An Unique Strokes Pictures Exhibition Is Coming to Sydney

An unique images exhibition centered on The Strokes is coming to Sydney — however you’ll need to act fast.

Behind The Gallery and Marshall will current ‘The Strokes: Is This It — 25th Anniversary’, a one-night-only exhibition marking 25 years because the launch of one of the seminal albums in rock historical past.

Fans can take a look at the exhibition at 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, on Wednesday, July twenty second.

RSVP info for the occasion, which is open from 5:30-8:30pm, will be discovered here.

The exhibition options work by famend photographers Cody Smyth and Colin Lane, with the latter taking pictures the long-lasting Is This It album cowl.

“In January 2001 I got an assignment to shoot some band called The Strokes — I’d never heard of them, I was just happy to be shooting for The Face,” Lane remembers. “We had a few beers at my apartment, then ended up on the roof of the Lincoln Building, 57 floors up, the Empire State Building lighting up behind them, it was just perfect.

“To this day I’m convinced that slightly illegal excursion is why they asked me to shoot the press photos for ‘Is This It’. I’m so happy to be sharing this exhibition with my friend Cody Smyth, who got there before me! Between the two of us we probably have 90% of the best stuff ever shot on The Strokes. Long live The Strokes.”

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Credit: Colin Lane

Smyth, in the meantime, photographed the band from the start as a highschool pal, capturing intimate, unguarded moments no outdoors photographer might entry. His work was later compiled in ‘The First Ten Years’, the definitive photographic document of the band’s early life.

“Youth is a hell of a thing. The invincibility and possibilities that we only wish as adults we could recapture. The city felt like it was ours and we thought it would be forever — a testament to how friends can survive NYC, youth, life, art and rock ‘n’ roll,” Smyth says.

The forthcoming exhibition might be dropped at life via immersive sound, with Marshall’s Bromley celebration audio system filling the house with, in fact, Is This It, accompanied by on-board dynamic lighting results that transfer with the music. Complementing the expertise, Marshall’s newly launched Homeline IV assortment, that includes the next-generation Acton IV and Stanmore IV audio system, might be showcased. 

Stephen Dallimore, Creative Director of Behind The Gallery, provides: “Twenty-five years on, ‘Is This It’ still sounds like nothing else, and these photographs capture exactly why.

“Cody and Colin between them have documented The Strokes more completely than anyone, and bringing their work together in one room, for one night, feels like the right way to mark this anniversary.”

If all of this isn’t attractive sufficient, all attendees might be entered right into a prize draw to win a signed print of The Strokes and Marshall Stanmore IV speaker. Places are strictly restricted.