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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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and in reverse order

Sometimes you just go with it.

I described Sunday Mourning as sounding like the middle of a triangle with Sonic Youth, Earth and Goblin at the corners.
Or at times maybe like Goblin played like 16rpm, this is one of those times.



Ryan Jordans set is almost beyond description: but not quite. Tightly controlled noise and strobe effects. Its your personal doorway to the Black Lodge.



Guas Garside and Dan Powell have played at The Spirit of Gravity a couple of time spreviously, nither was as good as this.
Almost rigorously formal in its construction this is spontaneous composition as it should be done.






Ahhh, and the Video -= sorry its a bit dark - but its All Good.


dan powell and gus garside sog nov 2009

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Ryan Jordan sog November 2009

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Sunday Mourning sog November 2009

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video july

I've been a bit busy so haven't finished off everything for July yet, but we do have some video of teh amazing sets from Dan Powell and Gus Garside; plus Oli Mayne, Thanos Chrysakis and James O' Sullivan.

Unfortunately the advertised Jilke and Tulin Fee couldn't make it (part of a recurring dream).

So Anyway Oli and his crew:

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan



Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan




Gus Garside and Dan Powell



Gus Garside and Dan Powell 2

electroacoustic delay

The much anticipated UK début of bemass, postponed from November along with other electronic and acoustic madness.

In Sand and T-toe.

In Sand is another of Gus Garside's many aggregations. Gus on double bass, Richard Padley on guitar, Thor Magnussen on laptop and Danny Kingshill on Cello (missing Satoko Fukuda on violin on this occasion).

This being The Spirit of Gravity we played up the laptop slightly more than usual for this chamber quintet.

In_Sand-for_blog.mp3

T-Toe is Terry, he plays trombone and laptop Coming from a more breakbeat background he showcased the trombone slightly more than usual.


I know the name of this tune!

T-toe-gymnopedie_no_1.mp3


bemass are Bela Emerson from Brighton and Magnus Alexanderson and Sten Sandell from Sweden. This was their first ever show in the UK and went to extremes in just about every way.





bemass_desk-for_blog.mp3

HDTV video by _minimalVector






Bemass live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.



T -Toe live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.


In Sand live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

Ghosts and Aliens

I've been told some people are having problems getting the files to play, if you are, try saving them to your machine and playing them from there.

We have a new camera, and a new Minidisk Recorder, so its all gone a bit art this week. The full size picture of Gus in particular is a rare treat, scary powerful stuff.





Gus plays Bass

Thor and Dan process it - a set of results are here.

minimal impact also process Gus and some of their results are here.



Chevron give us a break from strings and plays a silver keyboard, this should have been the first outing for Chevvers new laptop, instead it was (hopefully) the last outing for the old one, poor broken thing, I've never seen a laptop struggle so manfully.



Bela played her Cello and this her new Viol, we were hoping to have a lovely clear shot of it, its quite lovely to look at, oh well.


Bela also played the Saw, and sang, the saw isn't on our recording as we didn't mic it up, but as she was processing her voice we did capture that.