The Mekano Set

So we've not been having much luck sorting gigs out. I probably shouldn't blog that but why not, it's true. I can't understand it, because I've seen us live and frankly we're ace! I should have seen this coming really. Alex is putting us to shame. He's only been in Brighton a matter of weeks and he's already up and gigging. So I can't say 'these things take time'. And it's not like Alex is doing anything that's more accessible than us, and he's pretty much a one-man-act these days, so it's not even because we're just a duo.

I wonder if duos are seen as bad-form these days? Do people think Autechre are naff? Or Soft Cell?

However, I must plug and thank the following people: North London's All Manna, Brighton's Spirit of Gravity, and top Leeds Glam-Goth-Disco www.sheepish.net.


Meanwhile, I've been thinking about the way that the music you are influenced by and what you enjoy listening to aren't always the same thing.

Influences: Curve / Garbage / PiL / Kate Bush / Talk Talk / Meat Beat Manifesto / Scorn / Prodigy.

Listening to: Jon Hassell / Ladytron / Hafler Trio / Coil / Kate Bush / Curve / Autechre / The Cocteau Twins / Tom Waits / Nina Simone / Scott Walker / MC Solaar.

See what I mean? I don't listen to Scorn, Prodigy and Meat Beat much these days but I know they're still a massive influence on what we do.

I'm currently on a real Jon Hassell t[r]ip at the moment. That sound [a breathy, alien-raga-husk] just feeeeeds me something I've been starved of. Him and Kate Bush - music that literally sends shivers down the spine. How do they do that???