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Live In Performance

The next live outing for all Keshcologists is:

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.

2008

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 I Am Alba.  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.

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.  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, 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.

2003

Aug - A brief North London outing for synth duo Bearbot, where Andrew played with Andrea B. Songs are available.

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 the Klinker in North London, as part of a collaboration with Andrea and Freya of a band called Lonely.

May - Two Leicester gigs for the House on consecutive nights.

Feb/March - Bleak House played twice at the Half Time Orange in Leicester.

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 Soulseek 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.