Sumo 11th March 2010

Sumo
Black Carrot
Gummy Bears
Us
oh yeah a number of repeat viewers too.

Rise up Reggae Star! Thug is Life!

The Musician

Rose after 36 hour Jeremy Kyle themed drug-binge feeling isolated and bereft.

Looking back to Thursday night with Dead Cowboy Culture and Black Carrot at The Musician, without going all Lady Ga Ga about this, some new and interesting ideas on display here and much talent and charisma (at least until Echolocation came on with their anti-stagecraft).

With reference to this question over Echolocation's (lack of) stage persona, it's just the thin end of the wedge that leads to another question: 'Who told you, you could sing?' and ultimately: 'What does it mean?'. My thoughts go out to fallen Rock n' Roll hero Shakin' Stevens currently serving time on Long Island for impaling an impertinent photographer with a mike stand javelin-style.

Anyway looking forward to next Thursday at Sumo with Gummy Bears and Black Carrot again, another chance to communicate, or at least to consider it.

Rise up Reggae Star! Thug is Life!

Echolocation's new album is nearly ready for release.

Everyone's excited around these parts. A provisional release date of April 16th has been set for Revenge of the Yes Men,  the second in the Echolocation Trilogy.
Once again produced by Harvey Sharman-Dunn, Revenge of the Yes Men, sees the band come out of the bedsit that informed much of 2008s C92 and rails against the mundane. They are once again very angry, but there is plenty of wry humour here too. Anyone who has worked in a large organisation will recognise some of poet Peter Ingram's vignettes on display here.
The album starts with a cry of despair at the apathy encountered everywhere; it pokes fun at the in-house magazine, seeks revenge on the petty jobsworths and careerists, but ends with the redemptive and uplifting extraordinary Leap of  Faith.
Echolocation  still defy categorisation and the sound is augmented by synths, cello and sweet brass as well blistering Rock and Roll.
With most of Regeneration, the final part of the Trilogy already written this should be a good couple of years for Echolocation


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echolocation @ Ciros

Ashby De La Zouch home to Ciros ( pronounced Cairos) will always be ingrained into the subconcious. It'll be our dirty secret. A gig where we plied our wares took the money and ran home for a long hot shower.
I think their heart is in the right place (they pay bands for a start), its a good venue and it has a hotel attached which we could've used. Fish the sound man was cool, adding to our list of admiring sound-men (he bought a CD). The audience were appreciative but they wanted Kasabian - they closed their eyes and tried to imagine.You can't be all things to all men.
A stage diving first. Some confrontational twat tried to invade the stage clattered into the drum kit knocking cymbals flying, Dan never missed a beat and the said twat was ejected for being a twat.

New Echolocation album imminent.

Its been a while coming but the final mixes have been tweaked and the running order mulled over.

We may some white labels available for the 4th March gig at the Musician.

Should be a good one with Black Carrot and Dead Cowboy Culture.

Hopefully off to see John Cooper Clarke tonight, then its the Ashby nightclub gig tomorrow. That should be worth blogging about.

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I'd like to point you to the new blog from Swiss Adam.
Very good it is too
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