Weird. In the three hours or so of TV I’ve watched in the last three days or so, I’ve seen not one, but two commercials featuring Faith No More songs.
One is a Levi’s commercial with the cover of “Easy”, and the other is an ad for a discovery channel show called “Dirty Job” with “We Care A Lot” as the music. Sigh.
Badger and I will be playing with Crowmeat Bob and Brian Donohue this Wednesday, July 20 at Bickett Gallery as part of the ongoing Death Jazz night.
Not sure what to expect, but it will be improvised. Show should start at 10pm or thereabouts. No cover.
Saturday, went up to Charlotte Court House, VA to play a show at the 434Noisefest.
Based on some emails from the organizer, I wasn’t expecting much. The venue is an old house with power, but not a/c or running water. No house PA either.
But, it didn’t turn out too bad. Everything was pretty informal which helped work around the conditions. We got up there about 5pm, and watched a couple of sets. Some cool stuff. Played around 7:30 I believe for ~35 minutes.
Seemed to go okay. Started out on stick, using the ringmod. Don’t remember much else of what I played. I switched to fretless guitar for the second piece, but wasn’t really feeling it, so switched back to stick for the end of the piece.
One of the guys after our set was The Subliminator. He had a setup with a Boomerang looper and 4 alesis Air* boxes. Apparently, at some point or another, this guy had played with Hawkwind. And he totally looked like he could of played with Hawkwind. English accent, long hair, black unbuttoned silk shirt, black jeans, and plenty of road stories. Very rock and roll.
Talked to a bunch of folks, exchanged some email addresses, etc. All in all, not a bad way to spend a Saturday.
Nathan has posted some pics from the Phasmatodea show on
his Flickr page.
I think my favorite is:
Just because it kind of looks like we set up in some sort of nonparallel wall bizarro room. Like the rooms you see that throw off your
depth perception and make one person look very tall.
Some of the pics make me want to setup a video camera at our next show. Just to see what if any stage presence I have. I sure “intensely staring at guitar neck and effects pedals” is exciting to watch.
Phasmatodea played Friday night at Bickett Gallery.
Show went pretty well. We were having some odd technical issues that got me a bit more frustrated than it probably should of. Started a little late, but not too much. I played guitar all night, since playing stick wasn’t really practical with my wrist hurting. I took that Parker and the fretless, but played the fretless all night.
Some nice pics at base10’s flickr gallery
First set wasn’t bad, a little disoriented to start with, but thats not uncommon for that type of thing. Second was nice, very ambient and melodic.
Third was probably my favorite, if a bit odd. My part was mostly kind of growling vocalesque buzzing guitar lines (ebowed guitar with lots of modulartion via string bending, whammy bar, and bending the neck around so the strings fretout against the frets).
Then, someone in the audience started singing. Very loudly. Loud enough for me standing infront of the amp to hear it. I thought someone had turned on the house music at first, as a not so subtle hint to end. But a quick scan of the crowd didn’t seem to indicate anything. So I decided to get louder. And weirder. And annoying. So thats how the
set ended. No idea who was singing (aside from “someguy in a hawaiian shirt”).
Plumerari were the headliners, and were excellent. Kind of shoegazery pop with nice guitar work and very impressive vocals. Enjoyed the set alot.
Phasmatodea is playing a show tonight at Bickett Gallery. If you enjoy that kind of thing, you’ll enjoy it.
Managed to hurt my left wrist playing soccer. Or more accurately, after falling to the ground on it after someones foot magically teleported in front of my leg as I was beating someone to the ball. Being oh, 15 feet from the ball, I’m sure it was just an attempt to kick at the ball.
It seems okay this morning, but it might make playing somewhat interesting. It certainly made the ride home on the Bonneville interesting. The wrist seems to be feeling better, and I seem to be able to type with it now, so I should be okay. If not, well, we’ll improvise.
I was vaguely planning on taking off on another road trip this weekend, but I’ll probably skip that now. Some friends were heading to Myrtle Beach, but that might be a bit of a ride with a minor injury. We’ll see in the morning.
Phasmatodea will be opening for Plumerai this Friday, June 24, at Bickett Gallery in Raleigh, NC.
ESST[1]: 9:30pm
[1] Estimated Show Start Time. May vary widely. Rock and Roll Standard Time may or may not be in effect. Show up early and drink some wine.
I’ll be playing as part of Fukadugalon, this Thursday, May 26, at badgerhaus.
I’m really looking forward to this, and glad to get a chance to play with
Will and John, both of whom are tremendous drummers and musicians.
To
quote
———————————————–
“Fukadugalon, (foo-ka-doo-gaah-laan), n.
1. The use of music to communicate via birds and insects with
extraterrestrials.
2. The improvisational noise unit formed by Will Connor (BAAMPHF!,
Feraliminal Lycanthropizers), John Snead (Dreamscapes of the Perverse,
BAAMPHF!, Center for Transgressive Behavior [CTB]), Anthony Staton
(Soulpreacher, Subscape Annex), Steve Burnett (Subscape Annex,
Phasmatodea), Adrian Likins (Phasmatodea).
3. BAAMPHF! + Subscape Annex + Phasmatodea put in a blender set on
‘Frappe’. ”
Fukadugalon performs this Thursday night at a house concert at badgerhaus,
located in the vicinity of Crabtree Mall in west Raleigh.
Expect percussion both Western and world, Chapman Sticks and theremin,
and tortured dinosaur synthesizer.
Location: badgerhaus, located in the vicinity of Crabtree Mall in west
Raleigh. Contact burnett@pobox.com for directions.
Time: early. Doors at 7:30. Start at 8pm, ending by 10pm – 10:30pm.
Cover: None required.
Note: Fukadugalon is also looking for additional opportunities to perform
in venues either standard or alternate between now and June 8. Please
contact burnett@pobox.com if you have ideas or resources, locations or
situations.
Haven’t played a Phasmatodea show in a little while, and now we have two, maybe three shows up coming.
Also, possiblity of another show sometime this week is looming. More details later.
Some interesting shows coming up in Winston-Salem
Fri, May 13, Autopassion cd release party
Old friend of mine plays bass and produced the album.
Sat May 14, Tommygun cd release party with Finks
More old friends, and the Tommygun cd is recorded by same folks as Autopassion.
Fri, May 20, Lighting Bolt
I do not known anyone in Lighting Bolt, but they are crazy spastic insane mathy weird ass intense rock. (some folks dub them “brutal prog”)