What wood you do?
The people behind the TRUCK festival have given us WOOD as their contribution.
1 week before the festival we discovered that the rig we were suppopsed to power in the tree tent was rated at 5kW. Our calculations indicated that this is 62 bikes! Which left us 51 bikes short and a ,ot of work to do in 7 days. In reality, on testing the rig when we arrived on Thursday, it took just over 1kW of actual power. Just on the limit of a revolution.
After some debate with the organisers the decision was made not to try and power the beast, but instead to run our own smaller party and film tent. Luckily we had brought some wicked 1980s HH speakers kindly leant to us by Mike at Mullet Boy Studios in Cambridge. These monsters somehow only manage to draw 25W for each amp, beautifully efficiency, unlike todays energy wasting amps. Even the ITV Oxfrod news crew were impressed!
An early rise (ahem) on Saturday and some housekeeping and further sign drawing was underway before the bike powered debut of Bellevue Rendezvois.
Saturday night and another impromptu bike powered party. E-festival describes us as, the ” ‘Magnificent Revolution’ tent, with its sound system and lights powered by a row of bicycles, which are, surprisingly, an incredibly popular attraction at all hours of the day and night” SUPRISED! We wern’t……… Party people powering their own music. Beautiful!
Sunny sunday was a blinder and we took on our daytime role of providing child bike based entertainment at this family friendly fest. Taking those enthusiastic watts and using them to power some sunny sunday reggae!
Dis-con-nected, London
| May 25, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:30 pm |
Sunday 25th May 2008
…The grid is down..the oil has run out…Within our over-populated city we have a sensorial glut that leaves us numb and sedate…There’s too much music, too much light, too much passive screen watching which leaves us over-indulged, slow and ill prepared for the looming Dark age that is almost upon us…
In this unstable epoch Human Torch presents: ……………….DISCONNECTED
A night of pedal powered mayhem where the power is down and the people will need to get involved to keep the night going.
We’ve convinced the owner of the Old boys Club in Dalston to turn off his power for one evening. The sound system and lighting will literally feed off the energy of the audience, who provide the power by getting on bikes (provided by the magnificent revolution crew) to generate the electrical energy needed to keep the fast paced show on the road.
The varying pace of the night is dictated by its progressive musical drive that we have christened ‘Zorba music’. This related to the tempo of music best suited to cycling indoors (think ‘Zorba the G(r)eek’!).
With live acts and Dj’s have been briefed to play sets and songs that start off slow and build up and up and up till you need a pace maker to keep your heart beating quick enough to keep up with the rhythm of the noise, this is not for the weak of mind and body, this is for human dynamo’s only! Music policy is tempo dictated therefore speed beats style so expect speed metal with hard trance,,Krautrock flowing into cabaret!
Throughout the night there will be projections of outlandish cycling based imagery as well as an early screening of the film Soylent Green.
Date Sunday 25th May 2008
Venue: The Old Boys Club, 68 Boleyn road, Dalston,
Time: 8pm till 3am
£5-entry
Human Dynamo costume!
Bring a torch!! no torch no entry!
Live before 11pm
London’s finest one-man band—“Boss Honk”(one limb of Honkeyfinger!)
New Dalston noise-pop from “Johnny Guitar Calling Costa Berlin”(the White stripes playing the Silver apples)
After 11pm
Milo Speedwagon
SchwaB Dj ‘s
Mr. Adamsky
So we got ourselves a new crew member. His name is Adam and he sure has good looks
. However, that is not the only reason why he is in. We here at MR think that he’s got some talents, is reliable and got a great work ethic…and likes Skatalites. Together with our creative input, he designed our new business cards. Adam and Jasmine are also spearheading our new website too. It’s gonna be sweet. We can’t wait!
