Keshco
Events
Live In Performance
The next live
outing for all Keshcologists is:
Dec 31 2010 - Poznan Music Club, Poland... well this is mooted, anyway.
Anyway.
Keshco have, on rare occasions, ventured out into the big wide world
with the aim of making some noise. Purplist noise, orange noise, maybe
even a little turquoise noise, but most of all greeny-browny noise.
Silly sods.
2009
Aug 5 - We had
another TROLLEY CRASH night at the Cavendish Arms in Stockwell.
The night's other acts were Jude Cowan and Dead Cowboy Culture,
and there was a little bit of comedy from the door guard. Our mainly acoustic set included: She Knows, Chancery Lane, Scandinavian Pine, Breaking The Tape and an extended freakout version of Spoons.
Aug 1 - A third concert for Vombat Radio, 2 hours 15 minutes long. The whole thing can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.
Set included: Inhale, James Harries, Got Lot of Stuff, The Summer
Goes, Dak Whobble, Long Road to Castle Acre, and a special appearance
by Paul McCartney.
Apr 1 - Another
TROLLEY CRASH! Never rely on other people's equipment, ladies and
gentles. This time it was the venue projector and Mac that took
an hour out of our setup. Still, our Austrian friends BOB played
a cracking set, and Hot Roddy conjured up vast planes of imagination
through his sitar and electronics. We did a quick turn as Bleak
House. A Darwin lecture was also provided by Prof. Muldaway
McDoon.
Mar 21 - Back to the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. Went OK apart from not being able to use our projections.
Mar 15 - Hungamunga
at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Fun, gentle night, with the
projections blown up to one side (so big brownie points). Mixing
desk had problems though (no end of changing mics and D/I's), which
made it much less enjoyable. Still, we got a really nice-looking
version of Zoetrope.
Mar 13 - 333 Old Street, Shoreditch. Really sickeningly awful.
Feb 25 - The Legion, Shoreditch. What's that satirical magazine again?
Feb 18 - Jericho
Tavern, Oxford. Another fun set as Keshco closed the night:
Chancery Lane, Climate Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Those
Germs, Anna, Scraping And Bowing, Task, Spoons, I Am Alba, Before We
Began.
Jan 31 - A return concert at Vombat Radio.
The whole two-hour set is downloadable as an mp3 from
archive.org. Set included: Jewellery Boxes, Those Germs, Scraping
And Bowing, Hunting Theme... and a special appearance by George
Harrison.
2008
Nov 15 - Live web concert for Vombat Radio. We played for 2 hours, and there's an 87 minute mp3 file available.
Set included: Zoetrope, Think Alike, Alba, Climate Dance, Office
Timewarp, Anna, Task, Middle Room 3, Here We Go Again, Icecream Kisses,
Real Sharp Twig, Before We Began... lots of new instrumental bits...
and a special appearance by John Peel.
Aug 8 - This was a special one. The first Keshco Night - TROLLEY CRASH (as evidenced by YouTube promo)
saw
us take over the Dry Bar near to London's Barbican. We invited
three of our faves - the Rude Mechanicals, Anat Ben-David and NOW - and
performed twice under our twin guises of Bleak House and Keshco.
Must remember: there are no night buses from the Barbican.
There's a review which Luke has pasted into his blog.
June 21 - Our first gig in Ipswich,
as part of CSV's Refugee Week. Our fun set included Chancery
Lane, Climate Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Anna, Spoons and
a never-ending version of I Am Alba. We are still playing there now. See the photos on our Piccies page.
May 30 - Back to
the Half Moon, Herne Hill, where we played at Nocturne Folks alongside
the Dirty Cakes and the Tallyman's Dark Omnibus. Not our best
performance. Set: Chancery Lane, Climate Dance, Think Alike,
Zoetrope, Halloween, Midi Cassette, Anna, Alba, Icecream Kisses.
May 18 - Ryan's Bar - at a night organised by synth kings iNiT. We enjoyed ourselves.
May 16 - The
Cavendish Arms in South London. Quick set to test out
stripped-down versions of... Chancery Lane, Jewellery Boxes, Ticketman,
Icecream Kisses.
