Swans are curating a festival at KOKO on the 3rd and 4th of April. It should be great.

Is it true that Swans are curating a festival at KOKO on the 3rd and 4th of April? If it's true it should be great.

International Battle of the Bands 2012

My cousin is playing in the Cypriot entry called "Wanderlust". Is anyone going?



Heston Drop, AUSTRALIA Pop/Alternative Rock
Stinkin Wayz, BAHAMAS Rake N' Scrape / Alternative Rock
Wanderlust, CYPRUS Psychidelic Rock
Metasoma, ENGLAND Metal
Lost Society, FINLAND Thrash/ Speed Metal
Trip, GREECE Alternative Rock
The Vintage Caravan, ICELAND Classic / Prog Rock
Verses, INDIA Melodic Death Metal
Di Blueprint Band, JAMAICA Reggae/ RnB Music
The Passive Standouts, LEBANON Indie Rock
Wynonna Ryderz, MOLDOVA Alternative Rock
Xinfu District, NORWAY Pop Rock
Roots of Nature, PHILIPPINES World Music
Manfellow, ROMANIA Alternative Rock
Citagazi, SCOTLAND Death Metal
Seven Pounds, UKRAINE Alternative Rock
Heavy Soul, WALES Pop Rock
Nigeria Coming Soon
Belgium Coming Soon

Skullflower + Hal Hutchinson
Cafe Oto
Thursday 10 January 2013

Tickets : £7 adv / £8 on the door

Rare duo (Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies) show for Skullflower, this configuration having last played at cold springs 21 anniversary event with MZ412 in 2011, where they were asked to play Fylkingen, Stockholm in January 2013.

Skullflower will be performing 'SECOND SAD CIRCLE' a homage to whirlwinds, illicit love, and hell, (referencing Dante's retelling of Francesca di Riminis sad tale that so moved Keats), in front of the 'white wolf' projektions. Strings/loops/vokills and manipulations.

Hal Hutchinson will be performing: 'WRECKAGE & RECONSTRUCTION: A live manifestation of the Factory Of Metal Sound'.

February 1st, 2013
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Cafe Oto

(Oh shit - TM clash)

Il Sogno del Marinaio (Mike Watt, Stefano Pilia, Andrea Belfi), Manflu, Dogfeet at The Lexington on Tuesday 26th Feb 2013

http://www.relix.com/audio/artist-ex...tiger-princess

Lau Nau - Cafe OTO - February 23rd

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/lau-nau-rie-nakajima.shtm

Vortex Jazz Club | Tue 19 Mar | 8.30pm
Eddie Prévost, Jason Yarde, Oli Hayhurst +
Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall
£12
Book online

Thought Forms - Rough Trade East In-store, Friday 8th March, 6.30pm

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/news_...?story_id=1914

Nice, I will probably go to this.

In the coming months I am going to see

My Bloody Valentine
Oneida
Sun Araw
Sightings
Jessica Baliff
The Men

where and whenare sightings playing?

Cafe oto in early april

i defiantly want to get into thought forms, because that fuzzed up feedbck guitar noise and i really want to see then live @ rough trade east in london

Wolf Eyes - Corsica Studios - London, Tuesday, April 23rd 2013

I'm fairly gutted that the fabulous diamonds show next week got cancelled

Wednesday 1st May
Corsica Studios
Baba Yaga’s Hut present Lumerians
Lumerians + Support
7.30PM – Late
£7 Advance
More on the night

Jandek with Alex Neilson & John Edwards
Cafe Oto
Thursday 4 April '13 • 8PM
£14 adv / £16 on the door

MOUNTAINS + PAUL METZGER + CAM DEAS
Cafe Oto
Saturday 4 May '13 • 8PM
£8 adv, £10 on the door

TALK NORMAL

VERITY SUSMAN

Tuesday 2 April

The Sebright Arms

31-35 Coate Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9AG | Map
8:00 | £7 | Buy tickets

April is going to be fucking great.

In the space of a week

Jessica Bailiff 17th Cafe Oto
Sun Araw & Sonic Boom 18th Corsica Studios
Container & NHK'KOYXEN 20th April Corsica Studios
Wolf Eyes 23rd Corsica Studios

Not a gig, but as good a place as any to put this:

Tony Oursler

Tate Modern

Saturday 16 February 2013

As American artist Tony Oursler’s phantasmagoric projection installation The Influence Machine occupies Tate Modern’s River Landscape, Tate Film presents a selection of Oursler’s single-channel videos. Best known for his multimedia installations often featuring ‘talking’ sculptures locked in existential quandaries, Oursler has been experimenting with video since the late 1970s, fusing strange dream landscapes and meandering psychodramatic narratives in a grotesque expressionistic theatre made entirely from recycled fragments of mediated experiences and pop-cultural tropes.

Programme One (14.00 – 15.00) is a free screening presenting two works featuring artist, filmmaker and musician Tony Conrad, who collaborated with Oursler on the soundtrack for The Influence Machine. Sound Digressions in Seven Colors is the single-channel version of a multi-channel projection installation, in which looped recordings of seven performers are superimposed in an experiment with chance recombination. Synesthesia: Tony Conrad is one in a series of interviews with seminal figures working at the intersection of experimental music, performance and art, originally part of the Poetics Project, an ongoing collaboration with Mike Kelley aimed at creating an open archive on the cross-pollinations of art and music, previously presented as a multimedia installation.

