Crash of Moons with Witchdoctor and Iran Iran

Wednesday 30th June, 2018
Bramley's, Canterbury

Another excellent Crash of Moons Club night, aided by the expanded COMC team. Witchdoctor (from Herne Bay) were sounding better than ever and dropped a cover of the Cardiacs' "Everything I Can't Eat" in the middle of their set. After a brief false start, Bristol's Iran Iran blew the roof off with their heavy noise/doom prog. They seemed amazed at the reaction (presumably used to a few blokes in the their 30s standing watching grimly) when the Canterbury crowd started throwing themselves around to the joyous racket that was being made. Crazy energy!

Perfect sound as always from Big Will on the mix.

I was back in action as COMC resident DJ, Professor Appleblossom. Here are my mixes (a Cardiacs-inspired set before Witchdoctor, morphing towards doom/math/postrock in the inter-band set and getting kinda disco in the post Iran Iran set). I got to play much longer than usual for that last set, great to see so many people dancing to such things as Lee Perry and Augustus Pablo's "Vibrate On", The Raincoats' "Ooh Ooh La La" and Orchestre Poly-rythmo de Cotonou.