I am interested in the relationship between fiction and historical documentation in the widest sense, using the territory of popular music as a case study in the tall tales of historical retelling, an example of our creativity with the ordinariness of the past. The band will be presented, in the packaging of the music and also in related exhibitions, as if the curator of their documentation dearly wants that history to come across as momemtous and courageous, but it will be obviously an unremarkable life story.

The music, which is my central concern for this piece, is also a dramatisation of the mundane, an attempt to make something communicable of day to day existence, but whice ends up as skewed, as something other than the commonplace. Observations about going down the shops to buy a magazine or about the weather (as on the last EP, Got Up Late) or descriptions of family holiday snaps (in the case of this new EP)are converted by their context into frightening obsessiveness, other times into moving meditations. The root of the whole project is a brutal ordinariness that is somehow, despite the odds, turned into something more. The piece could be successful in engaging with an art audience but also a a music audience who are maybe unfamiliar with fine art contexts and some of the debates I have outlined. -artist’s statement