Synth East sold out

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Just to note that anyone in need of tickets to the daytime please drop me a line via any means and i'll stick you on my growing returns list. I can't promise I can get you in but I'll do my best to match people up with unused or returned tickets. There's still room for the evening which should be a lot of fun!
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Arpangel wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:19 am I’m going to this Hillage gig, it’s only around the corner from us, if I can get tickets.

Stephen Bennett wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:43 am
I was there!

I used to see Steve around at gigs—Henry Cow Hatfields, Lol Coxhill ...

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Lol Coxhill bless him, sadly no longer with us.
He was always about on the London improv scene, I called him up and asked him to play at an event we organised, as usual, no problem, he was always willing to get involved in most things.

He came and sat next to me after he'd supported the Hatfields. I was 14 and he was lovely and talked to me about music until the band came on.

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robinv wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 12:16 pm Just to note that anyone in need of tickets to the daytime please drop me a line via any means and i'll stick you on my growing returns list. I can't promise I can get you in but I'll do my best to match people up with unused or returned tickets. There's still room for the evening which should be a lot of fun!
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I'm still hoping to get to the evening Robin ... need to pay a few ferrymen first.

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Stephen Bennett wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:09 pm
He came and sat next to me after he'd supported the Hatfields. I was 14 and he was lovely and talked to me about music until the band came on.

Stephen

Yeah! great memory of having a drink with him at the bar of the Red Rose Theatre in Holloway, during the interval, he was telling me about the time he played with the Rolling Stones, and the situations that occurred.
It’s crazy, this business, I bumped into him in Camden Council offices, sorting his rent out, same as me at that time, the life of a musician is many and varied, and not fair at all, sometimes.
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I'm desperate for 2 day tickets if anyone has them.

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That was fun! :D

I've not been to a gig like this before, so it was educational. I hadn't had practical experience of the way of modular synth performance, which doesn't seem to involve much in the way of conventional controllers, but is more a kind of guided morphing looping experience.

First up were Robin Vincent with Steve Davis, who presented half an hour of accomplished modular improvisation, morphing from ambience to techno to Galaxians and elsewhere. Robin seemed slightly puzzled when I accosted him in the bar after several pints of Ghost Ship but remained friendly and engaged. My head was buzzing with questions but I thought I'd save those for next year.

The duo were followed by Finlay Shakespeare...to these inexperienced eyes, I didn't see so much in the way of synthesiser performance; the music seemed more prepared; but he gave an animated vocal performance, snatching samples of the lyrics and twisting them with effects in various ways while singing accompaniment, which wasn't something I'd seen before. None of it was TBH.

The main act was Nik Colk Void. By this time a good-sized mixed crowd had gathered to watch this musician staring earnestly down at her modular system, spinning ambient loops with occasional startlingly loud flurries of electronic percussion, with a psychedelic pixelated video backdrop.

Look forward to the next one! Thanks to Robin for an excellent introduction to the world of modular performance, and for pulling the whole show together.

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Awww that's a nice photo. Glad you had a good time! Sorry for my puzzlement, i have terrible recall for things/people.

For anyone interested, Finlay was using a pair of Elektron boxes, Digitakts I think which he was adding to live and manipulating. It was some kind of synth-pop-post-punk - he's like a ball of energy screaming out very likeable vibes.

The middle picture is Loula Yorke and Steve Davis doing a jam during the day event. All the jams went really well and overall the event couldn't have gone better.
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Excellent news.
Definitely sounds like a suitable opportunity for an Eastern Sosage meet next year.
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Sadly, I missed the gig, but the day was brilliant—terrific stuff Robin!

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Drew Stephenson wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:56 am Definitely sounds like a suitable opportunity for an Eastern Sosage meet next year.

You betcha. You're all invited. I'll send out reminders nearer the time... ;)
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BJG145 wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:49 pm
Drew Stephenson wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:56 am Definitely sounds like a suitable opportunity for an Eastern Sosage meet next year.

You betcha. You're all invited. I'll send out reminders nearer the time... ;)

Add me to the list :)
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