[Live] Vultures Quartet Live 18th Dec 2011

Vultures Quartet will be playing a short set at the Mopomoso Christmas Party, tomorrow (18th Dec) from around 7pm.

This takes place at the Vortex in Dalston.

Should be a lot of fun!

[Live] Gig with Vultures Quartet - 5th Dec 2011

I am playing with Vultures Quartet tomorrow night at Boat Ting - the information is slightly incorrect on the Boat Ting website as we are actually playing with Steve Beresford rather than Neil Packer.

This is our 50th gig so far and a bit of a celebration for us. Should be a lot of fun and we all enjoy playing with Steve, which is something we haven't done for a while.

[Live] The Miller Test and The French Electric

I played with The Miller Test on Friday at the Bowery which was a great gig, lots of people there, good venue and more importantly we played well. 

On Saturday (after about 4 hours sleep) I had to run sound again using the dreaded Yamaha 01v. This was for an Amnesty International benefit gig at the King's Head in Islington. The line up included Gagarin both solo and with Roshi on vocals and keyboard - I am something of a fan of the music they create together and really rate Gagarin as a solo artist. He's also worked with all sorts of people, Nico and John Cale  amongst them.

Also playing were the Rude Mechanicals - who are absolutely brilliant fun. 

Grassy Noel was reciting some of his poetry. There's a video of him doing just that at the Foundry on YouTube. Great to see him as I don't think I have seen him since the Foundry closed. Don't get me started on what happened to the Foundry - suffice to say I think it was criminal the way it was closed down and the reasons for it - it was the last outpost of anything decent in Shoreditch - an area which was truly re-established by the artistic community which has now been completely ousted by corporate crap and moronic lowest common denominator "entertainment".  At least the Foundry managed to stick it out for longer than  most.

There were other people playing but I can't remember who they were! Brilliant accordion player and a good singer songwriter.

After doing the sound I had to scoot off to a gig with The French Electric at a burlesque night at Dusk Till Dawn (or what used to be the Archway Tavern). It went pretty well. The picture above is of Simon (left) and Jim (right) at that very gig - thankfully I am not in the photo!