July 2007

James May's 20th Century video

I appear like a fleeting ghost on James May's 20th Century: The Teenager, broadcast on BBC2, 24th July 07, playing Saint-Saens "The Swan" on a short piece about the theremin. See the video here

June 2007

Babyslave gig - Salford (Manchester)

Babyslave will also be making their first live appearance of 2007 with the Subterfuge Arts Group (alongside The Matinee Orchestra. and Slipped Disco) on Friday 15th June at Islington Mill in Salford. Further details of this event.
See a review of the Subterfuge event on the Babyslave blog.


November 2006

Sunday 5th November 2006, 8pm
The Goat, 1287 Argyle St
Glasgow, UK

New Release:
Dawn of The Replicants + Hypnotique

It was way back in November 1996 when Dawn Of The Replicants got their first EP "So Far So Spitfire" back from the factory. To celebrate their 10th birthday and the new singles album 'Bust the Trunk' hitting the shop, it's now time to light the candles on the cake and let that mother bake!

DAWN OF THE REPLICANTS ‘BUST THE TRUNK - The Singles'

Following in the long history of greatest hits 45 collections and golden moments, on their 10th anniversary Dawn Of The Replicants bring you a singles collection that rivals ‘Abba Gold’ and the ‘Complete Miles Davis’ in the category ‘most electrifying compilation’.

'Bust the Trunk’ pop’s the A-side padlock and lets you peek-a-boo through a stunningly diverse assortment of richly different tracks that will inspire and delight you. Fashions and trends blow like mists through the night but The Replicants have always delivered and here’s the proof... 22 tracks side by side like slices of granny’s gingerbread chew.

Features Hypnotique playing on the tracks:

- Everyone in Heaven is Afraid of Heights
- Smoke Without Fire

May 2006

TV SHOW, MONDAY MAY 8th, 5pm

Paul O'Grady Show, Channel 4, UK

Miss Hypnotique will appear as a special musical guest demonstrating the theremin with the aide of fellow guest, the king of daytime, GMTV's Eamon Holmes. Expect tame TV hijinks - ether diva style - and a tribute to the sinking of the Titanic. Show starts at 5pm on Monday 8th May, slot is likely to be around 5.45pm. Expect no rollovers. Stoke yourself a cuppa, sit back and wig out.
Watch the video of Paul O'Grady

THEREMIN ENSEMBLE LIVE SHOWS, Sat 6th and Sun 7th May, London

A night of a thousand theremins...

Masami Takeuchi, Japan's first professional thereminist and inventor of the Russian doll-shaped theremin, comes to London on his European tour. Together with 10 advanced students from Japan they have formed Mabel, the only existing theremin ensemble that can emulate a full orchestra. Through a variety of tones they imitate the sound of cellos, violins, flutes and even the human voice. This will be an awesome spectacle not to be missed!

You can check them out at:

Saturday May 6th, 8.30pm.

The George Tavern
373 Commercial Road
London E1 0LA

Entry: Donation of £2

The proceedings will be opened by me (Miss Hypnotique) and Bruce Woolley (Radio Science Orchestra) offering to the gods a few esoteric numbers and songs to whet the appetite…

Then the Japanese troop will playing at:

Sunday May 7th
Ginglik
1 Shepherds Bush Green, London, W12 8PH

Entry: ADVANCED BOOKINGS £6 CALL O7714 207 914
ON THE DOOR £8
DOORS 7PM, PERFORMANCE 8.30PM. BAR 7PM - 12.30AM

No plans for myself and Bruce to play that night yet - but I'll be there.

See Masami Takeuchi's website

NEW MUSIC

I have been 'experimenting' with a sharp change of musical direction: pop music, which is as dark and challenging as ever, but will you be able to tell when you're dancing to the pulsing, disco beats? Produced with the kind aide of the ever-dazzling DJ/producer/performer and Warp Records artist John Callaghan - check out the first results:

"You Lie! You Cheat!"
It's a tribute to girl power via Riot Grrl, Kirsty MacColl and the Buena Vista Social Club realised through Spanish-holiday style grooves, woodwind licks, megaphone expletitives, and an instrumental performed on an egg slicing device. I'm hoping it might make it as a B-side for the next Geri Halliwell release. It's on My Space thingy (dreadful but somehow useful):

http://www.myspace.com/misshypnotique

…and check out John Callaghan's website, too.

