Nun ist es also eine Sache! Oder genau genommen sogar zwei.
Nachdem sich der Frankfurter Verein fuer Kuenstlerhilfe e.V. bereit erklaert hat, das Projekt finanziell zu schultern, Ist es mir eine aussergewoehnliche Freude, mitzuteilen, dass meine merkwuerdige Kopfgeburt Gazillion Gazebo tatsaechlich stattfinden wird.
Was dann auch bedeutet, dass ich mir dann am Freitag und Samstag jeweils von 20-22 Uhr in Frankfurt auf dem Rossmarktgelaende umgeben von jeder Menge anderer abgefahrener Projekte anderer Leute ordentlich den Allerwertesten abfrieren darf. Hui, das wird ein Spass.
Weiterhin gibt es dann noch begeistert zu vermelden, dass ich am darauf folgenden Montagabend, den 25. Maerz in der Walpodenakademie in Mainz unter dem wirren Motto: „Drinnen draussen sein“, audiovisuell aufspielen werde. Wer also nach der Lichternummer noch nicht genug, oder dafuer keine Zeit gefunden hat, der soll doch einfach nach Mainz kommen. Das ist dann dem „draussen“ im Namen zum Trotze auch drinnen, da muss man dann also nicht so frieren.
So there have been a few shows recently. Generally, it feels good to be playing live again. Althought the new setup needs a lot of work until it functions in a way that I want it to. But that’s only my stuff and I didn’t really expect it to work right away. In any case, it would be way less of a problem if it wasn’t for all those fucking annoying PA idiots.
How come so many sound system people are just absolute fucking pussies when it comes to aggressive electronic live music? They bring a completely oversized PA to the venue and play punk bands and breakcore records at deafening volumes, but once I’m on, they shit their pants and turn the levels down to barely audible. Even if I tell them to turn it up about 4 times. Of course then the audience gets annoyed and leaves.
GROW SOME BALLS OR GET A FUCKING LIMITER, ASSHOLES!
It is so incredibly annoying to have just another performance ruined by some sound guy who just doesn’t fucking get it.
And don’t even get me started about that drugged idiot who thinks he needs to touch my instruments/mixer/whatever.
Oh, the randomness. The whole thing was disorganised as fuck! Of course, there was no projector, the Kaoss pad’s power adapter broke, I forgot the extra special cable for the Zoom 505 at home. The PA sucked big time and I was playing last, ending around 5:30. I was loud and obnoxious All in all, It was a pretty fun night.
I produced the soundtrack for the iThing game „Smash the Business Twit“, which was programmed by Owi Mahn and which my lovely girlfriend Eva made graphics for.
So if you own one or two or more of those shiny gadgets with a rotten apple on its backside, Go and BUY IT NOW! It will make you incredibly cool and sexy and me incredibly rich and famous!
Thank you very much Extrapool, de-affaire and Nijmegen in general for all the hospitality. I had a really good time. Hope to get some pictures or videos of the gig. As soon as I get something, I’ll upload it.
And here I’m slingering the Kanten uit. I just read it through some translation engine, and basically, it calls my set an incoherent mess. Fair enough. I think enough people enjoyed exactly that.
A weekend of Surreal Nightmares made flesh in performance, installation, photography and music. Shunt, Londons most unique and exciting arts venue and bar, plays host to the extreme, the macabre and the perverse for two nights only.
The concept is to turn The Machine (a three tiered performance space and relic of the industrial revolution) into a fabric of nightmare episodes; all generated by the unconscious mind of one deprave…d indivual (cast as the appalling Robert Spragg).
This figure sleeps on soiled sheets and tosses and turns in a polluted swimming pool dreamscape. He has been given these nightmares by the excessive consumption of tinned all day breakfast- referencing the seminal piece All Day Breakfast by Richard Crow (Performing a new piece in the Bank space).
Over the course of the weekend a number of 2D works,performances, films and installations will be shown over the Shunt space incorporating the fabric of the machine into the one immersive installation that is The Surreal Nightmare.
Curated by Robin Spalding Thanks to Robert Spragg
Artists:
FRIDAY 19th November- 9.30-1.30am Free Entry
Installation
Antonia Wilson-Punctum
Shona Harrison-Taxidermy funtimes
Charlie Tuesday Gates-DIY Taxidermy
2D
Hector de Gregorio-Bosch and Blood projection
Jonny Briggs-His mother looking at a wedding dress
Tereza Zelenkova-Melting eye Photography
Birgit Deubner-Twisted flesh photography
Video
Silas Money-A supermarket panic attack
Nadine Byrne-Chomping out her teeth caught on camera