Showing posts with label Josh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh. 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.

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.











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...

Monday, 7 August 2017

VIDEO DRAMA - The Bands Fault

The hot new band "Prawn Carnage" are sitting happily in their rehearsal room when Leon sees a poster for a battle of the bands competition and they immediately decide to enter. After they park their car and decide to get something to eat, something terrible happens...

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 -

Thursday, 23 February 2017

2Decks in the Studio.

Mr. 2Decks and Co. popped into Sausage Studios today to do some recordings for what will be the Gate Custard compilation LP . Shaping up nicely it is too.
 
 
 
 
 


 

 

 



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, 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.




Monday, 4 July 2016

2Decks set - Live at the Gate

We had a party at the gate a couple of weeks ago celebrating the new self advocacy group "sound off" alongside HF Mencap... The party was headlined by our very own Mr 2Decks, and what a corker of a performance it was... check it out!


Monday, 13 June 2016

VIDEO DRAMA - Match of the day

In this episode we see the fiercely anticipated football match between Josh FC and Duane and Jason FC come to a head! Josh Decides his opponents have an unfair advantage and so enlists Jackie the Ripper in swinging the odds in his favour...