HW: Upcoming Litmus Gigs (and a Space Ritual gig)

[trev]

the only appeal of space ritual, and hawkwind, for that matter, is to remind
people of their halcyon days - this is one of the things that music is very
effective at doing. space ritual are all crap musicians (apart from nik),
resting on fragile laurels, but lots of people like that.
this is not an age of acceptance of the unusual and when unusual gems
appear, they are more often than not, ignored or denigrated.

judge trev

AND THERE CAME THE BEASTS AND KINGS WITH THEIR ARMIES AND THEIR CAPTAINS TO
MAKE WAR WITH HIM UPON THE HORSE AND TO MAKE WAR WITH HIS ARMIES AND HIS
EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE HE WAS CROWNED WITH MANY CROWNS AND IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS HE JUDGES AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE WAGES WAR
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Upcoming Litmus Gigs (and a Space Ritual gig)


> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Colin Allen typed out:
>
>        <snip>
>
>> October 20th: The Portland Arms, Cambridge (with support TBA)
>
>        <snip>
>
>        I was there, given it's my local, though I was late for stupid
> reasons and so missed the first band. Of the rest I wrote like this:
>
>        "I arrived too late to catch Leaden, whom I'm told are a quite
> proggy metal type of band but who had brought some genuinely tedious fans
> with them, teeny metallers whose idea of a good dance was to hang their
> heads over their boots and shake spastically, moving forward till they
> knocked people over like some strange sightless troll with Parkinson's. So
> I have no real wish to repair my omission.
>
>        "This Incident were here from Reading because Obiat, who had been
> booked, had got some mates to fill their slot when their drummer was
> discovered to be running a high fever that morning. They were supposed to
> be like the Melvins, but were a lot more conventional than that. They did
> have a *fabulous* drummer, most unlikely looking bloke, but also a
> guitarist with a big mouth and raucous voice, reasonable guitar ability,
> and a girl bassist who for much of the set wouldn't have missed three of
> her strings if someone had stolen them, really couldn't sing and who was
> wearing odd Converse sneakers. I wasn't sure if this was a fashion
> statement or not. Their music was quite jumpy Nirvana-aimed stuff but with
> more complexity and shifts between shouting anger and then sudden attacks
> of indie pastoralism with harmonies. I sort of enjoyed the set but really
> didn't feel the need for an album, it just wasn't a finished act." A
> reprobate friend of mine, and currently Cambridge Rocksoc president for
> some reason, "however did get the album and claims that it confirms what
> he had suspected, that they do in fact have some really good songs being
> badly performed. The drummer was fantastic, I repeat. Pity that he kept
> making space for the others.
>
>        "Litmus were winging it. When they'd arrived their bass-player had
> been scarcely able to stand, being with something flu-like. By the time
> they took the stage he'd been dosed with lots of flu-plus, made to drink a
> half-carafe of really awful wine, and had a lot of water splashed on his
> face. Though his singing voice was a bit gone, which robbed them of some
> definition in the attack as the guitarist and drummer can't carry vocals
> by themselves, his bass-playing was a lot less careful than usual, and
> this mostly didn't go wrong but instead propelled them into an even
> higher-intensity jam space than they usually occupy. They had a crowd of
> mostly-metallers to please and had most of them moshing or dancing, and
> grinning evilly at the bass-work. It was probably only me that knew there
> was something missing, partly because of Martin's vocals being ill and
> partly because the drummer's double-kick pedal had come to bits, so he was
> less present than usual. But this only goes to show they have redundancy
> and panic to exploit in these circumstances, everyone else came away
> saying it was a blinding gig and I was pretty happy with it also. It's
> nice when other people get something you've been trying to tell them for
> months and thank you for making the effort..."
>
>        Setlist was:
>
> Intro
> ?
> Psychic Projection
> You Are Here (with a big jam at the end)
> Under the Sign
> Far Beyond
> Infinity Drive
>
>        Midweek pub times so no encore, sadly, but they filled the time
> pretty full. Yours,
>                    Jon
>
> ObCD: Hawkwind - _Family Tree_
> --
>        Jonathan Jarrett                Birkbeck College, London
>                 jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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