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#30 The Chetness at The Cube – 21 May 2004

This event featuring songs once performed by Chet Baker had an amazing house band: Clive Deamer – Drums; Dan Moore Keys, Jim Barr – Bass; Adrian Utley – Guitar; Dolan Jones, Pete judge and Dave Mowett – Trumpet.
Also Paul Bradley and Neil Smith – Guitar. There was a great mix of music professionals and um non-professionals and one of the few times you’ll hear Clive Deamer or Pete Judge singing.

If anyone has any pictures of this please send my way or post. Here’s most of the evening on mixcloud. Or here’s the podcast:
cheers,
jesse

The Chetness Of The Magnificence by Gothmag on Mixcloud

#09 The Greekness Of The Magnificence 5-12 Dec 2002

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In association with friends of Maria Tzardi from Athens, we organised a short trip to Greece for: Jukes, MorningStar, Patrick Duff, Mooz, Don Mandarin, War Against Sleep, Plug and the Invisible Pair Of Hands.

8 bands consising of 12 people (illustrated above by Jim) who were: Rasha Shaheen, Amy Jarlett, Tammy Payne, Paula James, Jessica Marlowe, Jim Barr, Duncun flemming, Rich Beale, Jesse Vernon, Patrick Duff, Adam Coombs and Sebastien Carbonelle (who came from belgium).

The three nights we staying in Athens were all together in a bed and breakfast. very nice!

Duncan later edited a short video of the trip

The shows were mostly in The Small Music Theatre in Athens which we played three consecutive nights. Then we got the train to Salonika.

		Patrick, Sebastien and Adam
Rasha and Jesse		Invisible Pair Of Hands with guest sax player, tammy and rasha sing
Don Mandarin	A meal alltogether

here’s some video:

1000 Dreamers – Jukes from Small Music Theatre, Athens. from .

Keepers Of The Fire – Morning Star from Salonika Club Ydrogeios, The Greekness Of The Magnificence on Vimeo.

Fucked – Patrick Duff from The Greekness Of The Magnificence, Salonika Club Ydrogeios on Vimeo.

Greekness Running Order

Small Music Theatre Athens	Friday 6^th		Saturday 7^th		Sunday 8^th
		8.30 – 9	Plug
9.40 – 10.20	War Against Sleep	9.15 – 9.45	Tabernacle	9 – 9.30	Jukes short set
10.30 – 11	Morningstar solo set	10 – 10.30	Don Mandarin	9.45 – 10.45	Patrick Duff band
11.15 – 11.45	Don mandarin	10.45 – 11.45	Jukes	11 – 12	Invisible Hands
12 – 1	Mooz	12 – 1	MorningStar

Salonika Club Ydrogeios	Tuesday 10th

5.30 – 6	Tabernacle
6.10 – 6.30	Morningstar solo set
6.40 – 7.10	War Against Sleep
7.20 – 7.50	Don mandarin
8.10 – 8.50	Jukes
9.05 – 9.45	Mooz
10 – 10.45	MorningStar
11 – 11.45	Patrick Duff
12 – 12.45	Invisible Hands

#06 – Stoke Newington – 17/11/01

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featuring

They came From The stars

MorningStar Small Orchestra

Patrick Duff

Meon

#07 – Christmas of the GoThMag – 22/12/01

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Christmas of the Greatness of the Magnificence

22nd December 2001
@ Bristol Folk House, Park Street, Bristol
£6/£5 (Cheaper If You Dress With Seasonal Greatness and Magnificence)

MORNINGSTAR SMALL ORCHESTRA
“indulge in this sensual heavenly music… a totally decadent experience.” – Guardian

Fresh from their recent tour, the Morning Star Small Orchestra which comprises a violin quartet, flute, accordion, flugelhorn, clarinet, saxophone, backing singers as well us the usual line-up of double bass, drums and guitar, will be performing well loved Christmas favorites (featuring V.I.P. Guest Vocalists) as well as songs from their recent album “My Place in the Dust”.

LONDON TOY ORCHESTRA
“like music remembered from a ZX Spectrum game soundtrack” – BBC Online

The Toy Orchestra return to G.O.T.M. to perform a very special kind of Nativity Play.

THEY CAME FROM THE STARS (I SAW THEM)
“indescribable” – Freaky Trigger
After their recent nose-bleed inducing performance at the London Greatness, TCFTS(IST) return to Bristol to perform dirty astro-stomp pieces like “Beer of The Gods”

Plus…
* Loads of Acoustic Acts in Café
* Video Art/Projections/Slideshows
* Poetry, Dancing and Other Bohemian Stuff Like That

Christmas Concert

> Café

> 8.30 Jude and Adam

> 9.00 Solar Mumuns

> 9.30 Keepers choir

> 10.00 Chief Tonka

> 10.30 Patrick Duff

> 11.00 Johnny & Slide

> 11.30 Andy (The Message)

> Hall

> 10.00 London Toy Orchestra

> 11.00 carollettes (Gabriels Message, Mozart,)

> 11.10 They Came From The Stars

> 12.00 MorningStar SmallOrchestra

> Keepers Set List

> river is flowing

> many rivers to cross (with jim and Brendan)

> masters of war (with trompete, adam, jim and Brendan)

> green leaves of summer (with jim and Brendan)

