This is Pure Scenius! (Eno/Hyde in Brighton May 9, 2010)

[TheBang]

A sequel to last year's Pure Scenius (http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showthread.php?t=9876), this year at Brighton Festival:

http://www.brightonfestival.org/Event_Details.aspx?eid=3565

09 May 2010
Performance 1, 4pm
Performance 2, 6.30pm
Performance 3, 9pm
Concert Hall
Each performance £18, £22
See all three performances £55 (Limited availability)

Genius is individual, scenius is communal. Here seven individuals come together to imagine new forms of music, realised over three consecutive performances. This experiment had its only other outing last year as part of Luminous at the Sydney Opera House. In This is Pure Scenius!, Brian Eno will be joined on stage by Karl Hyde, guitarist Leo Abrahams, synthesist Jon Hopkins as well as Tony Buck, Lloyd Swanton and Chris Abrahams who comprise Australian improvisation masters, The Necks.

Each concert picks up where the preceding one left off. Starting from a predetermined sequence of events, each performance allows the development of ideas across three concerts - sometimes quite similar, sometimes worlds apart...

[Dirty0900]

I assume numberonesuperfan will be there.

[Bargo]

Oh man, I am now seriously considering an overseas trip to see this. Anyone who passes this up is absolutely crazy, the Sydney shows were just amazing.

[Spooky Shoes]

Might have to nip down to the box office in the morning.

[TheBang]

Anyone going tonight?

[Champiness]

See you at the Brighton Dome today for a little bit've wey-hey-hey?


:D

[Andrea]

wish I could be there...and maybe sing the
Spider and I
Sit watching the sky :)

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/118/l_b40fcf94bbd047c5af69094f376cd7ca.jpg

[holden]

So, how'd it go?

[TheBang]

Review:

http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1470:brian-eno-pure-scenius-the-dome-brighton&Itemid=27

Photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/sets/72157624026499998/
http://matthewandrews.co.uk/brightonfestival/?cat=21&paged=2

[crank]

Didn't strike me as too positive a review. Apparently, KH wasn't on his game?

[//\/\/]

to be honest, it sounds like people disappeared up backsides...


...or spinal tap.

[tiges]

I was at all three gigs, and thought it was mostly fantastic, especially the third set. A couple of more positive reviews here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/12/this-is-pure-scenius-review

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article7122012.ece

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Any idea if there will be some kind of release for the rest of us?

[tiges]

Apparently Leo Abrahams is mixing the Sydney Opera House performances for release.

http://www.leoabrahams.com/webdiary/

[TheBang]

10-part video (a little over an hour) of Pure Scenius Brighton here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK5bqlIaByI

[Bargo]

10-part video (a little over an hour) of Pure Scenius Brighton here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK5bqlIaByI

Nice, thanks for the link!!

[stimpee]

Apparently Leo Abrahams is mixing the Sydney Opera House performances for release.

http://www.leoabrahams.com/webdiary/There are bootlegs of this performance (or performances) floating around. I have 2 of the 3.

[Andrea]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK5bqlIaByI
Big thanks to 'tonyballinger'!

Sounds much much better than Sydney.
I could give a lot for a studio recorded version of these 10 video clips.
Beautiful!! ...and sexy:D

[tiges]

Another mention of Pure Scenius in this interview with The Necks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/10/the-necks