Sharing the evening with Total Brownish

Was very hot, got attacked by Mosquitoes. In Finland. 

Played a fine set with Vanishing Twin supporting one of the most important bands in my musical development. 

With Susumu Mukai (Zongamin) and Kenichi Iwasa

Incredible Society Show

Supporting AK/DK

Supporting Snapped Ankles

A glorious all evening event with many friends playing - the delight of the evening for me was sharing the stage with pete Um. We traded playing songs back and forth, taking turns. i hope to do that again soon.

A space disco party with a colourful icelandic space fairy. I managed some nice synaesthetic shapes with the speakers. Caught some smiles. Played tracks from Alien Flowers, Duck wars, and previewed new songs I had just recorded for Hot Space

It had been maybe ten years or so since I played with the amazing avant punk jazz group from Leeds and they were so good. Very strange sound system, so I had to adapt my music on the spot to fit the sound, deconstructing my music which i enjoy doing.

This was a fun show. sold Out. Big Crowd. Really had em into it. Played kinda trashy but trashy was good for the night. Sold alot records. The announcement that Mark e Smith of the Fall had just passed away came between my set and Snapped ankles. RIP. the Fall are a huge influence, adding to the tension aspect of what I try to do

I had so much fun at this sold out show. Each track was presented as a song from a fictitious mFu LP, the cover of which I projected on the wall behind me. Entertaining concept for me and the audience. Shit and Shine played one Looong song based on a Steely Dan sample.

Shared a great night with my long time pals in visual music group Sculpture

Long psychedelic space jam to a very small audience with a great band for the evening, Gardylew Spew on sax, Kenichi Iwasa and Jonas Golland on percussion, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt joining me on guitar. Some nice moments

Having recorded in the summer with Laetitia I was invited to play one song with her during her set on MS20 synthesizer. It was a great moment for me to play with one of my long time favourite musicians and inspirations.

This came as suprise last minute to be asked to play guitar with Damo Suzuki from Can and Xaviers ( my housemate Kenechi and two of Bo Ningen ). Sold out show and we played with great energy. I lost my pick and used a metal bottle cap which provided some awesome glassy sounds. A favourite show. Very happy to play in dual guitar with Yuki, one of my favourite guitarists

A show I put on myself for my friends and colleagues from Liege Belgium who play some of the finest late 60s style French pop. It was a wonderful evening. Played drums in the first act with Jacques Duvall and keys in the last act with the Loved Drones. Everyone dancing, great vibe. mademoiselle nineteen, Benjamin Schoos and Laetita sadier played a set of gorgeous melodic songs in the middle. 

A much better more light hearted show with Vanishing Twin. Colourful hippy trippy 60s vibe to the evening and we had some cool musical moments  Nice to be by the Sea and in Brighton

One of my favourite shows ever and such a thrill to playing at the Rough Trade instore venue on the week of the launch of our debut album. So many friends came and helped with sound and filming and it felt like a concert and very warm vibes. Could do this night again and again. We played super well.

I did not enjoy this. It was anything but my idea of psychedelic. Dark rooms, heavy sounds, too much beer from too many beer tokens and was drunk by stagetime with vanishing twin. Equipment thrown to the side by stage hands immediately on finish. Ended up with a massive headache and the chills on torturous nightlong drive home - woke up in Angel, and it was.

Played on a beautiful metal tugboat moored on the river Seine in the centre of Paris supporting the legendary Silver Apples with Vanishin Twin. We pulled off a very intense psychedelic show and the crowd loved us from the start. Great vibe and a very cool debut Paris show for us. Also played live in session the evening before on France Intel to 60, 000 listeners.

Played an early evening set in dup with Justin Paton on dance grooves and myself on electronic organ and drum sampler. noisey but good energy and fun improv and great to play with my old pal. In the basement of the record shop to a handful of people.

Ten year gap since the last time I played at the Windmill Brixton. Played a solo electronic set of very abstract library outer space sounds. A quiet evening after the ferocity of the previous event. 

