Monday, October 03, 2005

Awakenings 30.9.05: Vietgrove, Second Thought & Nick Robinson

Nick Robinson got things off to a good start with some ambient looped guitar, using fx to morph the loops into otherworldly textures.

Then Second Thought, in his first ever live appearance, made some interesting rhythmic electronica with a laptop and acoustic guitar. He was very nervous and kis keyboard stopped working but he still made some nice noises.

Finally Vietgrove returned to the stage after 8 years to perform a selection of new and old tracks. both Mark and Norman played lots of guitar, with a lot of the rhythmic keyboard parts being sequenced. Not surprisingly there were a few rough bits, but there were also som bits where it all came together. norman used his Wiard modular for some ambient bits and for their final improvised encore.

After all the trouble we'd had earlier, with the main PA amp dying and so on, it was a great gig and we actually managed to finish early - hurrah

And here are some photos from the gig:
Nick Robinson

Second Thought

Vietgrove


rest here