Astral Social Club last night were fantastic. I've enjoyed Kylie Minoise too but for reasons that weren't musical at all.

Purcell Room
The Wire magazine presents the scope

Friday 7 November 2008, 9.30pm
A free late night event of out there sounds.

Programmed by The Wire magazine, and taking its name from the bar in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, this free late-night event features a sequence of performances by a number of Stockhausen's feral children.

In the Purcell Room, experience a total frequency assault by a crack crew of modern laptop technicians led by John Wall, plus a full kontakte piano and percussion improv session featuring Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders and John Coxon. This all happens on either side of a rare screening of The Brothers Quay's In Absentia, which visualises music by Stockhausen.

Meanwhile, in The Front Room, experience the Radio Cologne sound.

Peter Brotzmann: Brötzmann-Wertmueller-Pliakas

The Final Terror

Saturday 15 November 2008, 7.45pm

Peter Brötzmann is a living legend of the European free improv scene, well known for his part alongside the seminal producer Bill Laswell in the iconic Last Exit band. This year sees the 40th anniversary of his recording Machine Gun, a revolutionary statement that set the standard for a no-holds-barred European response to free jazz. Following a blistering broadcast for Jazz on 3 earlier this year, this electrifying trio generates sonic wave upon wave of loud and fast, rocket-fuelled jazz.Acoustic Ladyland frontman Pete Wareham brings more loud raw jazz from his new band The Final Terror. Fusing his explosive saxophones with pounding beats from drummer Leo Taylor and the driving electric bass of Ruth Goller, texturised by guitarist Chris Sharkey of trioVD they produce enough sonic mayhem to more than justify their name.

Royal Festival Hall
Julian Cope

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 7.30pm
Rock star, antiquary, musicologist, and poet Julian Cope returns to the Royal Festival Hall following the release of Black Sheep, 'a musical exploration of what it is to be an outsider in modern Western culture'.

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BOSS HOG FEAT. JON SPENCER & CRISTINA MARTINEZ
LONDON Luminaire
MON 8TH DEC, 2008 7.30 pm
£8.00

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39243

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AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE / THOUGHT FORMS / F.M.G.
LONDON: Catch
SAT 15TH NOV, 2008 8.00pm
£5.00
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/36540

This one will be very very loud. Amusement Parks on Fire join us to play some of their heavily layered dreamy post punk. Think Sigur Ros crossed with Black Flag. Thought Forms make some amazing shoegaxe and have just released their debut album on Invada records. They were also handpicked by Portishead to play at last year's ATP. F.M.G. comes straight over from his gig at ZXZW to make an incredible racket.

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THE 8 HOUR DRONE PEOPLE at Cafe OTO

 

SUNDAY 23rd November 2008

Times : 2pm - 10pm
Tickets : £8 / £7 advance


Oceans of Silver and Blood proudly present

THE 8 HOUR DRONE PEOPLE

8 International Sound Artists
Separated and joined by time for 8 hours

Angharad Davies (Wales)
Henrik Rylander (Sweden)
Tomas Korber (Switzerland)
Bill Kouligas (Greece)
Lasse Marhaug (Norway)
Joachim Nordwall (Sweden)
Nikos Veliotis (Greece)
Mark Wastell (England)

This concert marks the third interpretation of Joachim Nordwall's Drone People series. Previously there has been a 5 hour version in Amsterdam and a 24 hour version in Stockholm.


8 hours of unrelenting droneage people!!

Oh yeah and Deerhoof are playing the ICA (Don't quote me on that) on the 2nd of December.

I don't know if it's been posted already, Otomo Yoshihide is playing Cafe Oto on Monday.

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Thanks for that - it's a shame that it's not with Mats Gustafsson's The Thing, like his Irish dates at the moment.

This (also at Oto) looks like it could be interesting though:

Cobra Mist - Emily Richardson, Chris Watson, Benedict Drew
TUESDAY 9th December 2008
Times : 7pm
Tickets : £5

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/programme/i...CobraMist1.jpg

Aspecial screening of Emily Richardson's Cobra Mist and expanded cinema event with live sound performances by Chris Watson and Benedict Drewto launch the DVD release of 6 Films by Emily Richardson, published by LUX. The DVD contains six recent film works by Emily Richardson with a new essay by William Fowler, Curator of Artists Moving Image at the BFI National Archive (and will be available at a special price of £15 at the event, usual price £20)

A LUX event supported by Animate Projects.

