Here are some murky recordings from bonbonjovijovi’s latest set at the really excited about deptford night… The Birds Nest is a great bar but also full of old chavs and this gave rise to some interesting reactions for our noisey indulgences. Some of which I recorded for use in another set another time… But anyway..
This Friday we’re taking the Bon Bon Jovi Jovi roadshow to Deptford. It is at the Birds Nest and part of the fantastically good monthly night “I’m really excited about Deptford” which is presented by our brothers Bob Constant and the Goodbye Horses. This time we’re going to air some new basswonk we’ve been working on and jump around to sped up bagpipes (as usual)..
This shady looking picture is evidence of us at work in the studio, finally starting the album. We spent a sunny sunday recording drums with new basher matt and the results were both smashing and lovely. We’re now at work editing and overdubbing for our first 2 singles! The day was particularly testing given the previous nights DJ adventure where I got paid in beer. It was a success of sorts and managed to get a rammed out Catch dancing a bit with some nice dancehall and ravey stuff. Major Lazer particularly went down well. I love Diplo.
Anyway, I’m doing the DJ thing again this Friday at the George Tavern on Whitechapel Road. It’s shaping up to be a good night with Bo Ningen, Blue on Blue, Bob Constant and Trash Kit playing live and a host of other DJs. Plus it’s our mate Samir’s birthday so come down and wish him well.
and happy easter you christians/chocolate lovers out there.
I’m playing my first “DJ” set this Saturday at Catch in Shoreditch. I use the term DJ lightly as I have no records or no skills at mixing. I do have lots of nice dub mp3s which I’m going to play out of ableton. I have to try and avoid the temptation of playing really obscure stuff just for the hell of it. people like to dance or so i’m told.
But it should be a good night, with My Drug Hell, Maria and the Mirrors and Blue on Blue also playing their fav records.
UPSTAIRS at Catch
Saturday 27th March
Kingland Road
9pm-2am
FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!!!
…but we made some noises. Check out this recording from our Bon Bon Jovi Jovi set for the Stop The War Coalition fundraiser.
Me and Greg will be performing as Bon Bon Jovi Jovi at this great fundraiser event by The Stop the War Coalition… See below for details:
Stop the War Coalition fundraiser
With: Bob Constant and the Goodbye Horses, Oche Music, Bon Bon Jovi Jovi
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Jamboree
Cable Street Studios
566 Cable Street, East London
Nearest tube: Limehouse DLR
£4 entry
We will be doing a special one off partly improvised soundscape incorporating fx chains, techno and noise. We’re also playing with our friends Bob C and co and Oche Music, both bands that we have put on ourselves in the past. It’s great to be on the same lineup again.
New panicattract recruit Noel has got me in playing bass temporarily for his Stars No Stars project. We are supporting the mighty Xiu Xiu at the Cardiff Arts Institute on Thursday 25th Feb… Pretty big gig for the first time I’ve played bass in public. Valium is keeping me sane. Anyway come down and see the us! It’s free to get in too and you get to see Xiu Xiu. What more could you want eh?
Download: Gypsy (panic attract remix)
We’ve done a remix for our mates The Helmholtz Resonators! They are a wacky bunch so we thought the only thing we could do was to eat some suspect mushrooms and play a lot of super mario brothers. This is the result. Enjoy it and check out their music cos it is very nice.
We’ve got two new people on board…
…introducing Noel and Matt
Noel will be strumming guitar
Matt will be banging drums
Both me and Greg have been big fans of these guys for some time now and we’re excited about how things are moving. We’re now stuck into a mammoth rehearsal mission to get up to speed and should be ready for a live unveiling in a couple of months.
In the mean time, check out their other bands..
well the new year freeze has been keeping us busy of late. Greg has been busy with layers of moog on the as yet untitled Swedish project. We should have some tracks ready for this soon. Meanwhile I’ve been been with developing some sound design for a new iphone game which will be out towards the middle of the year. It’s a sci-fi action/puzzler kind of thing and is looking amazing. it’s giving me plenty of reasons to make epic drones.
In more panic attract related news it looks like we’ve recruited a couple of new band members… Early stages of rehearsals so far but if all continues then we should be ready for a re-launch in march time. That means we wont be doing any gigs until then. Sorry London. More details will follow..
ALSO we’ve now started to put some DJ sets together so if you want us to play at your night email here: panicattract@googlemail.com
we play things that we like. sometimes we like to dance. sometimes we like to beard scratch.
