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ScooterCaffè – The Movie

“Spanish Pine” live at ScooterCaffè 8th September 2010

Photos from ScooterCaffè

 ScooterCaffè, 8th September 2010 courtesy of Brenda Hayward.

Electric Café

Photo by Brenda Hayward

Well, it finally happened…
July’s sewage shenanigans were all forgotten as ScooterCaffè won back its place in our hearts. Man of the Match went to Andy from The Scratch – sound-man extraordinaire, plus a big shout out to Coconut Monkey for the loan of their PA.

The Saskatoons turned in a sweet set of country honks – cheers to you, fellers.

Sadly no “Judas” heckles as  The Untied Knot went electric for our debut live appearance. It was a blast from start to finish – a lovely crowd in a special venue. Matt was on fine form earning another stripe as the hardest working man in showbiz whilst I signalled the end to my 9 year old retirement from the live scene.  Our set consisted of a large re-worked chunk of “Sketches For A Lost Summer” plus the airing of our new meisterwerk “Welcome To The Past”. Look out for some video from the event here soon, more live appearances will follow…

8-9-10

The massive world tour resumes on Weds 8th September 2010 with a return to  ScooterCaffè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.

The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan)
with The Saskatoons (Ross Hemingway and Robin Prime)

plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…

Doors 7pm, live music from 8pm.
Free entry
Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North

Shit happens!

The Untied Knot's latest stage gear

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, Jeffrey 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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