A very sophisticated event in a south London art space with fire dancers and satanic rituals, a chamber orchestra. I played a set of pulsating electronic noise. Enjoyed this night very much indeed. Uranus in the Underworld

First show with the twin noise guitar and drum trio of mfu, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt and jonas Golland. We played a beautifully loud a nd ferocious wave of sound, entrancing and powerful. one of my fave nights. Sean quite a showman. Incorporated friends of mine in other acts including Grace Kuhl and the British Public and Justin Paton live electronics. was a great friendly evening and New River Studios round the corner of my house is an amazing community arts venue.

Played a headline show with Vanishing Twin at the Dalston Boys club, an antique ballroom venue. We let loose and it was quite a party! One of my favourite nights. was great to hang out on the rooftop terrace beneath the invisible London summer stars.

outdoor festival playing with Orlando

Played with a really great three piece mfu ensemble of Edmund Davie on Electronics and Steve poulacharis on drums, supported by Pete Um and Miss Roberts/Cos Chapman from the Rude Mechanicals - all of us having our roots in Cambridge 2000. A really warm, fun evening. 

with Orlando supporting Wire

I start again keeping record of shows. This one was very laid back - only the band I was supporting were in the audience, but I liked that, I just wanted to play for myself and try out new styles of playing. completely improvised new samples - used only 3 machines, sampler synth and theremin which I placed very close to the keyboards. walking distance from home. a quiet night out

First big event I put on at the wonderful Apiary studios. Very well attended and a relaxed atmosphere, perhaps partially due to the hypnotic audio/visuals in the bar made by mfu and Monika Bancyrr. Astrakan and Lunch Money, both great psych jazz bands palyed and I did a set with Jake Jellica and Edmund Ommm, both on synth. some really nice moments of beautiful sounds.

Sleepwalking shattered and irritable after being up for 48 hrs, but the music was great and so many lovely people. Nice to share a show with the Rude Mechanicals and play with Mick Frangou on drums. Played to a series of five films.

George Tavern, London. with Dan Hayhurst, Sally Kindberg, Now DJs. A wonderful warm friendly night and far out music and great fun putting on a show with Sally

Really fell for the George Tavern. Perfect venue. Did a great set with Jake Jellica - Now were superb. An awesome evening.

Since  the show with Pram I have performed perhaps another 100+ which I wish now I had kept track of and had not stopped documenting. some of them have been very surreal, some tremendous, a few dreadfull ones.

Pram are a lovely group of people and experiencing their music again made me realize suprisingly just how much of an influence they were on the development of my own sound.

Awful night of Sanctimonioous avant-flub experienced through a head-splitting migraine. death. Sinister bald guy at the turntable kept playing Can records while staring at us like he invented it.

Supporting Kling Klang

Cube 9 from Outer Space - One of the best gigs ever. The Cube in Bristol is a great community run venue, with a beatiful old cinema theatre. It was the 9th anniversary of the Cube, and everyone dressed up in the most amazing sci-fi fancy dress. I headlined the show - it was very loud and chaos and it was a joy to see an audience of moshing aliens. Played bowls with speaker monitors, blew the main PA. Total rock!

Amazing event of several artists on two facing stages. brilliant evening. Each artist had 20 minutes to play with the first and last five minutes improvising with the next musician on the stage across.

In association with Bad Timing. with Les Club Des Chats and Skitanja. The Portland Arms, Cambridge. i did a one off spoken word to music song about my head in a fish tank.

with RaagnaGrok - i dont remember this one, not that it was uneventfull. It Might be the one where the audience was mainly Japanese kids who absolutely loved it.

 this was a great gig in which I played so furious I almost was in need of an ambulance. My theremin sounded very Hendrix distortion and was fun to play.  I played about ten songs, all improvised but pretended they were written, with singing, through echo. 

with AOTEA and DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! all 3 of us were pretty crazy. sizzling energies in the air

This was a fun gig

with UM, the Resistance, and Wave 67.Did Not enjoy this one at all. weird crowd

Great to share an evening with Ann Shenton, one of my great inspirations in electronic rock music. Played a cool improv noise set that went up and never came down. The video Mathematical Fusion of Particles is from this show.

