| DECEMBER 2000
Particular Lesson -
Special Event
daevid, pat, josh, erik,
michael, jay and dave mihaly
from Mushroom on percussion --
at The Tongue and Groove on Van Ness Ave at Union
St. in San
Francisco on Wednesday Dec. 13 around 10 PM
Daevid had his yearly stopover in
San Francisco after the touring season on his
return to Mullumbimby. He suggested we do some
UofE gigs --this was impossible to arrange. So I
called Pat and asked if he had any Mushroom gigs
lined up. Mushroom is Pat's improv space/jazz
band and Josh and Erik are regular members. There
was one on Dec. 13th so I asked if Daevid and I
could be in the band for a one-off gig. He
said sure, so we did. We were joined by Dave
Mihaly (of Mushroom)and Steph Junca (of Azigza)
on percussion and a mystery female trumpet
player. Jay was there but didn't play because
there were too many already. - The photos
were taken by our friend Mia Hanson.
There were also three recording
projects that week --Daevid and I added tracks to
the forthcoming Spirits Burning II CD, and Daevid
did some guitar and words for Dipstick and some
great long jams with Kitty Kaos and
Uri. mc
OCTOBER 2000
...another webvideo cartoon at
Videos page
SEPTEMBER 2000
More errorized pixels at Fotoz
page
...a webvideo cartoon at Videos page
Love at the Kidding Factory /
Iced Tea Overture (extr.)
and three new Live videos (also
at Videos page)
AUGUST 2000
U.S. Tour - See errorized
pixels at Fotoz page
Chicago Reader Critic's Choice
(extr.) by Monica Kendrick
DAEVID ALLEN'S UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS,
Saturday 8/12, 10pm, Schubas
Daevid Allen has been around and around and
around. Upon arriving in
France from his native Australia, he collaborated
with William Burroughs; not long after arriving
in England from France, he cofounded Soft
Machine. He was so far ahead of that game that he
left before their first album, and in 1970, back
in Paris, he started the art-rock collective
Gong, whose early "Radio Gnome
Invisible" trilogy still stands as a
benchmark of inspired psychedelic excess. Now 62,
he's apparently as happy as ever to get dizzy. A
couple years ago the songwriter and guitarist
teamed up with members of the Bay Area band
Mushroom to form the University of Errors, and
the infusion of blood young enough to have been
influenced by Wire, Gang of Four, and My Bloody
Valentine proves very, very invigorating. A good
reference point for grokking their forthcoming
second release, E2x10=Tenure, is old cohort Kevin
Ayers, who in the 70s released a string of
exquisite albums that teetered thrillingly
between genteel whimsy and mugging menace. Allen
and his young friends up the ante, erupting out
of the crumpets-and-'shrooms school of
psychedelia into real acid savagery. "Iced
Tea Overture" juxtaposes a searing guitar
freakout with the cheesiest rhythm track
ever,"Ocean Mother" is a cyclical grind
whose cumulative effect is Lovecraftian shudders,
"Pinky Psycho's Party Song" is tinny
barrelhouse art-punk, and "Innesfree"
is a delirious campy rendering of Yeats's
best-known poem that builds to a horrifying,
gibbering climax. Live they're reportedly even
more entrancing, and generally Allen draws from
as many of the periods of his variegated career
as he can whenever he's onstage.
More errorized pixels from the
tour at Fotoz page
and video live at Videos page
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