The Battle of Brighton Live

SoG's new out-reach programme nearly fell at the first hurdle when various acts were booked to appear in Bond Street's trendy bar Riki Tik's on 30th September as part of Brighton Live's city-wide free music fest. Let's just say that the selection of abstract electro-acoustic experimentation didn't go down that well with the locals. Funny as it sounds OK to me when I listen to it now, particularly Dan Powell's set, which started the evening off:

Dan_Powell-BL06.mp3

This Sound Bureacracy followed, although technical problems stopped them producing the full range of sounds that were planned. Despite this, the set still came together from time to time:

This_Sound_Bureaucracy-BL06.mp3

The tentative nature of the performance didn't help with the audience though, so here is the entirety of Minimal Impact's set, before he ran for the hills:

Minimal_Impact-BL06.mp3

Celled didn't play at all, but the night was saved when, fresh from his triumph at Concorde 2, Rashamon rode in on his white charger and quietened the natives with a smooth performance of hypnotic beats and melodies, which quite frankly was what the whole gig should have been like if we had thought it through. I'm sorry to say that I was cowering in the corner by this time, so didn't get a recording of the set, but please acept my word when I say it was a cracker.

Tony Rimbaud