The gig that was a turning point

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.

A Low Ebb

I can't believe how much this is costing, It's mounting to more than my annual income.

What the hell am I thinking of?

I'm upsetting folks who lend out their photocopiers.

I'm pulling in favours and weighing heavy on others .

For what?

What for?

wrapping

amongst the printing, so much wrapping and labeling.

The secret skill of wrapping demonstrated here by S.

Fear and 29 days til completion

Today is a challenge, I am visiting a photocopier, a new one, It sounds good but I have no money to buy it.
Why would I be given it?
Can we be borrow it?
Can we negotiate a price?
Can we pay in installments?

I also need to visit the manager of Wicks to request a discount on paper.
We need to visit the Cloth House to negotiate felt prices.

I have to talk to people , ask for help, not stew and worry.

Book World

Yesterday the world that the book has created was at its most abundant.

The cast....
Steve, computer training 10.30am re debosing artwork for book cover
talk to HQ of Cloth House re felt purchase, can we get a deal/support in kind?
talk to Konica Minolta local rep , Mark re a replacement photocopier.
Dan at Service Point photocopying images on tracing paper for silk screening. 12.30pm
Lisa at Stew to expose tracings on silk screens 2.30pm
Konica 1216 photocopier at Stew, to flatten lining paper ready to chop to size.
John at Ecoprint to chop paper exactly to A3 on laser machine. 3.30pm
visit Henry at the Book Hive for pricing and release schedule advice 4pm
Norwich Arts Centre to use their super photocopier 6pm
Go to Planet Beet Fridge and make music noise 9pm
Wrap and label all printing.

We Have a Deadline...

So a couple of weeks ago we were given a deadline and I have been in the fear zone and the 'do' zone and forgot to write.
10 books by May 14th
10 books by June 5th
Remaining 140 by the publishing date of October 15th 2012.

So the Stew photocopier is acting up enormously, but Ecoprint are helping with some B+W prints.

Binding.....I went to see Peartree, they will bind 10 books if we sew.
Aidan Abernethy will show us how to sew.

Peartree need two weeks to bind.
Deliver books by May 1st.
We need a week to sew. April 23rd.
We need a week to put books together April 16th.

We now are finishing any printing not done in batches of 20.

We have to buy rubber, felt, tracing.

We have to solve the problem of housing the vinyl.

We have 26 days before the books need to be assembled.

screen printing continues The Deadline arrives

Today I will screen print more.....

Last session I managed 100 or so prints from 11.30am - 3.30pm

It's quite hardwork on yer upper body.

The Deadline has arrived, the book will be released on October 12th 2012.

I will outline the journey to this guillotine!