(idm) (Fwd) VVM / ISO etc LIVE!!!!!!!!! GIG RE-PORT

From s.f.w.d.
Sent Tue, Jun 2nd 1998, 02:36

Reviews of Chart Runners, Shoplift, and *MMJ* box (sort of) coming 
along very soon from me... 

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[FWd] DIARY OF A MAD -AN

report from my duties as Janitor of Anarchy / DJ  over 3 nights of improv
festival in Strling [ LE Weekend 

[BTW avaliable for bookings : weldings , parties etc.....reasonable rates,
will play nothing you want]

went something like .......this...................

FRI  29th MAY

After another fruitlessly long day spent running about trying to locate the
elusive 'squant\' font for the sleeve ofDISKONO #1, finally arrived at the
venue [2 rooms -  bar area + performance Area - small theatre with 100 SEATS
: the proper way to enjoy a performance - NO arseholes wanting to "dAnCe"] 5
minutes before DOors opened w/ DJ essentials i.e. sticky tape - for forcing
records to stick, loop - jump & Stanley knife - for real time record
mutilations , sadly didn't have time to dump any demo material to MINi-DIsc,
so that cat will have to stay in the bag for another Day!, strictly
VINYLTONITE!! met up with young James & Andrew, who had strategically placed
50 copies of new VVM 12" outing 'SHOPLIFT' [vvm006.1T you number crunchers]
around the venue &  b4 you could whistle 'Mouldy Old Dough' VVM commenced
only their second LIve set 2 Date,  hunched over 2 PC's w/ a bank of
MINI-DISC players & 2 turntables for overlays, allowing the throw of the
DICE in SMILEY MILEY's Radio 1 Roadshow game to direct the flow of their
performance  ala Luke Rheindhart 'DIceman', complete subliminal 
deconstruction,-pink/black/white noise -fragments of recognition,  Frank
reciting 'Strangers in the Night' direct from Hell, a touching  'Mull of
Kintyre' - not a dry eye in the house - The Birdie was spotted as well as
the 'Hawaiian' & 'Coronation ST'

Tonite's TOP  'Sellotaped in the BAr' Loops

1. VVM - British Beef [vvm]
2 .KUKL - Untitled [Crass] 
3. Various - Break / FLOW [Break / Flow]
4. Human Leauge - Dignity of Labour [Flexi-Disc] [Fast]   
5. Veco 9 -Untitled [Irdial]
6. No Means No - Untitled [Alternative Tentacles]

SAT 30th

Aho=y!!!Glasgow old skool indie mafia in da house!!, y' couldnt move for DOC
marten shoes, crumpled shirts & 501's, ex-Soup Dragon Sushil Dade's outfit
FUTURE PILOT AKA took the stage  augmented w/ the dreamy vox / crumpled
shiirts & 501's  of Glasgow leg-ends THE PASTALS,  came over as a dogfight
between Cornershop & John Barry,  Super 8 projections, pre-programmed LOW-FI
riddim & live Brass fleshed out Dade's high register bass lines & textural
Geetar -, sound sucked tho:, like to hear them on REcord, 2 becks swilling
weirdos -  MOUNT VERNON ARTS lABS sat facing each other - sound-chess w/
Therim & bank of  FX pedals, doing the oscillating drone gig  - pretty good

Top Bar Moment

only 1 person came up the *whole* weekend to trainspot [techno headz take
note] and that was coz he recognized a Steve Reich rekkid

Tonites Top Scratched to Fuck Tunes

1. Mark Stewart - Forbidden Colour [Mute]
2. Ciccone Youth - Addicted To Love [Blast First]
3. Conrad Schnitzler - Untitled [EG]
4.  Spoonie Gee / Davy DMX - Street Girl [Tuff City]
5.  Casper / Peter Brotzmann - Fette Biester [ Path]
6. Keith Whitman - Reckankreuz [Clear Vinyl]

SUN 31st

Freak OUT -------------   -__ part of ISO' s [Ground Zero's Otomo
Yoshihide's new combo]  luggage was lost @ airport, so much scuttiling about
wasin order to find them a sampler [engineer later remarked "that's the
strangest use of a sampler i've ever seen"] & Keyboard, we handed over DJing
duties to the local Pirate Radio krew in order to capture the LIVE acts in
full tonight, Evan Parker stepped into the spotlight, forgoing microphone or
any source of amplification, a single man & his Horn alone, you could almost
hear him thinking aloud as  out tumbled 40 minutes of high velocity raw and
cut to the bone speed jazz, stopping for 5 minutes in-between to get his
circulation back!!!-- puts things into perspective when you are lucky enough
to witness such an uncompromising genius who
exudes genuine warmth & humility - this is what the fuck it is ALL ABOUT-
REAL SOUL music..
ISO followed up // Auntie - aniTi-Musik, get this : 3 of them -Geezer on
Drums - not playing da DRUMS but banging mikes w/massive reverbs on them
against ride cymbal & Bass Drum shell, Girl on Keyboards/Sampler -  emitting
random high frequincies - punching the keys & OTOMO Yoshihide on turntables
& FX unit - using customised head shells with springs attached - sampling
the amplified sound of the tone arms hitting the platter - needle playing
the platter - chains dropped on decks, records propped on spindle and tone
arm bounced off -banging fists rhymthmically on platters - 

hope 4 ully the first of many similar nights, was refreshing to Hear music
in such a low-key enviroment -  we are currently organizing a gallery space
in Glasgow for live instillations

FIGht the Hits!!


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