> spanish eyes (with jim, trompete, poshpete, adam, boris, Trevor, brendan,

> becky and ben)

> cuckoo (with jim, trompete, poshpete, adam, boris, Trevor, brendan, becky

> and ben)

> MorningStar Set List

> 1) I heard Beauty (with b singers))

> 2) Shake It Together (with b singers)

> 3) Little Donkey (calypso)– Duncan Inseminator (with carollettes)

> 4) Little drummer boy – Tammy (errol on drums)

> 5) Silent Night(calypso) – Rob Madnomad (with carollettes)

> 6) Bleak Mid-Winter – Patrick (with carollettes)

> 7) Inbetween times (with b singers)

> 8) Too Soon (with b singers and carolletes)

> 9) White Christmas Patrick (with carollettes)

> 10) Away In A Manger (dub)– Rob Madnomad (with carollettes)

> 11) Wonderful Christmas time

> 12) One Love

#04 – Urban(e) Countryside Festival – 23/06/01

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: poster by John Minton

Featuring:
zoom quartet
Sophies Boots
Inseminators
MorningStar SmallOrchestra
Now
Oil Experts

Now - live

#03 – Cabaret – 20/04/01

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Poster by John Minton

Fri 20th April 8pm at The New Trinity Community Centre, Old Market, Bristol. £7/6 (further door reductions for those who dress with greatness or with magnificence)

A night of easy-listening noir, cabaret toilet poetry, orchestras and choirs, dance, installation art, and projections, with dancing to finish. This one’s practically a festival!

The event will be in three sections:
Part 1. A Cabaret featuring mainly lots of bands playing fairly acoustically but also involving some dance acts and maybe a bit of poetry.

Part 2 : Two more rocked up bands for the full psychedelic band experience. These being Mooz and They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them).

Part 3 : A chance for the audience to get more involved with the possibility of dancing while not having to watch anything in particular. The Twonk Sound System present ‘easy listening verses fucked-up noise’ – dj’s and art terrorists working against perfect harmony. See below for details.

PART 1 :CABARET

1. Dan Ashton
2. Bill Carghill
3. MorningStarSmallOrchestra present part of their latest work ‘a symphony of fools’
4. London Toy Orchestra : live edutainment with the sound of plastic tooting.
5. Patrick Duff : the man from Moon and Stranglove plays a short set with his highly acclaimed and beautiful new small combo. Songs of Blood with High Folk and some intimations of the Gothic.
6. a possible appearance from The Keepers of the fire mixed voice choir

PART 2 : TWO COOL BANDS
7. Mooz : Coveted local girls done well present a new set of songsculpture in this their first gig of the year.

8. They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) : who are the musical group beyond the description that could be. But think chaos, kraut rock and Faust and you’ll be getting there – even if you don’t know what that is.

PART 3 : A DANCEFLOOR ODDYSEA
presented by the Twonk Soundsystem (dj’s from They Came from the Stars + Molotov Organisation) : easy listening vs. fucked up noise inna twostyle soundclash – 1 hour, 3 decks, 1 microphone, 4 very different dj’s and a bunch of toys. (ffi goto http://www.molotov.org.uk)

BogArt will be providing Spontaneous Art Spaces.
PROJECTIONS from Sid Fossil

here’s a review from the Big Issue

#02 – Rock N Roll – Fri 23rd February 2001

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The Greatness Of The Magnificence#2

Fri 23rd February 8pm at The New Trinity Community Centre, Old Market, Bristol. £5/6 (further door reductions for those who dress with greatness or with magnificence)

A night of rock’n’roll, easy-listening noir, cabaret poetry orchestras and choirs, dance, installation art, and projections, with a disco to finish.

THE MUSIC

1. The Balkanized :

Eastern European accordion and bass trio set the flavour of the evening.

2. Chikinki :

…and then the flavour has a massive rush of adrenaline when these fine rock’n’roll Electro-groove merchants take the spectral stage. Chikinki’s performance is part of their UK your which comes with the release of their LP ‘Experiment With Mother’ (released on Sink and Stove records).

3. MorningStar Small Orchestra:

The heavenly multitude present a psychedelic set from the sublime to the craven. This is the year MorningStar’s long awaited second LP (with Paris label Microbe records) will be released, probably April (and the next Greatness of the Magnificence)

4. Rita Lynch :

And her shiny new band with a hellhound on their trail play their first concert, having spent a week in the studio working on Rita’s next LP. This gig also celebrates the release of a CD collection of Rita Lynch live and previously unreleased songs on the Colours and Sounds label which will be available.

COMPERE: the great Paul Bradley and his amazing sounds introducing the acts and being one.(an event highlight was Paul ranting about how he used to be in the band before introducing Rita Lynch)

BogArt will be providing Spontaneous Art Spaces.

PROJECTIONS: via Sid Fossil

DJs: MDF, Ranger and David Hopkinson on the wheels for the dancing.

ADDITIONAL MUSIC: from The Sacred Harp choir

Balkanized

A Sacred Harp Choir

the public

Bogart

#01 – Easy Listening Noir – 23 november 2000

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The first Gothmag event took place at The Trinity Centre in Old Market Bristol. I set up a sound system above the toilets, placing the speakers over subtle holes in the ceiling in the Gents and Ladies. It looped a tape of poetry all night long.