Uhhh... Who 'performed' Gescom live sets

  On 12/16/2012 at 8:17 PM, thrrobb said:

the manchester cathedral gig was wholly different to anything on record: seemingly random blasts of whatever was loaded onto each player's minidiscs (tina turner and meatloaf spring to mind). there were a LOT of minidiscs being slammed in and out so given the volume and the acoustics of a cathedral it was a pretty cacophonous set; short as well. i remember a deafening silence when the noise cut out, the performers stood up, put the gear in their lab-coat pockets and marched off stage. i forget which came first but either the performance was nothing like the minidisc release or the release was nothing like the minidisc performance. the gig reminds me now of what haswell's been up to for the much of the last decade so maybe he was the driving force behind gescom then. anyhow they were all dressed like a cross between the invisible man and lab technicians. plastikman headlined (consumed-era; no gimmicks) with graham massey/massonix, add n to x, mount vernon arts lab, atari teenage riot, luke vibert, komputer and various others playing as well. the flyer was a little illustrated booklet - and a transistor? - inside a clear plastic zip-lock bag, which i kept for years but it got lost along the way. below is the only press i was able to find:

 

http://www.aidan.co.uk/eyewitness-in-manchester/inthecity98/presscuttings/04shocktactics.html (no mention of gescom)

 

http://www.aidan.co.uk/eyewitness-in-manchester/inthecity98/presscuttings/listings.html ("geskom" top of column two)

nice post mate, thanks!

sorry for the delay - dunno if anyone's interested, or if similar has been posted before, but attached are a few flyers for various gigs (1998 to 2000; stuck in my diary) that show how varied and perhaps even whimsical they were in playing as gescom/skam/other...