when did you see them? . . what stuff did they play?

. . . and of those other bands, i'm really only familiar with sea and cake, trans am and of course deerhoof. . .. should you be recommending me something better on the back of your tortoise boredom???

I saw them in 2003, as part of Lee Perry's Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall, so it was at "Standards" time. Here's a couple of reviews:

The Observer
Yahoo! Music

I saw them quite a few times before and at the release of Standards in '01. They were great live then but I started to lose interest in them with the release of It's All Around You. However, they were fantastic performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die at Koko as part of last year's Don't Look Back series.

unluck recs present

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

JAZZFINGER

TIGHT MEAT

+ more

at the Red Rose, Seven Sisters Road (near Finsbury Park Tube)

FRIDAY AUGUST 24TH

£5 - 8PM

www.unluckrecs.co.uk
www.myspace.com/unluckrecs

Sunday 19th of August

RED ROSE: Mopomoso: Sabu Toyuzumi from Japan performs in various combinations with Roger Turner, Steve Beresford, Ashley Wales, Ms Fukuda, Phil Wachsmann, Ute Wassermann, Veryan Weston, Marcio Mattos, Paul Rutherford, John Butcher, Harri Sjostrom, Lol Coxhill & John Russell.8pm. £5 / £3

Colourscape Music Festival on Clapham Common

Sept 15th to 23rd

Our largest and most established festival in our largest Festival One structure - the world's largest Colourscape.

Weekend performances of the latest developments in contemporary music - improvisation - microtonal music - ensembles from abroad.

PLUS the second Eye Music commission under the Rawsthorn Award. Barry Guy presents an event linking music, colour and space.

September 15th - Evan Parker Ensemble
Evan Parker, Phil Wachsmann and Simon Desorgher plus computer processing by Lawrence Casserley and David Stevens create a new world of sound.

September 16th - programme to be announced with the Cirrrus Ensemble including the London premiere of “SUPERLUMINAL” by Richard Durrant

September 17 to 21 Colourscape open without music 12 to 1pm each day

September 22nd - Carol Morgan Ensemble
International musicians perform throughout the afternoon in Colourscape.

September 23rd - Barry Guy - New event created for Colourscape
As a tribute to Barry Guy in his big birthday year we present Gaia II funded by the Eye Music Rawsthorn Award.
Dancers and musicians perform throughout Colourscape. Video artists film the events and project their interpretations on monitors outside Colourscape.

Location: The festival site is on Clapham Common near the Windmill pub. Nearest access Rookery Road.
Admission: Adults - £6.50 - Child/concessions - £3.50 - Plus family tickets
Opening Times: 1 to 6pm weekends; 12 to 1pm weekdays

Standards was quite a terrible album, as far as I remember.

Brett Anderson - Queen Elizabeth Hall - 20 October 2007
Tickets for Brett Anderson in Queen Elizabeth Hall on 20 October 2007 are going on sale at 9am on Wednesday 15 August.

In this special one-off show the former Suede and The Tears frontman is accompanied by a string ensemble performing material from his debut solo album and Suede favourites. The show will be recorded and concert-goers can buy a limited edition CD recording moments after the conclusion of the set.

As the voice of Suede, Anderson was a defining voice of 1990s music and one of Britpop's brightest stars.His solo material explores more introspective themes, his distinctive vocals augmented by acoustic guitar lines and lush string arrangements.

Book early to ensure you get the best seats.

Tickets: 0871 663 2580
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

i didn't take you for a suede fan.

I'm not, but I thought there may be some around here somewhere.

I am a fan of this man though:

Barry Adamson
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 November 2007

Barry Adamson's love of jazz has always informed his music - from Miles Davis on the record player when he was young to his experience playing with Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to his trademark dark urban soundtracks. As Southbank Centre's Artist in Residence for this year's Jazz Festival, he takes us through his newest album that draws on jazz and blues for inspiration and examines the genre of the soundtrack in depth with an evening of collaborations and special performances.

From the first screech of a lonely night-time cotton-field violin, to the bop eccentric horn players, and onto the nonstop immediacy of the computerised loops and samples, jazz has remained the defiant history maker that refuses to roll over and play dead' (Barry Adamson).

Tickets go on sale to Southbank Centre Members only on Wednesday 22 August at 10am and will go on general sale on Friday 28 August at 9am.

To book tickets, ring 0871 663 2580 or visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk

GURU GURU

LONDON MUSEUM OF GARDEN HISTORY
WED 19TH SEP, 2007 7.00pm

Part of the Capital Jazz Festival at the Garden Museum (now into its 5th year), this amazing concert sees the English debut for one of the most original and famous krautrock bands. Guru Guru, led by drummer Mani Neumeier, were leadings lights of the scene that gave us Can, Faust, Neu, Cluster, Tangerine Dream etc in the late 1960s and 1970s. This is their first London date in 40 years, and is not to be missed. Support act tbc.

£15.00

bloody hell... i wonder what they're like after all this time?

Shit.

I'm going to have to trawl eBay for that one.:mad:

oh and..

JOHN WIESE
LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI
BIRDS OF DELAY
Thursday 6 September
Barden's Boudoir, 38 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ
8pm | £6 | www.wegottickets.com

The info that this is a TG gig seems to be from a very old post on TG's website, which only refers to an invitation to perform, not a confirmed date. However, this appears on the NWW myspace:

Nurse With Wound

13 Oct 2007, 20:00
Chalk Farm - North London

Rumor has it this will be a performance with Throbbing Gristle.

www.myspace.com/babssantini

Steel Pulse

At Shepherds Bush Empire, London
From 7:30pm
Price: £17.50 in advance

something like this
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/34436516

high on fire are playing at the underworld in september, i can't remember the date, but i think it's towards the begining of the month, you'll have to look it up yourselves. anyway, ace live band.

Atmospheres - Field Recording and the World of Natural Sound

Biosphere, Chris Watson, Benny Nilsson, Scanner, Leafcutter John etc

Museum of Garden History, Lambeth.

October 21 - 26

http://www.museumgardenhistory.org/fieldrec.htm