SUPERBEAT Live 22nd June

Got some footage this time, whoop! This is from the second half of the set. I’m using the dance mat on stage to control the beat as well as kieron and kraz.

New Tune – Sweet As You Are

 

We’ll be playing this amongst the jams at the gig on saturday.

SUPERBEAT LIVE 22 JUNE

Milk Bar on the Map

It’s free in and bring you’re own booze. Seeya there!

The Bridge – Squatting in Rotterdam

My sister Kelly was squatting in Rotterdam a few years ago. I went to visit her with this music project I wanted to make, inspired by the city, that would be based on making music from pictures of it’s buildings and places.

She had it pretty cushdy over there at the time. Squatting was pretty exceptable in Holland and it was legal as well so, if you were lucky, you could set yourself up with a pretty decent home and not have to leave for a while. Kelly had two! Never one to do things in half measures, she was making video work and her boyfriend at the time was a musician so they used one to live in and the other as a studio space. Kelly’s boyfriend was quite nice, but a bit mad. He thought he was mix between Sid Vicious and Clint Eastwood. Never left the house without his wallet, his speed and his razor (which he kept in his cowboy boots). He got caught speeding once, drunk with half a gram of coke, a gram of speed and a eighth of weed; he had his knife in in his boot and about four wasted friends crammed into the back of his van. The policeman couldn’t believe his eyes, he burst out laughing and let them go! He was stunned by the audacity of it and said there would have been too much paperwork anyway.

I spent a month there, got a bike and cycled around the city taking pictures of the architecture – which is pretty stunning, Rotterdam is like an architects playground – as well as the industrial estate, which stretches around 40 miles long. The idea was to contrast two very different visual elements and then put that into music. I chose to focus on the Erasmus Bridge, which connects north and south Rotterdam, and made each different song based on a picture from a different view of the bridge.

The music I came out with there was quite experimental, and it was the first time I’d began to use real recordings rather than samples and virtual instruments. This led on to forming Tumbling Squares.