May's gig was the best we've done so far. We had a good turnout, and plenty of response (and occasionally abuse) from the audience, which was gratifying.

(We should give props to Billy and Janet for staying loyal to us during the dark days during the bloody arts festival when Katipo was empty.)

Musically it was a kind of back-to-basics affair. I reworked some more sprawly ambient stuff I did for the first gig, and Michael played a selection of odd stuff plus a dubout of the theme to the hit 1970s sitcom Taxi.

This was a kind of call-back to the first incarnation of Malty Media-ness a little over 10 years ago, where Michael and I did (for laughs) a recording of us doing strange things to various TV themes from a CD. While squelching the Wonder Woman theme (hmm, might try that again...) was hilarious, the effect of tripleted echoes on the Taxi theme was something else. Evocatively out of it, like looking at a warped old photograph, or something.

At that stage we (or at least he) had some proper musicking to do, but it's great we've been able to revisit that foolishness in more detail now. It also helps that with things like YouTube we can readily plunder the near-antiquity with great ease.

Other MM news: we've put together a track for an upcoming compilation on the super-secret (thus super-cool, surely) underground label Angry Rabbit. What the track is called we don't yet know, but it does feature the ravings of a mescalin survivor, and also the tromboning of my work colleague Jonathan Harker. Look forward to getting that out there.

That's all for now; as you were.