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:: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 ::

GoatLab 3 Roundup

The GoatLab 3 gig last Friday went well. Well, went OK at least. My photos have been added to this Flickr set. (Also includes GoatLab 1 from September).

Once again I played so early in the evening there was no-one there at the start of it and when asked to extend it as the place filled up I dropped some of the early material in again. I don't think the recording is going to sound very good.

Hunting Lodge provided a hilarious does of guitar based noise. They were tight, their guitarist was good, their bassist kept trying to trash his base but forgot that it was attached to his neck, the vocals were unsurprisingly unintelligible, but their drummer made the band. Wielding nothing but two sticks, his underpants, and a sweaty hairy beer gut full of attitude, he stole the show. This is male bonding music. As long as the bonding consists of pushing and shoving, shouting and generally trying to intimidate and embarrass your mates.

Acrnym lived up to the sales pitch of sounding like "Venetian Snares on crack." At least, I'll buy that description, without having ever taken crack. His three quid CDR was a bargin too. Incidentally, I noticed a poster advertising the film Outlaw this morning. The quote from lads rag Nuts called it "Football Factory with guns!" Yeah, because any film can be improved by adding guns to it, can't it? At least it makes a change from the tired journalistic cliché of simply adding "...on drugs" to the end of everything. The above adage only proves that promoters are just as guilty of falling into the same literary hole.

Mad EP played a great, dark and heavy hip-hop influenced set. It seemed to throw people again, in the same way Milanese did at the same venue. What is it with Bristol breakcore fans and there 300bpm ears? Sometimes it's good to slow down now and again. Maybe just not slap band in the middle of the evening I guess.

Patric C / Candi Hank was one of the founders of the breakcore scene, back in the Digital Hardcore days, but someone I knew embarrassingly little about. His set showed he is still at the top of his game. It much harder (and with less Germanic rapping) than the example set I linked to last week. The most impressive thing about it was that huge chunks of it were played live out of a GP2x handheld Linux console (link) and an old Commodore Amiga running a tracker that was projected onto a giant screen. Best crowd reaction of the night too.

Jason Forrest played a thumping happy hardcore tinged DJ Donna Summer set, which seemed to keep everyone happy. I think would have preferred a live set of his own prog-rock influenced disco madness personally. The inclusion of the Beastie Boys Girls made me smile in particular. Like his DJ set I linked to here some of the material looses its intensity and starts to sound silly when played that fast. Am I getting old?

Ironside finished off with a one-deck Final Scratch DnB DJ set that was only marred by me rummaging through cables behind the booth and accidentally cutting his power. Sorry about that.

Unfortunately technical problems – failed sound system – in the back room means the eagerly anticipated 'Mrs P 7" Collection' DJ set didn't happen. I'll keep that for the next GoatLab on 4th May. Also playing at the next one will be Hecate*, Cdatakill, Soundbytes (of Prodigy mash-up fame), and Gareth Clark.

Let's hope having Hecate and Gusset on the same bill doesn't curse the night. We've been booked to play with Rachel twice in the past and both times the night has been cancelled. Really looking forward to actually seeing her live finally. Third time lucky, eh?

Labels: Gigs, GoatLab, Gusset, Review

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