Tuesday, 5 April 2011
TIME in Istanbul
Yes (evet!), we're playing in one of our favourite cities, Istanbul, on 1 May. The venue is Arkaoda, in Kadikoy, check it out here. More details to follow soon...
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Some live recordings...and gig news.
We had a bit of a root around in the old Time archives and unearthed a live recording from our first gig at Cafe Oto in Dalston. Upon listening back, a couple of tracks actually sound not too bad. Personally I loathe hearing live recordings of myself - I think I sound as flat as pancake and that I have sausages for fingers - but these two are relatively gaff free and come across pretty much as intended.
Time Oto (The Keep & Spirit of Sacrifice) by noise immemorial
There's a bit of background ambience - coughs, splutters, the tinkle of glass and the creaking of chairs, as well as the rather audible clicks of my guitar pedals being switched on and off (perhaps one of the few shortcomings in the otherwise brilliant EHX range) - but nothing too obtrusive. I'd like to add that I find Cafe Oto to be one of the most civilised venues in London town - great selection of drinks, plenty of seating, intelligent sound engineers and a generally very attentive and respectful clientele, not to mention being situated five minutes walk from a wealth of fantastic Turkish restaurants - the perfect place to play!
The two songs featured are 'The Keep' and 'Spirit of Sacrifice', neither of which have been recorded for a release yet although we hope to rectify that some point soon this year. HOPEFULLY WITH BETTER VOCALS.
Another thing - we have a gig on the 17th of March at the Miller in London Bridge with Closed Circuits and Imaginary Forces - our first of the new year. Come and get an earful!
Time Oto (The Keep & Spirit of Sacrifice) by noise immemorial
There's a bit of background ambience - coughs, splutters, the tinkle of glass and the creaking of chairs, as well as the rather audible clicks of my guitar pedals being switched on and off (perhaps one of the few shortcomings in the otherwise brilliant EHX range) - but nothing too obtrusive. I'd like to add that I find Cafe Oto to be one of the most civilised venues in London town - great selection of drinks, plenty of seating, intelligent sound engineers and a generally very attentive and respectful clientele, not to mention being situated five minutes walk from a wealth of fantastic Turkish restaurants - the perfect place to play!
The two songs featured are 'The Keep' and 'Spirit of Sacrifice', neither of which have been recorded for a release yet although we hope to rectify that some point soon this year. HOPEFULLY WITH BETTER VOCALS.
Another thing - we have a gig on the 17th of March at the Miller in London Bridge with Closed Circuits and Imaginary Forces - our first of the new year. Come and get an earful!
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
And in other news
While we were on our summer holidays from this blog, a giant, 200-year-old whale skeleton was found in Greenwich.
The biggest single object ever found in an archaeological dig in London! Bone slideshow here!
The biggest single object ever found in an archaeological dig in London! Bone slideshow here!
21 October: TIME at Cafe Oto, London, with Lichens
Thanks to Miles of Smiles for putting us on the bill with Robert Lowe, aka Lichens, not least because I'd really like to see him play and this is a good way of doing so! Lichens played the Transmediale festival in 2009, which Mark and I were both at, but we missed him. I don't have an excuse for why, except that there were a lot of bands on. I found some footage of the Lichens set at Maria am Ostbahnhof, which has a great unearthly, captivating quality.
That's on 21 October, Cafe Oto, Ashwin St, Dalsburg, London E8. Also want to mention that Miles of Smiles have a really special event coming up on 30 October, with Shirley Collins presenting her talk on English folk music (which is awesome and makes people cry) and Alisdair Roberts and Trembling Bells playing tough and lovely folk-rock songs. Looking forward to that.
That's on 21 October, Cafe Oto, Ashwin St, Dalsburg, London E8. Also want to mention that Miles of Smiles have a really special event coming up on 30 October, with Shirley Collins presenting her talk on English folk music (which is awesome and makes people cry) and Alisdair Roberts and Trembling Bells playing tough and lovely folk-rock songs. Looking forward to that.
14 October: TIME in Cambridge w/ Chris Corsano and Heather Leigh
We're playing at on 14 October at the Corner House, Cambridge, in support of Chris Corsano and Heather Leigh Murray's mighty JAILBREAK duo. Here's 8 mins of them tearing it up in Glasgow a few years ago, worth watching all the way through for the unexpected slow riff Heather gets into towards the end.
The Corner House is on Newmarket Road, Cambridge, and we're on at 8.30ish. Details, maps and so on can be found on promoters Crushing Death & Grief's website
Really hoping we get to Cambridge early enough to stop in at Kettle's Yard for the John Cage exhibition.
The Corner House is on Newmarket Road, Cambridge, and we're on at 8.30ish. Details, maps and so on can be found on promoters Crushing Death & Grief's website
Really hoping we get to Cambridge early enough to stop in at Kettle's Yard for the John Cage exhibition.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Yes Way
We're playing at Upset The Rhythm's Yes Way festival on Saturday 14 August, with a load of other people including Temperatures, Blood Stereo and the brilliant Haxan Cloak - full lineup here. Come hear our new songs and current ultra-bass-no-violin set-up, etc.
We supported Haxan Cloak at the Stoke Newington church gig earlier this month - was expecting some eldritch drone action along the lines of what's here, on the Aurora Borealis site, but Bobby teamed up with Liam Trencher on drums and did a Boredoms-ish power-drone upward-spiral freakout kinda thing that was equally exciting.
The aforementioned gig got a really nice write-up in the NME (!) which we can't link to because it's in old-skool print and not online, but if I can track down a copy I might scan it. 'Popol Vuh' was mentioned, so here's a spotify link to my (that is, Frances's) favourite Vuh track of the week - had this in my headphones of late as I traverse the weirdscapes of Silvertown.
We supported Haxan Cloak at the Stoke Newington church gig earlier this month - was expecting some eldritch drone action along the lines of what's here, on the Aurora Borealis site, but Bobby teamed up with Liam Trencher on drums and did a Boredoms-ish power-drone upward-spiral freakout kinda thing that was equally exciting.
The aforementioned gig got a really nice write-up in the NME (!) which we can't link to because it's in old-skool print and not online, but if I can track down a copy I might scan it. 'Popol Vuh' was mentioned, so here's a spotify link to my (that is, Frances's) favourite Vuh track of the week - had this in my headphones of late as I traverse the weirdscapes of Silvertown.
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