Just back from righteous tour with Acrid Lactations. Excellent snap by Susan from Chastity Potatoe set at Newcastles Morden Tower. Note Bob Cobbing poster in background. That one cost 5 shillings to get in. Also presence of Allen Gisnberg lurking somewhere or another. Facebook set here from Sue. Also look out for her killer illustrated tour diaryContinue reading “AL/CP tour”
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Sheffield Saturday
Shot of the gig in Sheffield on Saturday with Phil and Olie by Andy Newcombe. See more of his picture and films: http://jazztourist.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jazztourist http://www.youtube.com/user/shuffleboil
Open Eye Ensemble
just spotted a couple of videos posted by Dave J from end of last year of Open Eye gigs.
Acoustic guitar vids
Chastity Potatoe
Some great fun playing and filming with Mr Poot today and yesterday. We will be out on tour in July with the splendid Acrid Lactations so keep an eye out! http://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/chastity-potato-slice-of
Creative Hive performance
Short piece from performance on Tuesday improvising at the Creative Hive event with Naomi Kendrick drawing, Dan Bridgwood-Hill on synth and Paddy Baxter filming. The film here taken by Andrew Brooks. All happen in an amazing television studio inside the Salford University chunk of Media City. This excerpt is from the second much calmer piece Continue reading “Creative Hive performance”
Feb tour photos
Gig in Brighton at Greendoor Store Really wish more service stations were as ramshackle and splendid as this one somewhere in Shropshire. Live in the Town Hall at Bishops Castle, Shropshire. Good times in the Hotspur lift. From the Jazz Services funded tour we did with the Birchall Brice Marks Trio in Jan/Feb of thisContinue reading “Feb tour photos”
some Berlin thoughts
Still recovering from the great time I had in Berlin end of last week and beginning of this. Picture above kindly taken by David Armes from Sowieso gig with Klaus Janek and Anat Cohavi. When I was there I did a whole bunch of solo recording (as well as duos) with Richard Scott in hisContinue reading “some Berlin thoughts”
new Kalbakken tune
Played a couple of dates this weekend with the splendid Last Harbour, clip above captured by Mike from the Glossop gig.
Touching Extremes review of “Spitting Feathers”
Guitarist David Birchall, double bassist Olie Brice and percussionist Phillip Marks recorded these seven improvised tracks in Manchester, October 2011. The interplay is distinguished by a fair degree of concentration in large quantities of succeeding events: no room for lingering silences here, though one clearly detects the attention with which the players listen to eachContinue reading “Touching Extremes review of “Spitting Feathers””
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