Shimura Curves in London and Liverpool (Do not read if you hate ILX supergroups)

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OK, so we've kind of alluded to this but now we're officially announcing it.

Shimura Curves is the new supergroup featuring myself, the lovely Anna, Frances (ex-Now, Morgen und Nite) and Miss AMP (don't mention the trees).

We sing lovely girly shape-note harmonies on top of laptop pop built from classical and folk samples with bits of drone. Costumes may be involved. There will be dancing.

You can witness this at:
*Sunday 22nd May - The Windmill, Brixton. This will be a barbeque starting at 4pm, so be sure to get there early or the food will be gone!
*Saturday 28th May - The International Pop Overthrow Festival, Liverpool. The Cavern Club and Flanagans (two shows)

(There will be a prize for anyone who can actually say what a Shimura Curve is without googling - though Toby is disqualified from this competition.)

― Shimura Curve (kate), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll go to the Liverpool gig.

As for the name It sounds mathy.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Some kind of elliptic curve innit, rings a bell re Fermat. Though a long time since I did any real maffs.

Can't make either of these dates due to foreigness but hope they go well for a view later in the year at one of the major London venues.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

definitately mathy I'd say, what with singing about Pi and that.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

So far the only person who correctly identified it was The Spy. Mmmm, donuts. Transdimensional donuts, is there nothing they can't do? Mathematicilious!

x-post, Pete getting warm!

― Shimura Curve (kate), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

'definitely'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Definately near the edge of infinaty.

― Shimura Curve (kate), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Please to put on show when am in London thx.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Of well if its got something to do with infinity then I'm audi.

Donuts, this isn't a torus/bagel is it?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Ned, when are you in London? We will book one especial. Maybe a double bill with the Kissing Time.

― Shimura Curve (kate), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

:-D

I fly in on Friday July 8th and leave Monday July 11th, then return on Thursday 28th and leave very *very* early Saturday morning the 30th. Somewhere in there I wish to engage in extended FAP nonsense, obv. Oh and lots of good food.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Whoa - this sounds good. Will try and get to Brixton.

Ned - my band are playing in London on the day you fly in (8th July)Be there!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Rah! Then there I shall be, if somewhat jet-lagged! I should revive the visit thread! I am missing Poptimism though, it's the night before! :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I am somewhat disappointed by the lack of Fermat talk. Sigh.

But then again, most people I've told the name to have thought I said Chimera Curves or, worse, Jamiroquai. Argh!

― Shimura Curve (kate), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Shibuya-kei

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

What's the name of that curve that appears in nature? like in conch shells & stuff .. follows the perfect ratio ..

Although, it kind of sounds like some sexy japanese air hostess reference... But I still have air hostess uniforms on my mind...

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I am terrified about this, but the oppertunity to unleash my inner diva was too much. (People who have seen me drunk and playing up may possibly want to stay away now)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Kate, Anna, you should come and play Glasgow.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Do not be terrified! It'll be fun. :-)

(Hey Kate, I wrote asking Frances about something and have not heard back. Should I resend? I gather she is a busy soul.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

INNER diva ;-)?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

A shimura curve is not as good for cryptographic applications as certain elliptic ones. That's all I know and I'm going to go look it up in google now. I was thinking about supergroups this weekend! I really want to be in a noise band again.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 9 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

What's yr role in the groop, Anna?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I think it is like the red swirl in a raspberry ripple. At least I hope it is.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

goodness me.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I did learn some things from exposure to higher maths...

I am singing Dr C, for want of a better word.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

And you being a journalist know all about better words. So singing it must be!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Are you with me Dr. C
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew
Are you crazy are you high
Or just an ordinary guy
Have you done all you can do
Are you with me doctor

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

i hope to catch this at the IPO, will probably be the Cavern Club early session (i assume?).

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

do you need a support band?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

INNER diva ;-)?
-- suzy

Hey you! I'd only just noticed that. (Noticed? It was actually pointed out to be by minions, Mariah-style. The minions said I should make a light-hearted response)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

**I am singing Dr C, for want of a better word.**

Fantastic. This is obv now the best band ever.

Very droll, Ned.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Bah, I will also be in foreign parts for these. Well, more foreign.

I suspect I never knew what Shimura curves were, though it's probably an unprovable assertion.

Also, have a great time, both of you!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

(I meant shimura curves, not Anna's role. Honest.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I think it works for both...

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Very droll, Ned.

Anything to keep Monday morning from sitting on my head, good sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I think it is like the red swirl in a raspberry ripple. At least I hope it is.

