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Pig City: Brisbane’s Historical Soundtrack was a one-day music festival held as part of the Queensland Music Festival in 2007. The idea for the concert came from Queensland Music Festival Artistic Director for 2007 Paul Grabowsky, who was inspired after reading Andrew Stafford’s book ''Pig City: From The Saints To Savage Garden''.〔‘Copy of UQNews, August 2007, with cover article on the Pig City concert’, Papers of Andrew Stafford, UQFL440, Box 1, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.〕 The festival was held on 14 July at The University of Queensland. It ran from midday to 10 pm. The Pig City concert is regarded as one of the biggest concerts staged in the premises of the University of Queensland in recent years since O Week (Orientation Week) concerts, namely the first Livid Festival in 1989.〔‘Copy of UQNews, August 2007, with cover article on the Pig City concert’, Papers of Andrew Stafford, UQFL440, Box 1, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.〕 The line-up for the festival included: The Saints, Regurgitator, The Riptides, Kev Carmody, Screamfeeder, David McCormack, Ups & Downs, The Apartments, The Pineapples from the Dawn of Time, Kate Miller-Heidke, and The Brisbane Excelsior Band.〔‘Commemorative booklet for the Pig City concert’, Papers of Andrew Stafford, UQFL440, Box 1, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.〕 The Saints were the main headliner for the festival, their appearance marking a reunion of the founding members of the band after a 28-year separation.〔Saints back to rock Pig City. (12 July 2007). ''The Courier-Mail'', p. 9.〕 ==Pig City (symposium)== A symposium – Pig City: Then & Now, A Symposium on the Past, Present & Future of the Rock Music Industry in Brisbane – was held at The University of Queensland on 13 July 2007, the day before Pig City: Brisbane’s Historical Soundtrack. It was organised by The University of Queensland’s Centre of Critical and Cultural Studies and featured Andrew Stafford, who gave a keynote speech. He took the opportunity to address criticisms that suggested the book was written by an individual who was not present during the tumultuous period of Bjelke-Petersen’s tyrannical reign, but wished he was. He explained he had no intentions to “romanticise the era”, rather he wanted to pay tribute to Brisbane’s bands of that period who were not given due recognition in Australia’s music industry.〔‘Typed speech: Andrew Stafford, “Keynote Speech to Pig City Symposium”, delivered at the University of Queensland, 13 Jul 2007’, Papers of Andrew Stafford, UQFL440, Box 1, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.〕 Stafford also explained that major cultural movements were the result of a convergence of local, national, and international factors. He gave the example of the music scene in the 1970s as drawing both positive and negative energy alike from the local enthusiasm for the right to march movement, the national reaction to the dismissal of the Whitlam government, and the international anarchy inspired by the Sex Pistols in the UK.〔‘Typed speech: Andrew Stafford, “Keynote Speech to Pig City Symposium”, delivered at the University of Queensland, 13 Jul 2007’, Papers of Andrew Stafford, UQFL440, Box 1, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pig City (music festival)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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