Let me know what you think of this new direction. I hope the track proves there's more to Hypnotique than disturbing lofi electro acoustic music, songs about genocide, infanticide, Victoriana and ritual murder!

Feb 2006

Hypnotique will be playing by Checkpoint Charlie as "someone in a pre-WWII Berlin nightclub is laughing", to quote Everett True. Hypnotique will be playing in Berlin on Sunday 5th Feb. Please email for more details as they are unveiled. As it that weren't reason enough to go East, Jean Jacques Perrey will be playing in Berlin on Monday 6th February. Cheap flights ahoy.


Dec 2005

Knowledge of Bugs + Hypnotique + theremin film
Friday 9th December, 8pm
Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK

From amidst his banks of circuitry and custom-built electronics comes a flowering of songwriting from Bristol based musician Knowledge of Bugs. New album The Shifted Sands - possibly the finest to come out of Bristol in 2005 - sees the travelling man cross varied terrain, from bleak baritone led chorales recalling Crescent to radiant electroacoustic folk more in keeping with Jim O' Rourke. Underpinning it all are gently turning guitar drones, fluid improvisational passages and subtle, effervescent electronics. A live performer with unique presence and know-how.

Tom Bugs welcomes theremin virtuoso Hypnotique to the Cube to celebrate the release. Orwellian nightmares and macabre real life tales meet in her live electro-cabaret show, as hypnotic ether sounds and surreal lunar landscapes transport the voyear from near drug induced euphoria to the obsessive despair of high Romanticism.


July 2005

Friday 8th July, 8pm (free entry)

Hypnotique live performance, support from Sector 13

Namaskar Rooms
56a Seaside Road
Eastbourne, Sussex, UK
Tel: 01323 730152

Launch of Public Address - a new international art show running from 3rd July to 28th August featuring artwork and performances by Albert Oehlen, Dr.Randall Phillip (Fuck Magazine), Foxtrot Echo (Coum Transmissions), Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus/Death in June), Hypnotique, Mike Rogers...and many more.

Curated by local Jase Williams (aka DK720), this subversive collection of degenerate fine and sculptural art will metaphorically have a bottle of bubbly smashed on its helm with a unique one-off performance by Hypnotique. Enter at your peril.

Other things to do whilst in Eastbourne:

- Meet your downfall on Beachy Head, the beautiful suicide capital of the world (iconicised in Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats", the inspiration behind the cover of Hypnotique's "The Hanging Garden")
- Visit the largest Military Museum in the southeast of England
- Get a full house at the Bingo Deluxe Club
- Visit a museum of Victorian shops. Toilet on premises
- Retire
- Die
Even more things to do in Eastbourne


February 2005

It’s not often a legend rolls into town…and less often they run into Oval (unless they’re a bowler…) but for one night only, Hypnotique’s cousin (although they bear a striking resemblance), Nikita Reisenberg a.k.a. “The Ether Diva”, the world’s greatest living theremin virtuoso, joins us all the way from Moscow to present a cabaret of ether waves and espionage, whilst en route to M15 in search of her English spy lover.

The date is Friday 11th Feb, venue is South London Pacific, 340 Kennington Road, London SE11, between Kennington & Oval tube. See for venue details.
Show starts 10.30pm. FREE to get in B4 9pm, £3 from 9 – 10pm, and £5 thereafter.

Other musical entertainment is provided by the venue’s house band “24-hour binge drinkers”, and DJs spinning laid-back exotic grooves and cocktail collections to groove on out to ‘til the wee hour of 2am.

* the people at this gig were so pissed it was a real battle of the Titans. There was a group of people on a work leaving do, the girls got so drunk they danced around in their underwear, and one of the walked out the toilet with her beaver on show. My god. And that was in front of their colleagues!

