Weightless overseeing of your living and sleeping

Welcome back, dear beam dreamers!

We return with glistening wounds fresh from doing battle until sunrise, last Saturday 28th May at They Live We Sleep – Underdog Gallery’s big launch party next door to their new premises on London’s Crucifix Lane.

There we beamed our retina tickling lights at a throng of party-goers in the upstairs “chill-out” room (a room which, conversely, was quickly transformed into the dancing and partying room!) while stoner noise rock bands freaked out on a makeshift stage in the main hall – a vast cavernous underground industrial space underneath the London Bridge railway arches.

Phasers set to stun

How transcendently pleasing it was to see the slides we’d spent every spare moment of the prior 2 weeks creating and hand-painting (with black masks so that the central figure of the image would appear to float in the midst of the pulsating lava) floating above the melee like benevolent yet weightless overseers of the proceedings.

Benevolent overseers

Despite combining our exhausting heavy light work with a crowd-pleasing DJ set of ’60s and early ’70s psychedelia that successfully populated the dancefloor with a frenzy of balloon-fueled revelry…

Balloon-fuelled revelry

…we managed to catch the transcendent yet shadowy and industrial Gum Takes Tooth out in the main cavern. A fantastic ritualistic performance (main man Eugene sported a replica Lucifer jacket, as worn by Leslie Huggins in Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising) that encouraged the feeling of being part of some portentous underground cult.

Rising...

By 8am we had widdershinned back to our crypt in a taxi,  our kit loaded into its guts – and with a heavy but satisfied feeling were drifting into dreams of luminescent fantasies yet to be realised.

Until our vectors next converge, friends – stay switched on until we next tune in…