The Greatness Of The Magnificence (and The Tower of Song)

Gothmag#29 - Venn Tagteam

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:37:00 +0000

#29
15 May 2004 GOThMag presents Venn Festival, Cube Microplex

Part of Qujunktions Venn festival in 2004. About 15 acts performed each act took up half of the stage and played for 20 mins. the next act would begin 5 minutes before the end of the previous. a curtain was used to mask the act once finished (and encourage to finish on time/ begin on time)

here's the full show.. i'm not sure which act appears when but i think it starts with bucky and you can hear the keepers of the fire around 50mins in

Gothmag #36 A Merry Night Of Whistling

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:02:00 +0000

Gothmag#36 25th Sept04 ..A Merry Night Of Whistling... Cube Cinema, Bristol
full concert here
1. intro - Give a little whistle
2. Don the whistler - The Entertainer
3. Don the whistler - Love is all
4. Don the whistler - Blue danube
5. Merry Milkmen - Kill Bill Theme
6. Merry Milkmen - Tumbling Tumbleweed (whistler Mary)
7. Merry Milkmen - Deep Night (whistler mary)
8 Merry Milkmen - The Dancing Tambourine (whistler Kate)
9. TITK - Jealous Guy
10. consort of whistles - piece by henry VIII
11. consort of whistles - piece by thomas fardynge
12. Mr Hopkinson explains about wheat crunchies
13. Dennis Teeth - Raindrops keep falling on my head
14. Richard Craine - Mexican Whistler
15. Virpi - Lovely Head
16. Old Macdonald game
17. Rozi Plain - Big Chief
18. Julienne Raggoo - September Song
19. Keepers of the fire - Sitting at the dock of the bay
20. don the whistler
21. Whistle while you work finale
(22.consort of whistles rehearse)

Gothmag#34 - The Sadness Of The Magnificence -21/08/04

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:28:00 +0000

Programmed to go along with a canadian film about sadness The Saddest Music In The World we put together an event based on this theme with a prize for the saddest song... i think Tammy Payne won but a blurry eyed night was had by all. Here's the whole event MP3 featuring tracks by :
Tammy Payne - I'm Still Waiting
Tom Morgan - Pieces
Rose Randle - Dreams To Remember
Ella and The Goatman - Weeping song
Andy Taylor - Late Night
Maddy Longhurst - Go, Leave
Katerina - Gloomy Sunday
Moses - Flute Solo
Jesse Morningstar - when we Love Again
Carolyn - A Sad Song
Jet McDonald - The Can Song
Julienne Raggoo - Is That All There Is
Zuleika Gregory - If You're Happy and you know it
Finale - Eleanor Rigby
you can listen to individual tracks here

Gothmag#33 The Tom Waitsness Of The Magnificence 10th July 2004

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:14:00 +0000

We had some wonderful contributors. here's a podcast of some of the highlights.
The Tom Waitsness
tracklist as follows:
Darren Swindells - Jersey Girl
Paul McGuinness - Downtown Train
Ella and The Goat Man - I Beg Your Pardon
Kate Stables - Alice
The No Man Band - Emotional Weather Report
Johnny Angel - Gin Soaked Boy
David Green - Raindogs
Marcos O'Sullivan - Heart Attack and Vine
Mary Southcott - Little Drop Of Poison
Jimmy Goodrich - Innocent When You Dream

Mary Southcott

Kate Stables

Darren Swindells

Mr Bear and the No Man Band

Julienne Raggoo

Bethany Porter

David Green

Foxy Hannah Porter

Jimmy Goodrich

Johnny Angel

Marcos

Mary Southcott

Zuleika Gregory

TOS #13 Whistling

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:49:00 +0000

originally broadcast 29-09-04
An introduction to the timeless art of whistling featuring an interview with modern whistler par excellance Robert Stemmons
here's the show

TOS#1 The Chromatic Scale

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:32:00 +0000

This program originally broadcast 7th July 2004 attempts to demonstrate the chromatic scale through appropriate songs.
1. Duke Ellington - Caravan (in Em but must have thought it was in C)
2. Hank Harry - Turn Around (C#m)
3. The Loft - Why Does The Rain (D)
4. Ray Charles - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (in Eb)
Paul Bradley talks
5. Organelles - Our Tunnel (starts in Em)
6. Django Reinhart - Nuages (in F)
7. Tom Waits - Walkin Spanish (F#m)
8. Lyndsey Cockwell - Scratched Folk (G)
9. Gerri Miller with The Magic Tramps - Mama Look At Me Now (Ab)
10. Silver Bullet Band - Don't You Take It too Hard (A)
11. Jukes - Song Of Saints (Bb)
12. Marc Gauvin - Nadia (Bm) listen here

Gothmag#30 - The Chetness - 21/05/04

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:00 +0000

This event featuring songs once performed by Chet Baker had an amazing house band: Clive Deamer - Drums; Dan Moore Keys, Jim Barr - Bass; Adrian Utley - Guitar; Dolan Jones, Pete judge and Dave Mowett - Trumpet. Also Paul Bradley and Neil Smith - Guitar. There was a great mix of music professionals and um non-professionals and one of the few times you'll hear Clive Deamer or Pete Judge singing. If anyone has any pictures of this please send my way or post. Here's most of the evening on mixcloud. Or here's the podcast: cheers, jesse

The Chetness Of The Magnificence by Gothmag on Mixcloud

TOS#2 The Flattened 5th

noreply@blogger.com (Jesse D Vernon) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:53:00 +0000

This is a broadcast made for a series called The Tower Of Song in 2005.About twenty hour-long shows were made for Dialect Radio, all with musical themes. This one is about The Flattened Fifth originally broadcast 14/07/2004
track list:
1. Mars (The Bringer Of War) - Holst.
short chat with Prof Neil Smith from the University of Dissonation
2. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
short chat with Mark Slater
3. Piece about Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (read by Maddy Longhurst)
4. Maria (from Westside story) - Leonard Bernstein
5. Devils Chord - Chikinki
6. Tritone subsitution - with Prof Neil smith
7. Is This Desire - PJ Harvey
8. The Simpsons Theme - Sonic Youth
10. Bull In The heather - Sonic Youth
11. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Mark Slater flat 5 in history
12. Caprice 13 in B-flat Major "Devil's Laugh" - Katrina Andreyevka
13. Ship Of Death - The Invisible Pair Of Hands
talk with Rasha from Mooz
14. Pepper Pot - Mooz
15. Blue Sands by Chico Hamilton Quintet
16. Raised Four - Thelonius Monk

Jesse