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dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Edited Sep 18, 2017, 01:00
Sep 18, 2017, 00:55
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Hi All For anyone who may be keen to see us live, we are playing two upcoming shows to promote the new Assault 2 album. Thursday Sep 28th - Texture, Manchester - with Thought Universe, Leonie Higgins plus more. This is a matinee show and our set is scheduled at 7.30pm - details here.... http://manchester.carpediem.cd/events/4597036-subliminal-impulse-revue-vi-at-texture-mgr Friday Nov 10th - Lexington, London - with Wolfgang Flur. https://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/event/857223/Wolfgang_Flur_Scissorgun_The_Lexington_Islington_10_November_2017.html The album is available through LTM (which also includes a copy of the first aural assault release) here.... http://www.ltmrecordings.com/scissorgun_aar002.html ...or the album only (10 inch vinyl and CD package together) through my bandcamp page here.... https://cavendishhouse.bandcamp.com/album/assault-two Downloads are available through Spotify, Deezer and Amazon. Reviews coming in are looking favourable. These might help describe the album more for anyone interested in it... "Scissorgun create Northern electronic shanties and sound collages that feel like snapshots of a city at night, moving from drunken chaos to minicab grime reveries to a new dawn electronic beauty" (Mojo, 10/2017) "The combined efforts of Alan Hempsall and David Clarkson, the Scissorgun project is less about 'songs', more about moods and feelings. Happily they manage to provide something to get one's teeth into and on occasion it can be weirdly catchy. There's faint echoes of, say Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, but whilst Assault Two borders on 'difficult music', on occasion Scissorgun feel the need to drop into the oddest sort of catchy and addictive figure into their spontaneous sounds. Which makes me very happy. The 10" vinyl, which bought back memories for me of the Klark Kent album and Killing Joke's Ha!, has five of the tracks, but it comes complete with a CD which gives you all seven and adds up to an attractive package" (Louder Than War, 09/2017). "Assault Two sees Alan Hempsall teaming up with synthesist David Clarkson for an album of beats, audio collage, fractured ambience and spoken word. The industrial pounding of Sahara Dreams and Caballero are beefy affairs, puncturing the album's attractive spell of narcotic delirium" (Electronic Sound, 09/2017) One of the album tracks is streamed at the end of Steve Barker's radio show from Saturday here... http://otwradio.blogspot.co.uk Hope to see you at the gigs and meet up. Cheers :-)
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Kid Calamity 9044 posts |
Sep 18, 2017, 11:10
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I'm seriously loving what I've been hearing, Dave. Top stuff. You must feels so chuffed with everything coming together like this, after years of chipping away and building things. Sadly, i can't make any of these dates, but seriously intend experiencing it up close and personal in the near future, if i possibly can.
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dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Sep 18, 2017, 18:20
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Cheers KC. Yeah it feels good getting more exposure. I'm trying to keep the interest alive while I can as know how fickle and short lived it can all be. Put a few hours a night producing the album between Jan and June this year so feel burnt out since. Got too obsessed with the mixing and editing of it, so glad can just go out and play it live now. :-)
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Kid Calamity 9044 posts |
Sep 19, 2017, 09:15
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Yeah, whilst it's nice to have time to hunker down and get those tracks polished, suddenly one's aware that getting the music out there and playing it live will give it a refreshed excitement.
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Kid Calamity 9044 posts |
Feb 25, 2020, 18:01
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Dave Clarkson of this parish with collaboration playing live. Saturday, March 14th, 2020 The PEER HAT, Manchester 'Assault Two' still gets a regular whirl, at Castle Calamity!! https://scissorgun.bandcamp.com/album/assault-two
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