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October proper – all darkness and wind.

Posted on November 17, 2010 by admin

It was a Dark and Stormy night, but we were very happy in the Komedia with a top bill.

kicking off things we had Romanoids tribute to Solar Records. Though to be fair I think its only me that sees the disco connection.

Then Tom Mudd gave us some Joypad joyful noise.

Twocsinak was just pointing out the words from this list, rather than reading them.
Although he did have a stand with them on. This song? Poem? was called “Zen and the art of “something which went on for a long time and Joe got bored even before we did.

And finally John Wall worked with Vache to provide a digital soundtrack to an 8bit display (have a look at the video below, too)

Also lots more videos on our myspace page. click on the video button, there is yards of the stuff.

Romanoid live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Tom Mudd live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Twocsinak live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

John Wall Live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Bonus in Red

Posted on November 3, 2010 by admin

We did a co-promotion with Hype PR in November.
Lawrence English and Simon Scott up at The Albert.
It was top, here is some video:

Lawrence English Brighton Nov 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

simon scott live in brighton Nov 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Lawrence English and Simon Scott Brighton Nov 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

No footage of the SoG Q4, though. And no mp3’s.

wreckless recommends

Posted on October 7, 2010 by admin

Apparently Eric, who was playing at The Albert, asked his crowd why on earth they weren’t at ours to see Eugene Chadbourne.
And quite right too.

I thought we’d start with a picture of SoG regular Simon hacking his teddybear at the elektrocreche.

Set up next to the elektrocreche was Vache who was handspooling VHS for the visuals.

It was a tough show to schedule but someone had to go first, Henry grasped the nettle and took the opportunity to play a full length Slashs Wormhole set in three parts. pt I featured a tennis racquet and ping pong ball and harp chair, followed by a duet for exercise bike/bass hurdy gurdy and fuzz guitar and rounded off with a duet for toolbox and vuvuzela.

Sandwiched in the middle were Gus Garside, Annie Kerr and Monty Oxymoron, who I’m trying to convince call themselves HaHaHa. This a bit from near the end where Monty was whacking a brass dog he had stashed under the birdcage.

And the main event was Eugene Chadbourne, starting on banjo and finishing on electric guitar (including a rousing version of “City of Corruption”). This is the first song, possibly called the old piano.

Eugene Chadbourne live at SoG Sept 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Eugene Chadbourne live at sog September 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Gus Garside, Monty Oxymoron and Annie Kerr – Monty spanks

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

Slashs Wormhole live at SoG sept 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

omg latew again

Posted on September 23, 2010 by admin

August Sog: Circus toe, Slow Listener, Clang Sayne and $un$hine Republic.

Cirucs Toe here!

Slow Listener here

And Clang Sayne

Finally $un$hine Republic

vachescapes

Posted on August 24, 2010 by admin

The July Spirit of Gravity was something of a backhanded tribute to Wrong Music.

Starting off the evening was Life President of The Spirit of Gravity in his Same Actor guise. Eventually I’ll be posting up some video of his version of “Steptoe and Son”

So for the mp3 I’m posting up a bit with some stolen cymbal (live sampling of Medicine and Duty’s drum kits).

Next up were a group I’ve wanted to book since I saw them play in the cramped spaces of the downstairs room at The Volks at 3am.

This is the beginning of their set, before the growling started.

Rounding off the evening were the vanguard of the Shoreham Electronic Alliance, The 55th Flotilla.

Telegraph and wheel: this is just a good bit.

Aircon 1: long hot night of the soul (ViV, Warrior Squares, The Zero Map)

Posted on July 28, 2010 by admin

The midsummer shows are always a bit tricky when we come up against a major football tournament, who could fail to forget the music being drowned out at The Little Marlborough Theatre by the ladies downstairs cheering when Joe Cole scored?
So not being up against an England game was a good start. The lineup being such quality also helped.

Set up in front of the stage we had The Zero Map, Chloe and Karl from the A Band making moody psychedelic stuff. That gets harder to describe every time I listen to it.
It started out with a didgeridoo-ish warble and ended like this.

I’m still not sure if Geoff Leigh is a full time member of the Warrior Squares or has just happened to be sitting in with them whenever I’ve seen them, but this set was blindingly good, Geoff was on fire and so where the St Leonards boys.
Perversely rather than put up something from the beginning which was amongst the best I’ve ever seen at SoG, I’ve cut this bit from near the end.