Big Chill Recordings hit Manchester
FutureSonic.
24th July 2005.

After the gig in Nottingham the night before, I was determined to have a goody at this one in Manchester. After all, it was Manchester where I'd really enjoyed playing on one of the previous tours with a completely inpromptu freeform gig alongside Laura B, Pete Lawrence etc.

A great venue - small and smelly, but it had a good feel about it. Whereas in Nottingham I'd set up virtually a whole mobile studio to perform, I decided to keep things stripped back and simple for this one, and crucially, give my vocals to the engineer to deal with - usually I like to have control over my voice, but it was a useful experiment - rather than using headphones for monitoring my vocal, I used a proper monitor like what the professionals use! Consequently I really enjoyed myself; as did everyone else - a similar lineup to the previous night; a couple of additions to the AGK lineup; worthy of note was the guitarist, who added a BlueNile-esque quality to the already excellent tunes. Ally Fogg played some nice records too.

Top night!!

My humble setup.

Chris and Lourdes did some lovely visuals.

AGK in full effect.

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