Bird On The Wire

STAGE TIMES >>>
DOORS – 7.30pm
JACK LADDER – 8.30pm
ALEX CAMERON – 9.30pm

Bearing witness to the baroque clusterfuckery of the world is no longer voluntary. We are all forced to watch. Every possible catastrophe vibrates in our pockets, demanding to be witnessed. A busboy in Tulsa with a below average data plan now holds more of the world in his head than Alexander the Great. The human burden continues to increase and empathy begins to seem like something belonging to a nostalgic past, like a handwritten letter or sex on a train. The classic response to this predicament has been a figure of ironic detachment, a well-groomed young man drinking out of a red plastic cup at a rooftop party. He explains with a smirk why the good thing is actually bad, the bad thing actually good. But now Alex Cameron approaches with his righthand man, Roy Molloy. Cameron knocks the cup from the young man’s hand and Molloy threatens him with his life.

With Forced Witness – Cameron’s upcoming album, the solution to the difficulties we face is a danceable and dangerous earnestness, a sense of honesty that heals and relieves even as it cleaves us or makes us laugh in self-defense. He’s offering portraits of misfits’ views of the world, presented without illusion. In these chaotic times when we aren’t able to look away, Cameron is offering us a pure account of the world as he’s seen it.

Alex Cameron’s forthcoming album ‘Forced Witness’ is out September 8th on Secretly Canadian.
https://alkcm.bandcamp.com/