Perth Music

WHAT: The Love is My Velocity Cookbook Launch
WHO: Love is My Velocity Records
WHEN: May 19
WHERE: The Bakery Artrage Complex
WHY: Because it rules
HOW: With aplomb

The Love is My Velocity Cookbook (unofficially sub-titled “A Thing That Is Completely Different To The Cookbook X-Press Put Out A Few Months Ago In That, For One, It Actually Is A Cookbook”), like a yeti upon a snowy peak campsite, approacheth.

What is it, you say? Yes, we can hear you. It’s a 60 page guide to Perth music and intermediate cooking whose every last recipe was contributed by the 48 bands featured, an exhibition of original work commissioned for this book by 60 of Perth’s best young artists, and the first stop for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in WA music, or look at it in a way besides the traditional.

During the making of the book people have told us that they doubt there are even 48 bands in Perth. These people are so wrong they make our feet hurt. They’re familiar with Capital City, Snowman, the Bank Holidays, Schvendes, the Kill Devil Hills, New Rules for Boats, and think that they’re the only bands around. They aren’t. Also featured in this book are quality but not as known acts like Mink Mussel Creek, Cease, the Leap Year, Extortion, the Wednesday Society and Kill Teen Angst. Not only are these bands around, not only are they good, but they know how to cook. Norwegian three-month-long lamb, Serbian cabbage rolls, lemonade scones, chilli chocolate cupcakes… we say the recipes are meant for intermediate cooks but in reality there’s a lot of fancy shit in here.

And the art! Oh man, the art. We said it was daft to think that there weren’t 48 good bands in Perth, but we would’ve agreed that there weren’t 60 awesome. We would’ve looked like cretins. We gave our artists a band each, a recipe, some songs by the band and, sometimes, a photo, and they gave us back images so immaculately pretty we wouldn’t think twice about tattooing them on our faces.

It’s turned out even better than we expected. We hope you like it, and will consider joining us for its launch, a two room extravaganza on May 19 at the Bakery (233 James St Northbridge). The exhibition opens at 7pm, and bands (Institut Polaire, New Rules for Boats, the Painkillers and Mink Mussel Creek) start playing at 8:30pm. It’ll be a right ol’ all night party. You’d be foolish to miss it.

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