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Digitalia

Digital Abstracts

By Steve Wilde

What Le F!?!
March 27, 2009

Weird! Just got back from matter and it's still today!

We arrived at 7:00 as instructed to see Etienne De Crecy, supposedly do a 2 hour set. Two hours into "Le Wait" Etienne appears up some scaffolding with a white light projected on it. Not an auspicious opening to a set. And I put off having a piss for 30 minutes to avoid missing that!

Things did get better though. The sound evened out, the lights got more adventurous, the crowd went pretty mental and it all got fluffy and nice. But we did only get an hour. Admittedly we could have stayed until 6:00am for the rest of the DJs on the bill, but we were under the impression that we would get 2 hours of live set. And, well, frankly we didn't. So, Etienne... Next time leave the scaffolding at home or play for longer. But thanks anyway. We chose to come home. Check out my wobbly phone vids over at You Tube.

Last Saturday we got over an hour of The Overcoat, at the Lyric Hammersmith, by the Gecko Theatre company for considerably less dosh. Although there was no option to stay all night dancing afterwards. A lot more work went into that production than Etienne's I can tell you. It's worth an hour of your time if you can get there too. It's a physical, polyglottal mime in French, Spanish and errr, some other languages! Whether you are familiar with Gogol's tale or not is neither here nor there. The whole cast are very impressive but you have to hand it to Amit Lahav for the concept and his star quality.

Talking of hours spent in other locations we saw the Iain Sinclair and friends Hackney event on the South Bank the week before last. I was just expecting a night of Iain Sinclair, but we got Will Self and Michael Rosen among others too. Unusual but oddly moving for what was basically some local history about an area I know very little of.

Has the new 118 247 ad ripped off Magical Trevor? No, look, he's in it! About 12 seconds in, 2nd from the left! But without his magical hat... I prefer the original lyrics though.

I've just been drawn away from my typing [It is now tomorrow BTW] by Jake pointing out what he initially thought were planes approaching City Airport. We're on the flight path, before they bank right, normally. But it's too late for that by now and they were going the wrong way. And there were far too many of them. Also, they were rising from the ground somewhere around Dulwich Wood [I'd guess]. But it's too dark to say for sure. I can only guess they were appearing from somewhere near Dulwich College and travelling over the Horniman Museum.

There's a red light on a distant mast of some sort and they were all, and I mean twenty or more of them, heading towards that before fading into the distance. Quite randomly too.

By the time I'd grappled with two cameras and tried to get a reasonable shot... then dug out some binoculars for a better view... they had stopped. That's what always happens with "UFO sightings" isn't it?

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for them... But it was bloody weird if you ask me! I'll re-assess the possible directions in the morning. I'm baffled I have to say but hundreds of other folk must have seen them as well.

STRANGE LIGHT UPDATE: Thanks to Nichola, who suggested they might be Chinese Flying Lanterns. Which is highly likely. Probably a wedding going on over that way. Thank the Lord for that. That was very weird. Good aren't they? I've never heard of them before! They've only been around for 2000 years, so it's hardly surprising!

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