Emily Richardson is an artist filmmaker, working with 16mm film and multiple screen video installations, her focus is landscape, spaces, environments and our relationship to them, whether it be a forest, a strip of coastline or a tower block. Herfilms are distributed by LUX and have been shown in galleries and at festivals internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, NFT, Curzon Soho, Artist’s Space, New York and Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam and New York film festivals.A book of her work, Time Frames, is published by Stour Valley Arts, distributed by Cornerhouse, Manchester and aDVD of a selection of her films is published by LUX.
www.emilyrichardson.org.uk

Chris Watson isa sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio, Chris specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production.He won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound on David Attenborough'sThe Life of Birds for BBC TV,has released 3 solo CDs for Touch and also makes sound installations, the most recent beingWhispering in the Leaves Installation at the AV Festival in Sunderland 2008.
www.chriswatson.net

Benedict Drew is an artist who works in performance, sound and video. For several years he has been involved in promoting concerts in London such as Audit and produces concerts for the London Musicians' Collective. Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with various improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Alistair Leslie, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Matt Davis and hascomposed the soundtracks for five films by Emily Richardson.
www.benedictdrew.com

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South Bank Centre - Purcell Room
Leee Black Childers
House of Homosexual Culture
Friday 30 January 2009, 7.45pm
£20.00

 

Leee Black Childers is one of the key witnesses of 20th century popular culture. As an intimate of the Warhol Factory in the 1960s, he met and photographed the stars of the New York rock and gay underground, absorbing Warhol’s reportage aesthetic and creating a unique record of the Stonewall era.

He witnessed the birth of glam rock in the clubs of London and New York, and in 1972 became a key player in David Bowie’s management company, accompanying Bowie all over the world. As a photographer, Leee captured the famous faces of 1970s music and nightlife - and he was also part of that scene, managing Johnny Thunders, watching the emergence of punk rock on both sides of the Atlantic.

Leee Black Childers comes to London to talk about his amazing life and times, focusing on Andy Warhol’s only stage play PORK (1970), for which he was stage manager, and tracing its influence through music and gay culture since.

BOOKING

Modified Toy Orchestra, Thursday the 4th of December - Covent Garden
6:00 pm

Free gig, for all the cheapskates out there.

http://www.coventgardenlondonuk.com/...as-gig-guide-1

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Modified Toy Orchestra, Thursday the 4th of December - Covent Garden
6:00 pm

Free gig, for all the cheapskates out there.

http://www.coventgardenlondonuk.com/...as-gig-guide-1

i've had such fun at this tonight. they were so good, they give circuit-bending the good name it deserves. Me and my friend came up with the 'toycore' tag, which was a term obviouly overused throughout the night. 'Duran Duran for paedos' was another one.

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BEN NASH & GARETH HARDWICK
CAFE OTO
Thursday 22nd January 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 advance / £6 door

An evening of guitar experimental drone/raga with:

Ben Nash (Blackest Rainbow, Important, Aurora Borealis)
Ben is one of Sheffield's best kept secrets, releasing cassettes and CD-R's through a number of independent labels and distributors. Musical elements as diverse as folk, raga, Eastern percussion, drone, prog and noise collide and coalesce. Ben will be playing with full band.

Gareth Hardwick (Blackest Rainbow, Install)
Beautiful guitar drone bliss in the vein of Stars of the Lid or Windy & Carl.

Ashtray Navigations + Ben Reynolds + Wooden Spoon


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Time and PlaceDate:Saturday, January 31, 2009
Time:7:30pm - 11:00pm
Location:Cafe Oto
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^^Good line-up, I'm tempted to go to this.

I am going.

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I'd like to see Ashtray Navigations, though I have no idea who the other acts are. How much of the moneys doth it costeth?

I can't imagine it would cost anymore than 5 or 6 quid.

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for anyone who gives a shit

 

Animal Collective

7:00pm - Mon 12th Jan 2009


Animal Collective is a New York City-based group of experimental musicians from Baltimore, Maryland. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. The band members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. Although the band is often classified as psych folk or noise rock, it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound as they often experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. The group also runs the record label Paw Tracks on which they have released their own material as well as material by artists such as Ariel Pink, Terrestrial Tones, and The Peppermints.

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everyone gives a shit

 

Roots Manuva

7:00pm - Thu 19th Feb 2009


Both gigs at KOKO