I’ve had a bit of a break from most of my online activities lately but it’s probably about time I resumed posting here and elsewhere.
On Saturday night Lena (Lani) and I played as Harmonica Lewinsky at Boardies & Bikinis, a weekend-long music festival hosted by Tractor FM in a beautiful bush/beach setting at Ruapuke.
(Anyone get any good photos I can post here? Let me know, cheers)
Yeah I know I should’ve posted about it beforehand but our participation was a bit last-minute hence the stripped down line-up (with a casiotone MT-70 for beats!)
In spite of the cheesy drums our set was a raucous affair with lots of feedback and echoes. I think this should evolve into a pretty interesting band. Actually I should have enough HL stuff recorded to release some kind of album. Or maybe a mini-album. Probably very soon.
Those of you in Auckland are encouraged to get along to this, beginning this Wednesday the 9th, upstairs at Handmade (the old Brazil) on K’ Road.
Experimental music, experimental instruments both acoustic and electronic, kind of an offshoot of the long-running Vitamin-S but perhaps with more of a rhythmic and melodic focus.
Come to play and listen or just to listen. I’ll try to get there too.
Couldn’t quite say Raglan is starved for live music but it’s not exactly Mecca for touring bands either. There’s a fairly steady diet of competent-but-very-ordinary reggae and somewhat-less-than-ordinary house, so last night was a rare treat.
The Shrugs are humans, made from flesh and The Trons are robots, made from Meccano. They’re both (mostly) from Hamiltron and they’re both excellent and that’s about all I have to say about that.
(Except to add that I bought perhaps the coolest bit of merch I’ve ever seen at a gig ever, pictured above. It’s a lathe-cut record made by Greg Locke (The Trons) and if it looks a little strange that’s because he cuts them on aluminium pie dishes. He claims that they sound awful. I haven’t played mine yet and I’m not sure if I will. Playing it would require punching a hole in the cardboard backing which would diminish the collectibility, for me anyway.)
by felix
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tagged greg locke, hamiltron, live music, pie dish, raglan, raglan music, robot band, robots, the shrugs, the trons
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