Punk legend coming to Brooks Museum | Arts & Culture

If you still mourn the passing of the Antenna Club, you’re in for a treat. Former Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye will be speaking at the Brooks Museum next month in conjunction with the Who Shot Rock & Roll exhibit.

Here’s the release from the Brooks:

Punk icon Ian MacKaye will make a one-night-only appearance in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium on Thursday, September 16 at 7 p.m.

A Discussion with Ian MacKaye, which is sponsored by the Memphis Music Foundation, consists of a question-and-answer session conducted by the Washington, D.C. native, co-founder of independent music label Dischord Records and a veteran of several influential bands, including Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Two photographs featuring MacKaye are currently on display at the Brooks as part of the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 – Present, organized by the Brooklyn Museum with guest curator Gail Buckland and on display at the Brooks through September 26.

Edward Colver’s 1980 shot of MacKaye as Minor Threat frontman surrounded by fans was captured in Los Angeles at the height of the hardcore punk movement.

This image, and the rest of Colver’s oeuvre, prompted fellow underground music icon Jello Biafra to report that, “Edward shined a light on the underlying darkness in a way that would make Weegee proud. The menace, the alienated kids, [their] on again off again camaraderie, and the fright behind the macho eyes.”

Glen E. Friedman’s photograph of Fugazi, circa May 1988, features MacKaye bent over his guitar next to a Marshall amp, vocalist Guy Picciotto captured beside him in mid-flip. Fugazi, said Friedman, provided a “laboratory for experiments with light, action, composition and emotion.”

Admission to A Discussion with Ian MacKaye is five dollars. Seating is limited.

For more information, go to www.BrooksMuseum.org or call 544-6208.

Photo courtesy Flickr user xvermex.