GIGARAMA…

The Liturgy of the Werd
@ The Winchester Club

Music for Runrig Fans…

• The opening night of the LITURGY OF THE WERD tour—and Feline's first ever appearance in Scotland.
• We were guests of The Winchester Club, a monthly indie club night fondly named after the pub in that hilarious televisual comedy, Minder.
• The venue itself was the wierd and wonderful Woodside Social Club, inside which (due to an curious freak of nature) it was perpetually 1975.
• However the staff there were very nice, making us cups of tea and letting us watch The A Team.
• Feline took to the stage to the strains of Springtime for Hitler in Germany from Mel Brookes’ classic spoof The Producers.
• The live set that night included the werld premiere of brand new feline bo-tox stomper The Mirror Image.
• Old-skool feline ambient clawwsick Swept Up By Sunlight also received its first outing in over two years.
• The Audience were a little subdued at this gig, being more used to Belle & Sebastian and Runrig than analogue synthrawk.
• However, the real trouble came from the David the soundman, who was rather cross that feline2's Throbbing Gristle records ate into his time for playing John Denver.
• AUDIO ARCHIVE: The set was recorded onto minidisc from the desk…here's At A Standstill, Watching the Snow and Crap Layabout sounded (ewe will need Real Player).
• Nick did a DJ set to kick off the evening. Here's what he played:

Reviews

‘Subjected the West End of Glasgow to a torrent of acoustic abuse that could only be likened to the sound of a theremin being brutally raped by a Vandergraaf machine.’ —Michael Harrison, soundman†

The Feline Dream … get the prize for “most artistic arrangement of cabling on stage”, although I did think their frontman was going to strangle himself with them at several points.

This is the second night in a row I've come home with my ears ringing
… The singer's hat was a gift from Genesis P.Orridge of Throbbing Gristle fame evidently and their music had passages of much promise of analogue synthesizer heaven and the occasional tremolo touch to the vocals hinting at a Berlin cabaret sound.
However, the overall execution was messy and frequently lapsed into an unpleasant din.

A band called Feline Dream played at the Winchester Club. Two guys with loads and loads of keyboards. Really really nice equipment, including a killer Rickenbacker Bass…all wasted. They were like Ladytron, only campy and dull. It was terrible. There weren't many people there… They're from Brighton. They bitched. A lot. About the venue, about everything. Forty people at a gig is NOT bad.

I had a really good time. It was such a shame about the crowd … people who go there wear like binbags and stuff because they're so pretentious. I was too scared to dance in case i got stared to death.

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