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GRAVITATIONAL
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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 79 / April 09
·
Happenings:
DAN
POWELL & CHRIS COOK / THE VAINGLORIES / MSG
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5/£4
Dan
Powell/Chris Cook
Chris Cook is
the first Lifetime Vice President of the Spirit of Gravity. Performing as
Same Actor or Hot Roddy, Chris has CDs on
Wrong Music and BipHop and has appeared at
many of our nights although not often enough recently. Known primarily for
his pioneering sitar electronica Chris is a
talented multi-instrumentalist and London dweller.
www.myspace.com/sameactor
Dan Powell is a long standing SoG member and
former member of OMSK, he uses small instruments, tuned percussion and
junk processed via a laptop.
www.myspace.com/danpowell
www.myspace.com/doublebassandelectronics
The
Vainglories
Gillian Alder
has been writing scores for imaginary films as The Vainglories since 2003.
Whilst living in Melbourne she played in melodic pop band Tempted and electronica
duo Sweet Violentine, and contributed music to
theatre, live improvised comedy and (actual) short film. In 2007 she moved
to Brighton and has been working on creating a live performance set from
The Vainglories' back catalogue of extraterrestrial lullabies. The
Vainglories' music has featured on Australian radio stations SBS, PBS and
Triple J, and was selected for a Melbourne Fringe Festival compilation
album in 2004. In January 2008 The Vainglories played her debut live gig
at Brighton's Spirit of Gravity.
MSG
MSG is Jake Rousham,
Richard Miles and Tom Mugridge. It has a
brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes and an unusually large
central bulge, with a relatively high number of globular clusters.
Reference points include German heavy metal, a popular synthesized flavour
enhancer and a distant disc-shaped galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The
Spirit of Gravity will be MSG's second-ever gig, after complaints from the
neighbours forced their Lewes Arts Lab debut in January to a premature
conclusion.
There
will be an elektrocreche available for
any unaccompanied toys who will be looked after
during the intervals by our professionally trained team of volunteers. And
anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to play with.
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
We
have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog
from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
There
are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace
page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
There
are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at
www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity
There
are now also some of _minimalVector’s films
featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo
HDTV page
www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity
·
Greetings:
We
now have a Facebook group where you can be
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Next
Monthings: We’re getting ambitious now
we’ve had a taste of Komedia life, so for
the May Festival we’re putting on some of our favourite acts from the
experimental edge of Planet Mu including
former Brighton Resident Tim Exile, Ceephax, a
special one off noise-clash between Shitmat
and minimal impact, and lots more. It’ll be a blast and it’s in the
big downstairs bar here at the Komedia, so put
Tuesday the 12th May in your diaries now.
·
Reviewings:
DJ
Sexy Meagre Drive
was bemasked and bemusing DJ Sexy Meagredrive
played old skool Megadrive
anthems from back in the day. Crunchy
and overloaded 16bit crunch and proper buzzing bass. DJ SM wore the long
horned rabbit mask and danced as if he was enjoying it.
The
only negative I could add was the slap bass on one track, but apart from
that it was ALL good.
DFace
was an altogether less raucous affair, sat studiously behind an MC2000
with a violin on his lap. Bass and beats flowing luxuriously forth, the
violin plucked and looped into interesting commentaries on the main path,
at one point the bow was picked up and the violin raised to the chin and
we felt as if something epic were about to rip forth but D subverted us
with some slide-ways slant at his previous playing and carried on. We
called him back for an encore and he teased with a little squarepusher
cover, but really we wanted more and we need him to come back with a
longer set. Marvellous.
And
more marvels came from St Leonard’s own Frontier Telegraph, again
seated behind old equipment, this time a vast array of tinkerable
goodies including a stripped down stylophone
and a big circular white beastie that maybe wasn’t as old as it sounded.
Frontier Telegraph took a long walk through the squelching analogue
byways that impressed on his Dizzy Tiger CD (too good, get it from Stu
Huggett Now!). He was thrown in at the deep
end due to the brevity of the rest of the evening Michael kept us
enthralled with the shackling beats and warm hums for nearly an hour
without taxing our patience. It was a remarkable feat.
It
was a shame we had no visuals for the March show, but at least we had no
bodies slumped behind laptops, all was fiddling if not raving. And
speaking of Macs, it was good to see ‘Laptop’ Lee Hume back again, he
even told a joke. Part of which was funny.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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