, approx 7.30pm
One Day Pass
Three Day Festival Pass
If ever there was an artist that has drawn her own indelible and enigmatic line through the history of modern music making it is Annette Peacock. Le Weekend 2008 is ecstatic to host one of her rare live performances and in fact her first UK date in over 20 years. The music itself - from her early jazz ballad compositions to the later songwriting period - is distinctly organic in scope. Through her involvement in both, the 60’s avant-garde jazz and art circles, the company of Albert Ayler being particularly influential, her work anticipated all kinds of modern and popular styles and trends. Her CD for ECM in 2000, accompanied by string quartet An Acrobat’s Heart, beautifully captures her distinctive melodic compositional force and her peculiar raw emotional voice. It is hard to encapsulate Ms Peacock’s brilliant and colourful career in such a short space but a quote from the Melody Maker from 1983 gets close….
" She was given one of the first synthesizers by its inventor Robert Moog in 1968; she appeared topless at the Townhouse in New York; she appeared on The Johnny Carson Show; she performed the first electronic improvising band; she was the first person to sing through a synthesizer and the first to electronically treat the voice in the recording process; she was the first to'rap' over a rock backing; she turned down the offer of appearing on Bowie's Aladdin Sane or performing with him in concert; she invented the 'free-form song'; she became the first holographic actress in a show with Salvador Dali on Broadway..."
For tonight’s Le Weekend performance Annette Peacock will be performing solo.
le weekend festival, Tolbooth, Stirling, 23, 24, 25 May 2008
