:: GussetBLOG ::

:: Monday, July 14, 2003 ::

Another gig review: Toxic Dancehall, The Black Swan, Bristol, Sat 12.7.03

This gig was great. Brilliant set by D’Kat, who as far as I’m aware hasn’t played live before, he was so worried about his PC surviving it he had a backup CD of a rehearsal set just in case. Fortunately. he didn’t need it, and I have it now =] (Look out for a D’Kat/Gusset collaboration soon!) Ripley’s DJ set was as great as ever, some nice jungle party tunes, ending with that jungle mix of the jungle book thing which is such a great party track. Parasites live set was phenomenal, killer bass, pounding drums, and chopped up noises. It just got faster and faster. Amazing stuff. Anarchic Hardrive made a welcome return to Bristol, with a great set, James and Sam dividing the set into two and playing about 15 mins each, J rapping for both of them. Lots of distorted noises and more twisted riffs. Bang-Ra dropped tracks from his Bikini Bandits album and some other stuff, ragga jungle at its best! Every one of these acts is worth seeing if you ever get a chance.

The venue is perfect for this sort of thing, with the huge garden, DJs outside with a massive PA, bomb-fire burning, and an amazing laid back atmosphere, two rooms inside both with huge PA’s, and the bar wasn’t too expensive either.

And I picked up some new 7”s from
dSWAT while I was there too. The Fanny/BeeSnares split (nice packaging) on Death$ucker, Venetian Snares: Badminton, on Addict, and Donna Summer’s Popxplosion, all of them great.

:: Dan 14.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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