Synergy project event, 28th April 2006

The SEOne venue (London's largest nightclub, situated under the arches of London Bridge station) has long queues outside and security is letting people in slowly.

There's a guest queue, and another, much longer, queue for the folks who want to buy tickets. Arriving at 10.30, I appear to be the only person on the planet who bothered to buy a tic in advance, so some official guy parks me in the middle between
both queues and leaves me standing there. Oh. (Why?) I try to form an orderly queue of one, but after about 10 minutes I get cold and bored, so I start to wave my tic at the

security guys, who shake their heads at all this nonsense and let me pass swiftly.

Just as well - the ZubZub set starts at 11.00, they are the first live act on the main stage. Because people are trickling in slowly, there
aren't that many around at the beginning, but the floor fills up gradually throughout the 1.5 hour set, on of the longest I ever had the
pleasure of listening to!

Zub Zub line up for the night comprises (in alphabetical order, except
for the mastermind who had to be the first)
Zia with that laptop ;-)
Alex on guitar
Joie in synth
Jon on various flutes & related things
Mark (Mindflux) on percussion.

A few Zubettes are out, bouncing around in front of the stage like some very graceful

Easter bunnies on a spring lawn. As long as the guys
on stage play Hijra I'm a happy bunny too (they do). I just don't have that much bounce left in me. Not after a working week, anyway. There
are quite a few familiar faces in the crowd, if I list them the ones I forget will be annoyed, so a collective Hello! to you all. Many tracks
from Malicious Code get played and quite a few unfamiliar, presumably new, tunes. One, towards the end of the set, sounds exceptionally
spacey, it ends with some ocean wave type noises and I suspect it might feature on the next Zub album, considering that its working title has something to do with "waveforms". Although it might not necessarily be a good idea to apply logical thinking to these matters. However, if that track does make it onto the new CD, I'll go and buy it for that reason alone. There. I said it.
The sound is a bit uneven at times and some instruments have their very "loud moments". Which can be a detriment, but after years of straining my ears to breaking point, it makes a change to hear a Duduk coming in LOUDLY for once. Who would have thought it possible? It's better to be loud, anyway, 'cause the moment things quieten down the noise from a next door stage interferes.