Dividing Brisbane music into ancient and modern history – Before and After the Saints – Pig City picks up from the 1971 Springbok tour (not a band but a rugby team), and the formation of Kid Galahad and the Eternals (the pre-Saints) shortly thereafter. To me, the Whiskey Au Go Go fire bombing of 1973 is a more pertinent socio-musicological turning point. Now that may sound like carping, but hey, the History Wars are alive and virulent in the school of rock like everywhere else. Before the Whiskey, Brisbane had a thriving music circuit; after it, the venues dried up. And so I'm still inclined to ask, ‘Might the Saints not have marked an ending as much as they did a beginning?’ I wouldn't disagree too strongly with the oft-repeated quote from Sir Bob Geldof: ‘Rock music in the '70s was changed by three bands: the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Saints.’ But I am rather fond of spinning it another way: ‘Music in the '70s was changed by two Brisbane bands – the Bee Gees and the Saints.’ [...] As Pig City approaches, spare a thought for the absent pioneers who preceded even the Saints, setting a tone – an attitude and a spirit that still defines Brisbane music sooner than any limiting idea of a Brisbane Sound genre.