We've confirmed the May line up for Pixadelica. We're excited to book such innovative and interesting acts, and even more excited these acts are local to Reading. It's good to know there are people out there making Great Works of Art on your doorstep and willing to share something beautiful. This month should be a noisy one.

Do us a favour then, give these bands a listen and support local music. On second thoughts, we can do better than that. Support anyone who is willing to give their time and energy to creating something of value they are willing to share to entertain and inform and inspire.

Action and Action - Explosive Raw Guitar Energy, "sharp unpredictable rhythms and earwax-melting drums" - Nightshift Magazine

Inerds Out - Obscene Rock Noises, two people who I would assume shouldn't be trusted with any kind of electrical equipment yet manage to craft beautiful sonics with merely a drum kit and a bass guitar.

The Quatermass Xperiment - Illegible samples from the pit, this unusual but fantastic band promise a plethora of starte of the art noise making scientific instrucments including Keys, More keys, Walkie-Talkies, Shitty Electronic Drums and Illegally-Sampled Film Quotes, Kaosscilator and Alien Voice-Changer, Drums and… uh… Cymbals?

Have a flyer, it's licensed under a creative commons.

Pixadelica Street Flyer by Brendan Meachen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Based on a work at www.flickr.com.

Pixadelica has been a sleight of hand recently. Smoke and mirrors, hidden trapdoors in the stage, costume changes behind the curtain. Pixadelica is still young, but we're working hard building great things behind the scenes which we'll be unveiling soon. We're not content with cheap conjuring acts at Pixadelica, and we hope that when we transform ordinary handkerchiefs into doves it'll be a true tangible spectacle and not some illusory tulpa that will eventually fade away. We will be producing rabbits from the bottom of top hats, we just need to capture and nurture them soon.

In the meantime, Kode9 has been recently been interviewed by Wire magazine. There are some important and interesting things here which we feel are relevant to all musical genres.

All musical and sound culture operates virally, I don’t think there’s anything controversial about that statement, I think that’s just the way music culture works, that’s the way music culture works, that’s the way record labels work… as I say I see it as an ecology, and therefore every division of labour in that ecology has a viral function. Because that’s the way I understand music culture. But I also see there’s more to it than that, and it kind of dramatises the way you see music culture in a way that’s like, you have these agencies or creatures, or entities, I suppose in certain religions you have demons or gods that possess people, and they’re collective, and it’s what binds people together into a collective, it’s what binds scenes together. A scene is a collective of people who get possessed by a certain rhythmic entity, or a certain textural or tonal entitity, or a certain configuration of frequencies…. Some people call it scenius. As opposed to genius. It’s a collective agency, which emerges out of a population but also possesses them. So it’s not that decisions aren’t made by individuals, or that an individual can’t change the direction of that collective, sure that can happen, sure that does happen, but also there’s another side to it which is that the network or the collective is greater than the sum of its parts, that can also make decisions for it.

Watch this space. Something will happen soon and we hope you'll be there to join us.

Tonight there will be open mic poetry at the Oakford, something we at Pixadelica are very keen to see. In fact, rumour has it Pixadelica has played a subtle hand in making this happen at the Oakford. We're excited to see what happens tonight and the potential it has for the future. Stay tuned.

If you're creatively inclined and enjoy taking pen to paper, or just want to show up with a guitar or flute or cello and share something beautiful with the rest of the world, come to the Oakford tonight.The Oakford is a very friendly venue just opposite the train station.