This was one gig where i thought i should stop playing in London so much. Too dark, was put on first when only a quarter of the punters had arrived, wasnt paid. I did one of my angry performances. Got some nice sounds by banging the mic against the floor, effected through thunderous reverb and ring modulation.

always a joy to play with both UM and The Chap

Kind of a weird gig. Happy to be there though, got a migraine halfway through the night. Met the keyboard fella from soft Cell who liked the fact that i used a reel tape machine onstage like he did in soft Cell.

I love ariel Pink. Great dreamlike avant-pop music. one of my favourite artists ever, so a real joy to meet and play with him and his band. Got so stoned and drunk with ariel before the show that i was seeing double when I hit the stage, oops. They stayed round mine afterwards for the weekend.

Mark, zali and i making pleasant squiggly sounds in the corner

the RCA set up a really great show for me and it felt pretty special to be celebrated in such a way.

Big big stage, massive PA system. I came on stage to 'Eye of the Tiger'. I felt like U2 or something.

Two crazy soloists musicians go to France, play a show in front of a huge audience and hang out together by the river, cafes, and cathedrals. Beautiful city!

Did a rather uneventful set in semi darkness

total amnesia

Terrible show for me. Nothing was right, and such a big event too. I think I might be cursed in that way

somehow this show was related to Kosmische club, the name franchised out to Bad Timing for the evening. Sculpture is awesome.

Provencial pub literally covered in St. Georges flags but had a great show and hung out with Pete and met Matt abysmal.

Dark gig, not all that great. i think I was quite exhausted

new Years party at Justin's back when he had a big warehouse studio flat and the biggest rabbit you'd ever imagine. Good times. Ninki V and me rocked it together as a duo at the stroke of midnight.

twin theremin action, joined by Chris shade on Trumpet.

Got angry at people talking in the audience while I was playing so lashed at them with volumous beauty and sang a weird pop song that I can't recall

somebodys amp blew up and caught fire onstage

Powerfully good gig well documented by adam Clitheroe in the film One man in the Band. Played one song with a guy who uses a powerdrill as an instrument. that was fun.

Last show at the amazingly seedy punk rock spread eagle in Dalston, before it lost the dancing pole and mirrors and became just another Hoxton dive. lament

The best thing about this show was Pete Um dressed as on safari with a bellydancer gyrating flirtatiously around him his entire set. He didnt seem too amused, but it was awesome and a shame it didnt get filmed.

such a joy to play at the home of the great 70s German rock group. I played as part of a drone ensemble in a large refurbished barn complete with huge PA and rock lights. cool experience.

First time in Berlin. I was treated very well, but I did not like this show. The stage was far too high above the audience, only had 20 minutes to play, . A bit of an exhausting night - felt like work.

First gig in Germany in a beautiful red ballroom overlooking the city. our host Felix Kubin played a grand set of great songs. Cool party, was very tired though.

This set is legendary and to this day random people mention it to me who were there. My very talented children joined me onstage on drums and theremin. It was chaos but great fun and everyone loved it.

Musically, a very fine concentrative set due to the placement of the speakers making things a bit more synaestasiac than normal.

Now were super duper superb

I love hijacking UM sets - 2 heathen brothers busting out the angelics in a massive church

first time on the radio. great experience. Magz and Jim are a lovely pair

This night was a holy experience. Beautiful palace like building. I was in control of the sound and shot all 8 of us into the red creating the most massive wall of distorted sound, but with implied rythyms and it was the first time the stella maris drones had people dancing - like jackals. underneath a big cinema screen of planes taking off. cathartic, and then the rest of the night was great and on until the morning.

Had a cool time playing with the million sounds blasting out of the speaker below the reel-to reel

Great start to 2005 - Did a very chaotic set about drugs, wanking and nightmares. Cool seeing old friends I havent seen in awhile.

Disinformation/strange attractor were a joy to play with, Dan Hayhurst was brilliant, and my set, NOVEMBER UNIFORM was pretty good art and very hypnotic

I played out-of-focus and all over the place - I felt vulgar and incompetant, and there was an isolation between myself and the audience. These kind of awful gigs creep up when least expected. Ouch!

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PlaYED with Simon Fell on Double bass to about 10 people drawing and tapping on easels in a small paint splattered room with a skeleton.

