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2009 was a strange and pivotal year for Teeth of the Sea, as we moved from the realm of smoke-scented and lager-lit rehearsal rooms to a wilder world. ‘Orphaned by the Ocean’ - our debut album - came out in January, startling no-one more than the band themselves when it attracted plaudits from heads the like of band godhead Julian Cope and Terrascope. Yet one of the biggest mind-benders came whilst traversing the country in our first short tour, with NYC leviathans Oneida.
There were certain totemic records which were the raw materials for TOTS’ s chimerical and not always coherent racket in these days - we’re talking about the like of Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Comets on Fire, Big Business, Shit & Shine, Marnie Stern, and Zombi amongst a whole host of other often American bezerkers destroying eardrums in dingy basement venues, mixing an avant-garde sensibility with a monomaniacal urge to crank up the volume and the intensity.
Ever since we’d heard 2002's ‘Each One Teach One’, Oneida had been one of the most potent of these, and it was therefore a strange honour to be sharing stages with this band, one who may have been light years ahead of us as musicians but whose sensibilities - we flatter ourselves - were somewhat simpatico with our own.
All of this came to a head at The Garage in Highbury, North London, on Tuesday August 18th, at which the combination of the volume, the summer climes, the sense of occasion, and Johnny O’s incendiary and mind-melting light show combined to provide something akin to an out of body experience for those of us onstage.
Unbeknownst to us, a chap in the audience by the name of Chris Booker was recording the whole thing. When we stumbled across the recording thanks to him nearly thirteen years later, it was a not unflattering Proustian rush given this was seemingly one of the only gigs we managed that year where we all stayed in tune. We figured the chills were probably worth sharing, so here’s twenty minutes of it, a strange holiday snap of a band watching the stars align in front of their very eyes.
credits
released April 1, 2022
Teeth of the Sea:
Sam Barton - Trumpet, bass
Mike Bourne - Synths, guitar, electronics
Mat Colegate - Drums
Jimmy Martin - Guitar, synth, tapes
Original Audience Recording by Chris Booker
Mastered by Tom Langrish
Cover Art by Chris Reeder
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during the English Civil War, five men convened in a field where they stared into the void and had a bad time
some years later, five different fellows retraced this event and wrought from it an excellent sonic journey which is most definitely not a bad time
put your headphones on and let the field take you sky · ghost