Bongo Club, Edinburgh
Saturday May 3rd
Four stars
It may not have been Live Aid, but by
gathering (some of) the clans from Edinburgh's off-piste but
ever-fecund experimental/noise diaspora to play for Edinburgh Central
Food Bank, promoters Braw Gigs and the Bongo Club have taken a
principled stance against one of the most sadly necessary by-products
of the Con-Dem alliance and their criminal banker friends' ongoing
advocacy of austerity culture.
The shadowy presence of Warsaw emigre,
WIDT (Antonina Nowacka), opens proceedings with a low-key display of
synthesised looped chorales put through a spectral dub blender and
set to a projected backdrop of impressionistic images. The quartet of
FUA follow this with a sax and drum propelled assault that drives the
guitar, electronic and vocal extrapolations beneath, while the
increasing volume of Fordell Research Unit's solo samples of
criss-crossing slabs of sound is pure Techno for airports.
Headliners Muscletusk go full throttle
from the off with splashes and crashes of distorted twin guitars,
relentlessly hardcore drums and electronic pokes that cast up
underlying bass-throbs from the ether that churns, curdles and
batters all challengers into submission in a night which, for all its
thunder, made the most humane of gestures.
The List, May 2014
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