WEDDINGS PARTIES ANYTHING
SAT 09 OCT @ 7:00PM
- Price
- $85
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Theatre Mode - Reserved Seating
- Tickets
- On sale now @ Enmore Theatre & Ticketek
Weddings, Parties, Anything have had a recording career of 10+ albums, and chosen the quintessential album to play in its entirety for the first time ever. First released in 1984, ‘Scorn Of The Women’ was the debut album from folk-rock band, Weddings Parties Anything. At the time of it’s release, renowned musicologist, Billy Pinnell, described it as ‘The best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks ‘Living In The 70’s’.
Thomas’ idea behind Weddings Parties Anything was to combine that punk rock inspiration with his original love for the honest storytelling in folk music.
Music critic, Aaron Badgley, described ‘Scorn Of The Women’ as ‘having a distinct style of folk / alternative rock. With punk influences, and traditional folk songs all rolled into one beautiful sound. Lyrically the album manages to cover a great many topics, such as infanticide (‘The Infanticide Of Marie Farrar’), women’s rights (‘Ladies Lounge’) and poverty (‘Hungry Years’), all within a Marxist’s perspective’. He summed his critique up by saying that it ‘was a remarkable debut for such a young band, and a great album that would reward the brave listener’.
When asked to write his list of the Top 50 songs of all time for The Sun Herald back in 2003, music writer Peter Holmes placed the title track from the album, ‘Scorn Of The Women’ on that list.
Weddings Parties Anything will be bringing their trademark energetic show and this special live performance of ‘Scorn Of The Women’ to the Enmore Theatre on Saturday, October 9 2010.
