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A new home

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So the first show in our new home The Three And Ten in Steine Street.

We like it, it has something of the Albert, Something of the Marlborough and a little something all of its own.

We were the first show in apart from the comedians so things were a bit tricky at first. but we soon got the hang of it.


Dan Powell opened the venue, playing from the back. Perversely. Accompanied by very abstract visuals from _minimalVector.

he never gives me titles for his pieces, so I’ve called this segment “Wilf”
dan_powell-wilf.mp3


Setting up on the floor of the stage with his Sitar, out of sight, but partially in range of Bartosz video feed was Same Actor making his second appearance in this blog of recent times. It is another good one, natch.

same_actor-life_drawing.mp3


Stepping in at the last minute for Bemass, who couldn’t make it due to bela being caught ill in Vancvouver, was ‘J’m black (again) with a Safehouse Wildcard Electro-Acoustic Ensemble.
Featuring Monty Oxymoron, from The Damned, Alasdair Willis from The Vitamin B12, Alastair Strachan from Vole, and matt Grey, who I’ve not seen play before.

This is a bit from the space section of their set, before Monty got into jazzy chords.

safehouse_wildcard_ensemble-60_cycle_groan.mp3

Safehouse @ Spirit of Gravity

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Sog Vs London

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A brief one for this.

Hot Roddy arranged a trip to London.

It was great. Really.

representing London (Twice) we had the Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys.

A bit of the second set

Providing the bridge we had Same Actor (a preview for the coming Brighton show?)


A Bit of Same Actor

And from Brighton Noteherder & McCloud accompanied by _minimalVector


insights and oberservations

Noteherder & McCloud – follow the Stokey alien
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Four to Two

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Blimey, chaos all round.

First it was going to be Vole and ‘This Sound Bureaucracy’ and ‘Jilk and Tulin-Fée’.
But Jilk and Tulin-Fée couldn’t make it.

Then it was Vole and ‘This Sound Bureaucracy’ and ‘McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom’.
Then it was Vole and ‘Shitmat and Horacio Pollard and nwodtlem’ and ‘This Sound Bureaucracy’ and ‘Noteherder and McCloud’: Busy.

Then This Sound Bureaucracy pulled out.
So then it was Vole and ‘Shitmat and Horacio Pollard and nwodtlem’ and ‘McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom’.

But although Shitmat and Horacio Pollard came along to the soundcheck, they had to go down to another venue they were playing later and never came back leaving…
Vole and ‘ ‘McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom’.

Got that?

Well, I suppose it’s not that important anyway. But it keep me on my toes, I can tell you.


So the last minute addition was McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom previewing the next Spirit of Gravity Compilation

festival


and then quite differently, Vole played, we nearly got everyone in for this picture, we missed the trumpet and electronics player. He’s standing over on the right.

Have you seen this cat?

And because I liked the picture heres another one of Vole showing the _minimalVector visuals that helped give Vole an odd fifties arthouse film vibe.
If you’ll excuse the pun.

Sunsets and other September stuff

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While the sun treated us to a lovely September treat we treated our ears.

Starting off the evening with a set of Buddha machine and Deer noises was Fallow. Creepy, Loud, quiet and blissful by turns.
Here’s a quiet bit so you can hear the Buddha Machines.
The buddha and the beast


Continuing the run opf arriving late from the west country with no time to soundcheck we had Little Boat and his guitar (lovely old) amp and pedals.

This is a cover version, it kind of stops halfway through, but that doesn’t matter.
cover version.


And rounding off the evening were the wonderful Power Up, violin, voice and various electronics I think this section has something of the variety of their set.
song from the middle

fabulous.

now, thats a youtube moment

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The second gig gets written up first: For Brighton live we took over the window of the clothes Shop juju in the North Laine as part of the Brighton Live promoters festival.

We set up _minimalVector inside the shop with a projector and his laptop for visuals, Tim and Soly kindly cleared the window and a rack of clothes inside.

Hot Roddy took first place and drew quite a crowd. He played a blinding set for about 40 minutes. Lee took a picture:


ANd we recorded an mp3:

hot_roddy-the_generation_game.mp3

Second in the space was Rashamon, hot foot from his show at Concorde2. Lee played a trademark set of hip hop inspired beats, beautiful washes and detailed psychedelia.

Heres the tail end of his set:
rashamon-Kelowna_Radio+Girl_ from_81.mp3

Last of all Terror Wogan let rip with the Atari stomp. crunching lo-fi 8bit ragga and electro.
terror_wogan-alien_mouse_dance.mp3

pleased to say, that a passer by did capture the moment for us and post it up to youtube. Thanks clubberholic. He’s also the source for the photo’s up on flickr – so double thanks.

Werewolves of brighton – clocks tick by themselves

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The full moon played havoc with us tonight. Equipment malfunctions, homing pigeons circling the neighbourhood unable to find a home, badness all round.


The lucky recipients of the brunt of the lunar waywardness were ad:art who repeatedly struggled against collapsing hard drives, but eventually succumbed to the whmsy of fate.
But not before leaving us this singular version of
fat (but happy)

Practically the last thing con_fuzed did before taking her coach over the sea was play this show. A terrible grapple with the gods of Brightons traffic meant that she arrived too late for a soundcheck, we did get a recording of her set though: here is an excerpt.

Noteherder &McCloud actually played first and escaped relatively unscathed.
Here is a segment of something seen through the window of a passing El

After another attempt to pay their set gave rise to a further abbreviated song and a lengthened sense of frustration, ad:art played some stuff off this CD, while _minimalVector did some visuals.
Its a good CD, if you see it anywhere, you should snap it up.

stay out of the woods

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Due to a catastrophic system failure at 10pm the previous night (oh the joys of ‘just doing that final tweaking to the set’) Rekalix had to withdraw at the last minute, which is a shame as we were really looking forward to his set.

So minimal impact stepped in with a refined minimalist minimal impact set. Not as expansive as the uberdrone of legend, it was an exploration into the detail of what makes him tick. Illuminating.
minimal_impact.mp3


We’re very pleased to have hosted Misha Begley’s first live show. A tour de force of Vocoder, distortion, strange loops and abrasive noises crowned with a creepy version of one of my favourite songs (its from “the wicker man”, the scariest film ever).
misha_begley-willows_song.mp3


And bringing things to a chaotic and imaginative close was a collaboration between Eastbournes finest and a another group making their debut we had Deepkiss720 featuring Meat Dream. Beyond description as anything that involves Deepkiss720 seems to be it featured home made suits and masks; an electronic mug tree, unplugged leads and all manner of butchered devices.
deepkiss_720_feat_meat dream-35to40mins.mp3


There is some video, too at the myspace page

Visuals by _minimal vector.