@ The Klondyke Club in Levenshulme, Manchester on Oct 14th is being headlined by one of the fathers of psychedelic and prog rock music, Kevin Ayers. Kevin was the founder of The Soft Machine, one ofBritains first underground psyche/prog rock groups and the band whichgave rise to the whole Canterbury scene of bands such as Gong,Caravan, National Health and countless others. The original SoftMachine is often associated with Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd as theyfrequently played together in the heyday of London's psychedelic era.Hendrix was a fan too as he chose the Softs to accompany the Hendrix experience on their first US tour. As a solo artist Kevin has worked with Briano Eno, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hillage, Lol Coxhill and John
Cale.
He is supported by some local acts who happen to be two of the bestmodern day psychedelic-influenced bands: Say Jansfield and samandtheplants. Say Jansfield hail from Nelson and their leader, Jay Stansfield, was in John Peel and Manchester underground faves EleMenT (later tRANSELEMENt) who played on the Peel show a number of times and have fans worldwide. samandtheplants are a highly eclectic Rochdale-based band signed to Twisted Nerve records who recently
opened for the Incredible String Band at the Moseley folk festival.
The name of the event is an attempt to raise public awareness of the holographic universe theory, the upcoming (2011/2012) dimensional shift and the suppresion/lack of development funding for free, clean (so called 'zero point') energy devices- the availability of which would help fight poverty, pollution and the energy crisis.
See http://cheniere.org for more info on the latter.
Tickets are £12.50 and are available from http://www.ticketline.co.uk/ or 0870 444 5556
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