If music is sport then rehearsal rooms are the practice nets.

We are not a "live electronic act", we are a band that has a no guitar & drums policy. It's less about shaking your tits on the dance floor and more about sitting in the pit of despair. Its more about searching for the light than standing in it and its more about trying to short circuit your audiences neural pathways than it is about pleasing the crowd.



During the breaks at training last night Ponyloaf enjoyed the sounds of a new brisbane team thats playing with Shuriken et al. on Feb 7 at an event called DIY Muthafucker (I think they were called Sephora?). They rocked out in that nicely instrumental post punkrock kind of way thats got that noisy experimentalism and agressive melodic metal edge. I recommend it. One of them (Cam?) described our new stuff as "like the faint but with a darker edge". I like that. I think its like dance bent into some kind of instrumental electro-gothic experiment.



Most live electronic acts opt to forego visits to the conventional live music incubator that is the rehearsal room institution and i think there might be something in that. In the practice nets music is meticulously coordinated through team communication, game plans are established and space created to leave individual players enough freedom to make an inspired play when the opportunity arises. Its not free jazz, but its not quite choreography either. Walking around the rehearsal room you will hear the full spectrum of human emotion being thrashed out of instruments. music is about communication and ideas.