12 February – Courtis and Moore @ Side Cinema

[Video Excerpt from ALAN COURTIS & AARON MOORE live at Culture Lab, Newcastle 20.2.09]

Courtis/Moore ‘Argentine Home Movie Cavalcade’ tour, February 2010

12th February 2010

Side Cinema
1 – 3 The Side
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3JE
(in association with Vamos! Festival – www.vamosfestival.com)
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Following their appearance in The Wire’s and other 2009 end-of-year polls for their ‘Brokebox Juke’ lp, Courtis/Moore return to the UK to perform live improvised soundtracks to this Argentine found-film collage.

The film compiles a selection of Argentine home movies mainly from the 1970’s. The footage was originally recorded in Super-8 and now transferred to digital to be screened in public. The compilation shows diverse aspects of daily life in diverse Argentine cities and rural scenes, bringing a portrait of Argentinian collective memory from those years, to the sound of the drone, abstract psychedelia and free rock improvisation of Alan Courtis and Aaron Moore.

Moore has also of late been touring in his band with NoNeck Blues Band’s Dave Nuss, Amolvacy, and has just completed 4 performances in New York as part of Boredoms for their Boadrum9 shows. And of course, he’s an integral member of the increasingly seminal Volcano The Bear, who have, in the words of The Wire, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”. Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.”

Alan Courtis (aka Anla Courtis, Alna Courtis, etc) was a founder member of the Reynols, a band with more than 100 releases on labels from USA, Europe, Japan & NZ, including conceptual and/or absurd projects like: 10.000 Chicken Symphony, Blank Tapes, Whistling Kettle Quartet. He has collaborated with musicians like: Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Damo Suzuki (Can), Eddie Prevost (AMM), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Yoshimi P-Wee (Boredoms), Chris Corsano, Ashtray Navigations, Michael Snow, Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear) Birchville Cat Motel, and members of Avarus and Kemialliset Ystävät. He has also released more than one hundred solo releases and collaborations on labels like Tonschacht (Germany), Blossoming Noise (USA), Antifrost (Greece), Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (New Zealand), 267 Lattajjaa (Finland), Jewelled Antler (USA), Riot Season (UK).

Dates on the 2010 Courtis/Moore ‘Argentine Home Movie Cavalcade’ tour:

Feb 9 – LEEDS Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Rd, Hyde Park, LS6 1NY
(with MV & EE)
http://www.britishwildliferecords.com/2009/09/upcoming-gigs.html/

Feb 10 – SALFORD Islington Mill, James St, M3 5HW
http://www.islingtonmill.com/events.php

Feb 11 – LONDON Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/AlanCourtisAaronMoore_000.shtm

Feb 12 – NEWCASTLE Side Cinema, 1-3 The Side, NE1 3JE
(in association with Vamos! Festival – www.vamosfestival.com)
http://www.amber-online.com/sections/side-cinema

Feb 13 – GLASGOW Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH
http://www.stereocafebar.com/

Feb 15 – CAMBRIDGE The Portland, 129 Chesterton Rd, CB4 3BA
http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

Feb 16 – BRISTOL The Croft, 117-119 Stokes Croft, BS1 3RW
http://www.the-croft.com/index.php

Address:
NO-FI
34 Beatrice Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 5RJ

And look out for more No-Fi tour action in March from: ATSUHIRO ITO, SHOGUN KUNITOKI, BONG and ALASDAIR ROBERTS & BAND + KIILA.