January 2005

Thursday January 20th - The Spitz, Commercial St, Spitafields Market, London E1 - 8pm

Another sell out "Wired Women" night celebrating the most original all female electronic music. (judging by general quality of acts that night, men can sleep safely in their electronic music king-size beds..please girls learn to play an instrument or do something other than get your tits out!!)

Ann Shenton (formerly of Add N to (x))*
Lolita Storm ^
Hypnotique
No Bra** ^

Tickets £5 on door. Hypnotique on stage 9pm.

* formerly being the operative word.
** quite literally. And no talent either.
^ One of them was a bloke. So much for an 'all female' night! ((bitchy, aren't I??)

November 2004

Switched on presents... early electronic oddities
Friday 29th November 7 - 8.30pm GMT on London's Resonance 104.4fm, or stream from www.resonancefm.com

An exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations more info...

September 2004

Hypnotique to perform a demonstation of the new Etherwave Pro theremin made by Moog Music with an appearance by Bob Moog at two promotional events in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 21 - 22 organised by Danish distributors, High End Tentacles. For further information visit the High End Tentacles website (in Danish)

July 2004

Monday July 26 - The Spitz, Commercial St, Spitafields Market, London E1 - 8pm

Sonic Boom
The Birds (feat Cotton Casino from Acid Mothers Temple)
Hypnotique

Tickets £7

A great night of electronic innovation and hi-jinx from the organisers of legendary nightclub Kosmische.

See photos of the event in the gallery.

Saturday July 03 - 14 Andre St, Hackney, London
10pm - 4am. Hypnotique onstage before midnight.

Damned lies/destroy all monsters
HUGOS SPEAKER PALACE
MAN FROM URANUS
vOv
HYPNOTIQUE

With the ether tastic double billing of Hypnotique and the sensational and futuristic Man From Uranus - this will be a guaranteed ear-turning night.

See photos of May 15th Alpha Centauri Electronic Music Festival show in Huizen, Netherlands with the group Intelligentsia (external website, opens in new window).

May 2004

Alpha Centauri Festival, May 15th, Huizen, Netherlands


Hypnotique will be appearing at the 10th Annual Alfa Centauri Electronic Music Festival May 15 Taking place in theatre De Graaf Wichman in Huizen, the Netherlands. She will be appearing as a special guest with futurist electronic project Intelligentsia.

The show will feature: MIRAI, John Van Der Stap (Electronic Drums), Hypnotique, MEISAI (Progressive Dance from Japan), Richard Wentk / Bastiaan Winde (Lasers, VJ & Visualizations), & the Operatic vocals of ADEYTO.

For further details and booking info, visit the Alpha Centauri website


May 19th - Hypnotique gives a theremin lecture/workshop at the Greig Academy for adult education in Hornsey, North London.

April 2004

The new Dawn of the Replicants album 'The Extra Room' is available now on Hungry Dog Records (Flying Sparks), featuring a guest appearance by Hypnotique on three tracks including 'Everyone in Heaven is Afraid of Heights' (forthcoming single) and the joint Vickers-Hypnotique penned tune "Arctic Sails" ('a psychedelic torch song" - Rock Sound).

Here's what the press have been saying:

"…a never-ending concoction of musical campness laced with wit. In a modern world gone mad, these bastard children of Frank Zappa-esque grandiose are it's sure-fire remedy." (Record Collector)

"…tender mariachi brilliance. Probably the greatest institution nearly nobody's heard of, then. Still." (Rock Sound)

"Free of mainstream influence they're able to sway, skip and swing their own rhythm, creating beautiful widescreen masterpieces from the darker side of acid-abused pop. Way-out, man." (Time Out)

"Effortlessly brilliant car crash of fizzy garage rock. crazy genius" (Metro)

Gollum-like streak of mischief and madness. Wicked lyrical humour.. surreal pub-rock songs played with a nod and a wink and a wry, snaggle-toothed grin." (The Irish Times)

Order the CD and hear MP3s and video online at The Replicants website

January 2004

Hypnotique produces 'Switched On...In Conversation with Jean-Jacques Perrey
Radio broadcast: 20th Janury 04, Resonance 104.4FM
On his 75th birthday, Hypnotique joins living legend Jean-Jacques Perrey in the town of Lausanne, Switzerland to celebrate a life of pioneering music with in depth conversation and rare and classic recordings with the composer of 'E.V.A.' and 'Moog Indigo'. This is a personal voyage of a hugely inspirational musical figure. Read more...

