Lots more live recordings from recent Tuesdays Post gigs have been posted on our Soundcloud page - check them out below.

Our next gig is also as part of Tuesdays Post, on Tuesday 15th July. Details here.



Os, July 2014

Tags: Tuesdays Post

Tags: Tuesdays Post

From our recent gig at David’s Books & Music, Letchworth UK.

Darkroom at David's Books and Music 15/3/2014 part 1 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Darkroom at David's Books and Music 15/3/2014 part 2 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Darkroom at The Barbican 15/8/2013 on Vimeo.

Solo performance by Andrew Ostler of Darkroom, at the London Music Hackspace Performance Night, part of Hack The Barbican 2013.
http://musichackspace.org/
http://hackthebarbican.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/201356546697193/

Andrew Ostler at The Barbican 15/8/2013 on Vimeo.

Os, August 2013

Darkroom are pleased to be part of Hack The Barbican. Os will be doing a solo slot at the Music Hackspace Performances@HacktheBarbican in association with the London Music Hackspace.

Os, August 2013

Our set from the London Live-looping Festival, 14th July 2013, at the Strongroom Bar, London. Very nice review of this by Georgina Brett here.

Darkroom at the London Live-looping Festival 2013 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os, July 2013

Tags: loopfest

Darkroom will be playing at the London Live-looping Festival 2013, alongside Rick Walker, Matt Stevens, The Lucid Brain Integrative Project, Iris Garrelfs, David Cooper Orton and Georgina Brett.

Event page on Facebook is here, or for the non-Facebookers here.


Os, June 2013

Tags: loopfest

Our first set at the Tuesdays Post gig at The Paradise Bar, 5th February 2013:

Darkroom at The Paradise Bar 5/2/2013 on Vimeo.

Our second set at the Tuesdays Post gig at The Paradise Bar, 5th February 2013, for which we were joined by Georgina Brett:

Darkroom and Georgina Brett at The Paradise Bar 5/2/2013 on Vimeo.

Os, February 2013

Tags: video

Two videos from late last year, both at the Troyganic Cafe, London, at events organised by the Music Hackspace.

Darkroom at Troyganic Cafe 8/11/2012 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os from Darkroom at Troyganic 13/12/2012 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os, February 2013

Tags: video

We managed to video all of our recent mini-tour, and the videos are now in our Vimeo channel.

You can also see the gigs in their pages in our Gigograph: here, here and here.

Os, October 2012

Tags: video

We have three gigs coming up in the next week and a half, all in London. See facebook.com/darkroomtheband/events for details.
Os, September 2012

August 2012 saw the first Darkroom gig in quite some time which was just Os and Mike. On 7th August we played at Tuesdays Post, a “monthly night of post-avantegarde post-minimal post-ambient live music in West London W10”.

We played as a duo for about 30 minutes, and were then joined on stage by gig organiser and vocal loop artist Georgina Brett. We videoed the whole lot, and the videos are below. Enjoy!

Darkroom at Tuesdays Post 7/8/12 part 1 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Darkroom at Tuesdays Post 7/8/12 part 2 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Darkroom at Tuesdays Post 7/8/12 part 3 feat. Georgina Brett from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os, August 2012

Tags: video

After an approximately 18 month hiatus, Improvizone swung back into action in March 2012. You can read about the gig here or here.

There are seven videos from this gig, the first of which is below.

Improvizone #34 part 1 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os, August 2012

Tags: Improvizone, video

This video is the 'official' video shot from the back of the room by the organisers, and the audio is simply the mix that was sent to the PA.

Darkroom at the Köln Loopfest 2011 (official video/desk audio) from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Os, May 2011

Tags: video, loopfest

Video shot from my camcorder, which was hanging from the ceiling, hence the slightly odd angle. Audio from my own recording, made on the laptop as we were playing.

Darkroom at the Köln Loopfest 2011 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

My photos of the weekend. There are plenty more on Facebook from the various performers.

Os, April 2011

Tags: loopfest, video

Darkroom will be playing at the 2nd International Köln Loopfest on April 2nd 2011.

Os and Mike will be joined by Andrew Booker on electronic drums.



Os, March 2011

Tags: loopfest

Here are the videos from four Improvizone gigs in April-June this year. These really chronicle the introduction of the modular synth into the IZ lineup, which often takes things in quite a different direction to previous gigs.






Os, November 2010

Tags: Improvizone

This Wednesday (7th April), for the first time in over ten years, we’ll be playing at CB2, Cambridge, as part of Improvizone.

Do join us if you can.

Os, April 2010

Tags: Improvizone

The Vimeo pages are here and here. Another two outings for the Juno, now triggered from a Moog MP-201 pedal, and Mike continues to bring new pedals along, most recently an Eventide TimeFactor.




Os, April 2010

Tags: video, Improvizone

Mike and I are playing at the three forthcoming Improvizone gigs. These are

* Wed 03 March 2010 - last.fm event
* Wed 31 March 2010 - last.fm event
* Wed 21 April 2010 - last.fm event

and all are taking place at The Plough, E17.

Watch www.improvizone.com/gigs.php for updates, for example details of the other musicians playing.

Os, January 2010

Tags: Improvizone

The Vimeo page is here. Vintage synths fans might particularly enjoy the sound of my Juno 6, which made its live debut at this gig.



Os, July 2009

Tags: video, Improvizone

Here's our entire set at the recent Antwerp Loopfest:

Darkroom at The Antwerp Loopfest 2009 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

Watch in HD and comment on the Vimeo page.

