Catch up
Posted by coldcut, 7.11.2007 19:53
After Marrakech we went to Lisbon, for a gig at the Casino there. This is a pretty futuristic circular building with balconies and a sliding stage portal for grand entrance style. The Casino have a policy of free music every Monday night, so there was a decent crowd there for Coldcut. we were well looked after by promoters Miguel and Miguel and copped some excellent fish. the modern Lisbon, down by the harbour , seemed to have quite and lot of funky new modern buildings like this one.
when Juiceand I got to the airport the day after the gig, the flight had been cancelled: there was a colossally depressing queue for people wanting to get on replacement flight but luckily we managed to skank out of this, get sorted on the next flight, and then went back in to town for a last lunch of some more excellent fish.
We got back to the UK, had a day off and then headed up to Leeds for a gig with the new Bohemia promoters in the Leeds University student union. this was okay, not the greatest ever, but we did get to hook up with MC Rebe and also graffiti artist Replete who has given us clips of his Ninja animations which we use in the show. His book of pieces was pretty amazing: he designs pieces in 3-D studio, so that they can have proper 3-D quality, then paint them on real walls!
Next day was an early start, we flew into Geneva in Switzerland for a gig at a superb underground venue called Usine, and this time we were back on form with a massively enthusiastic crowd inciting us to go on and on and higher and higher. Sat, we took the train to Basle for the shift Festival, a new Festival of electronic arts. apparently the site will be turned into a new arts university over the next two years. Thanks to Anders and Reena (big up Radio Ix!) and everyone for looking after us. The shift gig was exceptionally good: I had been somewhat concerned the more arty crowd might not get our show which is quite populist in its choice of material, but need not have worried: the audience of 500 or so raised the roof and would not let us go.A great gig to end this cycle on , with rousing choruses of Coldcut Coldcut and much stamping of feet. here is a picture of Raj engaged in open heart surgery on his mixer. keeping it real.
on Sunday I had a day off. mooch around town for a bit and had dinner at a rather wonderful co-operative restaurant that Anders and Reena took me to.
now back in London, preparing for the next stint which is a tour of South-East Asia commencing 28 November.
Last night watched the Serbian film 'Black cat White cat' which was astonishingly beautiful and funny, highly recommended. the night before it was the turn of Zeitgeist, a kind of audiovisual cutup documentary about such subjects as religion, mind control, the American right etc. Geat stuff , right up our street, again can give you a solid recommendation.
Peace.