Rethinking the Weather

Cheebah and Kerrynini recently hosted the mighty L.A. based electronic artist Daedelus down in the Cornmarket. Word had been winding it's way from Kerry that Daedelus had ripped the place to shreds the night before so expectations were high. Taking in a lecture en route to the Cornmarket in UL, Daedelus demonstrated how his magic monome (a box with 256 buttons that gives the user live control over their samples) works and left the audience ready and waiting for some dancing. The phone in the bar was hopping during the sound check with inquires as to 'what time does the American guy start at' leaving the perplexed bar lady wondering who the 'American guy' was? The Cheebah and Kerrynini dj's set the mood while Daedelus quickly changed backstage from a hip looking L.A. cat into something out of Edwardian times with a dapper waist coat, shirt and pants. Daedelus gigs are all about audience participation with the artist looking for cues from the crowd as his weaves his magic from behind the monone. The set starts off slowly with the large crowd of over 450 souls gradually edging their way closer and closer to the stage. It truly is a world of pure imagination at this gig as Willy Wonka gets a reworking. Like a storm slowly rising the gig gains momentum and the set becomes more up tempo, Aphex twin gets the monome treatment, so does Nirvana as the dance floor heaves. He drops Fair Weather Friend' from his latest ep and the crowd claps and dances in time. An hour or so later the jet lagged Daedelus is wrecked but the crowd begs for more and he willingly obliges, the sound system crackles as the audience are taken further and further down to the rabbit hole like Alice to the point of no return. Magic!

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Extra: 1-Johnny Doobs has written a good post on the visit over on Amoeba
2- great photographs and Video to follow anyday now.....