The gig was not without its problems - e.g. our monitoring going a bit, well, broken between the sound check and the gig - but we came away happy with the result.

Os, June 2009

Tags: video, loopfest

The Vimeo page is here. Things start slowly but pick up in part 4.



Os, May 2009

Tags: video, Improvizone

The Vimeo page is here. Parts 2 and 4 are especially good IMHO.



Os, April 2009

Tags: video, Improvizone

As threatened, I took a huge amount of video at the last Improvizone gig - in fact, I recorded the whole thing. Which made seven movies which you can see in the rather fancy widget below - or go to the actual Vimeo page where you can see them larger, leave comments etc.



Os, April 2009

Tags: Improvizone, video

Mike and I will be playing as part of Improvizone semi-regularly starting this Wednesday (March 25th) until July:
* Wed 25 March 2009
* Wed 08 April 2009
* Wed 29 April 2009
* Wed 20 May 2009
* Wed 10 June 2009 (Mike only)
* Wed 01 July 2009

Os, March 2009

Tags: Improvizone

It's official - we're off to Antwerp this May to play at the Antwerp Loopfest. Or, to give it its full title, the EUROPEAN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL ‘09 ANTWERP MAY 30.

The official festival site is here.

Once more we'll be joined by drummer Andrew Booker. Apparently the whole festival is going to be recorded, so watch out for details on that sometime after May 30th, I guess.

See you there!

Os, March 2009

Tags: loopfest, andrew booker

I took a fair amount of video at the last Improvizone gig. The one you see here is the first 40 minutes or so, and the first 10 minutes of that Andy was still setting up the venue, while Mike and I essentially opened the night with a brief Darkroom set, joined by Nick on bass after a short while.


Improvizone #20 - the first 40 minutes from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

The remaining videos are linked from the gig page. I've ordered a larger memory stick for the camcorder, so next time there should be even more to enjoy/wade through.

Os, Feb 2009

Tags: Improvizone, video

Os and Mike will be playing as part of Improvizone again:

Improvizone returns to The Plough in Walthamstow on Thursday 05 February 2009 for the first gig of this year. The players will be the familiar quartet of Plough regulars, namely Michael Bearpark (guitar), Os (keyboard/laptop), Nick Cottam (bass) & Andrew Booker (electronic drums).

Read more here.
Facebook event page here.
Last.fm event page here.

Os, Jan 2009

Tags: Improvizone

Os and Mike performing with Andrew Booker (drums) and Simon Laffy (bass) at the recent Improvizone gig.


Improvizone at Switch, October 7th 2008 from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo.

os, Oct 2008

Tags: Improvizone, video, andrew booker, simon laffy

Darkroom will effectively be playing at the Woodford Festival on October 7th, as part of Improvizone. We'll be playing with Andrew Booker, the drummer on Some Of These Numbers Mean Something, and bassist Simon Laffy.
More info on the event page on Facebook or the Improvizone site.

os, Sept 2008

Tags: Improvizone, andrew booker, simon laffy

Some gigs to announce, all under the Improvizone banner.

• 23rd May 2008 at The Design Museum, London. Mike can't make it sadly. Playing will be myself (Os), Andrew Booker and Steve Lawson.
• 28th May 2008 at Ember, London. Ember, against all our expectations, has re-opened after the fire that cancelled our residency earlier this year. It'll be Mike & myself, plus Andrew Booker and Simon Laffy - a repeat of the line-up at our last Ember gig.
• 4th June 2008 at The Plough, Walthamstow. It'll be Mike & myself, plus Andrew Booker and Nick Cottam.

See you all there, no doubt.

os, May 2008

Tags: Improvizone, Ember, The Plough, Design Museum

Wednesday 27th Feb: To Croydon, for the Dragon's Ball at the Green Dragon. Darkroom + Andy Booker, or Improvizone with Mike & Os? (Not sure if there's a difference...) Supporting Croydon-based Burning Shedders, The Resonance Association. Thanks Daniel.

We were billed as 'lo-fi dreamy techno' (!) The theory was we'd play drones with percussion... but to me, the venue didn't seem right for that, and it's definitely not what came out. Haven't heard the recording back yet - but towards the end,  I remember picking up on something Os played and thinking "no echo & maximum fuzz". Darkroom go ambient metal?

The fuzzulator helped make this work: www.demeteramps.com/products/accessories/fuz1.html Small but flexible, it handles vintage, gargly non-linear as well as brutal, bright & focussed with compressed lows. Varying the guitar's volume & tone does something useful as well, and given I typically use a volume pedal after the fuzz, there's a whole range of tones to explore even without echo. Somehow last Wednesday I rediscovered this!

Audio & video to follow...

Mike, March 2008

Update: Andy has written about the gig on the Improvizone blog.

Tags: gig, pedals, fuzzulator

We have a gig on Wednesday 27th Feb 2008, at The Green Dragon, Croydon. We're supporting The Resonance Association. There's a Facebook event for this gig here.

As for the Norwich Loopfest, we'll be joined by Andrew Booker on electronic drums.

Tags: Croydon, TRA

Sadly we have to report that the forthcoming gig at Ember on January 16th has been cancelled, due to the venue being closed after a serious fire on the premises.

Stay tuned for updates - quite possibly the next couple of gigs in January and February will also be cancelled, or moved to a new venue.

os, Jan 2008

Tags: Ember, Improvizone