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
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vachescapes
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)
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.
And rounding off the evening in their inimitable fashion, we have ViV, featuring Alistairs new toy…
ViV live @ SoG – “have you seen this cat?”
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
crowds with staying power
I don’t have any pictures of pimmel, I’d left my camera at home. But you can still listen to a bit of music for massed fuzz organs.
Heres a screenshot of the House Music TV – you can just see the transducers.
usAdam Bushell listens to his voice disintegrating during “I am sitting in a room”
some of the sogchestra (in fact non sog sogchestra members). Soundchecking In C.
Playing it is here.
I’ve not seen THAT at an electronica show before.
Tetras, Concrete Belly, Jez North.
This was the first show we did with visuals by Vache, we liked ’em. Please note that the recordings are from the audience this month, nothing from the desk due to the setups.
Thanos Chrysakis (not pictured!) leads a quartet of top improvisers through the early hour at the April show.
Concrete Belly takes his medicine and girds his loins.
Jez North took it like a man and really went for it.
Tetras live at the SoG april 2010
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
Concrete Belly Live at SoG April 2010
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
Recruitment Drive
Grasscut, Hellboy, Broken Star.
This a great bit from the middle of Broken Stars set. And not just cos of the fuzz organ. Or Tom Del Rio’s visuals.
Hellboy really lets rip in the middle of his set.
I don’t have any audio of Grasscut available, sorry, but here is some video:
Grasscut Live at The Spirit of Gravity
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
Hellboy live at The Spirit of Gravity
The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos
A simple click and thats it for the murky video
I think that picture is the elektrocreche. Whatever, I just liked it.
February shaped up nicely. We started the night with Plurals who make rich warm drones like its 1972. Helped out by wil from viv on flute and guitar.
The night of full stages continued with a set of half mad performance and half weird electronics from Beatabet. I still have the feeling I missed 2/3 of what was going on.
and finishing with a Daniel Spicer-less Bolide who turned in a blinding set – Dan, no-one is indispensable!
No video this month due to a moments lack of attention.