Bill Drummond and The17 – Northampton Fish Market

On Saturday I took part in a performance in Northampton, England of the17 organised by Bill Drummond. It began in the Northampton Fish Market Gallery.
Bill Drummond is an art agitator in the UK that has been involved in a number of psychologically challenging projects (burning a million quid, taking an effigy of Elvis to [...]

All is Calm?

Dear Reader,
Hoping you are having a good December so far!?
I’d like to invite you to download, for free, my version of Silent Night.
Silent Night – mp3 version
This version of Silent Night was recorded when I was living in Kerala for 2 years recording with Carnatic musicians. When I recorded it the backdrop was the [...]

All Together Now

A blogworthy week of music events in the lead up to the Flying Mountain Extravaganza gig on Friday 22nd June at the Green Room Manchester…………with The Good Hurt as the house band.
Monday 18th June
Get a text from rapper Brother Ghazi that’s he’s pulling out of the show on Friday because he’s seeing family in Liverpool. [...]

Planet of the Apes 4Brains

Recently I undertook a one-off concert with my band The Good Hurt where we themed the visual side of the show on the movie The Planet of the Apes. By that I mean we dressed up in white boiler suits and had a French VJ (Emmanuelle) broadcast and remix the original movie onto our clothes [...]

The Good Hurt

Kick This Habit of You
My new band The Good Hurt was formed in Manchester late in 2006. We’re now playing live in the NW England and it is about time that I dropped a little blog about how the band got together and who is in it and all o’ that.
I was wanting to get [...]

100 Fields – Each One Was a Jewel

100 Fields
If ever I did a Zeitgeist Orchestra recording without knowing it fully at the time then it was definitely ‘100 Fields’. This record is now available (hear some) but here’s my story of where, who, what and why…
Somehow, somewhere I was drawn to black gospel music as manifest in America during a time where [...]

VIDEO : Bismillah Khan the great Shennai player dies

I got a phone call yesterday from Greece to tell me that the great Shennai player from India, Ustad Bismillah Khan, had died of a heart attack. His health had been bad for a while and his playing had naturally reached it’s peak a few years ago.
The gentle genius of Bismillah Khan is perhaps single [...]

VIDEO : HLI+Drongomala Sat12thAug – Birmingham

Footage links below to the recent gig by HLI and Drongomala at the Rainbow, Digbeth in Birmingham. Footage has a blend of daytime messing around aswell. This was a fundraiser for earthquake victims. Camcorder quality sound…..H(B)ollywood please call.
Filmed by MiMi and edited by AntKnee
Part 1 – hanging out and rehearsing
Part 2 – ElectroRaga
Part 3 – [...]

Newspaper Article: When Hoodies Attack (ElectroRaga)

southmancreporter-electroraga attack
Originally uploaded by drongomala.
One of the local newspapers caught on to our little drama at the ElectroRaga dawn gig in Chorlton, Manchester.
Feel free to leave comments on their site….already the rights and wrongs of what we did is being debated….
The article is replete with misquotes and made up bits – [...]

ElectroRaga VIDEO : Malkauns (midnight) 23/7/06 Red Light Area, Manchester

Malkauns is a dark brooding raga. PLayed late night. (see my article ‘Robert Johnson, The Cross Roads and Malkauns)
This gig like the rest wasn’t agreed…..thing is it wasn’t the authorities we were worried about it was the lawless…..this one was in the red light district of Manchester. Watch out for a cameo by Mick Jagger.