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releases... review... Ever changing, growing and
evolving, aptly Shapeshifter continue to live up to their name and
shape-shift, now with a reasonably steady eight piece line-up! It's been fun
playing live this past year and a half with them, and to see how we are
moving steadily towards a more eccentric psychedelic music, especially since
the addition of a violinist playing in excessive Simon House (Third Ear Band,
Hawkwind) fashion. Recently we've played as support to Daevid Allen (yes, I
can actually say I've been on stage with Daevid Allen!), along with Spacehead
(featuring Graham Clarke and an ex-Krel bassist). It's a continuing
adventure, and I wonder where we'll go next? Incidentally, Shapeshifter were
recently judged "too marginal" for the tastes of the audience at
the yearly Leicester Abbey Park Festival, so we're obviously doing something
right! As Maureen so often says "If you thought that was weird, things
can only get weirder!" and they often do. A recent fun experience was
playing in a field on a warm summer evening in Ashton Flamville, with campers
children wanting me to "make the spaceship take-off again!" If you
get this Audion in time, note that Shapeshifter are playing at The Physio
& Firkin, Leicester on Thursday 29 October. by Alan Freeman in Audion #40 (autumn 1998) "Borderland" |
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