Eastern Bloc Disco with UrBororo
To celebrate the opening weekend of Nottingham Contemporary’s new exhibition, ‘Monuments Should Not Be Trusted’, and expand on the display of Eastern Bloc 7” records in his exhibition ‘Behold! The Markets Shall Erase Our History!’ in the Small Collections Room, writer Wayne Burrows will be playing soul, rock, psychedelia, pop, folk and jazz, all drawn from the surprisingly diverse output of the official state record labels of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany and the USSR between the 1960s and early 1980s. The event will include the informal launch of a new chapbook publication, ‘Eastern Bloc Songs: A Sampler’, featuring introductions to 11 songs alongside English versions of their lyrics.
The evening’s session will also include a live set from UrBororo, Pil & Galia Kollectiv’s new venture into “skewed filing cabinet swamp blues for corporate inflight listening” – an “objectively boring” band whose songs are made from an unlikely merger between the sounds of surf, grunge and punk and whose lyrics are borrowed entirely from Management Self-Help guides.
“UrBororo are objectively boring. They also view themselves as boring. UrBororo actually refer to themselves with typically irritating self-deprecation as ‘The People Who You Wouldn’t Like to be Cornered by at a Party’. They regard most of what they do as a waste of time. Based on a managerial help book, the songs they play propose a skewed filing cabinet swamp blues for corporate inflight listening.” – Pil & Galia Kollectiv (2015)