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There are other figures on the walls: six giant silhouettes of people holding tools, weapons and musical instruments. The figures are awkwardly painted and goofy where they seemingly ought to be triumphant, so I pay them little mind. It's now 8:30, the dub record has ended and [Edgar Um Bucholtz], the missing third of Inflamed Shrub, has joined the musicians. The gallery is soon awash in gleeful noise: Bonnet stumbling about his drum kit, [Stephen Boyle] processing his snaredrum spasms through a sky-blue telephone receiver, and Bucholtz hurting his trumpet's feelings. Cacophony segues into a thick dissonant groove, with Bonnet organizing his array of cymbals into a trance-inducing rhythm and Boyle still on the phone, now apparently yelling at a didgeridoo. Bucholtz's trumpet takes on the regality of "Taps," and between this and the snack table the mood is thick with bizarre ceremony.
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Burning Bushes
THE ARROW GALLERY'S main room is hidden behind a stark white wall that screams the current exhibition's title in black: SHOW CANCELLED DUE TO POVERTY, WAR, DESPAIR. It's opening night and everythin...
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