Well?
I was lucky enough to be at a rare Peter Christopherson/Threshold Houseboy’s Choir solo show at Stereo in Glasgow earlier tonight, following an entertaining catch-up dinner with Jo at the venue’s vegan restaurant.
Christopherson mostly ‘played’ stuff from the Amulet Edition, accompanied by projection of a disparate yet entirely appropriate selection of video.
Opening with a lengthy clip from The Thief of Baghdad, there was also variously; a video ‘prayer’ for some Thai boys enjoying themselves; footage of a ceremony in which young trancing Thais attempting to breach an army cordon in order to reach a tattoo artist/priest; some gay mobile phone porn ‘heterosexualised’ by way of solarisation; a Liberace performance; some (mercifully) distressed phone video footage of beheadings that were part of the Thai/Malaysian border conflict; film of ceremonial masked dancing at a Thai royal funeral; and ending with phone video footage of sex acts. A nice lengthy noise-bath improv on ‘Distonto’ – one of the Amulet tracks – accompanied the latter to finish proceedings.
All of this punctuated by Christopherson’s avuncular wit. Waki was very taken with what she described as his very fetching ‘cows-moo’ dressing gown.
From the Threshold House website “Sleazy reserves the right to add an extra disc or mini-dvd to a small number of Amulets he will be selling at solo THBC shows in Europe during May, though IF he does, the extra disc will be also available alone, to include in the Amulet you already bought.”
Was slightly disappointed to discover that the 3″ disc of additional Amulet Edition material didn’t materialise on the merchandise table – not enough time to prepare it, apparently. Ach weel…..
But I did snap up one of an edition of 100 Soisong ‘xAj3z’ promo booklets/folders complete with the new disc. Haven’t read it yet, but it seems to expand around the selection of photos gracing the album pages of the Soisong website.
A good night, and I also heard through the grapevine that there might be a Throbbing Gristle show at the Tramway in Glasgow sometime in June – have to keep my eyes peeled for that.
May 4, 2009 at 2:09 pm |
Good review. Sleazy mentioned a website that had some 30 year old photos of Glasgow, I think it somehow linked from the Threshold House website. I dont suppose you have the link or remember any other info about it? Needless to say I completely forgot by the time I got home.
Ian.
May 4, 2009 at 2:30 pm |
Yup, I remember him saying something about old Glasgow photos too. The website he mentioned a couple of times is http://www.sacred-profane.com/ – doesn’t look like it’s active yet though, and not sure if this is the one he mentioned in connection with Glasgow – doesn’t really look like it.
May 13, 2009 at 4:48 am |
Nice post. I was curious about that xAj3z promo booklet. Is there any chance you could scan or transcribe it? Is it different from the actual xAj3z release?
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May 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm |
The audio disc and packaging are as the ‘normal’ xAj3z release, but it’s housed inside a thick clear plastic A4 pocketed folder, the pockets each containing sheets of white light card/heavy paper. Each of the eleven sheets contain a mixture of photographs taken from the Soisong website’s password protected album area and text in parodic imitation of an investigation into extraterrestrial phenomena. It’s titled ‘The Report of the Committee Investigating the Release of xAj3z into the atmosphere. Origin:Bangkok Bureau 06-04-09′.
Take me a couple of hours that I don’t currently have to scan it all, sorry.