A good evening, not many people there, but I rocked it and weirded out and had a good time. Miss Hypnotique played Theremin with me on a couple of tracks.

Adrian and I improvised with organ, cello, and a huge wurlitzer organ. Completely abstract and very electric .

Played Theremin, sequencer, and tape recordings of Espionage radio call signals and shortwave test tones through the Shortwave, using it as an amplifier. It was haunting, poignant, and beautiful.

Until, right in the middle of Wild Animals, I get a tap on my shoulder and turn to see two cops standing behind me. They raided the place and closed it down and thought I was running the whole show.

"Well", he said "I hope you contain yourself". He came up to me after the Recital and said he really enjoyed it (even though I was pumping out loads of noise and weird beats and could hardly contain myself)

Now were superb. I would like to do more shows with them in the future. Hugo turned everything on its head again instigating a 15 piece MFU/LPO that was a sleepy mess of subversion.

I was worrying about my competance for this one, but it turned out allright. Pete siad it was my best show yet. It certaintly was an interesting zone, will probably stick to this formula for awhile.

Pretty cool and laid back show. Very enjoyable. Performed 'LAYERS' with Adrian on Cello. I won a bar of Chocalate for an art contest by default. I was third place, the first two winners didnt show.

The method of layers is to perform as a two piece to a previously recorded and edit-composed, um, recording of us playing the same instruments. So therefore its layered. you see.

Felt good, sounded suprisingly good. Nice to meet new people locally - a good counterpoint to the SpeakerPalace.

The Little Princess Orchestra's set reflected this and everyone fled from our confrontational and dada rock set. Anger was in the air. It was horrible but hardcore.

Played in a quartet with Simon H Fell (double bass) Alex ward (clarinet) Steve Beresford (lo-fi electronic gadgets)

The sound man said he wished he'd taken mushrooms because I made him feel like he was tripping.

Having spent three weeks in isolation, mixing down LPO tracks, I got back onstage with them with a new found love. Explosive disco. Marks drone machine rules!

These are very interesting gigs - a strange environment and I'm thoroughly thankful for them. Having just packed in my 9 to 5 job, the regular pay is welcome too - also good to dig some poetry.

Poetry meetings held with various guest poets from about the globe in a modern minimalist building in an airless black cube in the basement. I play electronics during the intervals. good crowd.

Did an unexpected improv performance with Soraya(guitar)killamanjaro(piano)steve Ding(bass)Hugo Danino(vox) - It was righteous, jazzy, polyrythmic, laid back and cool

Sam Amant and the Man From Uranus, UM, THE LITTLE PRINCESS ORCHESTRA, THE CHAP, BAD TIMING DJS

A tiny baby in nappies scooted out to the middle of the floor and Sam and Carmel started singing 'I don't wanna be a baby' while Hugo got down on his knees and started sucking his thumb

This was nothing short of an ultra ultra amazing experience for me - got invited to do a talk show, of all things....... moi j'adore la LPO!!!

Another fun 15 minutes of mayhem with the Little Princess Orchestra, surrounded by a few hours of pretending to be socialable in a badly amateurish fashion

We got in serious trouble for drinking illegal beers and smoking spliffs onstage and the music veered wildly from funkadelic to bubble bath music/I revelled in the joys of modular voice synthesis

All the bands were wired and fantastically out there and the DJing was the perfect mix of Ligeti, eurodisco, new wave, and Beefheart. Had a pretty cool band for the night.

A gig I'd love to do again. Really fun and intense. Colin and Nicolas invented an armband tape recorder device with electronic sunglasses.

gUESTED in a short explosive set with THE LITTLE PRINCESS ORCHESTRA. Hugo bashed my set into a Beefheart free-for-all pulp : - )

This was a super-cool party, and a fantastic way to end an era. Lots of lights and people dancing, and the crazy suprise Japanese Trumans Waters style noise band Tyrannasaurus Jerk ripped it up.

This was a pretty fun show, and a lot of people turned up. Thanks again to Krispy-Kreme employees Sam and Soraya for serving the donuts HOT!

Because between me and TCFTSIST a zillion wires were strewn everywhere around the stage, I spent the whole of 'wild animals' dressed as a Panda with pink welly gloves searching for my theremin lead.

