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the GREAT SQUARION migration
Please note that THE GREAT SQUARIONS have donned jetpacks and migrated to double-u, double-u, double-u redsquare3(dot)com. This Myspace site will no longer be updated!
MONSTA! As we didn't used to say back in what weren't the good old days.
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Be there or be not SQUARE!
<THE GREAT SQUARIONS (Forward, the Great Squarions!) have existed twice, once now and once
before. In between the two, 30 years sauntered past, sporting jaunty hats worn at fashionably raffish angles.
My, how they laughed, those years, as they linked arms and disappeared over the horizon.
To see what happened next, and, indeed, what happened before, please paste
redsquareband(dot)blogspot(dot)com
into your browser, which will take you through to our Blogger (which, for some reason Myspace, in their wisdom, block….?!!) blogspot.
Blogger, Block, Blogspot? What is the world coming to?!!
Ian Staples: guitar.
Roger Telford: drums, percussion.
My, how they laughed, those years, as they linked arms and disappeared over the horizon.
To see what happened next, and, indeed, what happened before, please paste
redsquareband(dot)blogspot(dot)com
into your browser, which will take you through to our Blogger (which, for some reason Myspace, in their wisdom, block….?!!) blogspot.
Blogger, Block, Blogspot? What is the world coming to?!!
Red Square are:
Jon Seagroatt: aerophones with electronic extensions.Ian Staples: guitar.
Roger Telford: drums, percussion.
Influences:
Everything, from everywhere, all of the time.Sounds Like:
Everything, from everywhere, all of the time. Only louder.Record Labels:
FMR Records, Fo Fum RecordsRecent Squarion gigs and broadcasts have included:
Cafe Oto
Cafe Oto
the
Vortex
Disorder at the Border on Resonance FM
Brighton Safehouse
Darkstar @ the Dogstar
the Southend Fringe Festival
the
Mystery Lesson
the Tinderbox Festival
Klub Kakoffaney
the Cwm Festival
Oxford Improvisors
and
Chatham's Brutally Honest
Club.
'UnReason: Red Square live at the Vortex'
The live recording
of a legendary gig, preserved for posterity in a nice little smart constructivist jacket, lovingly hand-crafted by the axeman Staples himself.
Available from Discogs.
We've made a zip file of our 2009 four track CD 'Shuttle Bag' (including artwork) available for free download
here.
If you'd like to make a Paypal donation to us for the download please use our Paypal email address: redsquare3@gmail.com. Thanks!
You can also buy a physical copy and have it delivered nicely to your doorstep from Discogs.
'Thirty Three' on FMR Records, featuring material originally recorded between 1972 and 1978, is available from FMR, Discogs, and Amazon.
If you'd like to make a Paypal donation to us for the download please use our Paypal email address: redsquare3@gmail.com. Thanks!
You can also buy a physical copy and have it delivered nicely to your doorstep from Discogs.
'Thirty Three' on FMR Records, featuring material originally recorded between 1972 and 1978, is available from FMR, Discogs, and Amazon.
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just put 'mailing list' in the subject box!
just put 'mailing list' in the subject box!
......and now for some footage………..
Uh
huh, we are the Manfreds. Only we're not. Though we could be, if we weren't already somebody else. Thus do the GREAT SQUARIONS find themselves one
again afloat in the You Tube ether, this time courtesy of the ever-vigilant mobile phone camera of quercusrobur2002, a mighty oak amongst the quailing
saplings.
The audio was captured by Luca Lamberti, the excellent FoH sound engineer at the Vortex, to whom, many thanks. The track is on our new album 'UnReason: Red Square live at the Vortex', soon facing release on Fo Fum Records.
It's a big, boisterous, exciting world out there; a little CD could soon get lost amongst the myriad creatures………...
Yet more of the Great Squarions nailing an appreciative audience's collective scalp to the back wall @ Klub Kakofanney, Oxford, November 2009.
