at the beginning of the month, a certain event was held in peckham, south east london... the two-day-music-art-film-funnyness what was Creme De Menthe-aliste. you may have seen some advertising?
it was mostly all sorted out by the TEAM B boys-ruddy good job! it was ace, heres part of the story, through some photos taken by Creeping Hot Hand's LOUISE ...
the day started with a jolly (double) rainbow!
The opening set by CNIDOBLASTS woke everyone's bums up with a lot of cleverly banged metal run through pedals an that...
Bernie after falling onto a metal sheet. David, Rodrigo and Edward were also involved. verdict -"cccrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSsssssshhhh"
next the shoe was truelly on the other foot (?) when wizard rock band ALOHA-MORE-MORE-MORE-A (or something) treated us with a heartfelt Harry Potter tribute! it was fucking beautiful. verdict -"GOLDEN SNITCH! (although if you havent read the last book, they did ruin it for you - sorry on their behalf"
just one of the walls there was, N.B. "Splat The Rat" and "Yeborobo 40 Gig Retrospective Re-hang"
this band CORE BLIMEY! was invented while the line up was being compiled- we thought there just wernt enough stupid bands already. it was actually formed one minute before the performance. verdict - "posh AND heavy"
much fun was had with LOUISE'S goggle boggeller (dance with yourself) instalation "Troupe-e-oke".
and many frowns were turned upside down (?) by ROBERT BIDDER'S enchanting/ed puppet show. "a face rises over the hill...."(thats not a direct quote).
is that a better picture? who knows.
above is record of the otherworldly performance by ALICE. abstract fairytale? MINDTRICK?
the awesomely named ASTHMATICO MADRID.another hastilly assembeled bunch centered around RODRIGO's circuit bent instrument "The Mothering Touch"... which didnt work... BALLS! vedict - "gruesome/pounding"
next came the lovely lady MELANIE FRESHNESS wowing all with red dress and gravelly blues. verdict - "WO!"
the ANDREW half of CREEPING HOT HANDS at their "Accumulative Smoothie" stall. each customer was to pick the stage (one to ten) at which they would like to drink a cupfull of good/badness. more things were added at each stage, notablly, a lot of mint leaves, ten plus of "your five a day", and flumps.
at stage ten, garlic paste, peanuts and extra hot chillis had been added, and the game became a competition when CHRISTOPHER downed a whole cup and didnt throw up.
"the moment you have all been waiting for... MATURE!!" above is LEOPARDESS of the notorious MATURE who, along with CYMBAL BOY, treated a very over-excited audience to an emotionally hardcore 7 minuite set before dissapearing back to the toilets.
on the cymbals, CYMBAL BOY. verdict - "emotional, intense, ripe, hot, personal"
this is SHALINI, the leader of the gang GERMALOIDS, who totally "got the party started" (?) and literally wowed everyone!
also in the band was SEAN on african quitar, DAVID on new-jack-keys (not pic'd)
and GEORGIE -who joined at the last minute (and drank a good bit of "number ten" smoothie)- on drums. verdict - "life affirming, inspirational".
this is people, notably compere EDWARD SEBASTIAN OLIVER dancing to GERMALOIDS yo.
TEN FOOT BLOOD SKULL combined epic sweeping and screaming quitar and shoddy pounding drums to produce the sound of a swamp. or maybe of epic sweeping and screaming quitar and shoddy pounding drums. vedict - "scraprog".
n.b spray paint bears by ANDREW. since then, 4 more were produced and 5 were stoled when displayed at the dazed and confused hosted night.(COME FORWARD AND ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN)
more artwork, visable stuff is by ROBERT BIDDER.
this is DAVIDs instalation based on the computer game Metroid 3D. it was amazing. there was loads of bracken, a yellow bulb, and a looped dvd which showed terrifying pixel monsters for three minutes out of 45.
BERNIE's shape-shifting improv-noisy boys TRIO DU BLANGIS, this time encorporated drums (HUGO), violin (MARIK), light sensitive electronics (RODRIGO and ANDREW) and BERNIE on trumpet. verdic - "spasmodic"
the jam band CATTLE - (everyone and no-one is in CATTLE) provided an angry beat to twist to...
and it ended with an eclipse.
there are no photos of some of the bands though... THREAT OF COCK - sarcastic, VINDICATRIX - tidal, SCROTAL VOLCANO - clashing, or of the PANTO-PROV - provocative. and certainlly nothing from the next day... if there are photos... let us know.
anyway, super-sexy thanks to DAVID, EDWARD and HUGO who really ate their own arms to sort all this out! DUUUUDDDEE! x