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After the demise of Wire, infamously after a performance at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town London at the beginning of 1980, Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis formed the ambient minimilist noise duo Dome.
In just a couple of years Dome had enough material for no less than four LP’s (by Dome themselves) and further LP’s by MZUI and Duet Emmo, both containing Gilbert and Lewis in the line ups. This LP uploaded is Dome 1, the first release.
The material released by Dome and the spinoff bands was very different to the more melodic tracks performed by Wire although saying that Wire did go through a more industrial / experimental stage towards the end of the band’s life span, but Wire were not as extreme as the Gilbert / Lewis releases.
Dome were great, and the material is well worth searching out. I think Mute released a lot of Dome stuff in the early 1990’s, may still be available. The vinyl of course is not available, unless you are lucky enough to see them in record stores in used second hand condition.
Wire reformed in 1986 with a marvelous performance at the Clarendon in Hammersmith, with the original line up.
crow
August 7, 2008 at 10:20 pmgreat, saw dome once at the diorama (Regents park) + live performance by Cosey Fanni Tutti – great atmosphere. Penguin have alot of cool stuff for you, we’ll have to liase at some point.
Penguin • Post Author •
August 7, 2008 at 11:22 pmLugworm is sorting out a friends of KYPP picnic mid Sept to be confirmed soon, perhaps we could meet up there for swapsies, or rather more accurately, you give me all your treasured tapes and I run off in the distance.
Nic
August 8, 2008 at 8:21 amMid-September?
Awww, I’ll be in San Francisco…
🙁
That would be really good too…
(PS Dome = great)
Jah Pork Pie
August 11, 2008 at 8:54 amA picnic? I’ll bring the pork pies.
BTW, if anyone knows how to fix ambient minimalist noise, can they have a look at our telly? We can’t even get Channel 5 down here for the hiss.
Stewart
August 11, 2008 at 6:42 pmYes, Pork, the government only allows those it feels has the required IQ level and requisite number of working synapses to receive more than four channels, with or without a TV set (depending on the state of your mental health)… So it’s not really ‘hiss’ as such, it’s because we’re all worried about you that we limit the amount of stimulation you receive. It’s all in your best interests mate…
Jah Pork Pie
August 11, 2008 at 11:52 pmThanks Stu. That really IS offensive.
Stewart
August 12, 2008 at 8:00 pmOooo, ta…! 😉
Jah Pork Pie
August 14, 2008 at 12:33 amStewart
I don’t know if you read my posts mentioning it in the Heretics thread, but the reason I find your post above particularly offensive is that I have bipolar disorder, which is also called manic depression. It’s a nasty illness which can, and often sadly does, result in nasty things.
I do have a reasonably high IQ and enough working synapses. That isn’t affected by my mental health.
Mental health disorders have nothing whatsoever to do with IQ level or brain injury (“learning difficulties” – what used to be called “mentally handicapped”, and/or neurological impairment). They’re not the same thing, and it’s crass to lump them together for the sake of humour. I wouldn’t expect you to use the word “spaz” for a giggle – please don’t have a laugh at “mental cases” either.
I control my illness with various medications which I have to take every day. They have side effects which aren’t really all that funny. But I have to take them.
And yes, I really do have to limit the amount of stimulation I get these days because too much stimulus, be it chemical or environmental, can trigger hypermanic or hypomanic episodes. And believe me, they really aren’t anything to make a joke about at all.
Penguin • Post Author •
August 14, 2008 at 10:41 amPork, thanks for putting it straight, not sure if Stewart knew this as he entered the site way after the Heretics post, although of course he may well of read back. I would be suprised if Stewey has not been through similar trails and torments during the period that this site relates to, and I am sure he (and many others) have been tainted in later life with health problems, mental and physical relating to the daily ‘way of life’ in cold damp squats and on the steeets during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
Many people that browse this site have been sectioned at one time or another, others still suffer the effects of mind numbing and mind bending drug abuse during that period.
Stewart’s comments are normally written edging on the humour side of things, and your comments Pork sometimes make me genuinely laugh out loud!
Perhaps Stewey found your comments and believed you wrote them in the same way as he writes his comments, generally in an amusing tone.
I am sure Stewey being (just about) a survivor of those times and beyond, will be respectful to you in his reply to you and perhaps not so flippant, now he knows the line drawn in the sand.
John you were thinking of a different character which is why your comment is no longer here. Hope you understand and more importantly hope you are well over the pond.
Stewart
August 14, 2008 at 4:03 pmHi Pork! Yes, I’m genuinely sorry if you found my post offensive, I didn’t know your history and I would never intentionally belittle or poke fun at someone maliciously or even thoughtlessly – I wrote what I did because I believed we had a little mutual understanding and joshing going on between us…
I am actually very aware of mental health issues – my mother was a paranoid schizophrenic who was forcibly committed to mental hospitals on a number of occasions when I was a child; she also had a brain tumour; when things got too bad for her to cope with she would try and commit suicide, and my brother and I would find her collapsed somewhere from an overdose. Thinking people were passing her messages through the television set telling her to kill herself was part of her reality. My brother and I were left to deal with her behaviours alone from a very young age. I don’t want to go into further details on this site, but I understand what you’re saying. In my defence, I would not have said what I did had I known the sensitivities of the issue for you. But people do deal with these things in different ways, don’t they? Despite my background, I can still see and use humour to confront and deal with difficult subjects – I think a lot of people do; there’s an interesting debate to be had around that particular topic, but basically it’s about context (including prior knowledge or lack of it) isn’t it?
