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london & newcastle
The tour, as such, is officially over: we played our final two shows and have parted ways with the Jazzfinger team.
The London show was great fun--although the crowd wasn't as large as the crowd in Nottingham, it was pretty clear that just about everybody there was coming because they wanted to hear some scouring drone-noise, whereas I think a lot of the crowd in Nottingham, drawn by the Espers name on the bill, wanted to hear gently-stoned acid-folk. I felt that most of the people at the London show left happy, whereas some of the Nottingham people probably just didn't know what to make of us.
The London show was also good because we got another chance to play with Luke and Steve, the two great blokes in noise act Birds of Delay (who we also played with in Leeds). Nice guys, and a powerful set each time-- I'm hoping to keep in touch with them for sure.
Nothing could really have prepared me, though, for the show in Newcastle (back on Jazzfinger's home turf). We played a set as part of the Distraction Weekender festival, a two-day festival divided into an "overground" day and an "underground" day. We played on the "underground" day (duh) and it was a day full of sets of drone, noise, and experimental metal acts. So many fantastic acts on that day-- I don't have the time to do a full write-up now, but I will say that I would have never dreamed that Newcastle would have such a thriving scene with so many talented artists making fucked-up damaged sounds.
The rest of the time we were in Newcastle we just relaxed at the home of Ben Jones, one of the Jazzfinger blokes, spending most of our time watching DVDs of contemporary British TV comedy (Spaced, Brass Eye, The Day Today--all top-notch, hilarious stuff).
Now we're back in Leeds, with Phil-- he's going to take us around to look at cool stuff tomorrow; I'll try to update at least once more before going home.
PS: The tour made a profit |
Monday, August 08, 2005
6:35 PM
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