Kieran and I have renamed our durational performance band 'Fathers_of_Dead_Europe' (formerly Po/Mo-Art/Pop). We haven't done any performances yet, but our ideas are solid (like all great contemporary artists, I suppose). This is due to the further work undertake today. Spent afternoon working on the structure of the end of the show. Finished the day with establishing all the song ideas for the entire show, as well as nutting out the end of the work. The Fathers of Dead Europe is a concept we have added to the original myth on which Last Days is based. As such, I think we will end up spending a while figuring them out.
Essentially, they are gods. Roman or Greek gods, not like these infallible ones running around today. The end up making things worse than before when they stick their noses in. The work may have set out to evoke the tradition of vaudeville, but also seems to edge closer to the ancient plays. All the action takes place in a day; the gods intervene and fuck it all up; mankind learns of the tragedy of self-awareness.
More to come.
x nic
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