14/04/07:This is our punk rock.

Coronet theatre,

A/V show with ALEC EMPIRE (DJ)

PLAID (LAPTOP PERFORMANCE)

ZAN LYONS (LIVE A/V & STRINGS)

MIRA CALIX (WARP)

WARP DJS

KWEKU AACHT (LIVE)

THISISOURPUNKROCK DJS

16/03/07: OPTRONICA FESTIVAL

Cinema 1, National Film Theatre, Southbank, London.

16/11/06:OVERKILL TOUR OF EUROPE-click for poster.

With Mr.Tim Exile,Mr.Scotch Egg, Mr N>E>D plus many more..

Thurs 14th Dec: Paris @ Nouveau Casino

Fri 15th Dec: Orleans @ Le Marais

Sat 16th Dec: Geneva @ L'Usine

Sun 17th Dec: Lyon @ Sirrius

Thurs 16th Nov: Berlin @ Icon

Fri 17th Nov: Czech Rep, Prauge @ XT3

Sat 18th Nov: Katowice @ Club

Sun 19th Nov: Bratislava @ A4

Mon 20th Nov: Budapest @ Süss Fel Nap

DAY OFF

Wed 22nd Nov: Zagreb @ Kset

Thurs 23rd Nov: Vienna @ Cabaret Renz

Fri 24th Nov: Graz @ Veilchen

Sat 25th Nov: Avail for North East Italy

Sun 26th Nov: Zurich @ Zukunft

Wed 13th Dec: Greece, Athens @ Bios

21/10/06: Panoptica, Liege, Belgium.

17-26/11/06:Exhibition, Lighthouse, Brighton,UK

09/11/06: Camden Koko,UK Film screening

06/10/06: Sinus Festival, Basle, Switzerland

23/09/06: Warp Works/20th Century Masters, Cit la musique, Paris, France. Animation screening.

24/09/06: Name Festival, Lile, France

24/06/06:Faster than sound.

With Venetian Snares, Luke Vilbert, Mira Calix, Andrea Parker, Shitmat, Max Tundra, Mileece, Tim Exile, Details/ Ultre.

Faster than sound mixed up many worlds, first and foremost the world of the alternative music civilian and the atmosphere of the military. This was a stunning place for an event of any nature. Unified, we as civilians were free to be shattered 20-something independent musicians, 50-something contemporary and electronic music boffins and choirs of erm.. something-teen school folk. We were a mixed up bunch of differences, I needn't speak of the amazing line up.

We improvised noisy music between instrument, computer and real (loud) drums in the starwars building. This referred to the real starwars of the news not the silver screen. This was perhaps the most metal music in the base (hmm maybe between us and buddy Scotch egg), which we were proud to present this time as a stripped down rock-oot affair. Maybe all the darkness had gone to Details. See you next time.

09/06/06:Stealth.

With Tim Exile (planet-Mu), N>E>D (Warp, Overkill). Promise I wont heckle myself this time.

01/05/06:Craft Night.

Brilliant night where music performance meets making things, how perfect...

07/04/06:Overkill.

Two performances in one night, two completely 'different' performances.

Unveiling of exciting new secret project.

2-6/04/06:Snowbombing Festival.

A/V performance plus snowball fights/sledging.

23-24/03/06:Lovebytes Festival.

A/V performance plus Workshop with Young people.

03/03/06:A/V Festival.

04/11/05:Overkill.

With SHARKATTACK band, thanks for coming down, best weekend of 2005?

24/10/05:Overkill.

A/V set.

6-10/10/05:Sound Vision.

Kazakhstan

I was amazed when we were asked to do this one through the British council. There are few people in the UK that know anything about the huge country of Kazakhstan. Well, apart from Borat perhaps, who I believe is closer to being Turkish and bears no resemblance to a Kazhak to my new knowledge.

Kazakhstan to fly, is over three hours of Europe and then four hours of absolutely nothing, the Mars-like landscape below us seemed endless. The ex-Soviet state is larger than Western Europe with roughly the population of London and its boroughs. It is about as far from America as you can be, bordering with China, Mongolia and Russia. As we came in to land the plane turned round 180 degrees to reveal the most picturesque and immediately massive mountains I have ever seen.

The city pf Almaty is a complete wonder, you must visit. I will visit again. It seems like the most cosmopolitan place in the world. As soon as we got there we were taken to do a press conference and were told we would be on the national news the following couple of nights, I wondered whether it would be a documentary about jetlag and confusion. We must have looked well weird.

The following morning we were to do a workshop with the Almaty people which we had no idea how to prepare for, due half to cultural naivety and half to the tumultuous minute of sleep we all struggled to achieve. The guys who came to the workshop were absolutely great, all about our age were practically into exactly the same things too. It would have been brilliant to have made a collaborative work for the shows but time did not permit. Seems that even in the remotest cities in the world the internet can spread good music and art and people will find it.

Tornado club was a posh bar in the top of a shopping centre, it was definitely the first time I have eaten sushi whilst sound-checking. The night started with local DJ Costas, who we became great friends with as he opened each night with Vocodery electronica. N>E>D pumped it up perfectly so people were already dancing by the time we fired up the video rave blaster. At a certain point in our set (supreblastre) the place went completely crazy. This is the telltale sign of a grand night ahead. When Tim played I think people reached another level. He performed from what I can only presume was a pole-dancing platform and is one of the only people I have ever seen that performs live with a computer and is a true virtuoso. The place was energised!

The following night was at DaFreak club in the same city with the same line up. A larger and slightly more electrowerks/robot wars type club. These must be everywhere.We had a crazy time. It was brilliant to have all the guys we'd met at the workshop there too who made us feel like it was our home town.

