MARIE TIPPEX
1/ Nisennenmondai live at Urban Spree, Berlin
2/ Daniel Maloso – Ritmo Especial
3/ Gary Wilson at Villette Sonique, Paris (video)
4/ Dancing with Severine on Post Industrial Boys
5/ Humming The Space Lady, Ricky Hollywood & Arne Vinzon
+ Artworks / exhibitions : Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Tino Sehgal, Loris Gréaud and Jean-Yves Jouannais’ “Encyclopédie des guerres”.
PASCAL TIPPEX
1/ ”Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie Zombie”… Zombie Zombie Lune Argent Ensemble at Villette Sonique was 11 musicians on stage
2/ Reading the comments on Zombie Zombie’s Facebook page after Lady Gaga’s fans learned that their idol had sampled the band on her “Venus” single.
3/ Jeff Mills’ “Chronicles of Possible Worlds” at the amazing Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence.
4/ Young Marble Giants at Union Chapel, London and at Week-End Festival in Klon (with Pastels and Robert Foster!). Just so very nice.
5/ Zs live in Paris and Liverpool. They just might be one of the best live bands…
6/ Mendelson new album
Best festivals: MIMI, BBmix, Week-End
TOM TIPPEX
Top 5 albums :
Charles Cohen – The Middle Distance, Group Motion, Music For Dance & Theatre LPs
Vision Fortune – Titanic Part II, The Legend Goes On
Mutazione. Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980 – 1988
The Space Lady – Greatest Hits
Autechre – Exai
Top 5 shows :
The Necks, Cafe Oto, London
Om, Village Underground, London
Nisennenmondai, Urban Spree, Berlin
Yo La Tengo, Barbican, London
Nightbeats, Perfumerie, Geneva.
Top 5 other things :
A Field In England (Film, dir. Ben Wheatley)
David Bowie Is… Exhibition at V&A Museum, London
Upstream Colour (Film, dir. Shane Carruth)
Light Show Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London
A Proper English Summer (at last)
AMBRE TIPPEX
2013 mood in :
2 albums : Steve Gunn – Time Off, Scout Niblett – It’s Up to Emma
2 books : Dan Simmons – Carrion Comfort, Matthew Gregory Lewis – The Monk
& 2 movies : Alejandro Jodorowsky – La Danza De La Realidad, René Clément – Plein Soleil
Music highlights of 2013 : Yo La Tengo, Chris Forsyth and Helm at Soy Festival – Nick Cave at Route du Rock, Atom ™ at Musiques Volantes, DJ Harvey at Nuits Sonores.
ETIENNE TIPPEX
Live music:
1/Nisennenmondai at Urban Spree, Berlin
2/ Disappears at Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht
3/ Publicist at Urban Spree, Berlin
Shows that I enjoyed playing:
1/ Fenster at DockVille Festival, Hamburg
2/ Rien at Magasin 4, Brussels
3/ Djing at King Georg, Cologne after the show of Disappears
Things that were ‘bath’ to do!
1/ Visiting Israel! thanks to the Showcase Music festival in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
2/ Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig with Disappears
3/ Gröningen and Utrecht, both cities are really nice little Amsterdam!
4/ “Restaurant des amis” in Aujac (FR) in the Cevennes travelling with RIEN.
5/ Visiting Sainte Enimie in the Cevennes
AMANDE TIPPEX
In no particular order :
1/ Fenster at Immergut Festival (with Pauline special guest) and Dockville Festival (with Etienne special guest) (DE)
2/ Civil Civic at Fusion festival (DE) and Nuits Sonores (FR)
3/ Späti Palace label launch party at Antje Oeklesund with Yule FM, Slow Steve and Skiing (Berlin)
4/ Classic Muscle at my 25th birthday party (Berlin)
5/ Glenn Branca Ensemble at Kraftwerk (Berlin)
6/ Mac DeMarco at Green Door Store (Brighton)
7/ Aloa Input album release party (Berlin)
8/ The Babies at Monarch (Berlin)
9/ Connan Mockasin at Nuits Sonores (Lyon)
10/ Nisennenmondai at Urban Spree (Berlin)
HELENE TIPPEX
1/ Master Musicians of Bukkake, Berghain Kantine, Berlin
2/ Nisennenmondai, Urban Spree, Berlin
3/ Colin Stetson, Berghain, Berlin
4/ CTM night with Diamond Version and Emptyset, Berghain, Berlin
5/ B/B/S, Monarch, Berlin
MARION TIPPEX
1/ Glenn Branca, La Cité de la Musique, Paris
2/ Bill Derren, Les Instants Chavirés, Paris
3/ Jandek and Gary Wilson, Villette Sonique, Paris
4/ Orchestra of Spheres, BBmix, Boulogne-Billancourt
5/ Acid Mother Temple and The Oscillation, La Maroquinerie, Paris
6/ The Chrome Cranks, Le Volume, Nice
7/ Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, La Maroquinerie, Paris
And Le Sanctuaire de Laguet and his ex-voto
Singing songs to my dancing plant
Albert Mertz – A
DAVID TIPPEX
1/ Magik Markers – live in London, and the lp ‘Surrender to the Fantasy’
2/ Ed Askew – playing at Cafe Oto, London and the lp ‘For the World’
3/ William Tyler – ‘Impossible Truth’ and live in London twice.
4/ Tomaga – live in London many times!
5/ Mountains – Live at Cafe Oto, London
6/ Angel Olsen – Live in London, twice.
7/ Cian Nugent & the Cosmos – Live in London and the lp ‘Born with the Caul’
8/ Bill Callahan ‘Dream River’
9/ Roy and the Devils Motorcycle playing at Old Blue Last, London
10/ Terrakraft live in London
Something else – Theatrical performance of Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and the Margarita’ at the Barbican with Tom Tippex.
STEVE TIPPEX
1/ Thurston Moore and Michael Chapman at the Band On The Wall, Manchester, Wednesday 06 February 2013 – the show ended with a Yardbirds- “Blow Up” -style-guitar-rave.
2/ Chelsea Light Moving at the Brudenell, Leeds, Tuesday 18 June 2013 – with the supercool Samara Lubelski on bass.
3/ Thurston Solo at the launch of Catherine Ceresole – Beauty Lies in the Eye, photographs of New York musicians in the late seventies onwards (Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Alan Vega, Arto Lindsey, Lydia Lunch etc) Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris 18 October 2013
4/ Young Marble Giants at Union Chapel, London, 29 September 2013 with Pascal. They sounded perfect.
5/ Zs live in the Garden at the Kazimer, Liverpool 24 August 2013, also with Pascal. Hot noise on a hot summer night.
Difficult to pick my top 5 albums but :
Deerhunter – Monomania
Bill Callahan – Dream River
The Velvet Underground – White Light White Heat Super Deluxe
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Gene Clark – Here Tonight: The White Light Demos