Programme Two (16.00 – 18.00) follows the development of Oursler’s visual language, from his characteristically low-tech set designs, inventively assembled from brightly painted cardboard and household objects, to the use of long fixed-camera shots and claustrophobic close-ups reminiscent of his projected doll pieces. Programme Two will be followed by a Q&A between James Lingwood (Co-Director, Artangel) and Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery).

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...s/tony-oursler

Accessible from London by train:



De La Warr pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, 05 May 2013

http://www.dlwp.com/event/editions-mego-170

Billy Bao on March 3rd
http://abjectbloc.blogspot.nl/

Thanks!

^^I figured at least you and one other person would be interested in that.

Hopefully I'll catch them at KRAAK myself, depending on things and stuff.

I'm hoping Mattin and co. are going to play a lot of the new tracks from ''Buildings from Bilbao'' because what I've heard off it so far is killer stuff.

The choice of venue for this gig is weird. I live round the corner from it and never knew that Storm Bugs played their first gig in years there in July 2012! Damn.

I liked the new one, but their 2007-2008 stuff (i.e. the Sacrilege compilation) remains my favourite Bao by far.

I've never heard the stuff on the Sacrilege compilation but I've played ''Dialectics of Shit'' quite a lot, at one point. Have you heard that Exquisite Corpse record he did with Kevin Failure, Loy ''Acapulco'' Fankbonner (who also still plays in The Chinese Restaurants, I think) and Margarida Garcia? Messy but in a good way.

Dialectics of Shit is actually on that Sacrilege compilation, together with Fuck Separation and a 7" of which the name escapes me right now.

I haven't heard Exquisite Corpse (wasn't even aware of it), but it sounds like something I need to check out.

Some time in September: Mainliner (Makoto Kawabata / Koji Shimura / Taigen Kawabe)

Nazoranai, the trio of Keiji Haino, Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi are booked in to shake the foundations of London's Scala on 11 July.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/22557/...on-this-summer

This clashes with the first night of Denovali Swingfest unfortunately, but I'm hoping to catch the first few acts of that (up to and including Fennesz) before moving on to Corsica Studios. Not sure I'll have the stamina to make it all the way through to 6 am, but it's the two acts named above that I'm especially keen to see, and I get the impression they're early on the bill. I'll leave the partying through the night to the young uns!

Weird that they're reforming without Nanjo, but also sort of poetic justice.

Beak are playing the Boiler Room at 4pm today.

Boiler Room: If you would like to come check Geoff Barrow's Beak> project in the Boiler Room alongside Anika & JAAKO this afternoon, just get in touch via nic@boilerroom.tv

Saw them last night in Rotterdam. They were alright but I wouldn't say you missed a whole lot. I had a feeling they have more in them than what comes out on stage and I had a similar feeling the last time they played here, about 4-5 years ago.

How is it poetic justice? What's the story behind that?

I was considering going to Swing Fest as well.
I think I am looking forward to Container most.
His live shows look great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5w04BQAG0

Selvhenter
Cafe Oto
Friday 19 April 2013 - 8pm
Tickets : £7 adv / £8 on the door




The Danish band SELVHENTER is quickly becoming one of the most exciting new experimental bands in Europe. Their unique sound combines the energy of rock with free improvisation and noise but also draws inspiration from the percussion music of Africa and Southeast Asia, and modern minimalist composition. In their music, the two drummers create strong polyrhythmic patterns while the horns and violin develop simple patterns of melody. In addition, both saxophone, trombone and violin often use effect pedals to distort and manipulate their sounds. The result is beautiful, aggressive and good for dancing. SELVHENTER's live concerts are always curious, focused and full of energy.

SELVHENTER is: Sonja LaBianca (saxophone), Maria Bertel (trombone), Maria Diekmann (violin), Jaleh Negari (drums) and Anja Jacobsen (drums). The five members of the band come from some of the interesting bands on the Copenhagen experimental music scene, such as Pinkunoizu, Havens Fugle, Chimes & Bells, Gud Er Kvinde, Valby Vokalgruppe, Kirsten Ketsjer and Choir Of Young Believers.

SELVHENTER was formed in 2007 as a trio of violin, saxophone and trombone. In 2008 they expanded with two drummers. The band released their first full length album in 2012 under the title “Frk. B. Fricka”. It was produced by legendary guitarist and film music composer Peter Peter and was nominated for the Nordic Music Prize 2012.

In 2010, the members of SELVHENTER founded the art collective and record label EGET VÆRELSE (a room of one's own) – a platform for the projects they create together or individually.

www.egetvaerelse.dk

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=5wtPR12u3AE

I got the impression that there isn't a single person in Japan that Nanjo hasn't pissed off, mainly due to his releasing loads of people's music on La Musica without asking them first and without paying them.

The band now seems to be called "Makoto Kawabata's Mainliner", which I can't say I'm very keen on.

Anyway, here's a photo.

Alexander Tucker curates an evening at Cafe Oto and commemorates it with a special piece of artwork that will be available as a screen print on the night. Alexander will also perform with Ashtray Navigations.

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/alexander-t...et-hayden.shtm