SUN 8TH MAR, 2009 7.00pm
TONY WAKEFORD
Bar & Co (Temple Pier)
£5.00

Tony Wakeford assisted by Renee Rosen of Sol Invictus and Guy Harries and M from Orchestra Noir takes a stumble through Mr Happy's back catalog.

Expect also some new songs from the forthcoming Sol Invictus album out on Prophecy later this year, and maybe a guest or two to break up that suave voice and gay banter.

Support comes from harpist & songwriter Lunamoth.

This is the first event of Ship of Fools Club, a collaboration between Tursa and Kaparte Promotions.

Music on a boat in a central London location, only one minute from Temple tube station and right behind Somerset House.

WARNING: Concert will include graphic scenes of sitting and cravat wearing.

MON 9TH MAR 2009 / TUE 10TH MAR 2009 / WED 11TH MAR 2009
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & SACHIKO M
Cafe Oto
£10.00 (three day pass £22.00)

SUN 22ND MAR, 2009 7.30
PETER WALKER
Cecil Sharp House
£8.00

MON 30TH MAR, 2009 8pm / TUE 31ST MAR, 2009 8pm
KAN MIKAMI
Cafe Oto
£9.00 (two day pass £15.00)

who is mick beck?

If John Edwards is bass, then Mick Beck is saxaphone. Or if Edwards is sax, then Beck is bass. I can't remember which way around it was.

EDIT - The myspace has the answer: http://www.myspace.com/mickbecksaxandbassoon

T&B - Mick Beck is a (blind...) tenor saxophonist, and a pretty bloody good one too. I've seen him a couple of times over the years, and he's never disappointed.

blunderbuss - re the T Wakeford gig - I take it that's in London?

Did you read the description? Did you? Eh? :rolleyes:

*Groan*.....just looked again....shall I shoot myself, or do you want to do it?

You do it, and post footage on youtube.

^^OK, I'll see what I can do.

Back on topic:

PJ Harvey and John Parrish - Monday 20th April at Shepherd's Bush Empire

(info on further UK dates and European dates are here: http://www.pjharvey.net/news.html





PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH ANNOUNCE UK & EUROPEAN TOUR
PJ Harvey and John Parish will embark on a UK and European tour this April and May. The tour is in support of their second collaborative album ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’ which will be released by Island Records on March 30th The album has been described by journalist, John Harris, as “…mischievous, deadly serious, elegant and poetic, and possessed of a brutal power – it is doubtful that you will hear a record as brimming with creative brio and musical invention this year…”

Beginning in the UK on April 15th in Brighton, the pair will be backed by a band comprising of Eric Drew Feldman, Giovanni Ferrario and Jean-Marc Butty and will play seven shows across the UK, with a London show at the Shepherds Bush Empire on April 20th. They will then head to Europe for a string of dates; taking in Berlin, Paris & Milan along the way.

The show will feature music from both the forthcoming album as well as their first collaboration, 1996’s ‘Dance Hall At Louse Point’.

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am Monday 19th January (with the exception of Oslo, which goes on-sale on Wednesday 21st), full list of dates and ticketing info is below.

South Bank Centre - Ether 09 line-up
9 April - Conversation Piece: Brian Eno and Jon Hassell
10 April - Peaches: Every Little Defect Deserves Respect
11 April - Röyksopp
12 & 13 April - David Byrne presents The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno
17 April - Mouse on Mars soundtrack Herzog's Fata Morgana
18 April - Plaid and Supanggah
19 April - Noise of Art featuring The Juan MacLean & Château Flight
21 April - Touch presents Fennesz, Rosy Parlane & CM von Hausswolff
24 April - Heiner Goebbels: Sampler Suite & Songs of War I Have Seen


I am so gonna be there on 21 April.

