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To further celebrate the recent release of Ministry of Defence files on unexplained phenomena, Testcard are playing an early evening gig at The Magnet, Hardman Street, Liverpool on Thursday 29 May hosted by Liverpool Sound City. Later that night Clash Magazine host an unmissable party at The Masque, with Four Tet, The Field and Hercules and Love Affair.

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Taking the Mickey

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Well its been a busy year since the last post! Testcard's long player 'Lines' is ready for release in June and has had airplay on BBC local and national radio already. We've a gig lined up for Liverpool Sound City and a trip to Cologne planned for later in the year. More regular missives than the past lax approach promised!

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Sonar 2007 A slice of Testcard and a sizeable chunk of The Hive Collective decamped to Barcelona for the fourteenth annual Sonar festival of progressive music and multimedia arts recently. For me, half the attraction of Sonar as a festival is the location; Barcelona is a city where days start slowly and nights can last a very long time indeed. Spread across two locations, three days and two

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Underground OvergroundSome mooching about in London took us to a couple of exhibitions that in theory should have chimed with the core Testcard aesthetic; the ICA’s exploration of the 1980s British underground, Secret Public and the V&A’s decidedly populist Kylie. In reality I found something bogus about both. I think in the case of The Secret Public this was through the organisers’ positioning

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Beautiful.

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Colleen and Triosk at FACTTwo thirds of Testcard also moonlight as part of The Hive Collective, or maybe its the other way round, anyway, Hive have been involved in putting on what can loosely be described as electronic music events across Liverpool over the best part of the past four years. The latest instalment was the first night of The Leaf Label's inaugural UK tour, featuring Colleen and

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Liverpool's finest designers, burneverything, were exhibiting their work in style on Tuesday night at Microzine, Bold Street. Original printing plates for the best of the agencies music design adorned the walls of the shop's top floor, once a splendid ballroom above a butchers. I 'spun' as much weird disco action as is decent at an event attended by many dedicated noiseniks, drawn both to the

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Punk SunbedLast weekend was a veritable frenzy of 'card related activity, incorporating new excursions in debauchery, technical itches, sleep deprivation and gardening. Highlight of the weekend for me was undoubtedly deejaying hazily at an event held at The Static Gallery, home to the mighty Burn, among others. Appropriately enough the sonorous voice of the Lord kicked off this Good Friday event

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Its a busy time at the moment for the 'card; the recent gig with The Whip and Indica Ritual was fun and the cd is now mastered and sounding mighty fine, tracks on myspace site soon. Shame life got in the way of the London gig but hope to get down to get down in June. Upcoming gigs: Pinups at the Korova 5th April and a Sunday session at The Performance Room 8th April.

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Testcard are playing in Clapham, South London Sunday 11 March, more details to follow.South London is probably not the first place I'd associate with the 'card; my fond memories are pretty much focussed on SE5 and populated with jungle, shrink wrapped Classics, forays to the Cool Tan, more jungle and the municipal tourist bus that is the No.12.The track below kind of sums that time up, check the

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Testcard will be supporting The Whip on Tuesday 27th Feb, at Liverpool Barfly.

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Office Sounds#1 We dig Repetition Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians' has lent an unwarranted mysticism to the mundane journey to and from the office this week. Gazing drowsily out of the window, railworkers suddenly appear in threes, tinkering in unknowing synchronisation; minnow-like cars dart around and striplights flicker on as if for the first time. Except of course they don't. Its

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Testcard in full concentration. Festive Flat Festival, Liverpool, December 2006.

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The dark art of marketing, Liverpool Music Week, 2006.

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Sonar 2006#1Two thirds of Testcard spent most of last week holidaying it up, with good company, in the delightful surrounds of Barcelona for the 13th year of the Sonar festival. Its a great festival in a great city which always manages to offer up unexpected surprises. In 2004, these surpises included a

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A strange week culturally for the Testcard. It started with Robin Guthrie doing his shimmery guitar washes over some accompanying film at the Picturehouse in Liverpool. The problem was that the sound was the worst I have ever heard at a gig. There was a horrible crackling noise every time the volume went over 1AM in a flat next door to a psychopathic postman level. Subsequently it didn't really

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Cutty Ranks has 'guested' on Testcard live set endtune 'Sometimes is Never Enough' a few times...check a younger Mr Ranks in a more usual setting below.

