Following a few minor disasters this month we've confirmed a new line up for Saturday 21st November at The Facebar. We're really pleased with how this turned out, and would like to thank everyone who's stepped in to offer us support this past week. You're all wonderful people, and it's good to see there's widespread belief and support for a volunteer non-profit effort that started as a meeting of great minds one cold night in a beer garden. Those of you looking forward to the amazing musical wonders of Visions of Trees and Vicars of Twiddly, look out for the wide range of live music nights that are starting to appear in Reading, or wait for next installments of Pixadelica in 2010. We're still keen to work with and support these great artists again. 

New Line Up

Have a flyer.

We're looking forward to the return of local heroes Skyline Dossier after their amazing gig back in August at what has been our biggest gig to date. There's video footage here on youtube if you haven't seen it yet (thanks to resident artist William Dew). Come see The Man You're Mother Warned You About perform with one of the best rock bands making noise in Reading right now.

We're very excited to present Perhaps Contraption from London. I've been told that shows are "custom built" for each venue. According to their website they sound like fluxus-fuelled-avant-rock-pronk-pop-performance-offle. (F.F.A.R.P.P.P.O) which carries the same weight of meaning as every other band description I've ever written for a night. A true art collective, expective absurdist narratives, pranks, and the usual meaningless adjectives that are entirely unrepresentative of what may actually happen. For all I know one man might turn up with a blank sheet of paper and ad-lib Dadaist poems all night long, or 10 people might turn up with a JCB and heavy duty industrial road tools and attempt to re-create the Mona Lisa live.

Readings newest, finest, bass and drums noise merchants Toddlers will be opening the evening, fusing the minimalist post rock aesthetic of The Creatures with the gnarly brutal balls out frenzy of those motherhuckers they call Lightning Bolt.

Riding in on a storm from Coventry via London Towne is the gothic swamp blues of The Bellows: imagine the dadaist instrumental leanings of Captain Beefheart fused with the bucolic electric folk of Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny era Fairport Convention and your halfway there. The fun doesn't just start in the evening, The Bellows will also be playing an unplugged set that afternoon in your favourite local independent art cafe, Moondogs on Oxford Road 5 minutes down the road from the Facebar. Come and say Hi and have a chatover the best carrot cake and coffee available for public consumption in Reading. We've been looking forward to having The Bellows play Reading for a long time now, and we hope you'll agree they're something special.

Doors open at The Facebar at 8pm, Saturday 21st November. For those of you new to Pixadelica, the Facebar is really easy to find, it's just down the road from the big Sainsburys in town. Have a map. You can zoom and pan and get directions and maybe even (if you ask nicely and burn some paper or something) have it to carry you there....

Issue 4 - Zines

We've had a lot of interest in our zine recently, following a few copies circulating around the recent What The Butler Saw arts event. As usual there will be free copies on the night, but get there early as we only have the budget to print a limited number and they go quick! We've had some fantastic submissions so far for this issue, and it's shaping up to be our best yet in my opinion. If you'd like to see your work published but haven't sent us anything already, there's still time. We're extending the deadline for submissions until Wednesday 18th November. Send us literally anything (drawings, short stories, poems, photo's, paintings, something you cut out of the local paper) to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . You don't need to be a photoshop expert or know lots about computer art, get a pair of scissors and some glue and photocopy something. If you can't send it via email get in contact anyway, most likely we want to publish it and we can find a way to. We publish everything under a Creative Commons license, which means it's distributed for free democratically under a condition of fair use. If you like the idea of upsetting Rupert Murdoch then endorse Creative Commons and enable artists to distribute their work on their own terms, no one else's.

There'll also be a limted amount of free CD samplers from our friends at MrsVee records (there's a few left from What The Butler Saw). The Ressonance Association are soon to release their new album, from what we've heard it's a stunning collection of ambient rock soundscapes from a critically acclaimed band!

Music

Finally. have some free music from Erstlaub, from one of favourite netlabels HighPointLowLife. We recommend downloading "Rose in Time".

Tomorrow night is another Econo Band Night from Doubledotdash!? at South Street Arts Centre Reading. Check out the flyer below, the mighty Nought are playing so this will be a gig not to be missed! Nought are Seasoned veterans of astonishing arty jazzcore return to Reading after warping minds at earlier in tyhe year band night #7. I was there, it was amazing! Expect yer brain atoms split with anatomical precision.

After a small disaster Pixadelica Vol. 5 is confirmed and fully underway. Details to follow later today.

What The Butler Saw

Thanks to everyone involved with What The Butler Saw this past weekend. It was an amazing four days, and it was great to see so many people enjoy such a diverse range of art and music. It's been great to meet so many genuine friendly talented people. I absolutely loved the event, and can't wait to start working on the next one.

I have about 300 photo's from the event. I know a lot of people are really keen to see these, please be patient while I sort through the crap ones (probably about 250 of them). I'll post the decent ones on this website soon. We're probably going to have to start a Flickr group for Pixadelica just to store and share everything. We'll let you know if and when this happens. If anyone has any photo's they would like to share, particularly of the Thursday and Friday nights, please send them with to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . I'll put them on this website alongside your name and any website address or contact details you want to send me. 

More Gigs!

Meanwhile there's a new Pixadelica event coming up, along with a night of four amazing musical acts presenting the kind of sounds you'll have to come expect from us. We've also invited The Bellows to play an unplugged set at Moondogs Art Cafe at 3pm. See new flyer artwork below! 

Details of this to follow while we confirm all the finer details. This is a big event for us and we're all working extra hard to make sure it's going to be one not easily forgotten.

Zines! Contribute to Issue 4 of Pixadelica!

Meanwhile we're taking Zine submissions again. Deadline for submissions is Sunday 15th November. There's been a lot of interest in the Zine recently, and hopefully there will be copies available in more venues. If you want people to see your art then send us an email includng your full name (or pseudonym) and any website or contact details to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . The zines are now all available to download from this website, there's a new menu on the right for easy access. Meanwhile, have a preview of the heart stopping action that's to come below, inspired by artist LIMONete.

Art Installations

What did the butler see? You'll find out this weekend if you come to the four day arts festival we've helped organise. Meanwhile have a glimpse of a magnificent contraption, a small part of a much larger narrative device.

Come to the Butler Pub this Thursday to Sunday to see the full installation by Pete Montford, alongside a range of visual spectacles from C.J. Chandler, Kim Burley, and other hugely talented local artists.

Gigs - Sly and The Family Drone

Sly and the Family Drone are returning to Reading following the creative chaos and mayhem of their appearance at Pixadelica vol 4 at the beginning of October. This was one of the most unique performances we've seen in a while. Utilising a three person drum kit and speaker stack, Sly and the Family Drone reduce music to it's bare essentials, a primal orchestra of drum rhythms and drone noise. Their reductionist take on music is literal, they split their drum kit to it's singular base units, passing individual drums and snares to the audience who maintain the beat while they free themselves for more noise and freestyle mayhem. Their show unfolds like a temporal art narrative on entropy. In the beginning they start physically in space as a tight musical unit of drums and speakers, a high pitched whine fills the air, layers of noise and distorted vocals slowly fill the room and the percussion starts to find it's beat. Then they beat the rhythms structured and regular seemingly into forever untill, eventually everything starts to breakdown into chaos and noise and jazz. By the end of their set their drums and equipment are scattered, the remains of their music lying bare across the floor.

You can watch a video on our website here, which also includes footage of Secret Rivals and Woderful World of Cactapuss. Sly and The Family Drone are playing on Sunday 1st November for What The Butler Saw. Expect great things.