Reload, Seefeel, Bark Psychosis, Sonexuno, Dreadzone - Moscow 1994 (in 'HD'!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BNS5j9HDdk

00:27 [вступительное слово]
01:03 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
02:03 1. Reload - Teq
05:29 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
06:10 2. Sonexuno - ???
09:54 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
10:56 3. Bark Psychosis - Big Shot
16:45 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
17:32 4. Seefeel - Polyfusion
22:56 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
23:37 5. Dread Zone - Dream On
28:23 [фрагмент беседы с DJ Groove]
29:11 [заключительное слово]

I stumbled upon this via a comment and I don't expect it's indexed all that well. Really good sound (aside from some monitoring issues Bark Psychosis seem to be having). Not sure where to put it so here's a special thread.

Some context from Jeanette Leech's great book, Fearless

One of the final acts for Bark Psychosis as a band was to perform at the Britronica festival in Moscow, in “April 1994, alongside Seefeel, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Ultramarine, Banco De Gaia, and others. ‘First and last time I’ve been to Moscow,’ Sutton says. ‘It was an absolute fucking nightmare. Got over there, Richard James was carried off the plane with food poisoning that he’d got from a bunch of bad cheese on the flight over. So he was immediately off grid.’ The hospital lost James’s clothes and locked him in a room. The rest of the artists went, Sutton remembers, to ‘a weird greeting thing. It was immediately apparent that it was a mafia-fronted bullshit thing.’ Organised by British promoter Nick Hobbs and Russian entrepreneur Artem Troitsky, Britronica was indeed financed with mafia money and took place at a time when the country was mired in governmental corruption and administrative chaos. ‘It was held over three or four different venues,’ remembers Sarah Peacock. ‘One was called the Palace Of Youth. It was this massive modernist building with relief statues of the workers. And then there were a couple of other places that were like nightclubs. Mafia all over those places. We got there and we got picked up and “driven from the airport through, probably, about fifty miles of monolithic tower blocks, what a place, blimey this is grim. In fact, as soon as we got to the airport they were having to bribe people to get trolleys so we could get our gear off the airport and into the van.’ ‘Vodka like paint-stripper,’ says Sutton. ‘There were these little booths on the high street, and you’d get these bottles of vodka called Terminator, with a picture of Arnie, with half his face in metal. It’d be a litre bottle, and it would spin you out. Also, we weren’t fed at all. There was no food, and no one had any money.’ ‘And then there was the night we threw a sofa off the hotel balcony,’ says Peacock. ‘Everyone was so pissed on vodka and so stressed and traumatised by what was going on.’ Performances went OK, if subject to cancellations and underwhelming attendances (and history can thank Britronica, because it saved live footage of Bark Psychosis and Seefeel), but DJs like Bruce Gilbert and Paul Oakenfold were abused at gunpoint for playing insufficiently poppy music. ‘But we met some really cool kids,“says Peacock. ‘A few of them were hanging around outside, kids who had been listening to Peel on the World Service and knew about us, and knew about the other bands who were on. But they couldn’t afford to get in, because they were skint, and so we had to smuggle them in through the back.’ On the final night, artists were tired, hungry, spun out, and in no mood to go to another mafia meet-and-greet; the mafia responded by seriously assaulting the promoter. ‘Then, there was the whole thing about getting people’s equipment back on the plane,’ says Sutton. ‘It was a real mission. We had to bribe the airport officials. And then it was a really, really bad flight. People were crying. As soon as it touched down, everyone was waaaa-heeeeyyyyy because we’d got back home.’

I discovered this a few months ago, and I really love the Seefeel & Bark Psychosis bits. Bass on both is great.

Ah, reminds me of this article by Mark Pritchard (of Reload) about this, his worst tour ever: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2011/07/mark-pritchards-worst-tour-ever/

The bass player from Seefeel's energy compared with the guitarist is unintentionally hilarious, with him basically stomping and gurning and mouthing along to his dub bassline the whole time while his bandmate's like 'eh mate, d'you mind, I'm just trying to chill out and e-bow these guitar strings over here'

I think he's also pissed off at the monitoring (and possibly the whole surrounding situation). All the drummers seem to be struggling with any sequenced stuff, especially hard for Bark Psychosis cos there's that part that runs through in a different time signature. Great bass but no bass player. A John Ling has a single credit in Discogs from 2002 aside from Bark Psychosis.

Wow at Seefeel bassist (Daren). He must have been on lots of drugs. Kind of scary!

Huh, just watched that, which is awesome. The Bark Psychosis drummer is literally the only ever drummer I've ever seen playing one of those Remo spoxe things outside of Terry Bozzio and maybe the guy from Primus.

Lol, Seefeel bassist is on some "Send Me An Angel" bassist shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R6WIbx8ysE

Look forward to watching this. The promoter that was mentioned (Nick Hobbs) is almost definitely the same guy who was in The Shrubs, who were a pretty good noisy Beefheart-influenced band on Ron Johnson Records in the late 80s. Before that though he managed Henry Cow. Sad for him that it all went so shit-shaped