Shimura Curves:
http://www.customskins.co.uk/Images/WSExample.gif

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

google image search for shimura curves is rubbish:

ihttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp/21coe-security/ngcm2003/shimura.png&imgrefurl=http://hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp/21coe-security/ngcm2003/&h=31&w=51&sz=1&tbnid=uo5akRljirIJ:&tbnh=31&tbnw=51&hl=en&start=32&prev=/images%3Fq%3DShimura%2BCurves%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I'll do my best to get to the windmill

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

MATHROCK IS BACK! DONUT ADJUST YOUR GEOMETRY SET!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

You shall be punished for for that pun.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

When are you actually on stage at the brixton gig. I'm camping that weekend and won't be back in town by 4 but I will be later on.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

PLZ SING 'BAD UNCLE' OK

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

(hey Tom, I'll totally do a supergroup with you)
(cue my wife and Ally screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO")

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

(wow my last post could be misoncstrued in one very specific awful way)

― The Ghost of I'm Not Trying To Push Up On Bad English (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, you lot didn't mess around! Seems like you only formed a couple of weeks ago.

I'm pretty sure I can come to this...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

hey Tom, I'll totally do a supergroup with you

Hmmm. Can I write the liner notes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Kate, can we use that picture Andrew posted as a logo?

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

You'll look like a White Stripes tribute band, I'm warning you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that is where I nicked it from, sorry.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Ha I've managed to get an army together to come to the Liverpool venue

oh be scared

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 217 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

k8, the only middle-aged politico it is acceptable to lust over is alastair campbell!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know he was a right wing politico when I started lusting after him! I just saw him presenting Have I Got News For You and started lusting after his rumpled lustiness.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

SORRY KATE

― zz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

OI!!!!

ANNA!!!!!!!

YOU LEFT YOUR PHONE AT MY HOUSE!!!!!

AND NOW I HAVE IT AND IT KEEPS RINGING AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ANSWER IT AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS THAT IT IS WITH ME AND NOT WITH YOU!!!

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WHEN YOU READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

It keeps ringing? Oh dear. I know I left it. I had no alarm last night and had to sleep in the living room and phone BT for an alarm call. Press the green button to answer it. If It's Tom from Darling say I have his email. Sorry unpaid secretary.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

There was a Tom who called on it, but I didn't know how to answer it when he rang. Sorry! Also, you have a text message, too.

I didn't realise you'd left it until after I'd already washed the dishes and gone to bed! I did run up to the bus stop and try to find you, but you'd already gone by then. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, the irony being that I went to bed to read "Boris: The Book" and discovered your phone!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

ha. the text message is from me.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I still have the phone... :-)

Maybe I can start using it to ring my Boy Toy in Italy and drive Anna's phonebill through the roof. Heh heh. (j/k - I can't even figure out how to turn it off, let alone how to make a call.)

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Plus it's pay as you go, so without my bank account details it wouldn't work. Heh heh back atcha. And it doesn't dial international.

Lauren, email me.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

"without my bank account details it wouldn't work"

This is when you find out that you left your bank details on Kate's sofa, too.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

This is where I hack the databases and...

Damn, actually, I can only get mortgage info, not actual account info, and you've not got a mortgage. So much for my mad HaX0r skillz.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

And if you could see into my bannk accuont you'd know there was no hope of me ever getting a mortage either.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

...or a job as a sub, with that spelling, young lady!!! :-P

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

aw i thought this was revived for another gig announcement

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Oi, Anna! Your phone has now been passed to Emsk who possibly has already/will at some point deliver it to you by bicycle.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

it has been delivered! to a work-frazzled ms anna last nite, by pigeon bike.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah! Emsk's Pidgeon Bike Delivery Service saves the day again!

(I may need to make you watch that anime, too.)

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it looks like there MIGHT be a Shimuras gig quite sooner than you think! As in, two weeks away! Stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh my!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Check yr email, chick!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

I opened the door to Emsk with mad hair and smudged eyeliner, unable to think about anything except my dying apple mac and Forward Russia.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

you should totally play the next how does it feel to be loved bands night thingy!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 2 February 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Paging Phillip Sissons - can we have a show on E! please? We have action and drama and pretty dresses and no boys with guitars.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

yep i have emailed hdif this very morning. also a show on e sounds like a very bad idea! everything will sound great to you but won't make any sense to anyone else. um.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, we were asked to play the next HDIF band night but we couldn't do it. I;m sure we will do one in the future, though.

