Truly weird, because last sunday I listened to them for the first time in one million years.Oh, the memories - Trayce is right, what really amazed me was how much some of their songs seems to predate Porcupine Tree (who are huge here in Italy).
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I listened to "Even When Your Eyes Are Open" earlier this week (and flirted with the notion of selling my Dark Star CD, but recanted).
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Was alerted to these by a friend, nobody probably gives a shit but what the hay.
https://soundcloud.com/moke72/sets/levitation-92-demos
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 December 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
Bickers is far more visceral and energetic than Shields; and i get far more pleasure from his brand of chaos -- the critics are completely wrong.
"Loveless" is noise; "World Around" is sound.
― suspecterrain, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
The original version of Meanwhile Gardens is finally getting a proper release along with some of the other material from that period.
http://www.flashback.co.uk/label/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=10
― MaresNest, Monday, 2 March 2015 09:19 (nine years ago) link
got dragged to a gig last night that turned out to be the band ZOFFF, which is normally christian hayes plus three other guys playing very can-ish improvised heavy psych, except last night they were joined on stage by terry bickers as well. really excellent, expansive set, actually i enjoyed it way more than any levitation i've ever heard - worth seeing if you get the chance.
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 4 September 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
nice, ty for the heads-up
don't get the feeling christian strays far from brighton though?
― imago, Monday, 4 September 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
think they've played the odd london show and they're on the bill for the liverpool psych fest this month too. but yes, mostly brighton stuff by the looks of it
jo spratley also briefly guested with them last night btw, was just vocals for about 2 minutes though
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 4 September 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
should say they have records that the whole world can enjoy:
https://zofff.bandcamp.com/
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 4 September 2017 11:30 (six years ago) link
seems to be lots of overlap with the spratleys japs band, cf damo waters involvement
― imago, Monday, 4 September 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
that's the drummer right? he was pretty great, seemed like him that was really driving the music
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 4 September 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
if damo waters is in zofff then zofff is worth seeing
― imago, Monday, 4 September 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
and yeah he is basically the all-purpose drum mensch of the south coast
― imago, Monday, 4 September 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link