Played a house show at Badgerhaus tonight.

Show went well. Not a bad crowd for a house show. This was my first show as Automatic Caution Show and my first solo performance.

Got fairly short notice for the show, so didn’t have a huge amount of time for the show. I decided to give it a shot with an idea thats been in my head for a while. Basically, solo semi improv heavy ambient/dub/industrial kind of thing. Think Scorn or Godflesh. It ended up being a bit more improvised than I originally intended, but thats okay.

I think it went pretty well. The concept mostly worked, but I could probably use some time to work on song structure, mostly to make better use of dynamics, something that I sort of overlooked a bit tonight. I could also maybe use some work on the guitar sounds, but given the volume constraints, it didn’t seem to bad. In a louder environment, a half stack cranked to 11 would be nice ;-> Seemed to get a nice response from some of the folks there.

The Subliminator was pretty awesome. He has a very unique setup. Basically two alesis AirSynths and two AirFX for the music, plus a vocal processor and a Boomerang looper pedal. Vocals were processed, and heavily looped, building up dense vocal interswirling lines. It’s a small setup that he makes very impressive use of.

Oh, and as the last post would indicate The Subliminator tours on a customized BMW 1100GS. So after the show we spent a few hours talking about music and motorcycles.