It was a time of volatility and it was fleeting. But these black-and-white photographs show Brisbane’s punk and post-punk era in all its historic glory.
The links between politics and police, subsequently laid bare in Tony Fitzgerald’s 1989 report into corruption, triggered a youthful popular culture yearning for change.
It was no surprise music and pop culture shifted. Brisbane’s the Saints released their genre-defining singleFew people visually captured this time in Brisbane. Brisbane photographer Paul O’Brien with his friend Marcella at a post-punk venue in Brisbane in the early 1980s.He has captured the earliest days of 50 Brisbane bands including the Go-Betweens, the Apartments, Riptides, Razar, the Leftovers, Xero, the End and the Humans among them, as well as touring bands such as Split Enz.O’Brien agrees he “captured something”.
“So, it was like ‘Oh, the people, yep.’ So, it became one shot of the band, but then several shots of the people. The pair have chosen some of O’Brien’s photographs for an exhibition at the Woolloongabba Art Gallery, panel discussions and live shows until April 27.
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