Music will begin shortly after the theatre production finishes (approx 9.15-9.30pm).
There will be new material and songs from our album “Sketches For A Lost Summer”.
Please bring friends, all welcome.
Independent Label Market
Berwick St, Soho, London Saturday 21st May 2011 – street market taken over by some of the UK’s most prestigious indie labels: Rough Trade, Heavenly, Peace Frog, Moshi Moshi, Domino, Mute, R&S, Wall Of Sound, Soul Jazz, Bella Union and XL.
The plan was simple – grab a box of our CDs, some promotional signs constructed by Matt and a set of headphones/MP3 player containing the whole of “Sketches for A Lost Summer” then proceed to location and set up our own super-independent market stall. What could go wrong? Continue reading
A to Z: A is for Astral Social Club
This is the first of a new (ir)regular series as I dip into The Untied Knot’s CD/vinyl/mp3 collection and dig out some firm favourites from A to Z.
A is for Astral Social Club
If you’ve never heard one of ASC’s brilliant and bizarrely-named ecstatic electronic noise collages you’re missing a treat. Neil Campbell’s genre-defying sound pile-ups range from warped ADD undanceable beat driven work-outs to shimmering multi-core power drones. I hesitate to use the term psychedelic because of the inevitable peace and love connotations but listening to this music is probably the closest to an aural hallucinogen I’ve ever got.
Campbell is a stalwart of the UK underground and I first ventured upon his music whilst he was at the helm of Vibracathedral Orchestra where the drone aesthetic was in strong evidence. Ever-evolving, he split from them in 2006 to proceed with this stellar monikered largely solo project. The chance to experience Astral Social Club live at the kind of volume that carries you into a synaesthetic maelstrom is one not to be overlooked and has been documented previously by me here.
Recommended releases:
Welcome To The Past (live) video
Exclusive unreleased track “Welcome To The Past”, our set closer from the ScooterCaffè gig in September 2010.
Pre-show Mix
For those of you who’ve been asking about the incidental music from our recent gig, here’s a Spotify playlist featuring about 80% of it.
And here’s the rest on a Youtube playlist.
Trainspotter alert – the only tracks I couldn’t find on Spotify/Youtube were:
“Folk Ghost” Douglas Wood
“Prelude and Dawn” Basil Kirchin
“All Gone, All Gone” Palace Songs (The live versions on Youtube are awful!)
“Open Letter To The Older Generation” Dick Clark
“John Peel’s Voice” Delia Derbyshire with Brian Hodgson
Enjoy it kids!
The Social Network
Photos from ScooterCaffè
ScooterCaffè, 8th September 2010 courtesy of Brenda Hayward.
8-9-10
The massive world tour resumes on Weds 8th September 2010 with a return to ScooterCaffè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.
The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan)
with The Saskatoons (Ross Hemingway and Robin Prime)
plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…
Doors 7pm, live music from 8pm.
Free entry
Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North
Shit happens!
Last Wednesday’s gig got cancelled at the eleventh hour when some doddering old berk who had come to sort out the drains at Scootercaffe caused a catastrophic sewage leak. One of the gig-related complications you can’t really anticipate. Anyway, Matt and I will be re-scheduling something soon so keep ’em peeled.
Thanks to our Andy who had possibly the shortest soundman’s shift in history and the intrepid Jason who came all the way up from Brighton. Apologies to anyone who made it to the venue only to be disappointed…
In brighter news – great news to see BBC 6 Music has a reprieve so well done all those campaigners who helped to achieve this!
Massive World Tour
The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan) live plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…
Downstairs at Scootercafè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.
Doors 7pm, live music at 9pm.
Free entry
Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North