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WHAT: Butterscotch Pony single launch.
WHERE: Northern Club, Launceston.
WHEN: Saturday. Art launch from 7pm, music from 9pm.
HOW MUCH: $5.
A GIG with a difference will take place at Launceston's Northern Club on Saturday night.
And different is exactly the way that Butterscotch Pony guitarist and vocalist Matthew Sertori would like it.
Sertori, along with his partner Michaela Young, make up the duo, which bring together their respective punk rock and classical music backgrounds to create something quite different.
As well as music, the night will also feature a display of Sertori's T-shirt art.
This art will not be for sale, however, with Sertori, planning to burn it at the end of the night.
Other music acts joining Butterscotch Pony on the night will include Debra Manskey, Summer Edmunds and Nick Chugg, who will all be interviewed by comedian Matt Dean.
"The days of a musician getting up on stage and playing a few three-chord protest songs and expecting the world owes them a living are well and truly over - that train left the station many years ago," Sertori said when explaining his approach to this launch.
"That approach is boring, unimaginative, tired and boring.
"Live music does not need to be a one-dimensional experience; it needs to be multi-dimensional. These days, if you are a musician you are a film director and actor in your film clips, an artist designing posters and album covers, a music producer and a promoter.
"That's why with this launch I want to engage the public on an artistical, theatrical, musical and networking level."
Sertori described the release as being the definition of original and being like "nothing else ever" before.
Music Tasmania chief executive Laura Harper and president David Wedd will also attend and speak to a Northern audience about the organisation.