OM~ROCK PROMOTIONS AND THE ELECTRIC SALAD CO PRESENT
Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy’s MIRROR SYSTEM + THE GLISSANDO GUITAR ORCHESTRA performing Daevid Allen’s 7 DRONES + bands
The GLISSANDO GUITAR ORCHESTRA are delighted to announce they will be returning to Lewes Con Club to perform Daevid Allen’s 7 Drones with Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy’s extra special MIRROR SYSTEM heading the night!
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This will be an all dayer with doors opening at 2.30pm and music starting from 3pm. We have the illuminatingly illustrious INNERSTRINGS providing lights and projections.
MIRROR SYSTEM
Mirror System (A-Wave Records) is the downtempo and chillout project of System 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy. The distinctive Mirror System sound is based on deep rolling grooves and the subtle blend of rich dreamy electronica and guitar. Mirror System’s successful debut album was released in 2005. Since then they have expanded their style to incorporate a soft tech-house element.
Mirror System live uniquely combines deep chill and non-frantic danceable grooves, and gives Steve and Miquette a perfect opportunity to deploy the classic Gong psychedelic sounds of glissando guitar and EMS synthesizer with modern electronic beats and classy chill-out alchemy.
Mirror System have released 4 standalone albums, plus one combined with System 7:-
Mirror System (2005)
Reflector (DJ mix compilation) (2010)
N-Port (2015)
Café Seven (with System 7) (2018)
Route 77 (2024)
Route 77 includes collaborations with Alex Paterson (of The Orb) and re-imaginings of Manuel Göttsching’s ‘Sunrain’ and Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’.
The current Mirror System live set also currently includes some of the softer tracks from the new super well-received System 7 album ‘Flower of Life’.
“Neither nostalgia nor reinvention, this is a reaffirmation and a stunning return.” Prog Magazine
The GLISSANDO GUITAR ORCHESTRA & THE SEVEN DRONES
In the early 80’s Daevid Allen was studying in a Tibetan mystery school in NSW in his homeland of Australia.
He learnt of many techniques and practices in the fields of meditation and self-awareness. It was at this time he started working musically with drones. Continuous pure notes. These being the major notes of the musical scale C through to B. He then realised these can have correspondences firstly to the chakras in the body also to the colour spectrum, planets etc. E.g C base chakra, connected to the Earth and the colour red. These then ascend up through the body till we reach the crown chakra, colour purple, note B. By just experiencing these sounds in a receptive state can have the effect of balancing and healing the individual not to mention the surrounding physical space, emotional and mental space.
In 2006 in Amsterdam at the Gong union weekend at the Melkweg there was the first physical manifestation of the Glissando Orchestra playing these seven drones. Daevid felt it was the most important performance of the weekend. . . . .maybe it was.
Original 7 drones glissando player and co-curator of the orchestra, Brian Abbot, will be joined with fellow curator Andy Bole, along with Kev Hegan and Mark Huxley of <<NUKLI>>,Paul Woodbine of Deviant Amps,Gregg McKella of Paradise 9, and Jah Buddha aka Bob Hedger.
https://youtu.be/9VlQ3FI61co?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZ0SruqsqU
JAH BUDDHA
Jah Buddha aka Bob Hedger, plays electronic music only using hardware in what is called “Dawless” i.e. not using a computer. The music varies from complete improvisation to compositions which always contain an element of improvisation but based on predetermined sections. It goes from ambient to Berlin School to Trance, always psychedelic and always changing.
SHANKARA ANDY BOLE
Born on the harsh Lancashire moorland, His musical odyssey began with the resonant echoes of Greek melodies. The scent of olive groves and the azure Aegean beckoned. Andy embarked on a pilgrimage to Greece, seeking the wisdom of Bouzouki masters. In dimly lit Kafeneio, calloused fingers taught him the secrets. But Andy’s musical explorations go beyond boundaries. His spontaneous compositions blend rich sonorities, glissandos, and intricate melodies, creating a unique sonic experience.
GREGG MCKELLA BAND
Gregg plays clarinet, guitar, space FX, and also writes and sings and has been writing songs since the 80’s. He also plays in Paradise 9, a 4 piece psyche/proto-punk/space-rock band based in Brighton.
His new debut solo album, “Songs From the Underground”, released in December 2025 are a collection of songs written during his busking years in the 1990s. The songs vary from folksy driven to alternative indie rock, psyche blues/song, some Gregg has called “space-folk”. The album has been recorded and produced by Martin Litmus, who also plays bass, keyboards, synths, guitars and drums/percs, with Gregg on vocals, guitars, glissando guitar, clarinet and synths.
Guesting contributors on the album are Nick Pynn on violins, Jeanette Murphy on BVsalong with Paradise 9s Tyrone Thomas on lead and slide guitars and Eugene McClouskey on fiddle.
DARK ZEN KOLLECTIV
Dark Zen Kollectiv are a Zen Experimental, Acid Drone, Motorik Kollectiv from the U.K and France. They are often found wandering forests and partaking in Shinrin-yoku and planning their next move.
Dark Zen Kollectiv are a Andy Bole,Marek Bublik, Martin Litmus, Cary Grace, Mark Huxley from Nukli and Bob Hedger.
DEVIANT AMPS
Veteran UK Psychedelic/Psych/Space Rock band DEVIANT AMPS were formed in 1983. They have been flying the freak flag ever since.
Deviant Amps are Paul Woodwright on guitar and vocals, Justin Prescott on bass, and Paul Kelly on drums.
<<NUKLI>>
Born from the Squats and Free Festivals of the 80’s, <<NUKLI>> (pronounced Nuke-Lie) have travelled from the experimental lo-fi cut-ups of the early PSi tapes, through psych-pop to a more jazzy, proggy sound. <<NUKLI>> are Kev Hegan, guitar and vocals, Mark Huxley on bass and Paul Maguire on drums, the band are back with a harder edge and a new studio album under their belts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ3tdaosDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZ6It–1xc
greggmckella.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-underground-2