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Went to see Susan Meiselas 'Intimate Strangers' yesterday, the new exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery here in Liverpool. It juxtaposes images shot at New York's Pandora's Box, the S&M club central to Nick Broomfield's documentary Fetishes, with a slideshow of images of smalltown carnival stripshows in the early seventies, narrated by interviews with the strippers, their managers, boyfriends and

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Good friend of Testcard, Strcprstskrskrk, or D for short, left for Europe this week to spend time in the delightful surrounds of Prague writing books and listening out for new noise. To mark this moment we checked out some of D's recommendations whilst in Amsterdam over the weekend. The favourite of which was 11 - kind of a 'pseudo squat nouveau' restaurant/bar/club housed on the eleventh floor

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Hey cosmonaut! The below mix of quirky delights is perfectly timed to get you from home to office in an upbeat mood. Tracklisting: Mito-Unit (Missing, 1983); Harry Thumann-The Sphinx (Cosmic Dancer rerelease, 2005); Yello-Bostich (Phonogram remaster, 2005); Tantra-A Place Called Tarot (Disconet Programme Service, 1982); Theme from 'The Warriors'(Polygram rerelease, 1995); Knight Action-Single

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Testcard's inspirational radio broadcasts begin transmission soon. Loosely affiliated to the mysterious Dialogue Disco Supreme Team, these shows proffer a bespoke blend of life-coaching, cosmic disco, motivational mantras, exquisite ee-tah-low and enough dancefloor detritus to liven up any flagging office or dinner party. Lifetime guaranteed to maximise both aural enjoyment and tax long held

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Here’s a flyer for Anni Hogan’s new electro night at Spirit bar in Manchester. She’s put together a cracking line up including Cagedbaby, Ladytron and erm… us. Any road, we’re pleased to be involved as not only is Anni is a good friend, she’s also a bit of a musical legend. Aside from working with Marc Almond for many years she’s made records with Foetus, Nick Cave and Barry Adamson, collaborated

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Testcard are currently trying to remix a pop tune - 'plastic funk'- hopefully twisting the dayglo friday night jollity of the original tune through jaded filters to create something new and doubtless darker. This shifting from one mood to another is kind of the reverse of Acid Pauli's bootleg/mashup of Johnny Cash's classic Will Oldham cover. Given Acid Pauli's pedigree as member of Console /

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Well, back to work after the holidays and everything seems to be bathed in that really harsh, cold light that only seems to happen in the new year and you've vowed to give up booze and general indulgence. So here's a reminder of late summer, Testcard's video for the Strangest of Times. This was filmed in Blackpool by our good friend Edwin Pink. It's variously been described as 'Gilbert and George

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It’s Tuesday night and I’m back in Liverpool after a Christmas spent in various living rooms in various parts of the country. Liverpool, for those of you unfamiliar with the city, is situated directly between hard rock and disco. I discovered this courtesy of the rhythm presets of the lovely Lesley speakered Hammond organ that my dad seems to have acquired since my last visit. It’s actually

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We’re in the middle of a power cut and the only things working in the house are my laptop and the gasfire. The whole surrounding area is completely dark and silent which is really spooky and a tad post-apocalyptic. This combination of factors puts me in mind of Fad Gadget’s ‘Fireside Favourite’, a cheery post-apocolyptic love song to a muse whose face is melting. As it’s nearly Christmas and we’

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I’m going out for my ‘works do’ this evening which I guess marks the start of the ‘party season’ or something. In celebration here’s a heartwarming seasonal tale of homoerotic party flirting from Bobby O. It alludes to behaviour clearly off the agenda tonight. The protagonist seems to be in a state of some excitement after making eye contact with someone who he wants to show ‘what it’s like to

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I know little about Autumn except they sound european, they weave a melancholy tale of love lost and they drop a kick ass solo at the end of this fabulous track.Autumn - A Night in June

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We’re just in the process of finishing a song inspired by memories of hearing holiday hits in Germany, Spain and Portugal when I was a kid. I was trying to go for the type of massive synth hook that you always seemed to hear on disco pop records coming out of beach bars and beautiful Italian men’s cars in Lido de Jeslo in 1984. I don’t know whether we’ve achieved it but here’s something that

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Ok, as Rob mentioned earlier, the Dialogue Disco Supreme Team is in effect on Thursday 8th at the Mercy AGM bash at Korova on Fleet Street. Expect disco fun from about 11pm...

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Our good friend Alextronic sent us a nice picture of Testcard supporting Twitch from the Glasgow nightclub Optimo. This was a legendary night in Testcard lore as not only did it mean playing along side one of the best DJs in the UK, but the gig took place in a Kebab house and was part of the dear departed Lost Soul, probably our favourite club night in recent history. Needless to say, much

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24 Hour Party People.It was my first experience of 24 hour drinking in the UK last weekend. We ventured out to the launch party for a new VJ culture website at the Cali. The setup was really impressive with massive projections on every wall and a load of bands playing at the front of the bar. It was really rammed with a nice atmosphere. Matt thought it had a London squat party vibe so we drank

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OK, so the idea was to do a blog about our group Testcard. It’s kind of an electrodiscopop project with lyrics about suburban ennui, middle management angst, the seven year itch and going to the gym. However, considering our activities are fairly intermittent this will probably be a space for us to do whatever takes our fancy. Matt Testcard is also one half of the Dialogue Disco Supreme Team, a

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do you want to dance?

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Testcard live at Hive, FACT Centre, 2004

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