Square fotografia by Bobbie Watson
Attack of the Great Squarions vol 253,000. The Great Squarions land in Chatham, survey the area with gimlet eyes and brows shielded against the glare of Kent's twin suns. They identify a venue in need of a bracing roar of Squarion alternative relaxation music on a Wednesday night in mid-November, and advance accordingly.
This is a moment of repose amidst a maelstrom of noise.
You can either summons up your imaginative powers to bathe the scene in atmospheric lighting effects, or you can make do with the Jackson Pollock print someone has artfully blu-taked to the chimney breast behind us.
Nice titles there though, doing a going up kind of a thing and telling it how it is (or should that be was?)
Moody monochrome for this second Squarion outing a la belle Chatham. Featuring a short outburst of pedal-generated feedback-looping from Jon; one of the many proven Red Square techniques for re-wiring synapses on the fly, and bringing the proletariat of the world to a state of revolutionary consciousness. They were certainly fired-up in Chatham that evening. At the end of the Square set the audience leapt up and, clutching their newly purchased Red Square CDs to their bosoms, they stormed to the doors pointing upwards and very slightly forwards like lots of Lenins hailing a taxi. But it was raining something rotten outside, so everyone milled about irresolutely for a bit, and then went home to their mums.
Backroom @ the Bully, Oxford, 14th January 2010.
Starts all nice and nice and ends up in a howling blizzard of Squarion scariness. The first gig that Jon has let the Kaoss Pad off it's leash. It was, after all, very keen to get out and about and meet the audience. It makes a brief guest appearance in this track; a more extended outing will follow soon.
Filmed and recorded by Bobbie Watson on a little camera, which introduces its own range of interesting compression artefacts to the mix!
The audio was captured by Luca Lamberti, the excellent FoH sound engineer at the Vortex, to whom, many thanks. The track is on our new album 'UnReason: Red Square live at the Vortex', soon facing release on Fo Fum Records.
It's a big, boisterous, exciting world out there; a little CD could soon get lost amongst the myriad creatures………...
Caught like rabbits in the headlights.......that's the audience of course, not us......the
Great Squarions live at Klub Kakofanney, Oxford, 6th November 2009;..
Yet more of the Great Squarions nailing an appreciative audience's collective scalp to the back wall @ Klub Kakofanney, Oxford, November 2009.
Square fotografia by Bobbie Watson
Attack of the Great Squarions vol 253,000. The Great Squarions land in Chatham, survey the area with gimlet eyes and brows shielded against the glare of Kent's twin suns. They identify a venue in need of a bracing roar of Squarion alternative relaxation music on a Wednesday night in mid-November, and advance accordingly.
This is a moment of repose amidst a maelstrom of noise.
You can either summons up your imaginative powers to bathe the scene in atmospheric lighting effects, or you can make do with the Jackson Pollock print someone has artfully blu-taked to the chimney breast behind us.
Nice titles there though, doing a going up kind of a thing and telling it how it is (or should that be was?)
Moody monochrome for this second Squarion outing a la belle Chatham. Featuring a short outburst of pedal-generated feedback-looping from Jon; one of the many proven Red Square techniques for re-wiring synapses on the fly, and bringing the proletariat of the world to a state of revolutionary consciousness. They were certainly fired-up in Chatham that evening. At the end of the Square set the audience leapt up and, clutching their newly purchased Red Square CDs to their bosoms, they stormed to the doors pointing upwards and very slightly forwards like lots of Lenins hailing a taxi. But it was raining something rotten outside, so everyone milled about irresolutely for a bit, and then went home to their mums.
Backroom @ the Bully, Oxford, 14th January 2010.
Starts all nice and nice and ends up in a howling blizzard of Squarion scariness. The first gig that Jon has let the Kaoss Pad off it's leash. It was, after all, very keen to get out and about and meet the audience. It makes a brief guest appearance in this track; a more extended outing will follow soon.
Filmed and recorded by Bobbie Watson on a little camera, which introduces its own range of interesting compression artefacts to the mix!
