Showing posts with label Jason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jason. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Gate Kicks Radio Show Special - live @ Tate Modern


Yesterday (26.10.19) the Gate Kicks crew headed off to the Tate Modern to do a live broadcast as part of Resonance FM's  week long series of broadcasts from the gallery. Much of the show was concerned with the current Nam Yung Paik exhibition  which is being  held there which the Tate kindly gave us free tickets to attend. You can hear an archive of the broadcast and see some pics of the day below.























 

 

Many thanks to Resonance FM and the TATE for hosting us.

Friday, 25 October 2019

Jamaica!! @ the Rock House 21.10.19


Duane played guitar and I played saxophone and stick like a violin, Diane was singing, Leon played sounds and Josh played the drums. I enjoyed it. Here is a video of the band called Jamaica in Brighton with a introduction bit from Leon - Jason.





Pics by Dave from Carousel. Thanks to everyone at The Rock House / Green Door Store for having us.

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

JAMAICA Collective - Live @ Horse Festival, Iklectik. 11.08.18



Jamaica, the improvisation collective from the Gate Art Centre, surprised the audience, artists and organisers of the 12th edition of the Horse Trials festival at the Iklectic on 11th August.
The Horse Trials Festival is organised by The Horse Improvised Music Club. It was established in March 2012, when it held a series of gigs at The Horse pub in Waterloo. Since December 2014 then they have had worked in partnership with IKlectik Art lab. The Club places a strong emphasis on programming established performers alongside new musicians.
Jamaica was born two years ago at The Gate Art Centre in Shepherds Bush. The idea was to fit the ever changing people who attended the music sessions in the weekly improvisation session. Alan Courtis was the first established improviser who led a workshop at the Gate in 2017. Then there has been a couple of rare London performances at Chatts Cafe (Bermondsey) and All Hallows Church (Southwark) in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
On this occasion, Jamaica was formed by five musicians: John, guitar; Brian, keyboard; Mary, home made spring box; Jason, homemade one string fretless stick, and Simon vocals. They surprised the audience with their loose and natural well structured improvisation using everyday objects and homemade instruments. The music was a psychedelic journey guiding by the unpredictable minimalistic guitar of John and the amazing harmonies and chords added by Brian on keyboards. Along with Mary and Jason they travelled into the deepest layers of the mind presented in his unique way by Jamaica’s MC Simon.
The club is organised by Adam Bohman and Sue lynch who are musicians on the London Improvised Music Scene, both of them professed at the end of Jamaica’s performance to be very impressed by the group and they want to invite them back again next year.
These are great news for for Jamaica who are making their way to be part of the London experimental music scene in their own right.
For more info:

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

VIDEO DRAMA - Last Room in Yorkshire

In this Video drama Jackie and Marissa head to Yorkshire for a lovely holiday. However upon arrival they realise that finding their room is more challenging than expected...

This is released in memory of Salim who unfortunately passed away recently; this was his last video drama performance.


Friday, 6 April 2018

Gatorium 28/03/18

Last week the guys from the Gate took over All Hallows Church SE1 to promote and sell our newest art book, various pieces of which were hung from the walls including a mural backdrop and guitar sculptures. The evening culminated in an epic live performance by our improv band Jamaica (conducted by 2Decks) playing some of our new bowed instruments controlled by Nintendo Wii controllers.











Thursday, 15 March 2018

Jamaica - I Can't hear You 12/03/18

We've been stepping it up an inclusive gear in our improvisational music sessions; bowing resonating tins with springs inside, cymbals, and metal bowls. All pitch shifted by Graillon and controlled with the LK app on ipad...



Duane- "I used my hands and flicked them and pulled the strings up and used the bow violin thing"

Jason- "I was playing the cymbal like a violin and I was banging it with a stick and I made a noise, it sounded like a church bell"

Darren 2Decks- "I was just conducting it, by giving out signs and signals with my hands to each musician. I really don't know how to describe how it sounds"

We're looking forward to our live Jamaica performance at our "Gatorium" Art exhibition details below...


Friday, 10 November 2017

This Weeks UpGate 10/11

We've had another packed week here at the gate, finishing with Fridays Moving Portraits workshop with Spare Tyre! The finished videos to follow in the near future as well as being part of an exhibition.





On Tuesday the latest edition of Gate Kicks aired on Resonance FM featuring a full length improvisational piece from our experimental band Jamaica:-





And Last but by no means least, the latest Video Drama....and its a KNOCK OUT!


Tuesday, 26 September 2017

GATE CUSTARD III 22/09/17

Last week the Gate headed back to smash another night out at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, with an awesome performance from all! You can check it out here...

Saturday, 17 June 2017

Video - Debut performance from JAMAICA!! @ Chats 16.06.17


 
Here's a vid of the debut performance of JAMAICA!! to open the exhibition of the Gate's artwork that's currently being held at Chats cafe(closes tomorrow -18.6.17- see flyer in previous post for deets).

Photos and reportage from the exhibition to follow.

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

VIDEO DRAMA - Birthday Bizarre

In this episode John Crawford (played expertly by Louise) realises it's his 60th birthday! He can't wait to go out and celebrate but unfortunately everyone keeps getting his age wrong... This obviously doesn't help with John's notorious bad temper!

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

VIDEO DRAMA - The Last Dance

In this Episode Darren and Arlo are chilling at home when Arlo realises something strange about Darren. The soon decided that the best cure for Darren is a walk down the high street with Arlo's MP3 player on. Unfortunately Arlo's tunes are a little too hot to handle for Darren...

