Aquaboogie's blog

May's gig was the best we've done so far. We had a good turnout, and plenty of response (and occasionally abuse) from the audience, which was gratifying.

(We should give props to Billy and Janet for staying loyal to us during the dark days during the bloody arts festival when Katipo was empty.)

Musically it was a kind of back-to-basics affair. I reworked some more sprawly ambient stuff I did for the first gig, and Michael played a selection of odd stuff plus a dubout of the theme to the hit 1970s sitcom Taxi.

We've turned up on a net comp on the blocsonic label. The comp is called 'The Raw and the Cooked', and features our track 'Bracken Bed', the one that was a dubby/foolish update of the Country Calendar Theme*.

Big thanks to blocsonic for asking for inclusion on their comp!

* With all due credit to Dark Tower to beating us to it by, um, 12 years. 

It has come to our attention that some people would like to attend but Wednesday is not a good night, for reasons of choir and/or cricket practice and/or small children, so we've uploaded an excerpt from our most recent event. It's a half-hour 128kbs mp3 largely showcasing our DJ 'prowess', but with a couple of our own tunes tossed in. The file has been edited to get as much stuff in as possible, but no enhancements were made. All natural, all artificial.

The third Katipo gig was a lot more even-keel than previous our previous outings. We both kept the silly stuff to a minimum: I briefly played a hyperspatial treatment of the Robin of Sherwood theme, while Michael ended the set in spectacular fashion by dredging up a Bonanza Christmas special song and then redrowning Lorne Green in a pool of quicksilver reverb.

Hitch-wise the gig went well, although we accidentally deafened some friends, which is really unforgivable. Unfortunately where we play from in the corner is a sort of acoustic dead zone, so what we think is too quiet is for some all too loud.