The Mekano Set

Rather excited to say that we'll be playing live in London on Friday 6th April. Freakscene @ Heroes, Kentish Town. Thanks to Beth (Blindness) for dropping our name in a few ears for this one (she's one of the DJ's at this excitable Shoegaze / Noise Rock / Experimental night). Sounds perfecto!

So we've been talking about doing something a bit special for this one. If you've followed our antics over the past few years, and if you're in two minds about whether to do London for this one, you will quite possibly cry AND then beat yourself up if you give this a miss.

Tickets are £8 - if you drop us a line at mekanoset@gmail.com we'll stick you on the reduced (£6) list.

https://www.facebook.com/events/267505279993322/

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=493983


Meanwhile, help yourselves to a fresh batch of singles:

On the menu today we have:

Industrial-Strength Trip-Hop http://imthinkingaboutit.viinyl.com/

A fresh, subterranean escapade with an almost cheerful discovery at the end: http://reachingout.viinyl.com/

Down-tempo, dirty beats / bass / noisescape: http://offender.viinyl.com/





Milk snapped by BeatnikSoup. Live snap by MsDee.

The Mekano Set

We've made a number of choice cuts available via Viinyl.com - mainly because of the huge backdrops they have on their pages.

If you 'do' facebook or twitter, and if you're happy to tell people what you think of the track, you can download it for free. A couple of these are exclusive mixes. Oh yes!

Check them out and let us (and the rest of the world) know which ones you prefer:

http://wayout.viinyl.com/

http://tidehouseforjocelynbellburnell.viinyl.com/

http://andwantmorefeatmutate.viinyl.com/

http://hahaharem.viinyl.com/

http://donteatthesweetscandymix.viinyl.com/

http://evenstevensunevenstevensmix.viinyl.com/

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The Mekano Set

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An excellent all-nighter in Brighton followed by an entire day of duvets and Black Books / The IT Crowd / Father Ted back at Hotel Mekano.

Great to get the crowd moving again - a few people obviously got a bit carried away so we figured it would be best to stop before we started having to use our instruments as riot control devices. Machismo dressed as alt. culture is never an attractive site. Especially when falling flat on its face.

"You gonna be a good boy? You gonna be a good boy? Cause we wanna do another song, and you wanna dance." The look of shame on the guy's face was priceless.

For those of you at the back who didn't get to enjoy the view: one over-excited dancer careered across the full width of the dance floor and landed head first into our laptop. It didn't stop the drums so we just carried on. Although when it was clear that a small number of over-sized egos were giving the organizer (who worked very, very hard to keep the night together) grief, the mood was tainted and we pulled the plug.

Deb took a few snaps during the sound-check, before helping us out by Gaffa-Taping down make-shift speaker cables: Lee and Justine looking down-trodden when we were told there was no one around to set the PA up, so we wouldn't actually be able to play + Milk looking smug after plugging everything into anything until we got sound pumping through speakers):




The Mekano Set