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There's five gigs in Reading this Saturday, most if not all look amazing. Reading is becoming a vibrant cultural hub for good underground music and this can only be a great thing. We're very fortunate to be spoilt for so much choice. Most if not all nights are run by ordinary hardworking volunteers purely out of love for what they do. Pixadelica is returning after a brief hiatus. Here's details of Saturdays long awaited gig.
We're still the only promotor in Reading releasing a cinematic trailer for our gigs, produced by our very own William Dew.
A gig for us is very much a multimedia event. We like the grandeur of having a good time and releasing cinematic trailers of every gig is a celebration of that. There are some exciting ideas floating around Will's video work at the moment. Stay tuned.
Pixadelica Vol. 9
Post Rock Masterclass from heroes UpCDownC, finally returning to Reading for what should be a stunning show!
Fresh out the lab it's Pixadelica favorites the The Quatermass Xperiment, a truly unique fusion of circuit bending and insane rock mechanics. Promising new material.
Angry and loud punk rock and prog a la Volta and hopefully one of the most exciting new rock bands to hit Reading Auto De Fe
Plus following an outstanding Pixadelica debut last year a special acoustic set from The Bellows guitarist Simon William Jones!
Plus stand up comedy from local hero Ryan Wicks who helped us kick start 2010 with our special Haiti fundraiser.
Our gigs are very much multimedia events now. We've not only managed to secure another eclectic line up of some of the best and most innovative underground music, we'll also be projecting all kinds of video oddities during the bands performances plus we'll be publishing issue 8(!) of our submission based arts zine. Pixadelica is slowly turning into a cultural event. At our last gig cosmic dance pop heroes Space Heroes of The People sound tracked a range of soviet propaganda cartoons with their psychedelic robotics.
Remember Pixadelica back in January? Robin Williams exploded on to the stage with intricate heavy guitar riffs and concentrated manic drums. Two young men making forceful uncompromising loud noise, everything that should be great about modern rock music. Local favourites Mark Knight and the Witches played their Pixadelica debut, psychedelic indie rock played with real soul. If you can't remember play that CD you bought from some mad drunk at the gig, then play it again because it's awesome. You all raised nearly £300 for Oxfam's Haiti appeal too, we passed everything we made on the gig to people who need it more then we ever could and walked away penniless. While the filthy rich were rewarding themselves for conning us into a recession under barbed wire and armed guard on Haiti pleasure cruises you all gave so generously, thank you.
Free Zine - Issue 5 of Pixadelica
January we released Pixadelica Issue 5, and finally it's available for free download. Click the beautiful artwork below drawn by the very talented Flee Lees for your free PDF.
Featuring great literashure from heroes of the imagination both local and worldwide Ryan O'Donoghue, Nick Mann, Jamie Hobley, Melly H, and The Shy Poet. Also stunning artwork by fearless surfers of the quantum foam of possibility Flee Lees, Gregory Baker, Tina Fife, Sam Thompson, and a mad drunk.
Silver Pulsars. For those of you that are partial to Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus and Fuck Buttons. Sounds a bit like someone plugging a guitar into the hadron collider at CERN, strumming a chord, and subsequently infinity leaking incomprehensible cosmic melody from the resulting accident.
Space Heroes of the PeopleIf you like Jaga Jazzist, Neu and LCD Soundsystem then you will be sure to fall in love with Oxfords critically lauded noise pop psycho artists. Like this history of propaganda on a good time LSD trip.
Spin Spin The Dogs. Recently received critical acclaim in Vice magazine, post-punk insanity from demented agit pop idiots running wild with neon paint in the streets.
Suddenly it's March now, Reading is no longer a frozen wasteland and I don't need to construct a survival suit just to walk out of the house to the local anymore. The weather ain't getting warm any time quick, but we're approaching a general election and we still live in hard times, so don't expect it to get warmer. High unemployment, the tightening of draconian copyright laws, and the BBC publically mutilating itself to the commercial satisfaction of dying breeds of advertising executives, insane newspaper tycoons clutching every word and law suit with their cold dead hands, and a possible future government. That's a big possible. Think carefully about which liars and crooks you want to run the country. Meanwhile public broadcasting services like youtube and the BBC are seriously under threat from glorified advertising interests. Don't trust anything that demands your attention just to sell you something.
It's not all doom and gloom though. BBC 6 Music may not last the year, but there's plenty of ways to experience new music that isn't designed to sell you a multimedia device you don't need. March is a month of gigs in Reading.
