DJ night at Live Bar in Deptford, Sunday 8th

Coming Sunday, a few fellow electronic music afficionados and me will host yet another one of our weekly nights at the Live Bar in Deptford, South London. This one is special in terms that we not only will have a long weekend to begin with, Monday is also still a bank holiday so I am looking forward to play some nice tunes and get a good party running on Sunday. I would be happy if everybody who's interested could make their way to Deptford that night in order to celebrate with us! See you there!

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Weekly at The Live Bar in Deptford; 41-42 Deptford Broadway, SE8, London

Starts Sunday 8th April

Nearest Tube: Deptford Bridge, T:020 8469 2121, www.thelivebar.co.uk

Electronica/ Techno/ Electro

With Lipsis, DJ Choccybiccy, Атомск, Crewdson, and guests

FREE ENTRY
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Love of Diagrams, Holy Hail

As it so happens, good things come when you least expect them. Aimlessly wandering around the internet on a Sunday night, I discovered that one of my recent favourite bands were about to play in London in less than 24 hours. Since they are from Australia, I thought that this might be well worth a visit.

The venue was the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, a place I usually don't visit too often, but I always enjoy being there. The spacious, slick concrete basement also has a concert venue and that's where it was supposed to go down.

Holy Hail were opening up and although I didn't know them prior to that day, I kinda liked them. They were quite original (as original as you can get in the midst of a 80s revival) and I recognized some musical references from bands I really like: Talking Heads, Suicide, The Slits, etc. Clever vocal lines and a drummer who, although he mainly played a four-on-four staccato beat that you hear ever so often these days, somehow struck me as having a strong punk-drumming background. I might be completely wrong, but amidst the rather mechanic beat patterns he played I noticed kind of a strong willingness to break out of it and turn it into something more tense and aggressive.



Love of Diagrams unfortunately had some technical difficulties and their set was only 40 minutes long. I nevertheless enjoyed it and appreciated that somebody actually still cares about the more top-heavy and divergent sides of indie-rock rather than trying to be upfront and straight in songwriting which only really works when you're truly good at it. Most of the time it's really boring but in most cases nevertheless makes great chart material.




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Spire Live in York Minster

Last weekend, I was visiting a friend up in the cold North. Actually, it wasn't really that cold and the sun was shining as well. I also have to say that York is a rather pretty place indeed.
We went to the Spire Live Event at the famous York Minster to see Charles Matthews (organ), Marcus Davidson (organ and piano), Christian Fennesz (electronics), Phil Jeck (turntables), BJNilsen (electronics), Robert Millner, John Beaumont and Amy Moore (voices) as well as the Minster bell ringers and Leif Inge (installation).
Spire is running in its fourth consecutive year now with the same concept applied to a variety of European churches, among them Geneva, Linz, Amsterdam, Gøteborg and Brussels. Some of the live recodrings of theses events were later published by Touch.
As one might imgaine, the acoustics were rather amazing and it was really nice to experience Fennesz' ambience sound carpets in a setting like this.

Some pictures below.


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