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.
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