December 2003

Hypnotique will be joining the magnificent Art Terry & The Fairies for a series of yuletide themed events as a guest instrumentalist. You can catch this uplifting & highly original chanteur and his vagabond troupe at the following locations:

Friday 12th December - 'Advent-garde' - Resonance FM Christmas Party
Conway Hall (Red Lion Square, Holborn, London), from 7- 11pm. ENTRY BY VOLUNTARY DONATION

Live music from Billy Jenkins & the VOTP String Trio, Die Trip Computer Die, Ergo Phizmiz and many more… come and celebrate the season and raise funds to keep Britain's greatest radio station on air.
See www.resonancefm.com for more details & flyer.

Saturday 13th December - Party at Sky Studios
Camden, London from 9pm
Join myself, Art Terry and the fairies for a 'knees up', email for more details.

Sunday 21st December - Fairies Christmas Party
12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London W1. From 8pm. £5

Tinsel, glitter and lots of Fairies at the top of the tree…come down for an intimate show with Art and the fairy boys and girls.

Other shows:

'SOW: How Taliesen Got His Name'.
CBSO Centre, off Broad Street, Birmingham.
Thursday 18 December 2003 at 7.30pm.
Tickets £12 / £8 / £5.

Hypnotique will be appearing in this multimedia production. Join the feast of sight and sound as the Celtic pig of wisdom comes to town. This is an exciting venture involving animation, specially created artwork, storytelling and a veritable orchestra of the West Midlands most gifted musicians involved in folk, jazz, rock and avant-garde music. Hypnotique will be metaphorically casting herbs and evil spells into the ether through improvised music as the role of Ceridwen in the telling of this classic Celtic myth. The production and composition of Sow is by long time Hypnotique collaborator Andrew Bland.

For more on the artists involved and art works see www.corisandemusic.com

November 2003

Hypnotique produces UK's first theremin themed radios show
'Into the Ether: The Music of the Theremin' is a 90 minute radio show to be broadcast on Nov 3rd 2003 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Leon Theremin, on experimental London station Resonance FM. The show will showcasing the best in classic theremin recordings and talented new thereminists from around the globe plus interviews, discussions and specially composed new radio sound works.

Collaborative art and theremin sound installation
Hypnotique is joining with Edinburgh based visual and textile artist Mary Trodden to produce an installation work combining Mary's ominous doll creations with Hypnotique's equally ominous theremin installation as part of an open studio event taking place on Sunday 16th November 2003 12 - 7pm at Forest Studios, Bruce Grove, London N17.

August 2003:

Hypnotique in a Field
The next Hypnotique live show will be:
1am, Saturday 16th August 2003
Bedouin Stage, Shambala Festival, Taunton.

... expect a magical weekend in beautiful surroundings with a diverse and warm natured crowd. Shambala has amazing live acts, diverse performances, and a community spirit . Come along, bring the kids, get involved with workshops, and see some inspiring acts. Have a break from the rest of the world!...
"The South West's Best Kept secret" - The Guardian

This promises to be an exciting and groundbreaking Hypnotique event. She is back on form with the gobsmackingly multi-talented Mr Andrew Bland, with a harder edged sound and stage performance combining bitter-edged lyrics, sickeningly twisted narrative, deep and desperately romantic imagery with ear spinning electronics, instrumental grooves and soundscapes that fly from 1920's Berlin cabaret through to the pits of futurisimo industrial hell. The era of fairground electronica begins here!

July 2003:

Oscillator, Oscillator on the Wall, Who is the greatest Cabaret Thereminist of the all? Me-Me-Me!
Hypnotique is currently featuring as a contestant on an interactive global talent search. The idea of Me-Me-Me.net is to say up yours to Simon Cowell and all those rubbish no hoper 'sing till you bleed' TV talent shows. Me-Me-Me is more Eurotrash than Eurovision, more Quality Street than quality acts. Naturally, Hypnotique flies leagues above the other sensationalist acts which is why you much vote for her as the supreme talent!
You pay to vote by phone or text message, part of the money will go back to the winner and you also stand a chance of getting your hands on a wad of cash as well. Come on, it's better odds than the lottery and you can be contributing to the fund to buy a snazzy new theremin for Hypnotique!

