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Last Wednesday’s gig got cancelled at the eleventh hour when some doddering old berk who had come to sort out the drains at Scootercaffe caused a catastrophic sewage leak. One of the gig-related complications you can’t really anticipate. Anyway, Matt and I will be re-scheduling something soon so keep ‘em peeled.
Thanks to our Andy who had possibly the shortest soundman’s shift in history and the intrepid Jason who came all the way up from Brighton. Apologies to anyone who made it to the venue only to be disappointed…

In brighter news – great news to see BBC 6 Music has a reprieve so well done all those campaigners who helped to achieve this!

Massive World Tour

The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan) live plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…

Downstairs at Scootercafè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.

Doors 7pm, live music at 9pm.

Free entry

Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North

Les oiseaux électriques

Some things are worth waiting for…

The popularity of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation at The Barbican’s Curve gallery dictates a queue of at least 40 minutes length but a trifling test of your patience is a small price to pay for the delights held within.
The atmosphere of the introductory dark space with giant projections of fingers on fretboards and burbling electronic sounds is compelling enough but one is drawn quickly and magnetically to the end of this tunnel and the forewarned spectacle that awaits. Read the rest of this entry »

Video “Westway”

The Untied Knot – Westway (Promo film 2010) from The Untied Knot on Vimeo.

Promo film for track from The Untied Knot’s album “Sketches For A Lost Summer” available from www.theuntiedknot.co.uk

All footage shot by Robin Prime in 1980’s Leicestershire, edited by Nigel Bryant.

Also available on Youtube

Don’t Hang The DJ

I urge you all to take action to try to save BBC 6 Music, especially as its Freak Zone show was the first radio programme to feature The Untied Knot. There is some great advice on how you can take steps to try to reverse the BBC’s decision here
Losing a channel such as 6 Music which is willing to expose marginalised music with often little commercial potential will be detrimental to both listener and emerging musician.

On that note, The Untied Knot continues to be grateful to the shows which have exposed its music to a wider audience. In particular, Jeffery Davison’s  Shrunken Planet show on WFMU which has recently played “Requiem For The Thirteen” and “Pelham Street” and possibly our biggest fan outside the UK, Fernando Pérez Herrero who has spun “Low Tide” and “Spanish Pine” in the last few weeks on Cielo líquido . It’s especially nice to hear our music amongst such great company…

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New York Knot

More airplay, this time from WFMU-FM – an independent freeform station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley.
Jeffery Davison played “A. Corns” on his Shrunken Planet show on Sat Feb 6th. Nice to see it was in the company of some of my personal guitar heroes, Jack Rose (rest his prematurely departed soul) and Voice Of The Seven Woods. You can listen to the show here.

el nudo desatado (slight return)

More airplay from Fernando (a man of exceptionally good taste) on the Cielo líquido show on Spanish radio channel canal extremadura last night, “Requiem For The Thirteeen” was played – technically on Thurs 28/1/10. See more about the show here

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el nudo desatado

“Larus argentatus” was played on the Cielo líquido (liquid sky) show on Spanish radio channel canal extremadura last night – technically on Tues 19/1/10.
Fernando Pérez Herrero hosts this 4-times weekly show and lists John Peel amongst his heroes which is reflected in the diversity of his musical taste. You can find out more at cieloliquido.net or myspace

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Video “At The Threshold Of Perception”

The Untied Knot – At The Threshold Of Perception (Promo film 2009) from The Untied Knot on Vimeo.

Also available on Youtube

As heard on BBC Radio 6 Music

“Larus argentatus” was played on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone show on 18/10/09 amongst such distinguished company as Sun Ra, Squarepusher and Pink Floyd.