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Free Butt Tuesday 25th February 2003. FIERCE
Preview mi15w - "Carnage2 with blocks". Live at the Free Butt Brighton as part of the Spirit Of Gravity. mi15 are sg from minimal impact, Napalm Geof from the 15th Screen and Caleb from Waxed Apple. "A three way tag match In the blue corner, the reigning champion and host for the event Steve 'Nosher' Gillitt. In the red corner, from the 15th Screen, the aging contender Napalm "Napalm"Jeff. And in the other red corner, holder of the waxed apple freestyle belt Caleb "Boxer" Madden. Head to head in a no holds barred battle of noise. Last man standing gets a pop at the PA." Cheesemaster "It will be me" misg Also playing on the night : Kutchi: mangletronic slammed and distorted at maximum velocity Shitmat: mashed-up bootleg/breakcore/ragga/speed-step/drill'n'bass Or as the Wire magazine put it in the February issue "Noisy live music night featurimg mangled electronics from Kutchi, space travel from minimal impact and raggacore from Shitmat featuring MC Jah Tolken". Well they got the noise bit right. Review Well, what an arse rollicking gig this was. A total brain-buggering noise-fest that brought a new dimension to the Spirit. For the troops of electronica, it was the musical equivalent of friendly fire. Boy, did it hurt at times. But just feel the quality. Now on my notes for the night, scrawled across the top, there are two rather strange phrases: ‘Des O’Connor does German Industrialism’ and ‘Doctor Who meets Lemmy at Silverstone’. Accurate or not, they do illustrate the peculiar intensity of Steve and Geoff’s collaboration. The thrust of it being the punk vocal maelstrom of 15th Screen rising above Minimal Impact’s hellish break beat dirge assault. And as with previous gigs I’ve seen, their increasing walls of sound brings only melodies in your head. Which maybe explains that nightmare vision of Des O’Connor. Nick from 'Gravitational Pull Volume 7 - April 03'