July 19, 2005
Jared Announces One-Off CHEMLAB Show In The USA
I'm double-sided in three ways.
After a seven-year hiatus from the stage, I'm going to be unveiling
Chemlab live on the 10th of August in Boston with the help of a
couple of opti-nightlings. This is going to be a very interesting,
limited edition evening of bizarre proportions and I'm looking
forward to it with curiosity and hunger. There are certain things,
however, that should be said about this show before I go any further.
This is not quite the Chemlab that you knew from before, but then
neither is Oxidizer. Let me cast light. I did one of my solo shows in
Boston last year when I was in town and hooked up with Gabriel from
mindFIELD (www.mindfield.org), he actually furled noise behind the
first story I told that night and seemed plugged into the same frame
as I. We've been in touch ever since and have tossed around the
picture of spinning a one-off, experiment with his band backing me up
doing all Chemlab songs. Called either mindlab or chemfield and
presented as a cover band, we've tried to nail down a show for ages,
but each attempt has been thwarted, each step seen the foot hacked
off again. Very frustrating.
Now this gear-shifts, a lot. I'm going to be over in the States from
next week, the 19th, and then up in Boston in early August and,
finally, we're going to put this strange creature on stage though
it's much fleshed out from the shape of the genesis seed. If 6 were
9. This is not your fathers Chemlab however, rather a mutant strain.
Though familiar, it has some critically different wiring. Dylan isn't
involved as he's impossible to find as has no hunger to make music.
Servo can't gig yet because this is a one-time affair and he's out in
LA-LA. In future he'll be looped in. Levi isn't playing bass on this
yet either. Standing in his stead is a cool shard of glass known as
Jimmy. Keys are hammered by Regan and the guitar slung by Gabriel the
core engine of mindFIELD. Although the faces are different and we're
not yet fully quadro-sonic, the essence remains the same. Orbiting
around Dylan and me, the live band was eternally in flux. Same as it
ever was except that now Gabriel becomes Dylan. Looks a touch like
him as well.
Bear in mind, this is a one-time event. It won't ever be repeated.
The line-up and content will unequivocally alter shape by the next
time you see it. Each iteration takes me closer to the beast that I
want the band to be now and none of the previous shapes will be seen
again. The Lizard sheds its skin. Since this was originally a show
designed as a one-off, we're keeping that mental wiring but taking
Chemlab as the name. The set will be deliciously familiar yet will
push into new terrain as well. We'll be playing some songs that won't
be heard in the set again once we get going. There are also a few
older tracks that've never been played before and that's a twisted
challenge that may never be repeated.
What I present to you is the first flashes of the new touring band, a
Vaseline valentine gunning its engine in the lot and getting ready to
unleash in your head.
Wednesday August 10th, 2005
Angeldustrial.com presents
**CHEMLAB
**
**YOU SHRIEK
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**ONE OF US
** 18+, $10
Doors at 8:00PM
Middle East Downstairs
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Come join us for chapter one, the end of the beginning of the snake
eating its diamond-tipped tail.
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