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Dispatches from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 82 / July 09
·
Happenings:
SHIGE
ISHIHARA / DEAR BRITCH / TOM HALL
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Shigeru
Ishihara (DJScotcheg
/ SeeFeel).
Tom Hall is a prevalent gatherer of peripheral elements,
recontextualising and presenting them live through the use of sound and
image.
Stuart Flynn's Dear Britch, 1st Lady Of The Ghetto.
Shige
Ishihara
Shige Ishihara,
more famously known as DJScotchegg, the essence of Drum Eyes and part of
SeeFeel (Warp records) will be playing a special experimental set for the
Spirit of Gravity. You will not want to miss.
Stuart
Flynn's Dear Britch Has A Summer Sonic Holiday! Someone screwed up the admin
and instead of electrocuting him electrified him. The shock waves still
continue like vocal seas eroding moral shorelines
Tom
Hall
Tom
Hall is a media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Hall's eclectic works
flourish by utilising a variety of mediums, each that reflect on his varied
background and interests. With a strong focus on elements of the 'everyday'
Hall's practice involves considered explorations into place, space and time.
Drawing inspiration from countless 'peripheral' spaces, Hall focuses on
using multiple approaches to engage and recontextualise them to the public.
In
recent times Hall has worked with and played along side artists such as
Steinbruchel, Tim Hecker, Jason Khan, Lawrence English, Takashi Kojima,
Haco, Samm Bennet and Skist.
There
will be an elektrocreche available for any unaccompanied toys who
will be looked after during the intervals by our professionally trained team
of volunteers. And anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to
play with.
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
We
have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog
from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
There
are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace
page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
We
now have a Facebook group where you can be kept
up to date with shows and information:
www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=75568366205
There
are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at
www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity
There
are now also some of _minimalVector’s films
featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo
HDTV page
www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity
·
Greetings:
Recommended
by the Spirit of Gravity:
Wrong
Music Mega Rave
24th
July 10pm to 6am Volks Tavern, tickets £8 in
advance / £9 before 11 / £10 after 11
Monster
Zoku Onsomb / Ceephax
/ Sh*tmat / Chevron
and many others, including DJ Cheesemaster on
the decks
Random
Friday
17th
July De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, free
Thomas
Truax – from New York, playing self-made
instruments
Sound
Intermedia – technology arm of the London Sinfonietta,
performing 2 Stockhausen pieces
incite/
in London:
Also on July
17th, incite/ will perform in London the first time in almost two and a half
years on a DarkFiber (aka
AV Social) night at the BFI South Bank. The event centres around the 40
anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, featuring first men landing on the
moon.
Also presented this night: a film remix of George Lucas´
first film THX1138 by Oli Sorenson and Dan Tait
plus a variety of space-related screenings featuring Semiconductor and
others.
(10pm, free entrance)
Heavy
Load at the Ocean Rooms
Thursday
23rd July 8 pm to midnight, Ocean Rooms, Morley Street, Brighton,
£5 / £3 carers
The
UK’s only disability inclusive punk band Heavy Load, with
supporting guests:
The
Squadron Leaders
– surf sounds with a napalm fizz
DLA
(Dad’s Liberation Army) – high rate dad’s punk
Plus
DJ Aunty Morbid
A benefit for Brighton Pebbles, an inclusive group for children with special needs and their families
...featuring
the Spirit of Gravity’s Tony Rimbaud as bass player with aging punk band
DLA, also spinning the discs.
·
Reviewings:
Inside the darkness of the Studio Bar its all
much the same – good atmosphere all the year round inside. From Norfolk Hoofus
sprang on us. A serious man making comic/sensible music.
Hums and buzzes, blocks, no, slabs of sound even, tuneful monoliths of granity
texture. Light hearted, but furrow browed in its intensity. complementing
this Bartosz displayed his latest work on _minimalVector
with a delirious vortex of whirled images. The only
visuals of the evening. The rest of the night was played out black
lodge style against the red velvet curtains of the regular Studio bar stage.
Giving us a nicely skewed sense of the occasion was Animal Magic Tricks,
time slipping cassette backings warping while Frances played guitar or Casio
and sang whispered and deliberately obfuscated vibratoed
melodies. Dreamlessly she sings songs from behind the radiator: pop folk
from Babylon 5's shadow stores. Like the gifted grandchild of the Springfields
and Alan Vega.
Rounding off the evening Monster Bobby sang some old songs we knew,
some new songs we didn't, improvised noisy
endings onto some favourites and lied about songs he played. There were some
rare treats – new tracks from the forthcoming album and a track called
“F*ck me” from a recent compilation that was a complete blinder and
deserves a proper 7” release. Bobby was in good form, singing and dancing,
with none of the trademark false starts we've come to love and he almost
explained the story behind “The burning sensation of early diuretics”
(which of course you'll know from the first Spirit of Gravity compilation).
El
Maestro Con Queso
Editor.