Our soundcheck slowly evolved into a performance, and Sam played on the floor strumming her guitar through a Phaser whispering in French. I like that sort of thing.Sub 55.

kirk beeped, PDA glitched, hienti mantrad, ASCOLTARE made sound cathedrals, UM humoured sharply, MFU jazzed. No Oxygen, ghastly sound.

First time singing and I was scared, but it worked. Nice night out with my Cambridge bros UM/Ascoltare. Blinding solo MFU set, and good set with Sam but her pneumonia called her short, poor girl.

I wish to take the MC Danny to EVERY show I do. Sam and I did a very nice set at a very low volume.

We brought new wave into the future and Sam convinced me its allright playing with Barry White. Hello to Baltimore, Maryland crew - It was a pleasure, hope you got back safely!

All the sound from my instruments dissapeared 3 songs from the end ( solar flare disturbance I can only guess ) so I had to play the feedback off the desk. I dig calamity sometimes!

Our first show as a duo proper - we didnt know most of our songs and so improvised alot - Got acquainted with the very nice strange attractor Mark Pilkington. Hugo's Speaker Palace is the place.

Bizarre psychedelic electronic modernist jazz band - Sam Amant, Danalogue, Luciano,and MFU as THE FLOATING DEAD SUBMARINERS

I'll never forget this show, played in a boxing ring, took off mycrash helmut to realize the PA was spitting psychedelic sparks everywhere. Played with LUCIANO SAXOPHONO and SAM AMANT..

Great party - cool PA situation - French dudes with big shades - UM rocked the basement in a Fireman's outfit like he came to put out the burning set of 'Grease'.

Finally fulfilled my dream of playing live for my 6 year old daughter - did a song about stars and worms and enjoyed playing in a gallery environment.

My Theremin lead was accidently cut by stagehands, a Saudi Arabian fella said it was the best show he'd seen in '7 years', some dude rapped lazily about basketball simultaneously to my toy-shop beats

Halfwaythrough my set the left engine caught fire and I had to resort to emergency back-up systems to bring the shaking jet crashing down on to the tarmac with a noisy thump. cool.

Fell in love with a small tree someone had placed in that no-man's land semi-circle people make in front of the stage. Effects case crashed to the floor during climax of set.

Strange reserved atmosphere. Did a sort of theme about a rejected musical android which I enjoyed doing but Pete's right, it was a bit on the clever side.

Um rocked in crystal clarity, heard things I never heard before. I slammed my head on the hanging PA 4 times; awaiting stroke. Jammed with French ROck Chick on synth for encore.

A really fun gig....lots of happy people and I weirded it as the Android tranny BEE TSAR with the guest appearance from the magical CHRISTMAS HORSE. wonderful evening.

Packed venue, good show, in and out of the zone. Simon and Danalogue rocked it for me with the sounds, some feller said I was good, but he thought I was MAD. ok..

This was a highly funky show and I danced like James Brown and not like a dad - Miss Hypnotique joined me on the Theremin at the end and I gave her a big stage kiss. She's lovely!

An hour and a half of Theremin music from around the Globe - theres alot of us antennae freaks out there - and we're taking over the world! Can also be heard on Broadband from www.resonancefm.com

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Nice rockshow - lots of nice people - finally met hypnotique MISS HYNOTIQUE. HI to Walter, and Richard, and McDEATH! first encore, and that does actually mean something.

Outer Space Theremin jam with the Explosive NAKED RUBY - Sonic Youth meets Elvis with alien gogodancers and a manic cider fueled audience of pleasant country folk. Hi Lynn and Jules!Nice to meet yuh!!

First mini-Euro tour- loved it! Bern is a beautiful care-free place - huge graffiti covered venue- lots of nice people giving me things (biscuits, pot) - saw 3 freindly bears in an ancient circle

Well, she wasnt "Naked" but she was Damn close - Both of the bands were on Fire - growlin' bass and blasting horns - and loads of goegeous peeps rockin out and havin a Blast - Ella Guru Rules!!

A very enjoyable show - great LOUD PA facing in all directions around the room and a deaf guy on the mixing board - no stage, played at crowd level which made for an intimate and friendly environment.

