I'm forming a band!

Hoping to perform VVWI material FULLY live in the very near future.

None of this jonnylaptop-I-am-a-live-act-cos-I-have-ableton shit.

Electronic dancing music played by people with instruments

Good lord!

Sherrers wrote:I'm forming a band!

Hoping to perform VVWI material FULLY live in the very near future.

None of this jonnylaptop-I-am-a-live-act-cos-I-have-ableton shit.

Electronic dancing music played by people with instruments

Good lord!

Will it be like a one man band sherrers




Best of luck good sir.

Haha! Sounds like it could be fun

sounds good mate

i can play the triangle if needed

more like :

Ye Olde Rog wrote:more like :

Hahaha. Tim looks so small and has a long tail (so to speak)

This sounds quality mate.

when you think about it how many bands are there that do that sort of thing?

Jonny Boy wrote:This sounds quality mate.

when you think about it how many bands are there that do that sort of thing?

? good point.

I am excited by this prospect. If only to see his nibs in a tuxedo.

Jonny Boy wrote:This sounds quality mate.

when you think about it how many bands are there that do that sort of thing?

I dunno apart from Kraftwerk and maybe DFA or something? nothing new..

This is sounding good - looking forward to the 1st live show

Debut at Matter? A little birdie told me...

Jonny Boy wrote:This sounds quality mate.

when you think about it how many bands are there that do that sort of thing?

tsk tsk come come young man!

The Bays? 2020 Vision Soundsystem? Red Snapper? Leftfield?

I wonder what happened to The Propellerheads. I liked their drummer he was dead good.

Take california is a great track

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Jonny Boy wrote:The Bays?

I bloody love The Bays. Andy the drummer is A M A Z I N G! (he's touring with Chase & Status ce moment fact fans)

I'd like to be a roadie & fixer please sir.

i dont think i've heard anything by the bays

any recommendations of tracks/albums?

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Sherrers wrote:

Jonny Boy wrote:The Bays?

I bloody love The Bays. Andy the drummer is A M A Z I N G! (he's touring with Chase & Status ce moment fact fans)

I'd like to be a roadie & fixer please sir.

It's yet another ridiculous but true moment but that drummer is Andy Gangadeen... and I played in a band with him for a while in London many years ago.

He speaks that Indian tonal language of their formal percussion and hearing him and his roadie exchange back and forth with it is amazing.

Quite a few of the band went on to great things. Charlie Casey, our singer/songwriter and guitarist went on to work with Neneh Cherry and is one half of Akasha on Wall of Sound. Our Sax player was the band leader for Gary Glitter for years

Jon Tonks is now a top session bassist and did things like Tricky and other trip hop stuff.


Small world.

wookie wrote:i dont think i've heard anything by the bays

any recommendations of tracks/albums?

They don't record mate. See'em live if you can. I first saw them at Technique at the Warehouse and was stunned. Seen them quite a few times since.

i'll keep an eye out for them

it's quite clever wheeze. You can try youtube the sound quality is always terrible but there is loads of interviews with them telling us over and over and over again what they do.. but no music.


They are defo the premier live dance act IMO.

hahahahaha!


made my monday!

Ye Olde Rog wrote:more like :

Bring me the monkey grinder not the organist!

The Bays rule jazzy improv live techno.

But that doesn't sound very good does it?

Al wrote:Bring me the monkey grinder not the organist!

The Bays rule jazzy improv live techno.

But that doesn't sound very good does it?

Haha no it doesn't.

I don't think it will be "jazzy".

"Jizzy"

Jizzy Improv House.

You lot don't take anything seriously do you?

The Bays are incredible.

Tell you what. I would love to know how you are going to approach this

proper

live thing.

I've been thinking about it. The reason (or IMO) The Bays "improvise" (they don't BTW) is that to qualify as "fully live" they can't reproduce from the studio to live cos in my experience it's too difficult. For example you'd have to change all the drum sounds nearly every track, in fact re-load every instrument unless you were going to radically change everything.

So you'll be playing your releases live, but different? How?

I'm honestly all ears about this it interests me and I for one think you old farts should at least talk ONCE about music on here

honestly?

I am still working on it.



it's not easy. But you can, for example, press a foot pedal and all the pre-sets on the drum kit brain change immediately. You could do that many years ago I am just getting up to date with the latest tech.

How very interesting! Look forward to developments!

I can tell you what we have so far.

We have 2 session chaps. One will play upright electric double Bass (Midi) and a sax player (loop pedals and a boatload of FX) both of whom also play several other instruments. I will play Piano and Keys and a MIDI drumkit. Our studio whizz Mr West will play keys and loop them. Between the 4 of us we have more than enough to cover it... we are just working through who plays what and when. For example the Bass guy can play strings on his Bass as well. The Sax guy is really good at mimicking synthy sounds too.

What bothers me is if you loop stuff people think it's not 100% "live". But I think I'll just explain it to the crowd before we start with a nice chat and a series of very clear diagrams.

Sounds Genius!

Sounds very good indeed.

Where do you fit in with your triangle tim?