What a splendid afternoon of music it was with Power Down at the Treehouse Gallery in Regents Park yesterday, and not even a whiff of torrential rain this time. The Treehouse Gallery was a couple of tree houses erected in Regents Park this summer, which hosted many and various activities and workshops, performances and lectures. For the last day of habitation before they were dismantled Power Down was asked to put on some music for the occasion.
Rebecca Jade
We were staged halfway up a huge tree of unknown genus, with the capacity for about 30 people, all sat on stumps of log, the wooden floor, and a couple of tatty sofas. Plenty of curious passersby came up for a quick look and listen, and ended up staying for hours. The sun was gradually descending in the west, behind the mosque, bouncing off the boating lake, and through the branches of the trees, to make a delightful back drop.
With slight competition from some electricity maniacs in the space below us, the decision was made to evolve from the trees to the long grassy savannahs of the park out of ear shot from the intrusive PA.
Will Miles
And what a move it was. Like the freedom an ignorant caged animal has no idea exists, beyond the realms of it’s imagination, we dropped into the long grass, frolicking with grasshoppers and mosquitoes, and continued.
As the penultimate act finished, so the light perished. The final act went back beneath the trees to join the electricity maniacs, and struck up a powered down dance hall of sylvanian klezmer.
Citizen Helene and the Racists
Shadowed figures grabbed at each other and swung themselves around to the rough rhythms in their heads. An orgy of primal passions ensued, which would have seemed quite normal were it not for the lights of uncivilisation peaking at us through the vegetation.
Must it end? Can progress be arrested? Does the Pope shit in the woods? So back to our cosy flats we went, with our outsourced power sources and myriad statuses to update.
Thank you to all that played and came. A list of who played in order is listed below.
Power Down’s sylvanian affair
The view from the tree house
What a splendid afternoon of music it was with Power Down at the Treehouse Gallery in Regents Park yesterday, and not even a whiff of torrential rain this time. The Treehouse Gallery was a couple of tree houses erected in Regents Park this summer, which hosted many and various activities and workshops, performances and lectures. For the last day of habitation before they were dismantled Power Down was asked to put on some music for the occasion.
Rebecca Jade
We were staged halfway up a huge tree of unknown genus, with the capacity for about 30 people, all sat on stumps of log, the wooden floor, and a couple of tatty sofas. Plenty of curious passersby came up for a quick look and listen, and ended up staying for hours. The sun was gradually descending in the west, behind the mosque, bouncing off the boating lake, and through the branches of the trees, to make a delightful back drop.
With slight competition from some electricity maniacs in the space below us, the decision was made to evolve from the trees to the long grassy savannahs of the park out of ear shot from the intrusive PA.
Will Miles
And what a move it was. Like the freedom an ignorant caged animal has no idea exists, beyond the realms of it’s imagination, we dropped into the long grass, frolicking with grasshoppers and mosquitoes, and continued.
As the penultimate act finished, so the light perished. The final act went back beneath the trees to join the electricity maniacs, and struck up a powered down dance hall of sylvanian klezmer.
Citizen Helene and the Racists
Shadowed figures grabbed at each other and swung themselves around to the rough rhythms in their heads. An orgy of primal passions ensued, which would have seemed quite normal were it not for the lights of uncivilisation peaking at us through the vegetation.
Must it end? Can progress be arrested? Does the Pope shit in the woods? So back to our cosy flats we went, with our outsourced power sources and myriad statuses to update.
Thank you to all that played and came. A list of who played in order is listed below.
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke
Marmaduke Dando
Alys and the D90s
Liam Bailey
Rebecca Jade
Moonshine Milly
Will Miles
Monooka
Citizen Helene and the Racists
Melusine