Live music listings: December 2006

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Wed 6th

Club AC30 presents a 10th Anniversary show for the legendary Piano Magic.
Old songs and new.
PIANO MAGIC
+ July Skies
+ Epic45

Doors 7.30
£6 via WeGotTickets
£8 door

To date, Piano Magic has harboured over 60 sonic orphans with nothing better to do, recorded 6 proper albums, a double CD retrospective and many, many singles. They've outlived several of the labels they've recorded for and show no signs of stopping. At this point in time (late 2006), Piano Magic is Glen Johnson, Franck Alba, Jerome Tcherneyan, Alasdair Steer and Cedric Pin. A new album, produced by Guy Fixsen of Laika, is expected for release in early 2007.

Main support are July Skies. Lost youth, fractured memories of the 1970s, pylons across fields, abandoned airfields, endless childhood summers, dappled sunlight through leaves, forgotten England, the romance of the heavens well after closing time, countryside, mornings in May, municipal parks at dusk, love, infatuation and loss.

Opening proceedings are Epic45. Late summer, lonely farmsteads, holidays in wales, saturday mornings as a child, love lost, love found, childhood tapes, fields, photography, polaroids, fresh winter mornings, mysterious / inspiring walks, friends, smells that trigger memories, clear night skies, waiting for summer, summer, Virginia Astley, Andy Goldworthy, slides, July Skies, hope, not learning the guitar properly, redundant technology, 70s/80s schools programmes, woodland, early autumn, vss 200, awkward englishness, random filenames, train journeys, the emptiness of modern life.

Click here for particularly handsome flyer, created for the occasion.