With Jas, Gerald and Anne to see AA Williams at the Bodega in Nottingham. Support was from a very loud Spotlight
It was the first tour for a couple of years for AA Williams and she was on top form . We were front of stage and central so clear view . The venue was quite packed. We had an unexpected interruption as some woman argued with staff loudly. AA stopped playing and tried to get security to act on the incident. It took 3 or 4 minutes before play commenced. Great gig shame people don’t respect artists!
I took a Ryanair flight to Belgium Brussels South Charleroi airport and spent a night in Brussels midi . Then a train to Brussels north and a bus from there to Den Hague. The trip was to attend the Darkwave musical festival Grauzone. Over the course of three days a collection of mostly black wearing artists will perform to an audience if mostly black wearing fans.
I saw the following artists perform
Friday 17:30 – 18:15 Minuit Machine Paard Small 18:45 – 19:45 Tempers Paard Small 20:30 – Rue Oberkampf Grey Space 21:15 – 22:15 Lebanon Hanover Paard Main 22:00 – 22:50 Ambassade Paard Small 23:30 – Zanias Paard Small
Saturday 17:30 -18:15 Ritual Howls Paard Small 18:20 – Dezik Paard Cafe 19:30 – 20:35 Emma Ruth Rundle Paard Main 21:10 – 22-10 Kælan Mikla Paard Main 22:40 – 23:45 TR/ST Paard Main
Sunday 15:30 Polystyrene film 18:00 Library Card Paard Cafe 18:35 Thus love Paard Small stage 19:30 Reymour Paard Cafe 21:30 Rein korenhuis
Ambassade Emma Ruth Rundle joined on stage by Celloist Jo Quail
A night at Sidney & Matilda with Gerald Garratty and Harry Otter for Old Crow Promotions event featuring Virgins supported by 93 Million Miles From The Sun and Wynona Bleach
Last night was a feature packed night full of ambient-doom-black-metal post-rock material provided by Portugese, French, and Japanese bands – Sinistro, Alcest and MONO (Japan) I took a position behind the mixing desk for a higher viewpoint but it still gave a limited view. With Gerald Garraty
