N.U.T.E, Guitarmageddon, Incredible Hexadecibels, It's Always Last Tuesday Somewhere @ Whammy Bar; 26 July

I found a carpark and arrived at the venue at 22:00, when it was opening. Town was dead already, at that hour. Some kinda storm or something. Very cold.


Anyway, the wonderful hardware setup involved a 5-disc CD changer out of a component stereo system
coupled with two turntables and a mixer that didn't last the night, but luckily worked fine for me.


Playing first is a blessing and a curse. Basically I knealt on the floor behind a makeshift table, with a borrowed breakcore record on one turntable and a CD of IALTS music I'd burnt just before I walked out the door to come here, and I had no idea of the tracklisting, so I just juggled these two items together as best as I could, and the results were just like they always were.


No one told me how my set was, I guess because no one really saw it. I was left with that feeling I often get after I play... that my songs, while sounding great when I'm sitting at home being an emo, don't really translate to a club environment...


Anyways, after my set I got a beer and went and sat in a corner, and k5k, who was DJing between other people's sets, was playing Laibach, and I just got this overwhelming wave of emo, and went outside... I was actually standing out there for about 20 minutes, wondering if I should just go home, but then Roxy Riot, guitarist from N.U.T.E, arrived and actually remembered me and acknowledged me even though we've only met once, and I decided maybe that was a sign I should stay.


After a really really long time, finally Guitarmageddon started playing, and I stood on the door talking to Drew, as they played tracks like Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" and Devo's "Whip It" and other stuff that I didn't recognise. They're a covers band. I don't quite understand the point of them, but they are friends of the promoter, which is a great way to get on the stage. Besides, I don't quite understand the point of a lot of things.


Incredible Hexadecibels did their standard set of cut-up zombie films backed with video-game-sound-infected breakcore beats. Every time I see them they have added to and refined their video footage. It's
really something to see...


N.U.T.E were interesting; it was the first time I've seen them play. They claim to be one of the best industrial acts in the country, and I believe they earn that title. They also had backing visuals made by the Incredible Hexadecibels, and were playing some new material that new member P.P. Flo had co-written. I would recommend them to anyone interested in that kind of thing, and of course you can do that for free by downloading their stuff from God Rekidz.

migration

vidu
... has been running since roughly the year 2000
... mainly contained a series of music reviews; mainly of breakcore shows
... as such was basically a blog
... is migrating all archived material here; hopefully creating new content also
... is pleasantly suprised they'll let us back-date posts, so it's all sorted...

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borderline music festival @ whammy bar & the wine cellar, auckland; sunday 23rd march

Buzzily enough, as I stood at the bar after arriving talking to Creassault about how I'm not Squee and drinking the beer he so kindly bought me, I suddenly saw Rorn's uncle. This was like Easter Sunday, in one of the only bars open; guess he needed a drink.

First up after I arrived were the New Telepathics, a kinda jazzy guitar-based indie band. k5k said they were like Mars Volta. I say they coulda been cool around 1993. So probably they could be hot right now, if the current 1993-like trend of check shirts is anything to go by.
Instead I went and checked out Sam Hamilton in the Wine Cellar making guitar feedback noise.

Some random dude engaged me in a conversation about Iron Maiden, I guess since I was wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt.

Me and k5k stepped outside for a minute and then it was time for what I came to see: the Incredible Hexadecibels vs Creassault are fantastic multimedia: cut-up video games and zombie movies interspersed wtih live-action zombie scenes filmed by the artists themselves, all with a live video-game/fakecore mash-up soundtrack. I stood close to the screen and marvelled.

Following that was k5k doing a DJ set of breakcore, playing Venetian Snares and so on from his
large vinyl collection.