Xray Dubs - livebands tag

Victor Xray Gig - 25th April

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:00:00 GMT

I will be doing a live set at the Spoonbill CD launch in Brisbane at the Step Inn in the Valley, Saturday April 25 2009. About 10pm in the corner bar.

The gig details are:

Host: !113g@1 v@1u3
Start Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 5:00am
Location: Step Inn (Downstairs + Corner Bar)
Street: cnr St Pauls Tce & Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
City/Town: Brisbane, Australia
After nearly two years of questing through the audio underworld, wrestling crocodile-headed samplers and taming fire-breathing speaker stacks, Spoonbill has returned to the earth's surface, ready to address his ecstatic followers. His message: Zoomorphic, a shapeshifting sonic celebration of Spoonbillism. Zoomorphic is set to earn Australia's most unique aural oracle thousands of fresh converts across the globe. Zoomorphic is the third album by electronic musician Spoonbill (aka Jim Moynihan), following the critically acclaimed Megafauna (2005) and Nestegg (2007). This time around, Spoonbill's anarchic, quirk-funk, glitched-up aesthetic has been forensically finessed like never before, sculpted to a well-bodied medley of groove-based sound art. The Zoomorphic experience is crafted from an intricate web of edited studio recordings of exceptional musos melded with found sounds, foley folly and synthesized materials, much of which was captured while recently touring across US, Canada, Europe & UK. Squishy pulsating bass lines carpet the undergrowth, while dirty squelchy synth licks frolic in a warped menagerie of neurotic cyborgs, rattlesnakes, sirens, champagne froth, fireworks and crushed eggshells. The jamboree coalesces to form a single groove shrieking beat-creature, covered with feathers, scales, bells and whistles. Zoomorphic is a diverse musical mutant for late-night dancefloors, introspective train-rides, and everything in between. This fresh batch of Spoonytunes will captivate fans of glitch-hop, IDM, breaks, psychedelic electronica, folktronica, dubstep, trip-hop and more – but the Spoonbill's mighty call can't be pigeon-holed into any single genre. Some folk call it “vaudeville electronica”, responding to the jovial carnival feel like circus clowns with lobsters in their pants.

Celebrating the launch of the new CD in Brisbane in wild style across 2 rooms of the Step Inn, Spoonbill will be supported in the Main Room by:
SEED Byron- Lively http://www.myspace.com/7seed
SIMULCAST Live A/V http://www.myspace.com/simulcast
SILENT SHADOW Live http://www.myspace.com/silentshadowthemusical
BLUNT INSTRUMENT Lively Duo- Début http://www.myspace.com/bluntinstrumentbeats + DJ SHARDS !113g@1 v@1u3 http://www.myspace.com/d_appleseed

with Dubstep in the Corner Bar courtesy of:
CROOKED SOUND SYSTEM Canberra http://www.myspace.com/crookedsoundsystemspace
VICTOR X-RAY Live http://www.myspace.com/victorxray
FINGERPRINT Pitch Productions- Live http://www.myspace.com/fingerprintsound + RESETESER http://www.myspace.com/reseteser
& DANK MORASS DJs http://www.myspace.com/dankmorass

Tickets now on sale for $15 + b/f from OzTix.com & their vendors including Rockinghorse, Butter Beats & Gooble Warming.
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?m=Choose&eventID=9210&promoID=100
$20 on the door on the night.

Last ever frigid @newtown ... feat Luke Vibert, June 10.

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:07:49 GMT

Line up & info: frigid @ n e w t o w n...

Frigid over the years @ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finalfrigid/

The last ever Frigid is being held @newtown on the date of its 10th anniversary. If you are in Sydney this weekend Sat June 10, you should get down to it. As I said on the clan-l mailing list;

Frigid has been really important not just for touring known overseas artists here but also introducing local audiences to overseas & interstate artists as well as fostering local talent. It's a pity that it will be ceasing operations after ten years but in a fickle and shiny-surface-obsessed town like Sydney it's actually rather amazing that it lasted as long as it did.

Big props to Seb and Luke and the rest of the Frigid clan.

Shame I cannot be there at the final moment as I'm now interstate but thanks guys for all your efforts over the years.

thanks & regs
scot.

Brisbane bar crawl

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:07:04 GMT

A big start at the "Bowery" in Ann St last night littered with too many Moscow Mules and interesting new people to meet. A pity they just wouldn't sell us jugs of the stuff, as we were sitting out the back celebrating Emily's 27th birthday with frequent trips to the bar. Met her fellow writers and photographers from the magazine she writes for as well as plenty of other nice people too.

Then we ran off to this tiny little venue where we saw a promising band called something like "Cold Spoon Conspiracy" (although they do need a better name). They play rock with high pop sensibilities, not a massively original concept but pretty tight in their execution and they might get somewhere with it I think. A terrible PA really prevented from hearing the vocals properly but the band itself was tight, in control and pretty interesting. The venue was very intruiging, a small shoebox on Ann St in the same building that the old IMA was in. No bar (byo only) trashy flouro lighting and graffitti all over the walls with a totally shite PA -- made me reminisce about the old warehouse gigs we used to put on in Sydney all those years ago. When such spaces where possible there.

I also saw one song from a band called "Oh Belgium" but they sounded like a poorly recorded outtake from a P.I.L. session so we left them to it (as also being past midnight the bottle-o had shut) and abandoned the place for the 'Depot', a large club upstairs in Brunswick St with plenty of space to move around and just the sort of no-bullshit nightclub that Newtown really needs. Emily got us in on the door and the DJ - a fellow we had met earlier at the Bowery - played a bunch of retro rock, glam, electro and punk to a room full of sweaty twenty somethings (and us distinctly not anywhere near twenty-somethings).

Brisbane nightlife is nowhere as bad as I imagined it.