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“I AM everybody…everybody lost their s***” : Metamono @ Bambino’s

*title quote by Lucy L

Despite being reluctant to frequent the pubs and restaurants in the CP triangle (where I work, play, eat, love, give / am given, fight & sometimes fuk myself up) too often, in case the comrades get sick of me, I stayed in Palace last Saturday night; cos the Big Beary Godfather that is Andy Bambino was hosting the Metamono 7″ launch party in his shop and it’s somewhere I’ve never been to at night time and I’d heard that the last one was the boom shizzle and the Metamono guys have been to events at my café and Andy is a café guardian (as well as big beary godfather) and that’s how this community (breathlessly) rolls.

Andy’s a genius, not simply for his capacity to attract people as strange and bewitching as the objects he sells to his world, but also, I’m sure, cos he knows that putting on events and getting people drunk will lead to people wanting some of these strange and bewitching curiosities. (I left with a Metamono badge and a 7″ and have a desire for the bench of red chairs out the front of the shop).

Anyway, here’s the following day’s twitter review:

@Lucy_Lovebird “it’s like an old-fashioned Skrillex” #metamono#Bambinos#crystalPalace

©GC ‏@drumzofthesouth 24 Mar
 “I AM everyone” @Lucy_Lovebird



©GC ‏@drumzofthesouth 24 Mareveryone lost their f***** shit @Lucy_Lovebird I actually lost my cardigan, some brain cells, probably some dignity, you’re like an oracle.



©GC ‏@drumzofthesouth 24 Mar @METAMONOMUSIC Chez @andybambino s last night was INSANELY good

As the above tweet is so entirely true, I feel it’s only fair to expand on this in the form of :

DRUMZOFTHESOUTH’S

METAMONO MANIFESTO

REMIX

All sound is now available to all musicians everywhere
 (until they’ve acquired Tinnitus)

Music has become a flaccid shadow of the social power it once was (FLACCID? Music, are you actually gonna take that?)

METAMONO
will restrict and limit the sound sources and techniques available to us in order

TO LIBERATE the imagination
(How was your weekend? Well, I had a really good space voyage on Saturday actually”)

TO ECHO the struggle society endures
 (like the echo of an emo artist type drinking testosterone from a bottle…Stelllllaaa-a-a-a Stellaaaaa-a-a-a, Stellaaaaa-a-a-a-a)

Our restraints will be our liberties
(The testosterone will later take liberties with a man by telling him to be quiet (mid conversation) just so you can stare at his handsome face. #feminismgonewrong)

Our limitations will be our aesthetic
(EVERYBODY’S NOT ACTUALLY ON PILLS PEOPLE, BUT EVERYBODY’S LOSING THEIR SHIT ANYWAY)

We will kick against the pricks
(ooh do you want some help with that?!)

METAMONO WILL NEVER

- use a microphone (luddites)

- use digital sound generation or sampling
- (u don’t rate hip-hop then fam?)

- use mechanical sound generation
(are we really all 30-60+ year olds raving in a furniture shop?)

- use digital sound processing (But seriously how are you doing this?)

- make overdubs
(but will put the dub in “so.over.dubstep”)

- be afraid of mono
- (Well I aint afraid of glandular fever either which is just as well cos I’m amorous when I’m tipsy)

- remix
(*looks around guiltily*)

METAMONO WILL ONLY

- use analogue electronic sound generation
 (This actually IS the boom shizzle)

- use analogue electronic sound processing
 (is that what the millions of cables are all about?)

- use digital recording and basic editing when no alternative is available 
(just when you have me turning my nose up at digital)

- compose and mix simultaneously
 (& produce the sort of sexy analogue bass a South London bird dreams of)

- build their own or play used instruments (please can you build me a Theremin?)

www.metamono.co.uk  actual Metamono manifesto here: http://www.metamono.co.uk/index.html

There are some great pix by John Barrett here. Drumzofthesouth photos to follow

Removals: – £ + bartering = ?

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As part of REMOVALS, a series of events in which THINGS at the Café at Antenna Studios will be subtracted; on Sunday 11th of March, MONEY will be taken away, with alternative forms of value negotiated.In simple terms, this means that if you would like tea, coffee, or cake, you will need to barter – come prepared with things with which to swap them for!!

Items gained by the cafe at the end of the day will be photographed and / or exhibited at the cafe throughout the following week.

REMOVALS is a design research project by Georgina Cook  ( Drumzofthesouth / Café @ Antenna Studios) which aims to test and expand on ideas related to transition, adaption and “elimination, by design,” as proposed by the Australian theorist and farmer Tony Fry.

Cafe Thing @ Antenna Studios
Bowyers Yard, Haynes Lane
Crystal Palace, London
SE19 3AN

Facebook event
twitter.com/cafe_thing       cafething.tumblr.com

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Next Café Session…

Cafe session

THIS FRIDAY (Nov 9th!)

I’m very excited about this! I saw Tanya in Paris some time ago with her side project Yult and it was outstanding. She’s extremely original! Daisy Beau who appeared at the café some time ago (and packed it out!) will be returning to support Tanya.

Grab your tickets here and early to avoid disappointment! http://www.antennastudios.co.uk/cafe-thing/tickets/

www.tanyaauclair.com   http://dizzadaze.wix.com/daisybeau1

Jono McCleery at Antenna Studios, October 6th

The Café Thing at Antenna Studios is proud to present JONO McCLEERY & The Dans with support from Joss Price.

pic by Nick Hopper

Jono McCleery, a London based solo artist signed to Ninja Tune, completed his first album ‘Darkest Light’ independently in 2008 which was self-produced and funded by fans, including folk-star Vashti Bunyan and BBC radio DJs Tom Robinson and Fiona Talkington, and is now available worldwide on iTunes.

His most recent album ‘There Is’ is out now, and has been described as “Miles Davis, Massive Attack, John Martyn, Fink, and Radiohead wrapped up in one exquisitely produced album.”

www.jonomccleery.com
http://soundcloud.com/joss-robin (Joss Price)

Entry is £7 and as there is a very limited capacity, so it’s advised to purchase in advance!

Tickets available here:

http://www.antennastudios.co.uk/cafe-thing/tickets/

Address: Antenna Studios, Bowyers Yard, Haynes Lane, Crystal Palace, London, SE19 3AN

Nearest Transport – Gipsy Hill BR or Crystal Palace (Overground). Served by buses 3, 122, 157, 202, 227, 249, 322, 358, 363, 410, 417 432 & 45

(pic by Nick Hopper)