Flying to up to Astana the next morning was riddled with lost plane tickets, lost cameras and lost minds. We left a lot in Dafreak. Now, Astana gets best newcomer at my futuristic city award for 2005. The airport was a fascinating green turtle dome about which Tim coined the description "Somewhere between stupid and amazing!" This phrase seemed to sum up everything at that moment.

Astana is a mixture between baron land and buildings that must have been designed with Starwars as a basis. Amazing. There was something slightly alternate universe about the whole trip, Astana is perhaps alternate Vegas (though I have never been to Vegas). Less homely than Almaty but quite uniquely dazzling, the city is now the capital of Kazakhstan and is obviously growing by the minute.

The night was above a glitzy cinema/shopping complex building and was almost like playing in a well-equipped bowling alley. The music again went down splendidly well and we partied again until four or five. Seemed like the people of Kazakhstan are really crying out for alternative entertainment, there were people dancing with passion (and moves) like I have never seen.

The people of Kazakhstan are lovely. The place is completely fascinating, apparently they have every naturally occurring mineral resource on the periodic table.

Thanks to the British Council, the anti-party gang and all the people that made it great. Hope to see you all soon.

15/09/05:Bios.

Athens

Audio/Visual performance.

It started with a grilling in Manchester airport as the 'lady' checking us in looked dubiously at our faces and passports with some scepticism as to whether we were really British brothers. She quizzed us, "you're travelling light aren't you" it made me feel a little like a terrorist but more like I should have brought more trousers/t-shirts. The four hours in Prague were instrumental in the drawing up blueprints for the forthcoming new A/V masterpiece we are constantly on with.

I love Bios, in fact it is exactly where I am sitting as I write this, Bios is a hub of electronic music /design in Athens. It is a brilliant mixture of venue/cafe/bar/cinema that we would kill for in the UK. Vasillis (founder, promoter, designer, DJ, barman, hotellier, human whirlwind) beamed with enthusiasm when he proudly told me that they put on 400 shows a year. About 1 and a half shows per day. Fantasic.

We are staying in the venue, it buzzes with electronic sound like a digital zoo where all the lines between life and digital art are as blurred as late night bar vision. As has become the usual way, we turned our stay into a micro residency by creating new work in the venue, a truly inspiring environment.

In the evening One dot zero are providing screenings of collected films including the Flat-e Ionisation film and many more shorts from all over the world. Late night in the venue there are a huge range of performances, Meam, Cylob, Mira Calix, Andrea parker and m-ziq will all play here over the coming month or so. It's a shame we can't stay for them all, we cannot stay all year round.

Having enthused wildly about the possibilities of audio/visual performance in a TV interview for Greek news, we took to the stage and screen. The audience was a tender cluster of friendly faces and seemed willing to watch anything that used electricity. This would become our first sit-down audience to date. They sat, watched and listened as we unleashed the Ultre video blaster.

This was a real change from the late night rave where you get the impression that the video acts as strobe-like wallpaper, and the music just hides embarrassing dancing grunts. The new work was a real pleasure to open the performance and by the end of the show the frenzy was embraced in a far more cerebral way than usual.

After the show we went on to eat what could only be described as a midnight plate of twenty steaks, drizzled in fine lemon juice an herbs, delicious. I'm coming back to see the Acropolis and no doubt will spend 90% of the time in the wonder that is Bios.

Thanks to the people who made it brilliant especially Vasillis.

15/07/05:LittleBig.

Glade Festival,

A/V set.

12/07/05:Wrong music.

Audio set.

21/05/05: Warp Records Night.

w/Chris Clark, Flat-e, N>E>D.

A/V set.

29/04/05: Unite/ Warp Records Night.

w/Chris Clark, Milanese,N>E>D, Flat-e, Arms!,Conrad

A/V set.

14/04/05: LoveBytes Festival .

Film Screenings.

28/02/05: Alt*Ctrl.

A/V set.

19/01/05: Ionisation

27/08/04: Shhh...

Electro acoustic set. The V&A party was apparently a completely gonzo success last year (2003) so we were looking forward to seeing what was in store this year. The idea was fantastic, and there was a sincere feeling that we were grasping the historical and contemporary and not in the usual pompous way, it was ace.

Dotted around the beautiful museum were various performers (Max Tundra, Kevin Blechdom, Trio electroniche,HK119 and Ultre).

On entering the vast building guests were greeted in the foyer by the ultre power blaster sound system, beautiful music appeared to be coming out of a strange metal bow-and-arrow type instrument (pictured) with a barrage of digital noise piping out of a metal laptop. The instrument was echoing around the museum like the soundtrack to "futuristic apocalypse" or "ancient museum invasion". A massive green glass chandelier vibrated high above the grinning faces as the museum became full.

Approaching the event as an exhibit also proved perfect for Max Tundra, Kevin Blechdom, Trio electroniche, and HK119 as they blasted the packed-flush museum with cutting edge and un-missable live sets.

In the central court yard there was what could only be described as a proto-renaissance rave cube. Djs (buddy peace, Leila Strictly Kev, Trevor Jackson and Leila) played from under an elaborate archway that looked made for the purpose. Imagine a school disco in the X-men school for the gifted and you are almost there. The music sounded very futuristic in this context.

Up in a main hall played Leila, Zan Lyons, Simon Fisher Turner and Colleen, to a crowd perplexed by such a marvellous evening. This sort of free event should be commonplace in London.

16/07/04: Glade festival.

U.K,

Visual set W/flat-e, AFX, Squarepusher..etc

27/06/04: Glastonbury Festival.

W/Squarepusher..etc

Visual set

18/05/04: Photon Speaks.

Brighton, U.K

Interactive Video/ electro-acoustic set.