Plastic People!
(Mit apologies for the short notice)

Legendary Czech underground psychedelic band the Plastic People of the Universe are playing 6:30 tonight at the Memorial Union (probably at the Theatre rather than Terrace, given the rain) as part of the Madison World Music Festival.

It's funny, until I saw the posters at the Union I hadn't thought about the Plastic People in years. And in fact I had never heard them! They were known in Canada partly because for several years they had a Canadian lead singer, Paul Wilson (who was deported, eventually, and became a well-known translator of modern Czech literature), but if you wanted to listen to them it was still a matter of painstakingly searching out imported LPs on Queen West, heavily wrapped in plastic and costing upward of forty dollars.

So really I'm drawn to this as much by the idea of the whole thing - acid rock vs. tyranny! - as by the music. Which is cool and all, in a sort of early Pink Floyd vein, if you like that kind of thing which I do. And it's free.

Anyone interested in coming along?

(There's also a show at 9 tomorrow at the Annex if that works better.)