Ahead of Monday’s London gig; “Great video of us playing “Coming Apart”, “We Are Not the Same”, and “Head Shrinker” at The Black Lab in Lille FR, the other night. Thanks to Ah bon? Productions / Cerbère Coryphée / Mohamed Dali for capturing it so beautifully”. So said an Extra Life via social media.. Footage…
The Five music things thing yet again for whatever it still might be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five, cross-pollination? Five more? Five more while Death Pill hide in their basements and all we can really do is watch their social media feeds and hope they’re surviving over there in Kyiv Do we…
Toby Driver as Alora Crucible/Daniel O’Sullivan at Cafe Oto, London, March 23rd, 2022 – By the time Alora Crucible begin, London is weirdly, appropriately hushed, the air thickened by Saharan dust. Alora Crucible is a trio led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, completed by Ana Cristina Perez on keyboards and violinist Timba Harris (Secret Chiefs 3,…
The recend album from Alora Crucible is another of Toby Driver‘s, almost said one of his side projects but that isn’t really what any of his things are. If you do know his work already, it is probably through the power of his rather avant-garde rather rewarding post metal band Kayo Dot, or before that…
Robyn’s Rocket at Cafe OTO, Morth London with Charles Hayward, Jemma Freeman and The Sonic Something and… 6th Jan 2022 – Now what was actually happening here? An on-line broadcast from Robyn’s Rocket at London’s always interesting Cafe OTO – we did preview it a couple of days ago, Charles Hayward, he of This Heat…
“Come and see Cafe OTO as a homemade spaceship womaned by Robyn Rocket space trumpeter, performing alongside the great drummer, singer, composer and founding member of This Heat, Charles Hayward, plus Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something. Robyn’s Rocket is a homemade spaceship for experimental music and art, aiming to be an inclusive, conscious space –…
Where were who or what? Still still poking at things? We already said all this, we almost certainly do need to (or maybe don’t need to do?) do that five art things thing again don’t we? We probably should? Just a bit more of that glue that holds the who or what together. The art…
New year, same thing? On we go, there is always music isn’t there? Five more musical things then, five (or so) things that have caught ears over the past few days, five musical things plucked from the overflowing in box or the feeds or the clouds or wherever these things come from. Five slices of…
Okay, we’re in the Holiday period, we can’t avoid it, we might just pop up here now and again and post a bit of this or that so you don’t have to turn to that Phil Spector Christmas album too much There’s a free Cafe Oto download holidays mix that might help you get through…
A quich heads-up from our friends up the road at Cafe Oto, a heads up to let you know that “next week we’re looking forward to hosting a very special livestream concert from Thurston Moore Group, featuring Thurston Moore alongside My Bloody Valentine‘s Deb ooge on bass and baritone bass guitar, Nøught’s James Sedwards on…
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