The Vanishing Acts Almanac

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Vanishing Acts

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The Vanishing Acts Almanac, an A-Z handbook about the ones who were pushed off the 1980's music stage. A time inhabited by hundreds of flesh and blood bands that lost their way. Destroying suburban bungalows. Making music. Occasionally having their stomachs pumped. Gigging every night. Across the city. Lunatics. Virtuosos. Repeat offenders. Original musicians representing a wide range of styles. Inventing styles... …Following a late night gig in 2012, I was fortunate enough to be handed a scruffy manila folder. Inside was a document titled The Vanishing Acts Almanac. The orginal author of this work, a live music eccentric on the Melbourne circuit not sighted since the late 1980’s, is (or was) Pembroke “Pemmy” O’Hear. A tall man who sought no company and despised the saxophone, he was also known around town as “Phantom Pemmy” and “Pemmy the Dead.” Pemmy’s car was found abandoned at the Todd Road Exit service station at the entry to the West Gate Bridge in 2010. His car was unlocked. The words “Never adjust your heart” cut into the steering wheel. The Vanishing Acts Almanac manuscript was left on the back seat. Of course this is all potentially unmitigated bullshit. But when is the truth ever guaranteed? The Vanishing Acts Almanac reveals a meticulously fabricated alphabet of band bios. An underground history of a forgotten Melbourne music scene in the '80s. Those musicians who glowed fleetingly at the callous precipice of fame, the maddeningly ordinary bands that were never going to make it, and the bat shit crazies that should have been locked away before they tried. Who were these intriguing musicians Pemmy documented while popular history consigned them to obscurity, and what became of them? And what of Pemmy O’Hear? Did he ju

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