Friday, 7 April 2017

VIDEO DRAMA - The Savage Dog

In this episode Lilly Savage (played heroically by Peter) is having a nice relaxing time at home with her dog Louise, that is, until he decides to have a nap.... Lilly wakes up to find his dog gone and so sets out on a journey to find his beloved dog...

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

VIDEO DRAMA- The Wrong Wedding

In this episode Leon and Jason think its time they finally found someone to spend the rest of their lives with, so they call the highly reputable Hawkins' Wedding Agency to sort them out with lovely brides to be! Unfortunately the agency aren't quite up to the job this time...

Tuesday, 14 March 2017

The Gate meets Alan Courtis, 08.03.17.

Leon - I met Alan Courtis on Tuesday and I said hello. We started with taps round the chair and finger pointing and loud and soft then we started to play with him and it sounded really good. It would be nice if he could come again to do some more stuff. He's really good making sounds from instruments everywhere in the room. I was sitting on the chair watching a film before we came on it was good picture they show other films then I was cracking a story after the film. I sat with the others and listened to what he had to say and I looked back at the screen and they were playing good music on the film. It was good from the start. Oh yeah, Alan played as well right at the back on different instruments but we had to slow down and back fast we had to take turns round the room. I had to wait for a bit but I looked everywhere just in case it comes back there then it came but the whole thing was great. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS GIG AND THANKS TO ALAN FOR COMING PLEASE COME BACK IT BE NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. CHEERS MATE.

Labake - Alan Courtis came to the gate and showed us how to play great music and we had a great time and we learnt haw to play different instruments it was great, everyone had fun  it was fantastic, everyone played something. I enjoyed playing the drums something I've never done and now music is is all I think about, I write and sing my own songs and I did what i do best, I sang.
Jason - Alan was a pretty cool guy, I'd like him to come again. I liked the talk he gave about people with disabilities because he showed pictures of people with learning disabilities playing music.

Kashan - It was very nice music. Alan was very good.


And here's our radio show featuring music from the show and interviews with Alan and various audience members -

Friday, 20 January 2017

New Product: JAMAICA!! 2x CDR set of our new free music unit.




JAMAICA!! 2xCDR in ltd ed. of 50.

JAMAICA!! is the Gate's new new free music / Improv project. Made up of whoever and whatever's around at time of the recordings. This release features 4 long improvised tracks of no discernible genre and one explanatory spoken word track from Mary. Comes in an edition of 50 handmade copies.


Copies are a fiver and can be bought from us by visiting or by sending £6 (includes UK postage, International? get in touch) in well-concealed cash to:

54 Richford Gate, London, W6 7HZ.

And here's one of the tracks as a taster:

Wednesday, 23 November 2016

VIDEO DRAMA - Carols Comedy Club

In this episode, the punter family pile into Carol's Comedy Club for a few laughs, unfortunately, Carol's Comedy isn't to their taste...


Wednesday, 9 November 2016

VIDEO DRAMA - Jackie the Ripper's Badass Birthday

In this Episode Arlo and Jason receive and invite for none other than Jackie the Ripper's birthday bash! Featuring the best Antelope impression you will ever lay eyes on...

Thursday, 3 November 2016

VIDEO DRAMA - Blood!

In this Episode we meet the Vampire family, they're all starving hungry for blood so decide to start an enterprise to bring in some unsuspecting punters...


Monday, 24 October 2016

VIDEO DRAMA - DOUBLE BILL!

Sorry for the delay on releasing Video Drama's, there will be a few coming out over the next few weeks...

First up is 'Row Fisherman Row... In this Episode the Count family are hungry and decide to sail the seven seas to find some fodder, little do they know they'll get a lot more than they bargained for...





And as a secondary treat, here is an older episode 'Gallery gone wrong' which we shot at the Bow Arts Centre while artwork from the Gate was exhibited for the Dolly Mixtures Show back in April.


Wednesday, 3 August 2016

2DECKS, Dog Chocolate and Daniel Wakeford, DIY Space for London, 23/7/16

2DECKS.


Mary: Darren's gig was good, he's good singing with the singing he did, he did the donkey one and music school and Roberto played the drums and Leon played the guitar and Josh played the guitar and they was really good. I think they should do it again.

Duane: 2Decks knows how to perform in a gig and he showed them how to do it, my favourite song is hold it down because I like the beat and I like the style of the music; it makes me feel good.

2Decks: This gig was in a venue that was a bit different to some other venue that i have been in and the acoustics are amazing. I really liked how the audience reacted to solo guitar playingJosh and the feedback they gave us after we finished our set.



Dog Chocolate.


Josh: The band that we've seen in south Bermondsey called Dog Chocolate who came on after 2decks, my thoughts on the band that they are incredibly energetic pure live performance that I've ever seen with bits of compasionate comedy and amusing stage acts with very hilarious lyrics and with the best personality for a unique sound and keeping the crowd going and extremely loud and fun.

Pics by Jason.
2Decks: Dog chocolate is mental and I like mental. This band is wacky with sense humour that makes me laugh. I liked their music so much that i brought it on vinyl.

Mary: They talked about snakes and Tescos and they was really good.

Daniel Wakeford.


Pic by Mark.
Daniel and 2Decks.
Mary: After the other band was Daniel, he was talking about girlfriends and his mum was there and I said hello to her. He sing about rainbows and his singing is good and that's it.

Josh: To me personally i thought he was emotional with his song being on stage sing to the crowd and cheering him on and it was really creative.

2Decks: Daniel Wakeford is an interesting person on stage and off stage. He is a man with talent and confidence bringing something new to table. After speaking to him i saw how much of nice guy he was. When he was performing stage I noticed that he was a bit of ladies man, they loved him. It kinda reminds me of Tom Jones.