However, this EXCITING SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED SHOW is on V-Day. Chuck, do you fancy DJ-ing?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Also... WHAT?!?!? I do not like e, it is not good for my brane.

Unless you are talking about that Television network. I would like to be on the Television! In pretty dresses, with pretty guitars.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Television are pretty old by now, though.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

3 years pass...

WE HAS AN ALBUM!!!

The Lex gets out the balloons in celebration...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/runmdc/ilovethearcticmonkeys.jpg

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

The Lex with a guitar? Doesn't that mean the world's about to implode?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

I really wish that pic had become more of a meme...

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

Can you order it online?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

The picture?

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

the meme?

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

All in good time.

My sys admin has just recovered the masters from my dead laptop, so I've got to ... be persuaded that it does not actually need one more mix (step away from the controls, Shieldsy) and then master it...

Gonna figure out all the downloading bobbins and that kind of thing - well, at least, Anna will, when she gets over the swine flu. (no DJ on DJ sponge bath jokes please)

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

I remember the gig from this thread, was a good night.

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

me too, the one in liverpool?

i thought the curves were no more? glad i'm wrong.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

My ordering finger is itching!

― StanM, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

the only thing that could make the lex picture better is if he was holding an SRV edition stratocaster

― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

he hates indie far more than blues, though, surely

― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

All five Shimura Curves (who are still in the country, so obviously Ed was not there) were in a room on Monday, and no one killed anyone else (though Anna did wave the pizza cutting knife in my direction before AMP wrestled it away from her) and uh...

Well, we've all been DJing with one another quite a lot lately so, uh, when the good folks at Echo Range (to keep this all in the ILX family!) suggested putting out the Great Lost Album - plus bonus tracks of ALL THE SINGLES (and songs on various compilations) well, it seemed only good and natural.

Problem was, the masters were locked away on a laptop that died a year and a half ago. Today we got them off the dead hard drive. So we have album!

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

Hurrah! I had a great time at the Notting Hill Arts Club gig (and the meetup beforehand!). Looking forward to getting hold of a copy of the album at long last :).

― carson dial, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

Any chance of a tracklisting?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/3115340515_c03db2f70f.jpg
The Lex jamming away again.

― Stevie T, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

It's all about the hand-in-motion blur.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:04 (sixteen years ago)

What the hell is that weird ass guitar? Looks like the Baseball Bat Guitar I had as a teenager. (which turned out to be some kind of Teisco or something)

Tracklist... erm... we're still in the process of deciding that.

The album "The Universe From First Principles" is:
OPC
The Boy Hairdresser
Just Like Friends
Poison Tree
Brown and Sticky
Thoughtworm
I'm Not Afraid
A Straight Line
My Angel
NEUfriend (Collectively German mix)
Hung With Joy

What was on the Play Truck ep? (not in order, from memory, could be forgetting stuff)

Lost Rivers of Clerkenwell
Magnus
Elephants (?)
Mother
Stronger

I Capture The Castle (?)

Bonus tracks:

PWND
(Just Keep My Name) Out Of Your Blog

Do remind me if I've forgotten any tracks because my memory is not what it used to be.

I really want to get some good remixes, but the others were so far down on the pink wine by the point I brought that up that they just started teasing me about massive hairy Turks and I went off in a huff. Ha ha. Nothing ever changes.

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

Excellent!

DELUXE EDITION HANDTOOLED BOX W/ LP, DVD and CARROTCAKE!! (a-la JLennon's Wedding Album, i.e. a photostat of carrotcake)

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:47 (sixteen years ago)

bonus! i still have PWND on my walkman.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:48 (sixteen years ago)

Haha I don't actually know half the tracks on the album itself. I wouldn't mind a copy of the EP tracks if they aren't going to come out commercially, as I think a few of them have gone missing over the years.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:54 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Yes, yes, yes. This is taking much longer than expected.

We wanted to have it out this year, but first we got waylaid by another pregnancy, and then we realised that not-a-one of us has any clue how to *master* a bloody album, and, erm... honestly, I *WILL* have this out by my next birthday if it kills me, BUT.

In the meantime, I've decided to blog all of the bits and bobs that didn't make it onto the album:

http://shimuracurves.blogspot.com/

I'll try to get the best quality MP3 that I can up there - or aiff of songs I still have the masters of.

Week 1 is obvious, it's ELEPHANTS - which started life as an EBA song. And prompted a glimpse back into ancient eras of ILX past. Some names have been changed to protect the innocent.

http://shimuracurves.blogspot.com/2009/11/proto-shimuras-projects-no1-electric.html

― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

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