Last The Wharf Street Galaxy Band gig for a while......

As vocalist Message is off abroad to do PhD work, The Wharf Street Galaxy Band will be on a temporary break until July 2019 - but fear not folk of Leeds and nearby, there is a last chance to see them live at this corker of a gig to celebrate Neil "Grumbles" Gumbley's 50th birthday. See the poster below -

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Hogwash 26 videos now online

The last Hogwash of 2018 took place in its usual home at CHUNK in Leeds on the 11th of December. The camera captured several minutes of each act for your viewing pleasure as follows:-

Feghoots

Sadistic Statistic

She The Throne

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Thanks to all the acts for playing and all the continued support from all the Hogwashers out there.

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Legion of Swine appears on Ship Full of Bombs Compliation

Ship Full of Bombs is an independent radio station based down South and relies on a fair amount of donations to keep going. To help in this process, the folks at Culture As A Dare have compiled some exclusive pieces from a number of artists who have appeared on their radio show and/or live. It's out now and it available here and features Legion of Swine as the closing track. A perfect pressie for the liker of odder music in your life......

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Pigging it up in North Porkshire for Legion of Swine

Those grand folks at Wonkystuff in York have rarely made a rasher decision than invite Legion of Swine to play at Wonkystuff #14 at The Fulford Arms on Wednesday 21st November 2018, with the very ace bell lungs, Orlando Ferguson and How Buildings Fail. Come over, why don't you?

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Dave Procter - conference presentation on Århus noise

Dave Procter journeyed across The Pennines back to his old stomping ground of Preston to present on the topic "Århus, in the Middle of Our Street - Reflections on Noise Music Culture in Denmark's Second City" as part of The Present and Future of Electronic Music conference held at the University of Central Lancashire. There was a great collection of speakers and a healthy turn out from Leeds. It was a grand day out indeed!

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Frustrating Farsley Fail To Finish Fruitful - Farsley Celtic 0 - Carlton Town 0

This has to have been the most one-sided match I have ever witnessed at Throstle Nest as the Villagers somehow managed not to score against a throughly outplayed Carlton Town in the 2nd Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy. Aside from the odd scare, it was one-way traffic all match, but a collection of poorly struck shots and some decent keeping in the second half, kept Celtic at bay. The number of chances squandered is too annoying to recount in this match report, so I’ll not bother. The company of Bilberkopf, Pointon and Pickergill at least kept the humour going as chance after chance went begging. A severe rocket up the collective arse will doubtless be taking place as I type this and it’s a reply on Tuesday evening at their place. 

Some photos - 

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Hogwash 26 - poster action

Hogwash 26 takes place in its usual home CHUNK in Leeds on Tuesday December 11th 2018. Our artistic genius Noah Brown has created his latest poster masterpiece, and here it is in its full glory -

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EMOM V live action for Legion of Swine and HUNDBAJS

Legion of Swine teamed up again with his long term collaborator Christopher Nosnibor at the 5th Electronic Music Open Mic at The Fulford Arms in York. This feast of noise and spoken venom was captured by a process called video recording. Here is the result -

Earlier in the evening, "onstage midlife crisis noise" was created by new Ojud Records' act HUNDBAJS. Some of his performance was also captured on video -

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Trauma NoiseFest - Malmö

Legion of Swine was fortunate and happy to be among the noisy sods taking part at Trauma Fest which is part of AltCon Comic conference. The noise part took place at Plan B, a great space in the south east of the city. Some photos appear below - 

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Noise in the Shed - Smash It Out all-dayer photos

Legion of Swine was very pleased to be among the fine noiseheads performing in the Noise Shed at the Smash It Out all-dayer at The Windmill in Brixton. Below are some grainy images captured of the chaos and beauty of the day - many many thanks to Tim Drage and Lisa McKendrick for having the Swine to play. The event concluded with a noise off involving most of the participants.

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I feel heavy metal....a few days in Dortmund

I recently had the good luck to spend some days in Dortmund with my long-term mate and ex-work colleague Rees Archibald, who is currently on a residency at the Künstlerhaus in the city. Rees has been "having conversations" with large pieces of metal, sheet-steel in the main, over the past three years or so. Over this time, he has been investigating sounds that can be created in the steel by vibration via feedback loops through a contact mic and a transducer - limiting, gain and pitch-shifting and hopefully control comes via a Max/MSP patch. A large amount of listening was done to discover new sounds, which are affected by contact mic position and adjustments of the above mentioned parameters. It was pretty tiring work, with around five to six hours of testing and listening per day, but really rewarding to be involved in and gave me ideas for my own practice.

Find below some lo-fi media from my camera - the much higher quality stuff will be on Rees' website in the near future and I'll link to that later. The first pictures are of the first sheet that was worked on in the non-installation space -

The images that follow show the two sheets in their probable installation positions in the much more reverberant exhibition space. The testing for this suggests much quieter sound pressures due to the build up on reflections in this new space - so a lot of listening and balancing of levels is needed. Sadly at this stage, it was time for me to leave Dortmund, so I look forward to seeing and hearing the pair in action with Rees as controller/mediator!

Overall this was a very interesting and artistically satisfying few days. Thanks to Rees and all at Künstlerhaus in Dortmund for their welcome.

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