Introducing...Babyslave
*Babyslave is a new project that brings together the multi-instru-mental talents of Hypnotique with electronic guru Carya Amara (Earthrid Records), mixing studio recordings with occassional exclusive live events that aspire to be more than a bit special.

Babyslave's live public debut was a low key arts event on Wednesday 23rd July in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. The organisers asked participants to accomodate feedback from the audience - and Babyslave took them at their word. Noises from the audience were, for once, encouraged: these reactions were electronically processed in real time and integrated into the performance, alongside the sounds of saxophone, theremin and synthesisers. It would be fair to say, that Babyslave ROCKED the Spa.
More on Baby Slave

March 2003:

Hypnotique has recently recorded a killer session with Dawn of the Replicants in Edinburgh as part of a new e.p. to be released late 2003 on Flying Sparks Records, provisionally titled "Backstabbing Nation". Hypnotique is currently working with The Replicants on writing material for their 4th studio album.

Feb 2003:

Hypnotique has recently been recording with new band 'Candy', an ethereal new country influenced band whose line up comprises former members of The Paradise Motel and Cindytalk

Dec 2002:

Hypnotique invited to entertain the Glitteratzi at Damien Hurst's Pharmacy Restaurant in Notting Hill. Not bad for a mere plebian creature from the gutter! Let's hope she doesn't get dissected in formalyahyde...

Wednesday 4th Dec 2002 5pm - Hypnotique appears on Resonance FM in a live interview with the Glass Shrimp collective. 104.4FM or stream from their website.

Nov 2002:

Dawn of the Replicants Tour Dates
Hypnotique will be packing her kit bag and taking to the long & dusty road with Scottish nutters Dawn of the Replicants. Rustling inside her leopardskin handbag to produce a musical menagerie of sounds, The "Touching the Propellor" tour will fly by night to:

Monday 18th Nov - EDINBURGH, Liquid Rooms (Ripping Records 0131 226 7010)
Tuesday 19th Nov - CARDIFF, Barfly (0870 907 0999)
Thursday 21st Nov - LONDON, Water Rats (0207 403 3331)
Friday 22nd Nov - OXFORD, The Zodiac (01865 420042) (Hypnotique also appearing this night with the band Sunnyvale Sub Noise Experiment)
Saturday 23rd Nov - MANCHESTER University (0161 832 1111)

20th November: Broadcast on John Peel's show, Radio 1 of 4 songs in session with Dawn of the Replicants which were:
Hollywood Hills * Smoke Without Fire * Rockefeller Centre 1932 * Rhinestone Cowboy
The new album 'Touching the Propellor' and single 'Rockefeller Centre 1932' both out now on Flying Sparks Records.

Oct 2002:

Hypnotique will be appearing on wacky TV talent Show "House of Astonishment" broadcasting on Channel 5 every Monday evening, 11.20pm from the 13th October - 1st December. See her superior ariel ballet amidst the frolics of a man stuffing scorpions down his sweater, rats in the pants, magnetic maniacs and other eccentrics. I will be appearing in 5/8 shows in the house band, but don't blink or you'll miss it! (I'm not endorsing the quality of this televisual venture, but not too bad for a giggle when you come in late from the pub).

Performance annoucement:

The Idler presents THE MAGIC OF THE THEREMIN
@ The Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello Rd, London W11
Thu 24 Oct. Doors 8.30 Show 8.45 Ticket Price: £12.50
BOOKINGS: 020 7908 9696 (advanced booking strongly recommended)

Starring Hypnotique with the legendary Bruce Woolley and his amazing Radio Science Orchestra. Prepare for the thrills and chills of a live performance of classic and contemporary theremin music & historic prose from the vaults of Theremin Lore. This will be followed by a late screening of B Movie director Ed Wood's triumphant Plan 9 from Outer Space starring Bela Lugosi.