London Gothic

We're getting ready to play London on Friday night. It's a full-on Alternative Gothic Post-Punk Electro Deathrock night which is a bit very exciting. Cavey Nik's Dead and Buried promises to be an eclectic and colourful night of noises where they play everything from Cardiacs to The Cramps, Joy Division to Generation X,  Sparks to The Smiths.

Digital Painting by SugarHighTyrant

Friday 25th January. 8 pm - 3 am - £6

Mother Live
333 Old Street
London
EC1V 9LE

http://www.clubdeadandburiedlondon.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/186505638157475/


Nearest tube stations = Old Street + Liverpool Street

http://www.clubdeadandburiedlondon.com/location-and-transport/




Meanwhile, help yourself to a slice of our own brand of dark, grimy swirly electro punk noise:

http://glasskeysshoegrimemix.viinyl.com/ 

A little more info on Dead and Buried

ENTRY £6

No dress code but BLACK is preferable!

UPDATE: Please try and arrive before 23.30 as after that time all monies taken on the door go straight to the venue and NOT Dead and Buried - please help us to continue to bring quality live bands and Djs to London at thsi great venue if you can [none of which is free!] Plus the earlier you get tehre the more frun you will have! ;^)

You may hear music from bands such as: Opera de Nuit, Christian Death, The Cure, Gorgonas, Gertrud Stein, Bauhaus, Euroshima, The Unkindness of Ravens, Sisters of Mercy, Ideal, CCCP, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Specimen, ALien Sex Fiend, The Cramps, Frustration, La Femme, The Adicts, Cinema Strange, Defectors, Fangs on Fur.. etc.

The Mekano Set

Behind The Sins: Situationist Soundscapes and the Politics of Sound

We've spent December working on something a little bit different. The end result is an hour long adventure in sounds and spaces: an audio collage of unreleased material, some brand new songs, interviews in unusual locations, found sounds and some curious home-grown sci-fi sound effects...

Through the gentle ambience of The NASA Tearooms, Imercia's strangest shopping malls and slow-motion x-ray shores, listen to us clarify and cloud our take on the politics of sound and gender, Humanitarian Anarchism, and Alternative / Goth / Post-Punk sensibilities... soundtracked by some Situationist Soundscapes, new songs and exclusive mixes:

 

http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-sins-o-s-t

http://behindthesinstrailer.viinyl.com/

http://www.mixcloud.com/mekanoset/behind-the-sins/

We like to experiment and we're never satisfied with conventional song structures. As a kid I had almost no interest in music at all, but I would sit in my room and tune the radio on an old Boombox, recording Short Wave radio signals from what seemed like other worlds. I liked the idea of writing things like radio plays and found the occasional experimental radio piece I stumbled across really intriguing.  

So this has turned into something I'm really excited about, and it also gave the band an opportunity to clarify our stance in terms of politics, gender and beyond (or Things Beyond). It also gave our occasional P.R. / P.A.  S.W. Tucker the opportunity to spread the wings of her Pop Journalist pretentions and voice some questions / concerns. There are tentative plans to do more along these lines. 

The finished piece is available for download along with all of the featured songs (19 tracks in total) as separate files. There will also be a limited edition CD with sleeve artwork designed by Lee. If you want to reserve yourself a copy send an email to mekanoset@gmail.com

What else? Well seeing as it's the season of giving, here is a special wintery soundscape mix of Tidehouse, re-titled Yuletide House: http://yuletidehousetidehouse.viinyl.com/ 

And some recent highlights up for grabs:

Hahaharem, our latest, most exotic ep to date. A mix of grimy bass and beats, swirly electric 12 string and fuzzed-up baritone guitars: http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/album/hahaharem 

A new song currently in the works: http://scarreddemo.viinyl.com/

Our dirty-groovy cover of Bonnie and Clyde by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot:  http://bonnieandclydeveryrough.viinyl.com/

A version of our Post-Punk anthem, Sweets http://donteatallofthesweets.viinyl.com/



Anyway, I'll be spending Christmoose Day watching Punk documentaries and catching up on emails. 

Season's great things to you!

The Mekano Set

NOVEMBER IN IMERCIA

November casts us in its crisp, autumnal light. The Autumn, as we often claim, is our season...

I've been in Brighton for November. The autumn sun keeps the cold at bay.

Tonight - Friday 30th November - we are putting on a deep, sugar-glazed, strawberries and cream evening of beautiful amorphous noises.

Join us at The Hope and Anchor, Islington, North London, where we will have live sets from the lush, dirty-dreampop of grimy Shoegaze / Trip-hoppers SPC-ECO, atomized electro-punk noise-scapes from Valeska Valcav and our own unpredictable set of angsty beats / bass riffs and guitar plugged-into-the-TARDIS adventures. Plus some ace eclectic DJ sets, smoke machines and all manner of magic lantern devices. https://www.facebook.com/events/210380279084680/

In the meantime, if you haven't already, you can download a new edition of our eZine, which features some reviews of recent gigs and the last ep, plus some lush hi-fi photo fun:http://www.mekanoset.net/visuals/2012/TheMekanoSet_NoiseLetter_HahaharemEdition.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/events/210380279084680/

The Mekano Set

Mekanical Faults

Right, first off - we've fixed our email troubles. Apologies if you've messaged us lately and we haven't got back to you. Troubles with receiving and sending have now been fixed.

So, Email, you think you can defeat us?

Right, and now for news regarding noises of a Mekanical nature:

The Nineteen Eighty-Four themed Slu-T-Disko Cowley gig was a typically riotous affair. A group of young (male) fans took to chanting footy-lad style between songs which was almost as annoying and uncomfortable as the over-excited metal dude that lobbed his empty pint glass without looking where it would land.

The Bandcamp edition of the new EP now contains a high quality edition of the Hahaharem eZine, with 26 pages filled with lush photography, news, some live reviews and tales of our adventures.

You can download a slightly less juicy but equally informative version for free: TheMekanoSet_NoiseLetter_HahaharemEdition.pdf

And here's a glimpse of a new song we've been working on recently: 

http://skintoo.viinyl.com/

We're also assembling a nicely eclectic collection of T-shirts at our SpreadShirt store:

http://mekanoset.spreadshirt.co.uk/

And sorting things out for our night at the legendary Hope and Anchor...

https://www.facebook.com/events/210380279084680/

Cheers?

The Mekano Set