Montag, 18. Jan 2010, 5:01
15th January - Astral Social Club and Team Brick at Catch - London
20th January - Jason Steel at The New Empowering Church, Hackney.
23rd January - MoHa!, Team Brick and Trabant at the Lord Napier, Hackney.
28th January - Blurt at The Dogstar, Brixton
29th January - Peter Brötzmann at Cafe Oto, Dalston
30th January - AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire, Weave!, Cissy, Liquid Liquid and Secousse Sound System at Cargo, Shoreditch
4th February - Otomo Yoshihide at Cafe Oto
12th February - Matthew Shipp at Cafe Oto
13th February - Matthew Shipp, J Spaceman , John Coxon and Steve Noble at Cafe Oto
16th February - Voice of the Seven Woods, Hush Arbors, C. Joynes, Heather Leigh Murrey and Michael Flower. "A Requiem for Jack Rose" at Cafe Oto
20th February - The Trembling Bells and loads of other weird grime music stuff! at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre
26th February - Spin Spin the Dogs at 133 Dalston Lane
1st March Sir Richard Bishop at The Borderline
10th March - Jason Steel, Nancy Wallace and The Owl Service at The George - Borough High St
18th March - Oneohtrix Point Never, No Fun Acid at The Grosvenor, Stockwell.
20th March - Part Chimp and some other loud macho rock stuff. hmm. The Crypt, Camberwell.
24th March - Picastro at Cafe Oto
1st April - The Wire Salon at Cafe Oto
10th April - Ellen Mary McGee and Rachel Dadd at the Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell
11th April - John Renbourn and Robin Williamson at The Half Moon, Putney
13rd April - Chora, Moon Unit, Alexander Tucker and Faux Amis at The Miller, London Bridge
15th April - The A Band and Sumocloud Cardboard Arts at The Others, Stoke Newington
24th April - French Kissing and Spin Spin the Dogs at the Victoria, Mile End
25th April - Come down and meet the folks with Ellen Mary McGee, Nancy Wallace, Jason Steel, The Straw Bear Band and The Owl Service at The Stags Head, Dalston
1st May - Fell Foot Woods event, Ulverston, Cumbria. I played with Ellen Mary McGee and Mugstar played and some other guys.. Ace night all in all!
6th May - The Wire Salon, Cafe Oto
7th May - Joanne Robertson , Tom James Scott , and this other great band I don't know the name of.. at Peckham Palais
21st May - Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Temperatures, Bo Ningan, Doppel Effect round Shoreditch/Vibe Bar - Stagg and Dagger Fest
28th May - Bolide, Chora and we: Remedial Queen of England at Oto
30th May - Slow Listener, some other stuff at this all dayer and we did the Remedial Queen of England thing.
2nd June - Birds of Delay and Wolf Eyes at Plan B, Brixton
3rd June - Wire Salon talk about Graphic Scoring at Cafe Oto
13th June - Chora, Ross Parfitt, Jack Allet and Pekko Kappi at Cafe Oto
27th June - Crosby, Stills and Nash, and you've tried the rest now see the best Paul McCartney now I know everything thinks this is utterly uncool and the gang but y'kno what, to all you haters out there Paul might not be very cool but hes got true heart and this was one of the greatest gigs ever.. Getting to rock out to Helter Skelter, Back in the USSR, and my personal fav A Day in a Life was totally amazing. I love you Paul.
2nd July - Dada night including A Band, Fuck off Batman, Builder's Crack and we did a Sumocloud Cardboard Art Attack event.. plus loads of other stuff at Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick
3rd July - Long Drone by Sharon Gal, Farringdon Rd
15th July - Private Lives at Billy's pop up art show in Brixton Market
18th July - Peaches, Hot Chip and Grace Jones at Lovebox, Victoria Park
13th August - Ikue Mori, Pat Thomas, John Butcher - Cafe Oto
14th August - Chora, Blood Stereo, Hype Williams and some other bits and bobs at Yes Way Fest in Peckham
15th August - Pascal Nichols with Simon Rose, Alan Tomkinson at Cafe Oto
17th August - Arvo Part St John's Passion at the proms, Royal Albert Hall
19th August - Aine O'Dwyer, Kaya King at The Others in Stoke Newington
28th August - Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, Ian Murphy, Embla Quickbeam at the Albert, Brighton
29th August - Bridget Hayden, Circulus at The Globe, Balham
31th August - A Band at The Book shop (?) off Old St
16th September - Blue Sabbath Black FIji at The Others
25th September - Joy Ride at Elevator Gallery.
13th October - Chora and some other bits I didn't care for.. at The Miller
16th October - Blue Sabbath Black Fiji <B too drunk to remember the rest..
21st October - Lichens, Time, Dean McPhee at Cafe Oto
24th October - Paul Metzger and Cam Deas at Cafe Oto
27th October - Stellar Om Source, Heat Sick at Cafe Oto
eep! looks as though my secretary took a holiday between the end of Oct and Dec. never mind, i'll make sure he gets a good talking to about it.
Here goes:
Best gig: Grace Jones
Most seen band: Chora (again!)
Most Fun: Joining in on vocals with Blue Sabbath Black Fiji on my birthday
Tosm Nuf: Birds of Delay and Wolf Eyes - they played great, especially BOD but it was a weird night
Best Festival: Hackney Wicked
Best venue: Elevator Gallery
Honourable mention: Aine O'Dwyer's duo was out of this small world
Biggest let down: Lichens actually, expected a lot but ___________
So incredibly pleased I got to see: Paul McCartney