I've seen the now duo Sculpture play quite a few gigs this last 3 or 4 years and very often they're memorable for reasons other than the wierd and wonderful sonic squall...

 

One time I saw them play over in some peculiar church old art gallery in Camden...

There was free Japanesse beer all night and a good few bottles down I was really engaging with the true MAGNIFICENCE!!! of the tape loop SQUALLLLLL!!!

When I got a call from the now former Mrs G...

She was pregnant and locked out of the casa, and she wanted me to travel an hour across town to let her in...

Well, not only was I into it, but I had 2 American guests and we was all JUST GETTING PROPER INTO IT!!!, and the then Mrs Giovanni was supposed to have come over to Camden to GET INTO IT 'N ALL!!!

I was FURIOUS!!!

But what can you do..?

I seethed for a minute or two, then grabbed 2 beers and my American friends and we went home, stopping only to buy vodka on the way...

Which sent Mrs G FURIOUS!!! because we'd bought the vodka before letting her in, and she threw the bottle off the balcony, then gouged my arm, then sprayed the shower in my fully dressed face?!?!?

The next day I walked to Stratford and bought a solar panel which I've yet to get any use out of...)

 

Another good gig - musically perhaps the best took place on a Wednesday night in New Fucking Cross!!!

Yes boss, it was in some nouveau bar come alt.music hangout and in it, and Sculpture laid waste to all support acts with incredible ease.

Yes boss, I saw all of them except the guy who rolled around in leaves whilst playing a triangle

and they were evaporated!!!

CHOMPED OFF AND OUT!!! GOBSMACKED AND DUMBFOUNDED!! THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT'D HIT 'EM!!!

Seriously!!!

I've never seen a man or for that matter a woman, PULSE and FEEL like that on stage whilst playing electronic music?!?!?

IT WAS EPIC!!

It was the kind of gig where you see the clear and unmistakeable difference between a pro and the very many wannabe pretenders who'll soon stop taking it all seriously and become software programers or civil servants or bus drivers...

PROPER GOOD!!!

 

Last nights gig at the ICA would sit somewhere inbetween the two...

There was no domestic, but I did loose 2 hats during the evening...

I took a SHITLOAD of photos that I haven't yet seen, because after returning to Mr Visuals Ruebens house for the afterparty, I fell asleep on his sofa only waking at 11.41am when my daughter phoned me...

#tescosfail

 

I still haven't been home other than to pick up my computer...

 

Yes boss, all told it was a pretty spiffing night...

Which didn't look like it was gonna come off because when I got there, The ICA were chatting some shit about the place being FULL and no more people being admitted and I wasn't a member or on the guest list...

But where there's a will there's a way...

 

So...

GREAT MUSIC AND VISUALS FROM DAN & REUBEN!!!

Not so GREAT breakcore from some other bloke

And I caught up with a few old aquaintances...

 

Hard to fault...

 

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