Crash of Moons Hallowe'en special

Thursday 31st October 2019
UCA Bar, Canterbury

An incredible night! The World Peng/Peng Wei crew kicked things off with an esoteric ritual, which then evolved into an incredible live hiphop set, backed Oli on sax, Rachel on drums and Luke on bass — a last minute ensemble, running on adrenaline and minimal rehearsal and sounding seriously dangerous. Laszlo a.k.a. Humble Pious and Remi Rorschach spat bars in crazy pagan/shamanic gangsta costume (the band and ritual participants all looked pretty incredible, as did a lot of the audience) and got the party started.

World Peng at Crash of Moons Club

Lapis played in full costume, starting with a "horror jam" (incredible! but sadly unrecorded) before going into "Hired Soul" (their 4/4 floorfiller) and then covering "Ghostbusters" (Neil, looking like some kind of interdimensional leprechaun from a ketamine vision, singing in a silly voice, with Luke shouting the "Ghostbusters!" reply). "Thriller" also got covered (Adam, in devil horns, still a massive MJ fan, getting to intone the Vincent Price spoken word part, from behind his drums). Finally, Clusters of Eyes (the Hatton brothers from Deal on bass, drums and robot vocals, plus Lord Richard of Sealand on theremin and electronics) blew everyone away with their live rave set.

As resident DJ Professor Appleblossom I tried to find some genuinely frightening music (as opposed to "spooky" Hallowe'en novelty tunes), check it out:

The next night, a planned woodland event I was involved with (involving a walkabout and some dark modular synthesis) had to be cancelled due to the horrific weather forecast... the weather never really showed up, but I did find myself DJing over at a little house party on Cossington Road, so here's another five hours of the Prof's party selections: