CELBRATING 50 YEARS OF KUEPPER KLASSICS!

2026 marks the 50th year as a recording artist for legendary Australian musician Ed Kuepper. To celebrate he is taking to the road with The Exploding Universe (of Ed Kuepper) a full band performance featuring the added talents of drummer Mark Dawson, bassist Peter Oxley, keyboard player Alister Spence and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth as they tackle material from right across Ed’s illustrious 50 years career.

From the release of The Saints epochal 7″ (I’m) Stranded in August 1976, via the genre-defying Laughing Clown, an ARIA award winning solo career spanning some 30+ stand-alone albums /compilations and live recordings, side journeys into The Aints, The Aints! and movie soundtracks plus continued sonic exploration via collaborations with Dirty Three drummer Jim White and jazz
nerds Asteroid Ekosystem, to a recent world tour back where it all began with The Saints ’73 ‘78, Ed Kuepper has forged, flourished and conquered the recorded medium many times over.

To coincide with the tour Kuepper will continue his re-release programme of former Kuepper classics with Melbourne label Remote Control this time including 1991’s Today Wonder solo LP and 1992’s Autocannibalism; the debut studio release for The Aints. Both albums will be released as double vinyl and single CD editions with extra tracks for each. To top off the release programme will be The Exploding Universe Live! A double vinyl and single CD recorded in 2023 at the National Theatre in Melbourne.

“For me Ed is a prime mover, a musician who has transformed music numerous times over, always swimming upstream, always seeking new terrain, always creating on his own terms. It’s a vast, singular body of work, no one else could have produced it. I get the same pleasure listening to these albums as I do listening to Neil Young or John Martyn or Patti Smith or Michael  Rother. And it’s a pleasure to share Ed’s music and make these records available again.” – Steve Cross / Remote Control records

“The band is blistering; Peter Oxley and Mark Dawson are locked in as tight as Superglue stuck between two fingers. Alastair Spence is masterful on keys. Eamon Dilworth on trumpet brings echoes of Miles Davis’s “Sketches in Spain” set to a solid backbeat. It rocks. “Not A Soul Around” pumps like a locomotive – just as it did when it came out in the late 1980s.” – i94bar.com