Spiral Architects – as you may have seen/heard our London gig at the Ruskin Arms was cancelled, unfortunately due to yet another music venue being converted into flats… still looking to play outside of Pompey though so if any one is interested in us playing please leave a comment or contact sanguinearts!
We have however recently played www.junkyardshow.com where Cool Banana transformed the Milton Arms Barn into an array of drapes, camo-nets, umbrellas and projections for what was top night of live music and DJ’s details of which are elsewhere on these pages.
It was our first full gig performed as an instrumental six piece since having parted company with our vocalist (cheers Spiral Dan for your support and being very much part of Spiral Architects history). This leaves us room to “develop our musical shit” even further and it seemed to go really well with a lot of positive reaction and feedback from the crowd which was great, as was the Cool Banana set – check them out at www.cool-banana.com and follow other links.
On the back of this there will be another gig with Cool Banana at our home of the Fawcett on 8th November, as well as playing the Alma Arms on the 17th Oct (details of which TBC).
Fawcett Inn - Talking of the pub, Johnny and Matt have now launched the new site www.fawcettmade.com where within the archive section you can still search for past www.somefoolwitha.com/fawcett recordings (just do a search for Spiral Architects for example!). Also please do check out the Emergence set which has recently been posted as this was an amazing set from the India based group – and features Spirals/CB’s Nick on horns.
Mr Teeth - In other news, I have decided to go ahead and make my new demo the “Darkened Sunlight EP” available to those who may want a copy and a future version with extra production/recording is also possibly in the pipeline.
Ben recently provided CD’s of old negativePANDA recordings so I intend to get round to adding my input shortly so hopefully we can release that in the near future. It’s been interesting and exciting listening to recordings that go back a good number of years and many of the nostalgic lo-fi sounds are still highly enjoyable.
I also wonder how production is going on WCS3…
Any way recently I attended Glasvegas at the www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk who although not as raw, had the whole Jesus and Mary Chain, early BRMC etc vibe going on and were really enjoyable to watch and listen too… less can be said for support (Madskulls) who were a poor mans Stone Roses… the Roses were awesome though, it has to be said and I enjoyed digging out the best of as a result.
Other gigs over the next couple of months to attend in Portsmouth/Southampton include:
Seasick Steve – Southampton Guildhall may lose the intimacy but still I’m sure this old blues hobo is going to put on a great show.
Motorhead – Southampton Guildhall - new album is nothing groundbreaking but still damn great rock n roll which I can’t stop listening to, amazing that they’ve still got it after all these years and live…. well you know the score.
Datsuns – not heard the new album yet, but if like me you’re into your rock n roll from down under you know what to expect! I have my ticket for the Wedgewood Rooms.
Spiritualized - “Songs in A and E” is out now and like recent offerings is again quite stripped down but still very much in keeping with earlier Jason Spaceman recordings, and with the gig having been moved from the spacious Pyramids to the Wedge it is a must go to for me.
Oh and I’ve just been passed a copy of an Infected Mushroom CD which I look forward to listening to… but for now I must do something else.