So, I hope you take this post as an apology and accept it in the spirit it is offered.
And Penguin, thankyou for what you have written, I appreciate your support.
I would like to think that although I may be many things, I am never intentionally insensitive or malicious.
🙂 xxx
Jah Pork Pie
August 14, 2008 at 4:45 pmIf it’s a con text you’re after, I understand that John McVicar’s autobiography is a nice little page turner, and recommended as very good for the grey cells (or whatever colour HMP are painting them these days).
No problem Stu – it’s just that I get fed up with people casually lumping learning difficulties, neurological impairment and mental health issues together as if they were one easily managed (and usually just swept away and ignored) whole. It doesn’t help with anything from sending off a CV, to getting insurance, to telling the dentist or optician what meds you’re taking (they tend to talk to one V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y and monosyllabically after finding out that one is nuts). It can perhaps make one a little oversensitive at times.
And or course I’m always crotchety about not being able to partake of caffeine, alcohol or anything stronger these days too. Who wouldn’t be? 😉
While we’re on the subject, were you in that One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by any chance? I do remember one of the orderlies wearing boxing boots, I’m sure. 😉
Stewart
August 14, 2008 at 5:08 pmLol! 🙂
Stewart
August 14, 2008 at 5:09 pmNo I bloody wasn’t! (*winks*)
Phil R
August 14, 2008 at 6:25 pmAnyhow, when and where’s this picnic !
luggy
August 14, 2008 at 7:38 pmTo Phil & anyone else interested,
Hoping to have the picnic on Sat 20th Sept in Clissold Park. There’s meant to be a pay festy there that day:
http://www.hackneyfreerange.com/
Roots Manuva, Prince Buster, The Beat & Neneh Cherry are meant to be playing there over the weekend. I’ve got a feeling the festy may go tits-up but the idea is to be cheapskates in the park but outside the festy.
Other possible gigs to have meet-ups:
3 day Punk Fest- Reknaw presents FUK READING @ Unit 3c Mill Mead Industrial Estate N17 9QU.
Friday Aug 22nd: FUK + Active Minds + Pisschrist + Defcon Zero + Demonic Upchucks + Bug Central + Rabies Babies + the Extinguishers.
Saturday Aug 23rd: Police Bastard + Redeye Militia + Armed Response Unit + Dread Messiah + Constant State of Terror + the KADT + Burn Them Out + Self Inflicted.
Sunday Aug 24th: Left for Dead + Headjam + Mush + Gurkha + Flat Pig + Dicktion + Axis of Assholes + Moral Dilemma.
£7 a night, 6pm. Go on the Sat to see Graham, the dirty old clown (see other post somewhere) sing with Dread Messiah.
Rubella Ballet @ The Standard, Walthamstow Fri 5th Sept. Only seen this advertised here:
http://www.eroding.org.uk/diary.htm
Sid, if you read this let us know whether this is on or not. I know Sid’s drumming with X-Ray Spex the next night so you never know it could be a warm-up to that!
Finally, one for next year, Jeremy Gluck (old Puppy friend) at the Dirty Water club in Tufnell Park on Fri 30th Jan 2009.
Penguin • Post Author •
August 15, 2008 at 12:35 amPencil me in for the Clissold Park beano. If they play music like the flyer link then I may well bring my big horn.
Stewart you game?
Mutoids are there also, not seen that ‘show’ since W.D.E and Kings Cross in ’86 or 87.
Dunno how I am going to get away with NOT going to that punky three day festi in Tottenham, but will try to think of an excuse before the date.
Think my mum’s coming round. Will that do?
Ballet would love to, off on my 1966 Vespa to Mersea Island for the scooterist three dayer that Friday and weekend. Where’s me tent?
Gluck pencil me in to that one.
Luggy, Tony was thinking of setting up an events ad space on this site in which events could be advertised by the KYPP public. I will sort that out this weekend at some point.
I keep listening to that Clissold flyer…great stuff.
Phil R
August 15, 2008 at 8:06 amClissold park thing sounds great! Count me in…Anyone else going to see
X-ray-spex at the roundhouse?
Phil R
August 15, 2008 at 8:11 ameek..£25 a ticket for Clissold park…Yeah maybe picnic outside!!
Stewart
August 15, 2008 at 5:40 pmWell, I’d LIKE to be there – the flyer scares me a bit though… :O
Phil R
August 15, 2008 at 6:44 pmIm up for tea and cakes in clissold park cafe. Is it still open ? I hav’nt been for years.
crow
August 15, 2008 at 10:37 pmhello phil, nice to hear your voice…
Tony Puppy
August 15, 2008 at 11:11 pmRegarding Jeremy Gluck – he’s playing in Leytonstone on Wednesday September 10th at the What’s Cookin club. Free Entry.
http://www.whatscookin.co.uk
I’ll be there.
luggy
August 16, 2008 at 10:46 amShould be able to make that one, Tony. Did you get him that one?
Tony Puppy
August 16, 2008 at 10:53 pmI had a hand in it.
Penguin • Post Author •
August 16, 2008 at 11:54 pmSuppose it is better than putting your foot in it Tony! Ha ha ha…ok I’ll get my coat!