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Milk Bar Gig 4/5/13

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We had our first Superbeat gig at the Milk Bar a couple of weeks ago. I’m really happy with how it went so we’re gonna do another pretty soon. I didnt manage to get any decent recordings myself but my sister Kelly took a short film on her phone and uploaded it onto youtube…


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A few posts back I mentioned that I’d been looking for some controllers to use for the audience to get involved and jam with us. I settled on the idea of using a dance mat and game controller. So I bought some that have usb connections and hooked them up to my computer, using all sorts of hokus pokus, and they worked really well. I’m thinking we’re gonna keep things pretty fluid by introducing extra or different kinds of controllers each gig (I’m working on making a multi-touch surface at the moment) but for now the dance mat is definitely gonna be a fixture.

We’re working on a maybe five track EP currently so I’ll be posting more info on that up in the next couple of months or so, other wise look out for the next Milk Bar gig!

x

Sean Warman & The Five Sides

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During around 2006 I got really into King Tubby for the way that he would make dub productions. Back in the 60s and 70s he would take recordings, which bands had already made in his studio, and re-record them as he played around, turning the instruments up and down and adding effects over the top. Often he would leave just the bass and the drums playing while everything else dipped in and out. Dub was born, as a genre it wasn’t long lived, but more importantly with dub King Tubby had preceded remixing.

Remixing a band as they played appealed to me so I decided to make this performance, it’s also a sort of homage to King Tubby, who in my opinion is a massively underrated influence on electronic music.

We did a mixture of covers and original material. Only the covers were rehearsed so for the rest I would play my own pre-programmed drum loops to the band who would then jam along with them. Surprisingly the jams worked better than the covers.

The band were made up from friends from Dartington, who are now all members of different bands mainly being Yes Sir Boss and Ray.

Vocals: Kieron Allan, writer for Sky At Night mag. Kieron will be playing with me on my up coming project Touch It.

Guitar: Matt Sellors, lead vocals and rhythm guitar for Yes Sir Boss

Bass: Leon Boyden, bassist for Ray

Sax: Jehan Abdel-Malak, saxophonist for Yes Sir Boss (who will possibly be playing on Touch It also)

Percussion: Dan Truent, drummer for Ray