May 9 - The Wheatsheaf Inn, Lincoln. Keshco played
on the auspicious occasion of Drew Walton's wedding. Set
included: Chancery Lane, Spoons, Think Alike, Climate Dance, and a
super Beatles medley.
Feb 22 - Keshco
closed the night at a Resonance FM event at the Half Moon, Herne Hill.
The set stretched for a whole hour: Chancery Lane, Climate Dance,
Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Spoons, Before We Began, Here We Go
Again, I Am Alba, Anna, Village of Death.
Feb 21 - Back to
the Plough Inn, Walthamstow, performing as Bleak House. Thanks
for letting us play a slideshow! Set: Here We Go Again, Before We
Began, I Am Alba, Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Climate Dance,
Spoons.
Feb 15 - A fun
night at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. Set list: Chancery Lane
(good tramp dancing to this one), Climate Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope,
Halloween, Anna, I Am Broken I Am Alba, Task.
Feb 14
- The Criterion, Leicester. Keshco finished off a quirky bill
including Dead Cowboy Culture, Alberteen and Simon Waldram. The
set went: Chancery Lane, Climate Dance, Spoons, Halloween, Passion
In My Life, Zoetrope, Think Alike, Anna, Task.
Jan 31 - The
SKIP night at the Amersham Arms featured a 30-minute Keshco set amongst
all the other dancers, performance artistes and other creatives.
2007
Oct
27 - Halloween Special at the Pleasure Unit. Keshco's set started at 11.55pm. Nice
costumes.
Oct
26 - Sound is a club at 1 Leicester Square. Keshco
played their socks off. If you find them, please send them
back.
Sep
27 - Keshco played both as themselves and as their folkier
relations Bleak House, at Tunnel Vision Thursday in Walthamstow. Much
fun was had. The set went: If You Were, Spoons, Halloween, Climate
Dance, Think Alike, Task, More Life Less Ordinary, Anna, and Chancery
Lane.
Sep
16 - The Pleasure Unit again - Keshco played on a Sunday
night and did a 30-minute set, which went: Midi Cassette, Climate
Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Anna, Task, Doogies Song.
Sep
14 - Keshco found themselves at the Motherbar, upstairs at
333 Old Street in London. Their 30-minute set went: Chancery Lane,
Climate Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope, Halloween, Anna, and Task.
Sep
8 - Back to the Pleasure Unit, where Keshco played on a
Saturday night, on a bill that included Cocoma and Dead Spies. Much
larking around was done for people's general amusement. The 30-minute
set went like this: Chancery Lane, Climate Dance, Think Alike,
Zoetrope, Hallowe'en, Anna, and finally Task.
Aug
15 - The Pleasure Unit is to be found in the heart of Bethnal
Green. Keshco played on a rainy Wednesday night, after Shortwave Fade
and before The Go-By. It was all rather fun. The 33-minute electronic
set consisted of: Chancery Lane, Climate Dance, Think Alike, Zoetrope,
Hallowe'en, Anna, Videoesque, and finally Gloom Monger. Proper review
by Alissa Ordabai at Sugarbuzz
magazine.
2006
Dec
2 - The Dublin Castle is a rather splendid venue in Camden.
Keshco played there at a night called Read The Fanzine, in support of
Sounds Like Stellar and NOW. The truncated set consisted of seven
synthy numbers, with much accompanying comedy business. Great fun! Set
list: Chancery Lane, Livsey Street, Gloom Monger, Zoetrope, Think
Alike, Anna, Hallowe'en.
2005
July
24 - South London Pacific is a rather swish little tiki bar
in Kennington. The Keshco performance there consisted of nine electro
numbers, bookended by a couple of acoustic pieces. Quite fun to do. Set
list included: Spoons, Think Alike, Sink Into Syngamy, Zoetrope,
Videoesque, Anna, Gloom Monger, Climate Dance, Midi Cassette, Icecream
Kisses.
May
- The Creative Swing has taken place in many venues over the last
couple of years, and this time it was Bethnal Green Working Men's Club.
Closing the night, Keshco played a five-song electropop set. Set list:
Climate Dance, Anna, Hallowe'en, Gloom Monger, Midi Cassette.
April
- The Fleamarket II, a weekend event in Deptford organised by art
boffins temporarycontemporary, played host to a jovial two-man set that
started with eight electropop numbers, then some acoustic pieces (the
act after us had cancelled) and finally some freakout nonsense. New
45-minute projection loop. Most enjoyable!
