Had a fabulous night yesterday at The Real Music Club's Psychedelic Evening staged at The Green Door Store underground at Brighton Station.
Two bands were on show and they displayed 2 distinct styles in the development of space music.
First we witnessed The Plastic Sturgeons who presented a set of improvised space rock in the true psychedelic style of, say Hawkwind or Pink Floyd.
In fact, a number of members of the group have connections with Hawkwind and the various bands it's spawned over the years. Notably the captain of tonight's crew was Steve Swindells previously of Hawkwind and The Hawklords.
The music was exciting and swang comfortably through traditional space-rock, electronica and funk-based tunes with ease. With the exception of one song which used vocals in a beat poetry type stylee, the music was all purely instrumental - always a plus in my estimation and something we don't get often enough.
Sadly the audience for The Plastic Sturgeons was minimal - probably not many more than about 30 bods and all of these were of the generation that lived through the original Space Rock Era. This was sad because the second act - The Space Agency - drew a much larger crowd as it took to the stage. These were largely of a much younger generation - probably the current student scene. It would have been nice for them to have witnessed their elders getting down and dirty.
That was quiet ironic because the music that The Space Agency plays is firmly rooted in an even earlier era than the space rock of The Plastic Sturgeons. The Space Agency clearly draws its influence from the "Space and Surf " styles of bands such as The Ventures, The Shadows, The Spotniks, The Tornados and The Wakikis.
It was truly inspiring to find a young band mining such a neglected musical vein from nearly fifty years ago and taking it, applying new technology and producing a music that sounds so fresh, exciting and appropriate to a new age.
In fact, the music was so inspirational that quite a number of the audients chose to strut their stuff on the dance floor - and not all of these were members of the younger generation. A few elderly gents took to the floor and hopefully did not find themselves in traction by the time dawn broke.
The Space Agency are a high quality band which is tight and thrilling to watch. I hope very much that they will be around for a long time and are able to find lines of progression that will enable them to develop some totally new fields of musical exploration so they might be remembered as one of the interstellar ground breakers of the future.
A word must be said abouta third star of the evening's show - that is Cliff Dowding's Lighting Extravaganza which added an updated version of the old coloured oil on projector slides as a visual backdrop to the superb night of psychedelia.
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thanks for the thumbs up, and for coming... i was one of the, ahem, 'elderly' gents on the dancefloor and my hip hurts - the price of psychedelia is more than 50p a tab now it seems... a fun night, hope you'll come to the next one - mike heron, brunswick hove, march 11th.
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