Something Else Matters
SOMETHING ELSE MATTERS
- an album release by The Monster Squat
Come feel our insecure insides and b-sides. Join us when we raise the volume on our master-cuts and reveal our bloopers, with this live performance and showing of our album-mockumentary: Something Else Matters!
Mission statement:
- In The Monster Squat we don´t have to play instruments in order to be a band - LARPing is our music (or as our producer Bob usually puts it: “Don´t rely on pitch, but what you hear”)
- In the Monster Squat we make angry paraphrases of Metallica without negative energy (or as our bandtherapist Phil says it: “Get into The Zone - and destroy”)
- Therapy is a missile - we aim to use it wisely (or as Jason used to say before he left the band: “Therapy is lame” - but conflicts are worse)
By paraphrasing the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, about the famous heavy metal band Metallica, The Monster Squat, a fictive LARP squad creates practices that research band-psychology and alternative modes of role playing. Deliberately lofi we “drag” the realities of the existing band by inhabiting and expanding them as characters and highjacking our own life into the mockureality.
With this album we want to unleash the new sound of a future performance art canon and perhaps even a new dogma: the “squatting” of documentaries as a precarious performance practice, humour as politics and the lazy rebellion as a punk default.
