June08

A concert of Berlin School Music by Peter Tedstone, Jez Creek (Modulator ESP) & Steve Humphries (Create). Each artist will be performing a solo spot, followed by all three playing together as Astrogator. Berlin School, is a development of electronic music developed in the 1970's and shaped by Berlin based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel. The style is characterized by synthesiser melodies/solos and complex, shifting sequencer bass lines mixed with experimental and ambient sections.

The Town Crier is an angry poetic rant romping through the land of the real telling true stories about the vagaries of others; the suspicious neighbours; the ignorant drinkers, crap buskers, and Jeff, the lovely old man who is persecuted for being too nice. Performed on a pop-up set, Spanner see what happens in a cartoon world where anger and suspicion can sometimes seem to be the only thing that connects us . . . “Its wrong to assume, and even worse to judge. Even when you are in the right. Which is where most people think they are most the time’