Os Mutantes

Overview

Anarchic. Chaotic. Creative. Everything a sixties TV rockband was claimed to be, Os Mutantes was in real life. Kurt Cobain had tried to reunite Os Mutantes to support Nirvana in 1993, and they were Beck before Beck was. Playing the Enmore on Wednesday night, the Tropicália group had formed before Brazil's twenty-five year military rule from 1964, and as their patrons in the television network were slowly arrested the group kept broadcasting on TV.  They were bizarre and they were subversive. Opponents collected signatures to keep them off TV, with their electric guitars and weirdness. And although they claim their show wasn't meant to be anything except a vehicle for crazy ideas, they made people think about standing out in a political system that was said to have offered you room only to vote "Yes" or "Yes, Sir!"

In 2006 they reformed, after breaking up in the seventies — drifting into obscurity through a combination of drugs, divorce and arguments over the best brand of guitar. Touring since their reunion, they've enjoyed an international recognition that they never really achieved during their original success. Supported by Best Coast and Richard in Your Mind, check them out to see if the weird they promise is the weird they deliver.