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[Photo] Sacrilege, 21st of May

Sacrilege is a new alternative/goth club night held every 3rd Friday of the month at the Q Club, Cambridge.
The website has all the details.
There will also be photos from another photographer soon.

  
 
  

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As always, many more on flickr.

My Sacrilege setlist from 21st of May

After a long absence I had the opportunity to man the decks again. As this was the first set of the evening, I chose a mix of Dark Ambient, Apocalyptic Folk, Minimal Electronics and Mittelalter. If you're interested in what some of the bands sound like, I've provided links to myspace or their homepage.

The [Law-Rah] Collective - amelisweerd
Near The Parenthesis - Not Here, Not Tonight
SonVer - The Atlas Tree
Tonal Y Nagual - Honey
Conscientia Peccati - Prima Lux
Klangstabil - lauf, lauf!
Ordo Equitum Solis - Playing With The Fire
Forseti - Der Graue König
Sonne Hagal - The Black Rune
Saltatio Mortis - In Taberna
Estampie - L'ham de Foc - A Virgen*
Potentia Animi - Domina
Mediaeval Baebes - Ecce Mundi Gaudium
Cultus Ferox - Aufbruch (Tanzmix)
Faun - Rhiannon
Deine Lakaien - Mindmachine (acoustic)*

*artist request

Saturday

Got up around 10:30 and send my setlist to alixandrea but soon almost fell over so went back to bed for another snooze (until 1, oops). I'm really getting old...
Made a first start on the Sacrilege photos and then headed down to London to meet up with ginasketch at wahaca in Covent Garden for nommy food. A fantastic ceviche of scallops and shrimps, deeply flavoured chicken mole and surprisingly tasty grilled cactus (which I ordered simply so I could say I've had cactus but was positively surprised) and a portion of churros with excellent chocolate to finish.
We then wandered around Covent Garden a bit where we had a fun conversation with the fossil man (I didn't buy anything despite being tempted because I have too much crap already) and made our way to the Spice of Life.
Grabbed a drink and met up with sea_of_flame, davedevil, civi and nadriel before making our way downstairs for the Bitter Ruin release party.
The venue is tiny and on two levels which makes it hard for most of the people on the top level to see the stage but I had a reasonable spot at the bannister.

The support band (whose name I've forgotten) from Brazil were fantastic and played some sort of swing and blues inspired cabaret music. The singer had a fantastic, strong voice that sounded at least 20 years older than she was. They also had a skeleton on drums and an upright bass. Excellent stuff.

Then Bitter Ruin came on and they were amazing as usual. The new songs are brilliant and expand their repertoire wonderfully. Amazing what you can do with just one acoustic guitar and two voices.
They finished around 10:30 which meant I was able to catch the 11:15 train and get home before 1.

Watched Doctor Who while waiting for my bedroom to cool off before bed.

Scary Pink Stretch Hummer

This was parked in Chando's Place yesterday

[Photo] Bitter Ruin release party

The launch party for Bitter Ruin's new album, Hung, Drawn & Quartered was held at the Spice of Life in Soho, in the tiny basement bar.
The venue is on two levels, with the non-elevated stage in a nook at one side end which means not a lot of people can see it well. The light wasn't great, either, but at least there was relatively little red.

 
  
 

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And yet more on flickr.

The album is available via the Bitter Ruin website and will also be on itunes soon.