It’s Friday night, and here we are at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, or “GOMA” as the youngsters call it these days. But hang on, it’s not daytime, you aren’t there because you have some time to kill before your bus at the cultural centre comes in 38 minutes and it CERTAINLY isn’t a very awkward grade 10 first date. This can only mean one thing and one thing only, we’re here for the CINDY SHERMAN EXHIBITION where one of your fave Brissy bands MAJOR LEAGUES are playing!!!!

First thing’s first, you really have to hand it to Cindy Sherman. Having a wonder through her work was a pretty great way of starting the night off. In learning that the majority of her photos where shot alone in her studio, she assumed multiple roles as author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress, and model for her works, and executing them 10/10 every time, her photograph Untitled #96 was auctioned off for $3.89 million dollarydoos back in 2010, meaning it was the most expensive photograph ever sold in the WORLD at the time. Wowsers right?

But yeah, back to our old buddies Major Leagues. The first song started while we were still preoccupied looking at Cindy Sherman’s works, but as I walked out to the performance room they started playing semi-new single Better Off. It was kind of weird seeing a cool alternative band that you’ve seen so many times before in places like The Underdog (R.I.P.), Black Bear Lodge and Woolly Mammoth playing this time in a huge fancy hallway of a gallery. Instead of other fellow young whippersnappers being the majority of the audience it was very much a fancier, older and 10x heavier presence of wine glasses event than the aforementioned. But all in all, the sound bounced off the walls of the wide gallery hall and actually sounded pretty fantastic, so no complaints at all.

Major Leagues blasted through a setlist including classics such as Teen Mums and Endless Drain as well as playing a whole lot of new material from their most recent EP, including Someone Sometime, Leave and Get Lost, alongside many other standouts that the band have to their name. All in all the modeset, polite and bubbly quartet got the job done and were the icing on the cake of what was a great exhibition.

Jakob Rosenblatt