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We played a 40 minute set inside the hazel roundhouse in the x-church at Gainsborough for South West Weird on June 6 2009.

Started out playing along with hatesound, a teenage noise thing, which really got us noised up. Might bring out the whole gig as an album or something, but for now here’s just the encore, which is way gentler than anything else we played that day. Everything else was extreme noise to the extreme. Excess in all things, except moderation.

• Electric guitar - Tom

• Bass guitar and vocals - Grzg
• Flute, keyboard and vocals - Dex
• Classical guitar and vocals - Neil
• Electronics and vocals - Sam

Here’s another taster of what you might experience if you come along to South West Weird in Gainsborough this Saturday (June 6, 2009) 2pm-10pm at X-Church, Gainsborough (the pink church). There’s loads of stuff going on there besides us, mostly music, art and film.

We’re not really called Metal Robot anymore, but no one’s come up with a new name yet. Here’s a vid of us playing Sahara Scene:

• Dex: flute and words
• Grzg: bass
• Tom: electric guitar
• Sam: violin
• Neil: classical guitar
• Andy: video

If you like it, come and see us at Slum Gothic’s Southwest Weird in Gainsborough on June 6, all afternoon. Times yet to be determined. Here’s a link to Slum Gothic.

Had a great session on 22/3/09 in the gallery with Dex. Crazy amounts of good new stuff.

We’ll get an album together at some point, and upload tracks to last.fm, iTunes and various other places, but for now here’s a little example (at the end of this post) to keep you going. It’s about bees, bus stops, Buddha, eBay bidders and stuff.

And a heads-up, we’re playing a gig in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on Saturday June 6th. I’ll update this post with further details as and when. Will have to get to work on my Mothra outfit lol.

Oh, we’re still looking out for a drummer or percussionist, if there’s anyone out there based in or around Lincoln that’s interested.

I’m now playing with a couple of guys from Me and Some Retards. I just found their album, We Shall Be Masters of Earth, online so thought I’d post it. The page is in Chinese. Just click on the CD image on the right of the page.
Me and Some Retards - We Shall Be Masters of Earth

And just in case that’s not working, here’s a couple of tasters, Cliff Diver and Born 2 Bleed:

I was trying to understand string theory last night (o_O) when it occured to me that the probability is pretty high of there being intergalactic spider masters somewhere out there. So I was messing with the EA-1 and Kaoss pad and came up with this little tune.

Three drones - a background universe machine hum I made this afternoon, a ring modulated wind noise with extreme portamento I also made this afternoon, and a regular whistle like preset sound (Heaven 13) that provides the tune, such as it is. Kaoss pad provided extreme reverb and stereo tape echo (just for a change lol).

I’ve been pretty disturbed lately by people I know saying that they’d be on the side of humans in a human v machine war. There’s not a single one so far that would be on the same side as me. Even when I point out that there probably wouldn’t be a war, and we’ll all just be cyborgs, they would rather battle the cyborgs than become one themselves.

I created this track with the ER-1, EA-1 and Kaoss pad. The quote is by Gregory Vlastos, a scholar of ancient philosophy. I ran it through the AT&T online text to speech engine in English, German and Spanish.

A machine is as distinctively and as brilliantly and as expressively human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid