Terrastock Tea Party 6 Saturday October 11th 2008 at the Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7JR.
Doors at 7.30 Cost: just £8.00 per person
featuring...
The Bevis Frond (the first and only performance for 2 years)
nick nicely (a complete one-off performance for this legend)
The Left Outsides
Tickets: from We Got Tickets / the Luminaire
Founded in 1997, the Terrastock festivals have become legendary in the USA for bringing together the cream of the underground and new bands poised on the brink of obscurity: some of the very earliest performances by Neutral Milk Hotel, Six Organs of Admittance and Charalambides have all taken place alongside sets by established acts such as Mudhoney, Kendra Smith and Sonic Youth. The most recent Terrastock took place in Louisville, Kentucky during June this year and featured amongst others Mono, Grails, Bardo Pond, Paik, Wooden Shjips, Jack Rose, Pelt, Major Stars, Simply Saucer and Oneida.
The event organisers, Terrascope Audio Entertainments (TEA), have now decided to try out some ideas back on their own home turf here in the UK, and the Luminaire is proud to be hosting the sixth of this occasional series of "Terrastock Tea Parties" – smaller events intended to showcase both the music and the spirit of the festivals themselves. Tea Party 6 features a rare performance by psychedelic acid-rock guitar gurus The Bevis Frond, a one-off show by the legendary nick nicely (of 'Hilly Fields' fame), and local psychedelic folk heroes The Left Outsides.
The Bevis Frond is the long-running musical vision of Londoner Nick Saloman, whose staunch devotion to the spirit of vintage psychedelia has yielded a shelf full of highly regarded, unmistakably late '60s-derived albums. But there's far more to the Bevis Frond's extensive back catalogue than mere acid-rock revivalism. In addition to the extended guitar freakouts you'd expect from one of the best psychedelic axe handlers of all time, this singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's twisted pop tunes and gorgeous reflective acoustic excursions carry an intensely personal edge and a distinctive melodic sensibility that mark Nick out as one of England's finest tunesmiths. Live dates have become a rarity in recent years, and this one-off gig sees Nick back in harness with arguably the hardest hitting, most volatile and best loved Bevis Frond line-up of all time: Adrian Shaw on bass, Bari Watts on lead guitar and Ric Gunther on drums.
Special Guest for this performance is Randy Hammon, lead guitarist of Californian acid-rock band The Savage Resurrection, whose 1968 self-titled LP featuring demented lead guitar excursions, feedback, wah-wah and punky voices Nick Saloman himself credits as being largely influential on his own sound.
Nick Nicely
Reclusive psychedelic recording artist, creator of landmark single 'Hilly Fields' , 2004's successful 'Psychotropia' album and now even further into psychedelia with his new album 'Translucence', nick nicely has been persuaded to throw off the cloak of anonymity and bring his creations to the live stage for one night only .
Terrastock presents the first and last appearance of nick nicely at the Luminaire on Oct 11th 2008 .
Performing alongside will be psych supergroup for-the-night, The Lives Unlived, including luminaries such as Paul Simmons (former Alchemyst and Frond) and sonic illusionist Vibrasonic.
This will be a unique opportunity to find out why the NME described this music as "The best psychedelia since the 60s" and what kick-started XTC's legendary offshoot, The Dukes Of Stratosphear .
'The best psychedelic record made since the 1960s…beautiful and baffling exercise in DIY weirdness…the song could have come straight off Magical Mystery Tour - and the truly shocking thing is that it's every bit as good.'
- NME review of Nick Nicely's 'Hilly Fields (1892)'
The Left Outsides seamlessly mix their love of the whimsical, English psychedelia of Syd Barrett with the icy and ethereal folk of Nico, the drones of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and the introspection of Elliot Smith, all done in their own, understated way. The Left Outsides feature Alison Cotton and Mark Nicholas, augmented by drummer Karl Sabino. They are all former members of The Eighteenth Day of May.
" ... gentle psychedelia of chilly English fields at dawn......" Tangents November 2006
"....dreamy folksy psychedelia and a hypnotic acoustic sound from guitar and viola......" The Metro Newspaper 11 May 2006
".... dreamy, dark folk-psychedelia inspires critics to become poets...." Sounds XP April 2006