Spirit of Gravity at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, Tuesday 21st March

And what a great night it was - everyone turned up and played a blinder! First was local act Massimo, who had fat analogue sounding sequencers bouncing through long delays all seemingly controlled by a very small box covered in knobs, then over this he laid some serious virtuoso noodling on the keyboard. A good half of his set was beatless and when the drum machine did start, it rolled and cascaded, understatedly adding to the dynamic of the piece, building and supporting it. Massimo has a CD available from www.superbo.org and very good it is too.

Following on from there and down in Brighton for the first time were Ry-om (www.ry-om.net), an altogether much lower key affair. Two guitars, laptops effects and an ironing board. Ironing board? I'm sure I saw an ironing board... Collaged sound built up from squeaks and cricks into dense rushes of reverbed acoustic guitar and out into spangled washes of space, they gave us our first encore in ages (jaded by the constant quality?) a gently washing, swooshing beautifully stereophonic thing. The Minidisk we use to record SoG was having a bad day and only recorded the right hand speaker otherwise this would have been on the Sogblog quick as you like.

Finishing off the evening were collective members Komuso, Derek and Cliff joined for the occasion by McCloud on bass guitar and Caleb from Waxed Apple spurning his Kaoss pad and bringing along a bizarre patch bay drumbox. Cliff continued with his habit of leaving the drums at home and controlled the on stage mixer and laptop, with Derek providing CDDJ skills and fx. I think we can safely say they had a pretty dense sound there, thick slices of noise with extra dialogue coming from behind where the projector was showing a Richard Linklater cartoon, giving way to bass and drum grooves and odd moments of scintillating shards of, of what? God knows. I really have no idea where it came from or what it was. I also have no recollection of the evil birds you can hear on the track that's posted on the blog.