Issue 29 / Dec 2012/Jan 2013
December 2012/January 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring EVA PETERSEN, ORGAN FREEMAN, NON, MONSIEUR, CRAIG CHARLES and much more.
December 2012/January 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring EVA PETERSEN, ORGAN FREEMAN, NON, MONSIEUR, CRAIG CHARLES and much more.
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30 Bido Lito! <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>2012</strong> / <strong>Jan</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
Reviews<br />
So as the wine flows and a few more<br />
people wearing chunky cardigans wander in,<br />
experimental jazzters trioVD take the stage. If<br />
there was a Venn diagram to explain trioVD in<br />
terms of mainstream music, at even their most<br />
listener-friendly they would be overlapping<br />
only at the most insanely wacky moments of<br />
Mr Bungle, Battles or Mogwai. These guys piss<br />
all over such pedestrian concepts as ‘lyrics’,<br />
‘chorus’, ‘melody’ or even ‘time signature’. There<br />
are clicks, hisses, squawks, and lots of seemingly<br />
random bursts of sound; the saxophonist uses<br />
his knee to play and at one point the drummer<br />
has ditched his sticks to play with his hands.<br />
Experimental, yes; improv, yes; but we’re not<br />
sure - is this even jazz? We never considered<br />
ourselves conventional when it comes to music,<br />
but on the odd occasion that the trio relinquish<br />
the disjointed noises and hit on a repeated<br />
groove tonight, it’s as comforting as a warm<br />
mug of tea. We want to take that groove home,<br />
love it, nurture it, stroke its hair.<br />
But alas, those moments are fleeting, and for<br />
the most part it’s just really…challenging. And that’s<br />
their point: conventional boundaries don’t really<br />
exist for this outfit, and sometimes it’s refreshing<br />
to have those well-accustomed boundaries<br />
removed, to open up all the avenues of musical<br />
possibility. Oh and the band’s name comes from<br />
the fact that they formed on Valentine’s Day by<br />
the way – why, what were you thinking?<br />
Jennifer Perkin<br />
FANTASTIC MR FOX<br />
Ninetails - Throwing Snow<br />
Constellation @ HAUS<br />
35-39 Greenland Street, next to the CUC and<br />
across the road from Camp & Furnace, now<br />
has new tenants and a new name. The Waxxx<br />
crew have taken over the previously empty<br />
warehouse space, named it HAUS, and are back<br />
in the Baltic Triangle for the foreseeable future<br />
after short-term stays in various city centre<br />
Fantastic Mr Fox (Matthew Ball)<br />
locations. Tonight marks the first Constellation<br />
event, a new club night curated by Everisland,<br />
Waxxx and Aperture. Headlined by FANTASTIC<br />
MR FOX, the Manchester-based DJ/producer<br />
who dropped a number of highly-rated releases<br />
a few years back and toured extensively with<br />
The xx before seemingly dropping off the map.<br />
After his widely lauded San’en EP was released<br />
in June, he’s been busy re-establishing himself<br />
across the UK with a swell of activity and tonight<br />
makes his Liverpool debut alongside THROWING<br />
SNOW and the usual suspects that form the<br />
cream of the city’s DJ talent.<br />
Upon entering, Constellation #001 looks<br />
fantastic – the darkness of the cavernous space<br />
lit by visuals and projections provided by those<br />
involved with the Enclosure exhibition that is<br />
currently in residence at HAUS. The event also<br />
acts as a launch night for NINETAILS’ new EP Slept<br />
& Did Not Sleep. It is interesting to note that<br />
dance music is often associated with feelings<br />
of euphoria, but Ninetails arguably provide<br />
those vibes more so than any of the electronic<br />
acts that feature later tonight. The blissed-out,<br />
atmospheric sound of Maybe We and set-closer<br />
Rawdon Fever serve as perfect soundtracks to the<br />
surrounding visuals, and though the audience is<br />
subdued and sparse at this early hour, those in<br />
attendance are spellbound. The band are as tight<br />
as you’d expect any so-called ‘math’ leaning<br />
outfit to be and, though they undoubtedly<br />
possess a technical ability you would associate<br />
with the genre tag, focus on melody and song<br />
over virtuosity and showboating.<br />
Fantastic Mr Fox is another one of those DJ/<br />
producers destined to be burdened with those<br />
desperate tags ‘future garage’ and ‘post-dubstep’<br />
though he has an instantly recognisable sound<br />
on record that sets him apart from most of<br />
his peers. It is a shame that more of his own<br />
material is absent on this occasion, the peaktime<br />
set largely focusing on a cocktail of heavy<br />
hitters from the last couple of years. The abrasive<br />
synth-stabs of Thunder Bay by Glaswegian beat-<br />
Alan Paine<br />
Barracuta<br />
Barbour ToKiTo<br />
Barbour<br />
Carhartt<br />
Common People<br />
Dockers<br />
Edwin Japan<br />
Farah Vintage<br />
Fjallraven<br />
Folk Clothing<br />
Folk Shoes<br />
Han Kjobenhavn<br />
Herschel Supply Co<br />
Gloverall<br />
Grenson<br />
Natural Selection<br />
Norse Projects<br />
Nudie Jeans Co<br />
Oliver Spencer<br />
Penfield<br />
Red Wing Shoes<br />
Sandqvist<br />
Sperry Topsider<br />
Suit Denmark<br />
Sunspel<br />
Superga<br />
Universal Works<br />
Wolsey<br />
YMC
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