241009 Ion, Hashtronaut & Von Haulshoven

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Calendar Event: October 24, 2009

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Ion, Hashtronaut & Von Haulshoven

Saturday 24th October 2009

Held at:

Paget High School
Business & Enterprise College
Burton Road
Branston
Burton on Trent
Staffs
DE14 3DR

Advance tickets can be purchased from the website. Unless otherwise noted, the ticket price includes a FREE mp3 Virtual Ticket that will be made available shortly after the gig, these will only be available to purchase online until the day before the gig.

If you cannot attend and wish to purchase a Virtual Ticket you should just purchase a standard ticket and email to let me know you only want the VT

All line-ups subject to change, check website for latest details

www.awakenings-em.co.uk

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Ion

Ion is the latest musical adventure from UK musician David Hughes, better known as the founding member of the late, lamented T-Bass UK, and the last man standing in the SkinMechanix collaboration.

A typical Ion track features dense, multi-layered textures interwoven with delicate sequencer lines and abstract sound collages culled from a wide range of weird and wonderful sources.

The Awakenings concert will feature new material from Ion, as well as a few carefully selected tracks from David's extensive back catalogue.

David is also celebrating 30 years of dicking around with synthesisers so you should expect some surprises too!!

Hashtronaut

Hashtronaut is a way of doing things, and embraces the ‘lets see what happens, as it happens’ ethos. The music is basic, simple and hypnotic. You hear it for the first time only seconds after the decision to use ‘that note or sound’. So be prepared for it to stand or fall...nobody knows what will happen.

Sometimes he brings people with him. The line up is fluid. You never know who will turn up, or what they will play. They usually look weird though and they like strange sounds too.

Hashtronaut does not want to be the greatest act on the planet. He is not really interested in even trying to be the best act on the night - he just gets a charge out of an audience that has the ‘ears of the heart’ willing to listen.

Von Haulshoven

My name is Eppie E Hulshof, Von Haulshoven is a Germanised version of this. I started playing classical guitar at age 17 then moved to electric guitar, playing in rock bands until I heard the music of Klaus Schulze, which had a big effect on me and my tastes changed to less rock and more floating music.

I bought my first synth in 1978 and experimented a lot in those days with electronics, guitar. I stopped playing in bands in the early ‘90s, sold all my guitars and moved to electronic music and released a few albums on the Dutch Quantum records label.

I never thought I would play live again, until I played with Phrozenlight (as the duo Dutch Space Mission) at E-live in Eindhoven, which was great fun! I’m really looking forward to the adventure of playing solo in a new country.

Onstage at Awakenings will be seven synthesizers, several step sequencers, one Gibson Flying V guitar and a lot of effects units, but most importantly me!

For me good music is a feeling, sometimes it is there, sometimes not and I can’t control this. What I can control is preparation, composition and knowledge of all the electronic devices I will use on stage. Does this mean the audience will listen to pre-recorded backing? No! All solos (guitar and synth) will be improvised, as well as some sequences, sound fx, and additional keys.

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for those who are the area I can recommend this concert. Especially Von Haulshoven. Here're some video's where he's performing a live concert as part of Dutch Space Mission.



I haven't seen the other artists live yet.

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less than a week to go

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don't forget VTs available until midnight tomorrow

over 3 hours of live EM for only £10

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have fun!

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We will, we're off out for dinner tomorrow then jamming Saturday afternoon before the gig