PLUG: Bitmap and Simon Fonda 500 playing FREE tonight at Whitechapel Art Gallery

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Anyone going? You really bloody should. Bitmap will be on at 9.45ish, support band Husband have pulled out sadly, due to illness, but it'll be fab anyway. And i'll be playing some records vaguely 7.30-9ish - expect much Postal Service, B&S, Four Tet, Lord Kitchener and Altern-8...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, www.gentle-electric.com and/or www.whitechapel.org for info.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! Wow! I want to go! But I suspect that HSA has planned for us to be doing something else tonight... grrrr...

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell him you're seeing an art installation. It IS at an art gallery.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

when's the fonda 500 mini record come out?

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 24 October 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

We ended up not going. We are lame. We watched our backlog of videotapes before they overtook the entire flat.

(And my god, there were so many great shots of the Horny Historian in this episode! And the hospital where I work during WWII! And HSA kept shouting at the Horny Historian "watch the road!" because he was trying to present while he was driving up to Scotland.)

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

We are lame.

Yes you are! It was fab, in spite of the sound engineer insisting I played at granny volume for at least the first 90 minutes, and I forgot my Altern-8 album...

But more to the point, Bitmap were aces - just the right kind of messy, the tunes shone right through the apparent chaos, one of them was dressed as (sort of) John McEnroe, and Simon Fonda (on bass) was, no diggedy, dressed as a CENTAUR...Luke wore a nice hat and sounded by all (ok, some) accounts like both John L and Paul McC at once.

Highlights: new single "Black Arts In The Town Hall", "Don't Be So Hard On Yourself", and the accidental encore - they ran out of songs so Luke just suggested pressing the "random" button on his CD player to see what came out (keyboards and some rhythm section on CD-r) and the room degenerated into people shouting "Play number one!", "No! Number two!" - they played number four...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 24 October 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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