We Thought ‘Emo’ Had The Sooky Music Market Covered…

Just when you assumed bands like Evanescence, 30 Seconds To Mars, Simple Plan and Dashboard Confessional were all that we needed to produce the world’s necessary quota of new sooky songs, thus allowing teens across the globe to have ‘tunes’ (we use the term loosely, obviously) they identify ever so strongly with on their MySpace profiles, there’s a new musical collective in town. Unlike the aforementioned bands though, this group of howling moaners sound vaguely entertaining.

The Age reports…

If you think the art world is populated by whingeing moaners, you’re absolutely correct. Today the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art plays host to the inaugural performance of the Melbourne Complaints Choir, the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere. Two dozen ordinary folk from all walks of life will gather to air their grievances in song.

The list of gripes to be given the musical treatment range from the comic (”Why did McDonald’s have to pick my surname?”) to the tragic (”My children ruined my life”) to the downright bizarre (”My housemate’s boyfriend’s eyes are too close together”).

This appears to be the most brilliant thing we’ve ever heard of. If it’s still possible to join, we’ve got a few catchy ditties of our own, like “Why did they take Big Brother Uncut away from us?” and “That was no short cut, Mister Cab Driver!”, we’d be happy to contribute.