In the last few months of 2011, I was involved in a project with BBC Voices to create videos about aspects of the city of Norwich. The group I was in chose to do a video about the local music scene, and to achieve this, we did a biography of the local band Collider. We visited Collider at one of their rehearsals in October 2011, then interviewed them and filmed their headlining gig at the Norwich Arts Centre for the Matthew Project in November 2011.
This video, along with all the other videos made for the project, are going to be shown on the big screen outside of Chapelfield, as well as on the massive fusion screen in the Forum. On the 13th of February, the videos will be launched in the Forum, and then will be shown there all of that week. (13th Feb to 18th Feb).
The soundtrack to the video includes two Collider studio recordings, their song Ghosts, and the unreleased track Treehouse.
Collider are our good friends, and we actually have their single out - not that anyone noticed (not bitter or anything) - so we are very pleased that their music will now be heard by a wider audience. After the launch event on the 13th, I will upload the video, and post it here for all the internet people (and those who can't make it down to the forum) can see.
If anyone is going down to see the video in the forum that week, then let me know, and I might be able to come along and say "Hi."
Got a cold and can't bring myself to get out of bed, so I decided to write a blog post.
2012 got off to an excellent start last week with our first gig of the year; bringing Haiku Salut to Norwich. It was the first time I'd been lucky enough to see Haiku live, and they really didn't disappoint. A vast array of instruments - including pianos, trumpets, drums, (multiple) accordions, and that keyboardy thing that you blow into - all filled the birdcage with lush melodies and textures.
Thanks to Matt for this short clip of Haiku Salut. Plans are for subsequent gigs to be filmed (perhaps not entirely, but substantially), but we just hadn't got around to that sort of thing.
I would definitely recommend Haiku to anyone who has the chance to see them, and I am looking forward for when they come back to Norwich. Bring on the album!
Billy-Boy Vine doing the DJ set last friday
Also thanks to Bill from Collider who DJ'ed after the gig (in honour of Josh's birthday). He artlesslyfully merged the two genres of post-rock and 80's crap pop, and helped the party atmosphere. At the end, almost everyone was dancing.
On top of all of that fun, another highlight of the evening for me was hearing the new TSC track - Bullingdon (or more accurately, the less subtle The Rt. Hon. David Bullingdon). The song, one long piece of loop on loop, just worked really well, and was my highlight of Josh's set that night.
As in time old fashion, while feeling ill, I have a song that I can relate to; that makes me feel better.
And here it is, courtesy of the band Mimas - Manflu.
Mimas were actually kind enough to post a mediafire link to their first album on twitter the other day, so if you are having financial woes, but still want access to good music, I'd recommend going to check them out.
It looks like I might be soon involved in making a documentary about how independent artists can make money and successfully grow a fan base; fucked if I know. Anyone got any advice?
We're bringing the excellent Haiku Salut to Norwich on Jan 20th for Josh's birthday, and to start our series of gigs in 2012. As it's our first proper gig in Norwich, we've made it a freebie.
Josh is also doing a date in London at The Unicorn the night before, which is also free :
