here you go: the lazy man's way out for this week's sermon. here's the writeup i did of the show last weekend:

the show was scheduled to start at 9, & theoretically we'd heard we would be able to get into the venue as early as 4 or 5 to get set up. so naturally we didn't manage to leave town until after 6 & got to muncie around 7:30. we began to set up our gear.

due to a miscommunication, it turns out that a local punk-type band (down with his ship?) has been scheduled to play before us. so unszene graciously gives up his set to give us more time (the plan was for him to perform at the after-event, but that didn't happen). luckily, the band was not bad at all, & when one of them broke a string murkbox leapt into the fray to fix it. thus the chanting & screaming of "murkbox!" began even while the "punk" band was still playing.

then murkbox stepped up to the plate with a set that was somewhere between dj'ing & playing live. i was expecting the crowd to vanish after the punk band finished, assuming that everyone was there for them & that as soon as our dark electronic sounds started everyone would get alienated & leave. but much to my pleasant surprise everyone stuck around & many seemed to be really enjoying it all. there were a pretty decent number of people there (i heard 60 at the door, which was a lot for the size of the venue).

next up dr butcher tore up the stage with his duelling fasttracker pcs, even if he did have to sit on the floor for most of his set due to space constraints. good hard breaks & even a new track that none of us had heard before. the crowd was shockingly still there & getting into the groove.

then came the gabbist monks dj set. at the beginning there were some turntable problems, but those were quickly sorted out. hard records & furious scratching ensued. by this time we were running late but there was still a decent-sized crowd that was only now thinning out.

i knew that my set would be a big change after this; we'd had almost 2 hours of hard crunchy breaks, while my set would be much slower & center around dark tones & harmonics, with some sounds having few or no percussive sounds at all. plus i had to perform with my back to the audience because the only place we could fit my gear was at the front of the table. but the people i spoke to afterward had nothing but praise, so i know my performance did not fall on deaf ears. then came animals within animals, an improv set that went all over the place... i remember some great moments as well as some very chaotic moments; unfortunately it looks like our attempts to get the whole show's audio recorded didn't work, so i'll probably never know for sure. we did get a lot of video footage & still photos, though.

the after event was also great fun; noise records, relaxation, & hanging with the muncie scene. the after-event wasn't too crowded, which was fine by me. we met some cool people & even briefly discussed coming back for another show in the future. all that, & not only did we not lose money on this show, we even made a little.

so it was a great time & a great moment for bad taste. big ups to jason for inviting us & planning the whole thing, the sound crew (who were very helpful even if they didn't quite know what to expect from our music), the club owner, kevin for hosting the after-event, & to everyone who came out to see us... you guys made the show work; we were just a bunch of doofuses onstage.

the first of the live pics are available for your perusal at http://badtaste.gabber.org