16 May 2009
Touch presents, as part of The Short Circuit Festival:
Philip Jeck and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble / Biosphere / Hildur Gudnadóttir & BJNilsen
Camden Roundhouse
£20.00

Philip Jeck and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble
The Sinking of the Titanic Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking of the Titanic is an open semi-aleatoric work written in 1969. Bryars himself has developed versions of variable length (from 15 minutes to an hour) that have been performed in different contexts, both as sound installation and as a real concert work. The piece has its origins in an obsession (one in which Bryars meditates on the famous ship’s sinking) whose evidence is in a minute handwriting notebook. This brings together information, curiosities, evidence, statistical data on the survivors, technical research on the ship, on the places occupied by the passengers, on projects for the wreck’s recovery. In other words everything related to the time of the sinking. This sinking is then a metaphor for the failure of modern technology, of the paradox of modernity, the fact that a super-technological ship could have been rammed and sunk by a block of ice. This is an another important aspect of our Titanic idea: one related to memory and to lifetime, to concreteness and abstraction meant as a metaphor for the journey between life and death, the ocean’s surface and depth. The important new figure in this version is Philip Jeck, one of the most important names on the experimental scene. Jeck uses his experience to cover the sound with a blanket of thin dust, which, at the same time, is memory, distance, hallucination, traveling, and anxiety. The dust which comes from the obsessive repetition of a short phrase, its melancholy, the memory’s melancholy, is part of an harmony that Jeck shares with Bryars that succeeds, in a really extraordinary way, in freezing time in a “waiting” dimension. A version with Philip Jeck and the Italian string quartet Alter Ego, recorded at the Venice Biennale in 2005, was released on Touch in 2008.

Biosphere
Geir Jenssen lives and works in Tromsø in northern Norway. Biosphere inverts his climatic and atmospheric experience to produce a warm, ambient sound, often using conventional instrumentation for his sources. Someone once called it 'Arctic Sound', opening up huge spaces right at the dead centre of urban claustrophobia. His music is synaesthetic - sound sculpture, music as photographic collage, here perfectly accompanied by Jon Wozencroft's images. One of the most successful of the pioneers of sample-based music, he has been releasing albums on Touch since 2000. Also an award-winning film composer, he scored the soundtrack for the original version of Insomnia [1997].

Hildur Gudnadóttir & BJNilsen
Hildur Gudnadóttir's live cello is picked up and processed by BJNilsen to produce an original and challenging new composition. The organic sounds of the cello are developed using 'digital signal processing' (dsp) on a laptop computer. One of the oldest and most beautiful musical instruments, the cello works perfectly as a source for digital instrumentation - its rich sensual tones suit electronic treatment perfectly. We hear the cello as well as the process, which develops rather than restricts the dynamics of the acoustics. Hildur has been playing cello since the age of 6, training at The Reykjavik Music College in Iceland, before further studies in electronic music composition. She has played and worked with many ground-breaking groups, including Múm, Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Angel, Skúli Sverrisson and others. Her debut album for Touch, 'CI' will be released in the Spring of 2009.

BJNilsen has been performing and recording for many years, including successful collaborations with Chris Watson and Fennesz. Recording also for film, TV and radio, his work consists of electronic treatments of natural sounds, exploring the acoustic of the analogue in a digital context. He is a member of Spire and freq_out.

£20 is a bit steep

Crystal Stilts + Wavves + Pens

London: Upset The Rhythm @ Bardern's Boudoir
THU 26TH FEB, 8PM

Too bloody right it is! The Touch event at Ether isn't much better (£17.50 or £15.00), but I'll probably pay it anyway because they're people I'd like to see perform.

yeah, although at least you'll get a seat at ether.

You'll be pleased to know that you are right, Birds of Delay were fucking crap, the guy is a joke. What's the point of going to see someone who isn't even playing anything, apart from air guitar and random noise? Pain Jerk were not my bag either, and Emeralds played some cosmic music that was anonymous-sounding, short, and disappointing. Thank god for Melly saving the whole experience with his comedy comments. It was a good night out, certainly not because of the bands involved.

sarram - Snap. Snap.


Snap.

(Pain Jerk was one big suckfest, fer shore. I agree w/all else that sarram sez here)

one of the guys from birds of delay told my friend that they (birds of delay) don't practice the only time they play together is at gigs. one of the dudes from that group is a networker par excellence though.

Sunn 0))) - Sunday 22nd February, Corsica Studios (Rise Above head honcho will be DJ-ing on the night).

Earth - Friday 24th April, Borderline.