De La Warr Arts Centre Relaunch
Bexhill on Sea
16th October 2005.

I was billed to play this event alongside other Big Chill Recordings artists, namely AGK (who were kind of launching their LP 'the liking of things' here) and Eva Abraham. Chris Coco and Ben Osbourne were also DJing and performing some kind of AV thing too. The two day event was to provide a relaunch for the facelifted De La Warr Pavillion, a fantastic art deco building dating from the early 1930's.

I was due to play live, but I have to be honest and say that the space didn't inspire me - the system was positioned in quite an odd space, almost a walkthrough. Eva had told me that earlier on in the day, while she'd been performing, people had been walking past her with their fingers in their ears! So I decided on a laptop set comprising all of my own material.

Played pretty much across the board - some rather heavy rain set in during the start of my set; consequently I had a bit of an audience. Towards the end of my set, I began to play ambient, to reflect the view of the sea and the overall greyness of the impending evening. It was whilst I was playing 'Sunny Daze' that through a break in the clouds, the sun shone through and provided us all with one of the most vivid rainbows that I've ever experienced!

I think I provided a really gentle aural accompaniment to the wonderous natural visuals - It must have sounded good - I even sold a few copies of my LP!

After the rain

What a view.

The sight from the decks

Up above the trees and houses...

Lone flag

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