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:: Friday, August 18, 2006 ::

Gig Review: BOEP & hard.off @ Plummet, Timbuk2, Bristol, 17.08.06

A-level results day made for a messy night at Plummet yesterday. (I remember Gusset playing a gig to 10 depressed students on our own A-level results night 10 years ago. And look at us now. Now were playing gigs in front of 50 depressed students! Now that's progress!)

Boggle provided steady support in room two, although I only properly caught a bit of acid material in the middle of Rude NHS's set. Ironside set things up nicely in the main room, and Shoutput's grungy distorted beats got things moving as the place filled up. Ash (aka Scheme Boy / Barry Von Weedhousen) provided a one man BOEP show (based on the Gusset model of two people using one laptop looks ridiculous anyway) as Rory couldn't make it over. He kept things good and heavy, with full on beats and nice bouncy bass- and lead-lines for the best part of an hour. I wasn't sure the B-Boys mash-up at the end really worked but apart from that it was a solid performance enhanced by A-class grimacing.

hard.off seemed to find it difficult to start with and lost a fair few of the crowd before he really hit his stride and got the room rocking again. Desk climbing laptop rocking and shouting at the crowd made for a good interactive element and people were kept on-side with ease. Only half an hour of material got played out but Matt readily admitted that "the joke wares off" if he plays any longer than that. He's already playing live out of PureData (everyone else on the bill is using Ableton) and mashing things up live with a fairly slick shortcut set-up. I think simply adding a mic and processing some live vocals rather than shouting would make it easier to get across to a larger audience, as it only works on a small scale as is.

Finally, one half of Michael J Rocks provided a Mike DJ Rocks set (grungy guitar sampling breaks and layered up beats) for a prefect closedown.



A photo set is linked above and some 3AM shots of quiet Bristol streets added to the Bristol set.

:: Dan 18.8.06 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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