Reflection on the gig and listening to the audience has stirred me......
I realise we are achieving our desire to alter the gig going experience....
As I have ranted about in the past, the gig format is conservative and gig going should be anything but. Most gigs you know what you are getting, three bands on a stage, clapping, encore, then chucked out by security....but Stories From The Sonic Basement show it tantalised the audience by being full of unknowns.
Led through darkness, which is not only disorientating but encourages listening in a more in depth way.
Then the slow reveal of the room/building with solid harmonically fueled songs, not just weirdy beard noises to confuse and upset....thou we did do a bit of that too ....it's just too tempting, hee hee.
We The Butcher's Of Common Sense, The Neutrinos, will continue the quest.
I believe this gig is a turning point because we have done most of our experiments in art galleries and done unconventional shows inside conventional venues.
This show was in a derelict tower block basement. We used the acoustic, we played with the building.
We led the audience through the building......everyone loves nosing around buildings, or exploring places they wouldn't normally be allowed into.
Every city and town has abandoned buildings.
Every building has songs to be harvested......a sonic to explore.
Our next set of shows we have been planning since Feb are called 'I Am A Building'.
After Wednesday's show, I think it is the perfect choice.