A suprise gig - called them up in the morning to see what was going on - invited to play with VoV, and found DIMITRI there, who asked me to play as well- so we did a set of MASSIVE XENAKIS soundwalls

A chaotic show with Danalogue joining me in an elephant mask on his modular MS20 - thanks dude! My slide projector exploded!

Lost Vagueness Casino - Nothing short of OTT amazing - two nights of playing Theremin sounds to a packed crowd dressed in 20's gear - played along to jazz bands, Djs, showgirls, and trapeze Elvi

Two back to back lectures and performances to Cambridge sixth form music students- first group loved it - girl in 2nd group kept hands over ears and asked me if the Theremin ever gave me a headache.

I never get invited to play the fair...So I begged Pete the night before if I could play Theremin sounds during his set- he dressed as on safari and I was a panda - video of it soon on this site!

Theatricaly, one of the more interesting shows - the Rude Mechanicals played on stage beneath a film and I played along across the hall UP IN THE BALCONY with a spotlight. Fun gig

with UM and The CHAP! The Chap Rock!! I love them. Met the beautiful Colin Verot who leapt from the shadows of the Portland Arms and handed me the keys to this website.

electrical music show concieved. This show I decided to mix the avant-garde I had been doing with the fun and funky Electric library records and a few stage props - It worked.

performing EGG with the CEA Quartett - Cosmic Bob on Guitar, Laura tanner on flute, Guy Avern on Piano, and me on theremin. Played 4 short avant-garde pieces. It was fun.

Unfortunatly this was our last show together as a duo. Would love to do it again sometime!

with Cosmic Bob - continuing my "too lazy to compose music series" an intuitive set with Cos involving LOTS of beeps and bleeps and we dressed as surgeons and Cos played guitar on an operating table

with Cosmic Bob - In a nice proper theatre with an audience full of nodding music boffins - awesome acoustics, I traced sounds up the opposite wall of the auditorium with my finger

with Cosmic Bob - A TV on a high trolley between us showing an image of the moon - and we played a very slow eery moon like set - my Theremin line went staticy but happily I could play the static

MFU goes into space - surrounded by oscilloscopes and reel to reels I played my first proper set in ages - and it was pretty mellow - Miss Roberts said it looked like I was flying a spaceship

Our imptomptu set seemed to go down so well we were invited to do it at a bigger venue in which we became bloated rock stars and retired the act - court case pending

Impromptu show - Greek wonder Boy Dimitri shows up with his extra large organ and asks me to play Theremin during his set - I was still a bit green on the magic antennae but we were punk rock

This was a terrible show in a bad jumper - I called myself GENTLEMANS RADIO HOUR for this show ( I still like that name )...it was probably pretty good. Saloon headlined.

 first Theremin show - it objected horribly - I didnt prepare ANYTHING for the show, total freeform plan, walked off after 3 minutes. Shite!

played shortwave to Stockhausen's Hymnen  - I played in a room full of WWII shortwaves and switchboards. music and strange sounds and ezperiments all day.

The Science of Musical Sound Experiment - all sounds sampled from two scientific flexi-discs explaining the science of sound - utilized a huge backdrop of explanations for each segment - good fun

I think Dave, Jo, Andrew, and Chris from CEN were the only people at this, one of my sharpest performances.

Sonic shortwave drone with big astro film! A huge theatre screen behind me with kitsch 60's films of planets and volcanic moons and orbital diagrams while I played huge waves of radioactive shortwave

spontaneous 20 musician electronic jam - I was last on, but they ran out of time and said I had 5 minutes to play - I thought screw it and invited ALL the evenings bands on at once to jam a cacophony.

supporting UM and his brother Rob Jesus whom many years later i would be writing songs with.

First gig I played with Pete UM and met Jo Brook who would become a very important figure for my music, setting up the cambridge club Bad Timing, bringing in musicians from abroad. pete amazed me with his vocals and performance - so cool.

Half a year later, went back and did the same thing, with NO spirit and bombed - I've vowed never to do the same thing twice again

My first gig was actually one of my best - played a huge hammond organ with my computer on top of it - I resembled a fella at work at his desk, typing music with a fag in his mouth. Great.