Raagnagrok photo by Alyssa Joye
A cascade of gigs involving myself and friends in the next week or two, here’s the skinny, more info below.
* 28 Oct, Raagnagrok at the King & Queen, London // Man From Uranus, Sculpture & Friends at Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London // Now at Bearspace, Deptford, London
* 29 Oct, Miasma at the Buffalo Bar, london
* 30 Oct Disinformation & friends @ The Foundry, London
* 31 Oct, Raagnagrok at The Coal Exchange, Cardiff
* 2 Nov, SMDO @ Metro, London
* 4 Nov, SMDO @ The Old Market, Brighton & Hove
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28 October, Raagnagrok @ the King & Queen
* Raagnagrok are playing the always excellent Scaledown night, this Friday, 28 October.
This is the improv night hosted by Richard Sanderson and Mark Braby.
Upstairs at The King and Queen, 1 Foley St, London W1. Starts about 7.30, and I suspect we might be on early.
Other players include 60s improv and folk hero Mike Cooper, Keith John Adams and, following a chance roadside encounter, Mr Berk of Romania.
Entry is always free.
scaledown info
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31 October, Raagnagrok@ the Coal Exchange, Cardiff
We support krautrock legends Faust, along with Angelssey’s finest, Ectogram in what’s sure to be a terrfiying night for all involved. “Cardiff Bay’s most prestigious venue!”
Coal Exchange
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2 November, Stella Maris Drone Orchestra support Faust, Charles Haywood & Ectogram at The Metro, Oxford St, London. Right next to Tottenham Court Rd Tube. £15 (gak!) and we Stellas are on at about 7pm.
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4 November, SMDO, Faust, Ectogram, British Sea Power and many others, The Old Market, Hove. This has to be one of the oddest lineups I’ve ever seen. Should be interesting anyway, there are marching bands involved. Don’t know if BSP are doing their usual thing, and I’m not sure what it is, but I expect the night to be wild, chaotic and busy. Tickets £10
The Old Market
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We Stellas have several regular-sized gigs planned for Novembver and December, including slots at The Klinker (our favourite venue) and another possible Brighton show. We also going to do some proper recording soon, before this whole crazy enterprise collapses spectacularly around us.
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AND THERE”S MORE
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FRIDAY OCT 28: KERNEL PANIC. exhibition/installation at temporarycontemporary
in Deptford. opening night/private view. It is really going to be a good night
because you can see Man From Uranus, Ninki V, Sculpture, and Dogheads, a live
art thing from Daedalus, and DJing by Daniel Perlin.
Here’s the web URL for KERNEL PANIC:
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/kernel.html
http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/Directions.html – map etc
NOW are playing the same night up the road at Bearspace (more art!) on Deptford
High Street at about 11pm I think. BEARSPACE• 154 Deptford High Street London SE8 9PQ
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29 Oct, Miasma @ The Buffalo Bar, next to Highbury & Islington tube, London
The always impressive Miasma play a special Hallowe’en gig at this fine underground venue, once home to my Guinea Pig nights. Miasma are spectacular, baroque and in the ascendent. more info here: Miasma
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And last but by no means least – ALL THIS WEEK AT THE FOUNDRY…
The Foundry sub-basement, Old Street, London
5pm-ish till late, 18 to 30 Oct 2005
Admission free, closed Mondays
Closing night jamboree with live performance (quite likely involving members of Stella Maris Drone Orchestra), Sunday 30 Oct
Last few days… “NATIONAL GRID”
Live electromagnetic sound installation
by DISINFORMATION
“Pulsing sub-bass audio suggests associations with the most primal anthropomorphic element in music – the rhythms of the human heart, with foetal and infant hypnagogic sense memories, with seismic activity, the rumble of thunder (Jimi Hendrix claimed that his earliest childhood memory was of a thunderstorm) and even with war. Disinformation’s National Grid is a sub-bass installation sourced either from the ambient VLF field radiated by electricity pylons and mains circuits, or, more recently, directly from the output cables of mains transformers.