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‘Don’t Look Now’ – Broadcast live soundtrack improv at Shunt Lounge, London
Tonight Trunk Records and Ghost Box got together and took over the Shunt Lounge to throw a party. Shunt proved to be the perfectly disorientating setting for the strange esoteric films and music being shown during the evening.
After leaving the outside world behind in London Bridge Tube station, and following the echoing sounds into the heart of the somehow very British brick vaults, I was greeted by the sound of ‘Tanzmusik’ from Ralf & Florian blasting out to accompany a quick drink. That was as sweet a moment as you can expect to have thirty seconds into arriving at any venue. After a little milling around, it came to light that there was a screening room set up showing back-to-back TV drama & public information films, which ranged from really quite sublimely beautiful, to funny, unsettling & scary, all the way to pretty silly – sometimes within the space of a minute or so of one film!
Disorientation seemed to be the order of the night, as a strange mixture of squat party, ancient castle, and underground cult youth club started to set in as the place filled up, sonics from the films and DJ sets spilling forth into the jet black corners.
Back in the screening room, as a film came to a close, in (un)matching red and blue anoraks, James Cargill and Trish Keenan (Broadcast) took to the stage to perform a live soundtrack to Julian House’s short film. Eager fans squeezed in to find a spot as the electronics began to whir around the space & the video sprang into motion. The first live performance in London by Broadcast for quite some time was pretty special. See/hear for yourself:
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