From Mark Hadley Sent Wed, Apr 29th 1998, 10:44
From Mark Hadley Sent Wed, Apr 29th 1998, 10:44
> actually the steam engine was the best thing > i saw all day, it was incredible wasnt it! huge doesnt really sum up > how > big it actually was... gargantuan maybe Yeah, the steam engine was great (when it went off, every hour or so, was the only time in the day that lots of people moved in the same direction!), in fact the whole place was great for a gig, very surreal moving around all these artefacts of the industrial revolution and coming across electronic music! > The Surgeon/Mike Harris noise thing was pretty damn good too, Personally, i found their set extremely dull and disapointing too much playing with an effects unit and not enough Surgeon (in fact i wondered if they had bothered to turn his gear on at all!) > squarepusher > was ok, he played records by himself... a bit of plug.. a bit of MCing > 'Super Sharp Pea Shooter' Yeah, this was nice, squarepusher vs the steam engine! > > Autechre played later on. Stunning. They just get better. On this > > occassion the beats seemed less fractured, with longer structures > > being formed. I had a right old dance. Are rumours of a new > > album true? ... notebooks out, plagiarists-ahh. > > I dunno Autechre didnt really move me, i fully respect what they do.. > and find it quite admirable in a way that they havent actually > developed that much since their second album (they obviously like what they do...) > ,there was a very nice bassline at one point, some lush strings, the > last track bored me for five minutes... but then i really got into i for five > mins... and it hadnt actually changed! and then it started to drag again, i > thought I felt the same, i think i was trying very hard to enjoy their set, and at a couple of points i got into it (sounded really complex/intricate at times) but generally very, very Autechre!! (what are they doing when they play live, it doesn't seem to bear any relationship to what you can hear, i get the feeling i'm being duped by their 'live' performance : i'm probably wrong though!!) Highlights for me included Andrea Parker(?) playing NWA, and who were those two blokes playing along to a backing tape outside, one on a xylophone and one on an accordian, they were good. In the end, i gave up on trying to follow the playlists and just wandered around, staying somewhere until i wanted to go somewhere else!! All in all i had a very nice day :)) Mark. -- ____________________________________________________ Mark Hadley: xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx ? http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.hadley/mark/go.html ____________________________________________________