5 March 2010
Quan
New Pants
Friday 5 March
Tickets are $21.50 and are available through qtix or phone 136 246 (includes booking fee).
Performances
Quan (7.30pm)
Since 1993, Quan Yeomans has been the frontman of Brisbane group Regurgitator. In 2008, Yeomans launched a solo project and released the album Quan: The Amateur (Valve/MGM Records), recorded in Hong Kong — the performer’s recent base until relocating to Brisbane in January 2010. Yeoman’s solo project sees the performer explore electronica and hip-hop with his trademark lyricism.
In 2009, Yeomans performed his debut tour of The Amateur as part of the national Big Day Out festivals, and subsequently the Australian tour of UK electronic group The Prodigy, New York duo Ratatat and Peaches. He has also performed at a number of other Australian festivals including Sounds of Spring (Brisbane), Spring Break (Adelaide) and Field Day (Sydney).
If you liked Regurgitator in their less rocking songs, when they tended towards electro and hip hop and electro hop and those pure pop joy moments where Quan tried to sing like Prince, then this is the album you have been waiting for. (Jody MacGregor, Rave Magazine, October 2008)
The Amateur is a sign of things to come for Australian hip hop; something genuinely original and still incredibly listenable. (Tal Wallace, Time Off Magazine, October 2008)
New Pants (8.30pm)
Formed in 1996 by four boys from Beijing — Peng Lei, Pang Kuan, Lo Bo, and Shang Xiao (who left the band in 2002) — New Pants is arguably one of the most influential pop/rock bands in China today.
Between 1998 and 2006, New Pants released four albums in China through Modern Sky Records. New Pants (1998) was listed second in the ’Top Ten 90’s Albums’ compiled by the prestigious Hong Kong magazine MCB. Disco Girl (2000) earned the group ’Best Music Video’ and ‘Best Rock Single of the Year’ for the song 'I love you' at the Channel V/Pepsi Music Awards in China. We Are Automatic (2002) won ‘Best Video’ award from the 2003 MTV Asia Awards; and Dragon Tiger Panacae (2006) received positive reviews from Rolling Stone China and MCB, spurring a tour of clubs and stadiums throughout China.
In 2007, New Pants headlined the Modern Sky festival at Haidian Park, Beijing, with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and released their fifth album, Equal Love, in 2008.
New Pants’ appearance at APT Up Late will be their second performance at the Gallery of Modern Art. In 2008, the group performed at the Gallery’s Andy Warhol Up Late program, and shortly after, visited London to perform at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘China Now’ exhibition.
In 2010, New Pants will perform at APT Up Late while in Australia for the inaugural Lost Weekend music festival.
Curator's talk
Weekly curator’s floortalks explore artists, projects or places
included in APT for the first time.
6.30pm/Mekong region – Mekong River project
Russell Storer, Curator, Contemporary Asian Art
APT6 Cinema
Promised Lands
6.00pm | Shahram Alidi Whisper with the Wind 2009 (76mins) | Cinema A
APT6 Filmmaker: Takeshi Kitano
8.00pm | Takeshi Kitano Dolls 2002 (114mins) | Cinema A
