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MR.OCKN'AROUND THE QUAD
B-CS, Austin bands to play Northside rock concert
By John LeBas
The Battalion
n most Sunday afternoons, Texas
A&M’s "Northside” dorm area quietly
bustles with young lovers walking
nd-in-hand, a basketball game or two and
the hum of coin-operated clothes dryers.
™But this Sunday, Northside belongs to
rock ’n’ roll.
■ “Concert on the Quad,” a free concert fea-
.turing local bands Lewis, Linus and Jester,
e———will bring five hours of music to the green
* }$m space between Davis-Gary and Moore halls.
To ^ .; Austin bands, The Impossibles and Tuesday
Tut Weld also are scheduled to play at the show,
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which starts at noon.
Bryan Yule, co-chair of the Concert on the
Quad committee, helped revive the once-an-
nual event. The concert was sponsored by
Davis-Gary and Moore halls for several years
— Yule is not exactly sure when the tradition
began — but did not get off the ground last
year. As a music fan, he said the concert is
crucial in helping students stay
connected with the local mu
sic scene.
"I wanted to get a lot of
bands together at one time
so that when people see their
names around campus for
smaller shows, they could
put a name with the music,”
Yule said.
Yule, a freshman engi
neering technology major,
said the rock-punk-alterna
tive show will emphasize fun
over profit. All concert ne
cessities except for event se
curity and a sound system was paid for
with eight dollars, and the bands are play
ing for free.
Grant Gaston, guitarist for Jester and a ju
nior history major, said the concert benefits
both music lovers and the bands involved.
“Because it’s on campus, it will help open
up the music scene,” he said. “It’s good for the
bands because we all get the chance to show
people what we’re about. It’s also good for the
fans because they can get in free and come
“Everybody’s
music is different
and there’s a lot
out there for peo
ple to hear.”
Jeff Truly
Bass player for Lewis
and go as they please.”
Concert on the Quad should help dissolve
musical rivalries, Gaston said, even though most
local bands already help each other to get shows
and new listeners. JeffTruly, bass player for Lewis,
agreed that the concert proves music—not egos
— should come first in music.
“With some bands it’s kind of hard be
cause they want to be best
band in area,” he said. “But it
gets down to everybody do
ing their own thing. Every
body’s music is different and
there’s a lot out there for peo
ple to hear.”
Gaston said Jester, whose mu
sic he describes as “raunchy hard
rock,” has played shows with both
Linus and Lewis, and said he is
looking forward to hearing Tues
day Weld and The Impossibles.
Kevin Brennan, singer for
punk-ska band Tuesday Weld,
said he believes Concert on the
Quad also will help strengthen musical ties
between Austin and College Station bands.
“Hopefully it will open it up a lot more in
College Station,” he said, “and more bands
from here [Austin] will get to play there.”
Yule said he also hopes the concert will
breathe more life into local music — and the
weekend on Northside.
“They’re going to hear the music,” he
said. “What else are you going to do on a
Sunday afternoon?”
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► Art Exhibit
Characters tell their own stories in
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By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
Ithough artist Marty Walker is the
daughter of a sculptor, she did not in
tend to follow in her father’s footsteps.
“I mainly went to school to play tennis,”
|ie Denton-based painter said.
Walker graduated from Southwest Mis
souri State University with a photography de
gree — she had enough credit hours, and it
gave her the background to study art in grad-
rate school at the University of North Texas.
“I sold my camera the day I graduated,”
Walker said.
Local Color Art Gallery is displaying Walk
er’s exhibit, Dear Hunter..., this month. The
xhibit features nine of Walker’s abstract
paintings, many of which center around ab
stract, humanoid rabbit figures.
I The paintings comprised Walker’s master’s
thesis at North Texas.
I “I was studying Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle at the time,” Walker said. “The
anonymity of the animals allowed me to ex
plore this paradox between rational thought
and intuitional thinking.”
Walker said she takes her cue from a dis
parate group of influences.
“I often look toward classic country music
as inspiration for my work,” Walker wrote in
her artist statement. “Country songwriters
frequently employ verbal contradiction. Even
though the narrative implications in my
paintings aren’t concerned with drinking
beer, heartache and divorce, my formal con
cerns are painterly contradictions.”
Walker said she also uses themes of juxta
position found in the works of contemporary
neo-expressionists.
“My creative process involves discovering
narrative ideas through random applica
tions of paint,” Walker wrote, “perhaps cre
ating my own tragedy in the beginning
stages of a painting.”
Walker sees the characters in her paintings
as “animated storytellers.”
“I paint animals as intuitive players in am
biguous space, frequently juxtaposed with
products of science, technology and indus
try,” she said.
Walker said the random process she uses
when painting often leads to paradoxes.
“The art’s concerned with juxtaposition,
filled with contradictions,” she said.
Works such as Freedom Fighter, which
depicts a bird perched on a chain, display
these paradoxes.
“My work strives not to be conclusive,” Walk
er said, “but to serve as reminders of journey.”
Walker said she hopes to show her artwork
to gallery owners in Houston, she said.
Dear Hunter... is Walker’s first exhibit in the
Brazos Valley.
Chuck Drumm, assistant director of the
Arts Council of Brazos Valley, said exhibits
like Walker’s help foster art appreciation in
the community.
“Local Color Gallery is a nonprofit space
dedicated to supporting and promoting Texas
artists,” Drumm said.
The gallery is at 310 University Drive and
is open until 6 p.m. on weekdays and until 2
p.m. on Saturday. Walker’s exhibit will run
through April 25.
“Tragedy embodies anxiety, fear and un
certainty as its primary elements, while time
can allow a cathartic synthesis of these events
to be transformed into humorous reflection,”
Walker said. “As a painter, I have adopted this
ideology as a basis for my work.”
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CONCERT ON THE QUAD
The free concert will feature Lewis,
Jester and Linus, rock bands from
Bryan-College Station, and The
impossibles and Tuesday Weld, rock
bands from Austin. The show will be
Sunday afternoon between Davis-Gary
and Moore halls on Northside.
Robert McKay, The Battalion
Trina Allen, FestiFall Coordinator at the Local Color Gallery, looks at
"Dear Hunter...," a piece in a collection by artist Marty Walker.
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