When Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Tim Powles perform for ‘Universe Within: an Autism Awareness and Benefit Gig' next week, it will be a reformation of The Refo:mation.
The charity event will be a very special one-off event. For the three members of The Church performing songs live from their late 1990’s period under the name The Refo:mation is extremely rare.
The Church used the name at a time when Marty Willson-Piper was unavailable for the band. Instead of treating the album ‘Pharmako/Distance-Crunching Honchos With Echo Units’ a Church album, they used The Refo:mation as a name.
“We have never played it live", The Church drummer Tim Powles tells Undercover.fm. “Marty can’t be here so we will do a rare show”.
The show in Sydney will raise money for Autism Spectrum Australia. Autism affects 1 in 160 people in Australia.
The show will also feature a presentation of the film ‘Rainman Goes To Rockwiz’, directed by Steve Kilbey’s brother Russell.
The second half of the show will then feature a full set of songs from The Church with Ricky Maymi from the Brian Jonestown Massacre filling in for Wllson-Piper. Guests for the set will include Tom Moore from the Mercy Arms, Suzy Connelly from Butterfly G, Brendan Gallagher and Phil Hall from the Lime Spiders.
The show was put together very quickly. ‘Three weeks ago today we went we need to do it,” Tim said.
Universe Within is on at Red Rattler, Marrickville on June 23.
