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    01.05.12 - 93 Feet East, London

    And so on to the ‘tour’ proper - we’d just been driving home after the last few shows, so they were really just a bunch of gigs close together. Now we’d hired a van, booked some crappy hotels and were travelling together for the next week. Would we drive each other mental, kill each other and/or split up before the week was out? Only time would tell. 

    Pretty bad start - it took us two and a half hours to get the van from five miles away, with one of the band (who shall remain nameless) forgetting their driving licence and thus ESCAPING driving duties for the entire week. Still, we got to the venue by the allotted 4.30pm time (when will we ever learn to turn up at least an hour after we’re told? It’s an unwritten rule) and promptly lost the soundman for an hour. Much mirth on and offstage shortly thereafter when he asked uber-complex jazz-experimental band Nought to ‘just play a verse and a chorus’ from one of their songs. We’d picked the lineup for the night, which meant we got to play with long-time favourites Nought (who would join us for the Oxford show too), Oxford neo-prog mob Flights of Helios and the flu-struck though still delicately-gorgeous Rome Pays Off. 

    Great show for us - big, booming sound through a PA designed for club sound, so it made our synths sound like lasers shooting the sides out of battleships. A few fans (i.e. people NONE OF US ACTUALLY KNOW) turned up before doors opened, bought CDs and T-shirts, and then asked for photos with us after we’d played. That’s never happened before. Much merch sold, a potential single release discussed,and a late late curry - this is the way all shows should work out. 

    Though the evening ended in abject failure to find a late drink even in East London - thus, our aftershow party was conducted in the exquisite surroundings of the Liverpool Street Travelodge bar, open till 5am every night to show repeats of Morse to alcoholic and insomniac businessmen.

    Setlist

    Equus Ager

    American Steam Company

    Then Venice Sank

    Alba Adriatica

    All Aboard The Andrea Doria

    The 100 Gun Ship

    Posted on: 30th May 2012 - 0 notesReblog

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    The world has been without this extraordinary talent for 15 years today. Still miss ya, Jeff. 

    Posted on: 29th May 2012 - 0 notesReblog

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    Tour diary: 28.04.12, The White Swan, Aylesbury

    Ah, Aylesbury. If I told you that we loaded out through a pub absolutely packed with drunk people, none of who saw us play, into the pouring rain, and overheard a woman screaming ‘I didn’t do it’ at her boyfriend until she was hoarse, you might think we had a crap time. As it was, this was actually a kinda fun show, and much better than our last visit to the town. 

    Not much to see post-soundcheck in a rainy Aylesbury, so it was a case of ordering dinner that had PLASTIC IN IT, then heading back to catch 1877. This band boasts the biggest pedalboard outside of Kevin Shields’ house, and do a nice line in repetitive, drum machine-led but kinda groovy industrial stuff. I think they’re going to remix one of our tunes next. 

    During the quietest bit of opening track ‘Skipper’s Daughter’ (fast becoming the ginger stepchild of the set, not much beloved of most of the band, which makes me want to stick up for it), an amazed voice exclaimed ‘you’re good’ in a way that had to have been prefaced in his mind with ‘I thought this was going to be shit, but…’, causing us all to crack up mid-song and politely thank him for the compliment. We managed to land a brand new song for the very first time - it’s changed a lot in even the two weeks since then, but it was good to give something completely new a go. And a third encore from a crowd that more than made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers. Orderly queue formed at the merch table for tour CDs afterwards, and as we were packing up the undoubted highlight of the night, with the following exchange between Dave, our drummer, and a drunk woman who looked as if she may have been pushing fifty:

    - ‘Have you got a girlfriend?’

    - ‘No’

    - ‘Are you gay?’

    - ‘No’

    - ‘Take your top off then’ (wanders over to talk some more). Best chat up lines ever - nothing like cutting to the chase. There seems to be at least one nutter at every single gig. I think the venue provides them for colour. 

    Setlist

    Skipper’s Daughter

    American Steam Company

    Melusine Romance

    Baychimo

    The 100 Gun Ship

    Alba Adriatica

    Then Venice Sank

    —

    Encore: Equus Ager

    Posted on: 29th May 2012 - 0 notesReblog

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    Here’s the ‘100 Tonne’ remix of ‘The 100 Gun Ship’ by Listing Ships, remixed by Jon Pound of Lateral Sound. 

    Posted on: 27th May 2012 - 0 notesReblog

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    Here’s the Karhide Bass Bass remix of our song ‘The 100 Gun Ship’. It has bass in the title twice cos it’s so bassy. Mm, bass. 

    Posted on: 26th May 2012 - 0 notesReblog

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