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"We're pretty broad minded here, and if you stop short of smashing the piano, there isn't much you can do at the Drones that will cause the raised eyebrow and the sharp intake of breath".
PG Wodehouse, "Young Men In Spats"
The Drones Club is home to harmonic drones and jollity of all stripes, inviting artists, performers and audience to participate in a world apart from mundanity. We prefer to think cosmically, and act musically. Or is it the other way around?
Not all the music played at The Drones Club is necessarily droney (though it might well be). Sometimes it is danceable, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes melodic, often harmonic. No-one has yet smashed a piano, at least not literally, but it might happen one day. Thankfully the music and crowd at The Drones Club is rarely dull, and more often than not quite entertaining - as is only to be expected when the event is subtitled "an evening of jollity, romance and harmonic drones".
50 and Up
On
23-24 January 2009, the Drones Club returned to The Others for two
evenings of avantgarde soundscapes, psychedelic space pop and motorik
rhythms from S/T
(Germany) and Phil Wilson/The June
Brides (UK;
on Friday 23 Jan) followed by The
Little Theatre Of Dolls puppet
show, Giant
Paw (London), Ronny Wærnes (Norge), Traummaschine with special guest
Geoff Leigh of Henry Cow (España/UK) and (Cymru) on Saturday
24 January.
 An exclusive CD
compilation titled 50 & Up was launched at the
event to mark
the mini-festival.
Almost all the tracks are exclusive to the compilation.
The
tracklisting is as follows:
Phil
Wilson (UK) : Heroes (4:10)
Giant Paw (UK) : Tea on the Lawn
(6:41)
The
Grand Erector (UK) : The King Edward‘s Monkey Parade [Krapp‘s
Edit] (6:23)
Ectogram (Wales) : Dancing at Sparrows
(4:17)
S/T (Germany) : Die
kurze Wiederholung (6:49)
Faust (DMZ) : Je Suis Malade (5:53)
Phil Wilson (UK) : Psycho
Killer (3:40)
Traummaschine
(Spain) : Die Kosmische Sache (21:06)
Ronny
Wærnes (Norway) : Andy‘s Party 5 (4:48)
The
CD is available for £10 with postage and packing at the following rates:
- 50p
UK
£1
Europe
£2
rest of the world
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