The Problem With Music

Please note: This performance in Drop-In. Come & Go as you please anytime throughout the performance. We will sell 25% over the capacity of the room, so you may need to wait a short time if the room is at capacity.

‘’The basic processes involved in manufacturing a record have hardly altered from the fifties to the present day''. (1) The History Of Rock, issue 14, Volume 2  page 128.

FK Alexander and two Scottish Hardcore bands meet in Glasgow’s Queen Margret Union to duke it out in a heavy metal technology demolition sound clash death match over 3 hours, where pointless resentment, pink smoke and the faces of your favourite rock stars ’n' rapists fill the air!!!

destruction as a way of holding resentment
waste as a way of celebrating regret 
volume as a means  of cherishing violence
Decay is the light in the tunnel
Drilling down and out

Beginning its thinking with the 30 year old essay 'The Problem With Music' by record producer Steve Albini, this work is upset by the industrial disintegration of a disintegrating industry, The History Of Rock (tm) and the systems and stories it has sold. Crossing this reference with Mathew Barney's 'The Order' and situating it all in the artistic market place in 2023, FK is tasked with an existential end-game, destined to lose but compelled to play.

CDs, TVS, computers, trophies, pristine music encyclopaedias and more will meet the guillotine, the hammer or the wall, while old school death metal serenades.

Scotland’s Premier Destructavist, FK Alexander’s deathwork attempts to force feed mania influenced visions and aural hallucinations upon groups of civilians, across various dimensions, with varying outcomes. This work has been made for graveyards, nightclubs, cassette tapes and car parks, as well as theatres, music venues and galleries. This work is activated by a 30-year existential crisis, a history of bad men and obsessions with flowers, dead rock stars and the decline of western civilisation (the heavy metal years). This work is incredibly profound and entirely meaningless. 

Local bands: Coffin Mulch and Endless Swarm

FK has gratefully received a Total Theatre Award, An Autopsy Award and the 2021 Offies Award for experimental performance. 2023 album - FK ALEXANDER IS A STUPID BITCH - limited edition hand bejewelled cassette and digital download.  

‘’A vitally important artist’’ - Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre Magazine

https://www.feralarts.co.uk/