Peter Read – guitar, keys, strange noises.
Patrick Kavanagh - guitar, keys, sampling, programming, trumpet, plastic sax, giant wooden harmonica, vocal effects, loops and treatments.
December 2007 saw the first ever live performance of ‘Spiney Fleshpot’ performing a live soundtrack to ‘Dr. Mabuse - Der Spieler’ at Mercury Cinema, Adelaide. A collaboration with CanAworms stable mate, ‘Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’.
—————————— Peter has a brand new solo album out, soaring up the charts. He has also been ‘Chimp Inc’, ‘Thug’, ‘Moist’, ‘Leather Moustache’, ‘Sunday school’, ‘Animal Noise’ and ‘The Dentists’, to name a few.
Patrick is also experimental industrial concrete act ‘Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’ and prior to that, ‘Dweller on the Threshold’ – an industrial psychotronic dreamscape project with Helene Hex Henbane, involving percussionist Glenn Maltby and before him, legendary multi instrumentalist, John Murphy. Before ‘Dweller on the Threshold’ Patrick, with Helene and John Murphy formed ‘Jaundiced Eye’, an industrial noise/rock act. Patrick was a founding member of art rock band ‘Box the Jesuit’, playing guitar, keyboards and saxophone, after originally joining the band as trumpet player when they (along with Kevin Lewis Black) were ‘Madroom’. Also ‘Moist’, ‘Leather Moustache’ and ‘Smack of Jellyfish’, an pure onslaught of thick black noise in a maelstrom of colliding, crashing, ultra-down-tempo arrhythmia, playing modified electric guitar and some vocals, with Belinda Cutting sharing vocals and bass, Jackie on bass, Phillip Clifford of ‘Box the Jesuit’ on drums and Peter Read as engineer interjecting tapes and delay grabs.
Heres to surviving the Silliest of Seasons & hoping the New Year will be a Great one, I feel like everything is falling into place & this one is gonna be great. Gotta try to get down to sa in the bew year & see a couple of people, hope i can catch up with you guys also, long time no see pete! Hope yr Happy & Well & Making Amazing Sounds as Allways! Have a Good One ... Love Ya Bub! Bruce ... >>>>>> >>> >
Melbourne Live (13 performers) Oedipus production -a reworking of the Ancient Greek Classic to demonstrate that Fate and free Will are not mutually exclusive. The circumstances (destiny?) are not changed from the original story, but the perceptions and reactions (will?) of the characters are, with startling results. Classical and contemporary verse combine with accomplished dance (butoh and tribal fusion) to weave a balance between philosophy and enactment, intuition and mentation, will and fate.
bad bad peter read, the force of electricity is your cornflakes bowl of confusion, please take our tracks and make of them new things and then we can think ourselves as talented... i only hope that melbourne is more agreeable to you and that feline energies are streaming down upon you from the stella felis and the cruce lumen above.... "nothin"
teasing me with invitations to Fritz Langings on the other side of the globe, tooo cruel, toooooo cruel sad monkey... there is an Irish band who take similar ventures "3epkano" they're in my friends list, they take a more conventional approach to the scores though, I missed them performing to 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' a year ago but a few months back I saw them score my all time favourite 'un chien andalou', it was well weapon.
A whole cast of shady characters! ‘Twisted Subterranean Death Trap’ incorporating ‘Spiney Fleshpot’ and featuring ‘Zsa Zsa A Door’ Performing live soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s 1922 silent classic “Dr. Mabuse – Der Spieler” (the gambler) One of the masterpieces of German Expressionist cinema. Fritz Lang’s tale of power and greed set in the hazy cabarets, cocaine dens, and back room casinos of decadent Weimar Berlin. Re-scored in experimental industrial improvisational electronic music concrete For the MRC’s Silent Remasters Compositions at Mercury Cinema 13 Morphett st. Adelaide 5000 6th December 2007 7.30pm CINéMATHèQUE season tickets or $10/ $8 concession
