“If it’s electric we can play it,” Jeremy Conlon once declared in an interview about his long-time music project, Cooperblack. Despite being published in the Northern Territory’s most ‘infamous’ daily newspaper – and pictured perched high atop a wobbly tin roof, astride a cherry-red vacuum cleaner and against the brilliant blue sky of Northern Australia – he wasn’t kidding. Brandishing the machine’s chrome-metal tubing as if some kind of divining rod of “rock”, his playful grimace suggests, given half the chance, he’d jump at transforming that domestic cleaning appliance into a magical, kick-arse “electric” instrument … Either that or go into battle with a crazy cosmic creature from the outer planets. Influenced by otherworldly pop pioneers like Bowie, Kraftwerk and Bauhaus, Conlon…
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