2004
July
- Keshco played eight songs at the Attik in Leicester. A rock audience,
who weren't expecting the acoustic set that we had to play. Set list
included: The Delay Of Lying, Anna, If You Were, Spoons, Icecream Kisses.
June - Bleak House
played nine songs at an Imperial College alldayer,
accompanied by projections. Preserved in a rather lo-fi recording.
Set list included: If You Were, Anna, Here We Go Again, This
Perfect Day, Bury You In My Garden, Those Germs, Health and Efficiency,
Village Of Death.
April
- Solo performance by Andrew at Wakefield's Theatre Cafe. Nine numbers.
Sadly, only the first song was captured. Happily, there was lots of cake.
2003
Aug
- A brief North London outing at a club called Potty Mouth. Terrible problems with the PA.
April
- Peculiar performance at the launch party for "Livesey Regales", a
self-financed comedy effort by outrageous camp auteur Roger Livesey.
Going all out, new projections were unveiled.
2002
Winter
- Robert stepped out with guitar to perform at an event in Ipswich,
fundraising for his College's Rag effort.
Aug- A little
outing for Andrew at odd club the Klinker, in North London. First
play of "The Delay Of Lying", when it was actually ahead of the curve.
Not that anybody noticed.
May- Two Leicester
gigs for the House on consecutive nights - at a vegan cafe and at the
(now defunct) International Arts Centre. Debut of If You Were.
Happily, the final appearance of the CZ-5000.
Feb/March- Bleak
House played twice at the Half Time Orange in Leicester, featuring
cheery material like Death In The Family, Here We Go Again and Weapons
Expo. The first time, Andy had a cold. The second time, the
CZ-5000 died on the first song.
2001
Dec
17 - Bleak House's debut, and in front of a decent-sized
audience as well. Thirty-five minute set comprising eight songs, of
which the last was an alternatively-lyricked version of "In The Bleak
Midwinter". Sweets were handed out too. What larks! (See the BH
page for further live dates and details on this fine establishment.)
March-May
- Occasional Monday night mini-performances at the Musician folk club
from Andrew and Dominic.
March
7 - The debut full-length performance of w/trem meets keshco,
the electric folk project of Mr Brain and Mr Dominic Fox. Two blokes
with guitars, five Keshco numbers, five w/trem numbers. The audience
was sparse but more responsive as the set progressed. Went down well
with night's other acts, which included the very lovely Sugarfix. A CD
of this performance is available, email for details, or can be
downloaded via www.codepoetics.com if you're lucky.
2000
August
23 - For this fractured performance, the lineup was Mr Brain
on guitar and vocalizing, with Mr Follen on drums and keys. The set
consisted of five numbers "in the folk schtylee" and then a
twenty-minute freeform freakout. The freakout went down surprisingly
well, probably because of a peculiar little device called the Dynamike.
The night's other acts included a band called Garlic, who were really
rather good. Set list: Those Germs / Death In The Family / Here We Go
Again / The Guest / Livsey Street / freakout.
August
5 - Poorly-attended lunchtime gig on carnival day, but
nevertheless some pleasing Keshco noises were made. Peakirk-based Luke
Aldington was drafted in to slap his bass around the Shed, which made
any sort of rehearsing possible 'cos he's got a house. Photographists
Steve and Drew did a great job with their pin-holes, and so we got some
good shots. Photography-wise, it wasn't too hard to
snap us making grunts and squeals on stage, and various niceties in 2-D
were creatively ejaculated. The concertina is preserved via a
dictaphone, thank Walsoken for the dictaphone. Lineup: Andrew on guitar
and lead vocals, Gaf on synths and vocals, Robert on drums, synth and
vocals, and Luke on bass. Set list: Plastic And Glass, It's A Cliche,
Took Me Back, The Guest, Neville's Toys, Half A Lungful, Oh Angel,
Lucky Star.
1999
Summer
- Beautiful busking. Andrew and Robert set out with various instruments
and made the most of some fine days in Peterborough and King's Lynn.
Small children seemed to enjoy the Beatles numbers, whilst their
parents preferred Pulp.
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