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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

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Eugene Chadbourne live at sog September 2010

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Gus Garside, Monty Oxymoron and Annie Kerr – Monty spanks

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Slashs Wormhole live at SoG sept 2010

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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.

And rounding off the evening in their inimitable fashion, we have ViV, featuring Alistairs new toy…

ViV live @ SoG – “have you seen this cat?”

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The Zero Map live @ SoG

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The Warrior Squares (w/Geoff Leigh) at SoG

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crowds with staying power

Posted on June 15, 2010 by admin

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.

Adam 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.

Posted on May 3, 2010 by admin

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.