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Monday, February 15, 2010

Isle of Dread...

Between 1995-1999 i was part of a two person Live Electronic music thing.....people called our performances: Live P.a., we didn't call ourselves anything, except :"GYPE", a name that was used hundreds of years ago on ships sailing the seas; "Argggh matey, clean that GYPE off the deck!!!!"
Since our first studio/home was a cheap HouseBoat, parked at 'Fishermans Wharf" in Victoria,Bc, we thought it was an appropriate word to use...there was also a wharf dog, a black Lab who was also named 'Gype'... like i said, the name fit.
We played our first show on jan.2 and 3rd 1996 at the popular hang out on the edge of the inner Harbour called "Zombie's"....so we loaded our equipment onto a 45 foot beat up yaht that a fellow 'wharf dude' owned and he got us to the inner harbour from the wharf in no time, and our manager 'larry the dread' was waiting with shopping carts to wheel our gear to the gig...and that's how it began...

Our time came to an end in victoria, but not before headlining at a large venue, a concert hall called the 'Phoenix' on Pandora st. on halloween 1998....800 tickets sold, and since it was in the heart of the downtown core, more people showed up at the door....so who knows what the final tally was....it was a night of tribal drumming, paegan dancers, nude & smeared with 'mud'(looked like mud) and various DJ set's with guest dj's from Van.,seattle, san fran & victoria...plus our friends the Philosopher Stone, a funk jam band, and finally 'Gype', and we did our unusual improvised electronic set, begining with a heartbeat, and layers upon layers of sound waves and tones, cut ups, loops and verbal rants...

I rediscovered a live recording from that show, a tune we named "isle of dread", which was a dedicated to our loyal manager who i mentioned above; Larry Dread....who by the way got so drunk and ignorant he was kicked out of every show we ever played...

http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/INTerminus/isle-of-dread

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