Wagons Reacts To Art Nation Axing
News posted Thursday, August 4 2011 at 10:00 AM.
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Shocked and saddened. This is how everyone’s favourite outlaw-country singer Henry Wagons has reacted to the axing of ABC arts program Art Nation this week.
Hosted by Fenella Kernebone, the weekly magazine show was among three cuts to ABC’s arts programming, with New Inventors and Collectors also falling pretty to tight budgets and a reported re-focusing of Auntie’s prime-time programming. While best known as frontman of his eponymous alt-country collective, Wagons has been moonlighting as the show’s roving presenter – or “village idiot”, as he told us in a recent interview – for the past three years.
Speaking to M+N this week, he said he was concerned about the implications of the axing for Australia’s arts scene.
“I loved being involved with Art Nation and dread to think about the impact its absence will have on the mainstream art coverage in this country,” Wagons told M+N.
“On a personal level, that show sent me to a huge variety of inspiring, thought provoking, and occasionally, plain weird art related events. The show made me a much more cultured individual than I deserve to be. Without it, I would have just been sitting at home eating Cheezels and watching primetime TV.”
Wagons will head out on the road this month for a series of solo shows. Dates and details here.
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That sure is a scathing sermon, Henry. Im sure ABC are not going to take it lightly.
I'm sorry that Henry's lost a bit of work out of this axing but I'm not sorry to see the show go - 'Art Nation' is shite, the kind of show that gives the arts a bad name.
Of course if the ABC uses the axing as an excuse to cut jobs and cancel arts programming altogether, that's a different story.
Is that video M+N's clandestine way of saying that it's probably for the best?
we love that video!
i don't know how to feel
is this the way it's going to be forever now?
This is definitely the kind of shit that does not come back. No more arts on australian tv. ever.
first Video Hits and now Art Nation
and the middle east
Outlaw. He's bad ass.
Fenella Got The Bone
But could he ever be Tom Petty?
Collectors! No!