Gigbeth Fringe

Gigbeth is an annual music festival held at the Custard Factory in Digbeth Birmingham. The line up is diverse and eclectic ranging from the Guillemots to The Young Knives to Kano to the Sugar Hill Gang and beyond. This years festival saw the very first Gigbeth fringe take place and I had the good fortune to be involved. Consider It Done Music had organised a showcase night for some of the acts they promote including¬†Laura Louise¬†¬†an acoustic artist with an amazing voice and material to match,¬†Mama Matrix¬†a sublime psychedelic folk punk band who inspire you to drink and dance like a fool,¬†Marc Reck¬†a Breakbeat DJ who plays all my favourite kinds of electronic tunage with the right blend of funky soul classics mixed in and my self. I played twice that night, I was trying out a new way of headphone monitoring and although it was a gamble it worked out really well. The crowd seemed to enjoy it and I certainly enjoyed playing. Mama Matrix were something else, I found myself cursing the fact I had to drive that night with all my gear in-tow as their songs just made me want to dance and dancing goes hand in hand with inebriation in my book. I look forward to getting absolutely destroyed to one of their sets and try my best to keep pace. Marc Reck is a thoroughly nice bloke and I look forward to working with him again, he’s a seriously positive person. I’ve been listening to some of his mixes here¬†www.marcreck.com¬†and I like them a lot.

4 Comments to Gigbeth Fringe

Marc Reck
November 12, 2008

You rock!