"....out for a bit and then back in for Radio Massacre International. If Airsculpture blew the doors off, RMI started on the roof and then moved on to the walls!! The regulars were joined by Martin Archer, playing wind synth. It was really interesting and enjoyable to watch Martin and Gary Houghton, the guitar player, playing off each other's sound. Martin had some amazing wind synth sounds going on, as well as playing a sax and something that looked like a clarinet, only larger, not sure what it was . Gary was also doing some strange things with the guitar that evoked suitable sounds. They both had a lot of energy and were obviously having a great time playing. Meanwhile Steve and Duncan were pouring the juice to the synths and adding to the sound in most enjoyable and wonderful ways. The first set went on for about 20 or so minutes and ended amidst a solid round of applause. The second set started with synth sounds in the background, as Gary Houghton and Martin Archer, using one medium sized harmonica (I think) and one jumbo big mama started creating some sound scapes that shoudn't have come out of harmonicas!! Steve was playing some cymbals set up on the floor, and Duncan was synthing away. The set opened up more or less gently, and then began building steam as they seemed to improvise their way through the second set. It lasted for maybe 30 minutes and was great! By tis time, people were really into the business of serious listening. It was fun to watch some people bouncing and swaying to the music, and others just listening intensely. The set ended with thunderous applause."

May 13, 2009
Pre-Order the brand new RMI & Steve Dinsdale!

We are currently taking pre-orders for 2 brand new albums: E-Live 2008 and Steve's debut solo release, New Church. Steve will be autographing all pre-orders of his solo disc. We're expecting the albums to be in stock by mid-June. Sound clips will be forthcoming! So, head on over to our store and order these new discs today!

May 12, 2009
YouTube Clips!

Steve's posted 3 "archival" videos onto YouTube. Check 'em out below!







May 5, 2009
Concert Annoucement & Album News

We'll will be appearing live at Hampshire Jam, Millenium Hall, Liphook, Hampshire, UK Saturday 31st October 2009.

In addition, we will be releasing our improvised performance from last year's E-Live show in The Netherlands in the next month or so as one of their Northern Echo series. It features three extended electronics based pieces, with Martin Archer on reeds and wind synth. Meanwhile Steve first solo release 'New Church' will be available within a couple of weeks, featuring 8 related pieces recorded in the Autumn of 2008. Check back for details

March 12, 2009
New solo track from Steve available

Head on over to Steve's blog to check out a brand new solo track recorded just last week!

March 5, 2009
Steve playing out with Damo

Steve Dinsdale is playing The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, UK on Thursday 12th March 2009 as part of the Damo Suzuki Network. Visit Damo's website for more details.

December 11, 2008
Fast Foward SOLD OUT!

The compilation Fast Foward is officially sold out and there are no plans for a repressing.

November 2, 2008
Steve joines the BlogSpot Revolutions!

From Steve directly:

"While not planning to cover RMI...more my 'salad days' in London and before that .....and outspoken views on my favourite tunes, I thought it might be worth letting people know..."

Check it out here

October 19, 2008
E-Live Journal

Steve wrote a diary of his E-Live experience. Check it out here.

October 16, 2008
Back from E-Live

RMI are back from a triumphant performance at E-Live in Eindhoven. Thanks to all who were present! We had a busy and enjoyable day topped off with an improvised show which judging by the reaction, was one of our best. Early signs are that this deserves to be heard again and there may well be an album out in time for Xmas. Diary to follow just as soon as Steve can get around to writing it!

October 3, 2008
Warming up for E-Live

We have once again been holed up in The Greenhouse making funny noises ahead of our big show in Eindhoven on 11th October. Here are some nice pictures.

Duncan

Gary

Martin Steve Duncan

Cute bear waits patiently to be clobbered

Guest Superstar Martin Archer

 
August 18, 2008
RMI @ E-Live!

RMI will be appearing at E-Live 2008 in Eindhoven, Netherlands on Saturday 11th October.

July 5, 2008
NEARfest Journal

Steve wrote a diary of his NEARfest experience. Check it out here.

June 25, 2008
RMI Back from America

RMI are back from the USA having been well and truly `Nearfested'. Thanks to absolutely everyone concerned for making it the most successful, professional, friendly and fun venture we've been lucky enough to be part of. Tour blog to follow....

June 11, 2008
New RMI Titles!

Available at Nearfest, and from July 1st to order, the following RMI releases...

Rain Falls In A Different Way: A companion piece to Rain Falls In Grey, and a collection of new music recorded during the same time frame using similar instrumentation. Expansive and atmospheric as well as strongly rhythmic space rock.

Philadelphia Air Shot: A single performance for WXPN Radio in Philadelphia in 2007, using an arranged piece as a starting point, moving into sequencer improvisation before ending up in deep space over the luxury of an hour. From the DAT master.

Fast Forward 1993-2008: A budget priced compilation with a difference. This aims to represent every one of 30 albums over the course of a single disc whilst being a new unique listening experience of itself. Ideal as an introduction to the band or as a `spot the album' game for seasoned followers. Also a convenient way to load a career's worth of RMI into your MP3 player at a stroke.

So here we were at the Greenhouse once again, this time in the BIG room for final preparations. We can see how it got it's name, (the Greenhouse that is, not the big room, which is called that because all the other rooms in the facility are smaller) When that sun shines in through the glass roof it's like being a greenfly on a hothouse plant. Nice light for photographs though and of course the next day it was raining again as normal and we took great delight in sourcing the leak in the roof and putting a snare drum under it (somebody else's snare drum) to record some natural percussion. Oh yes, and we were also there to prepare for this rather important festival we have coming up.

We had the bright idea of making things as unpleasant as possible by playing at ridiculous volume, so that everything was louder then everything else, apart from the acoustic drums which sounded like distant cardboard and coins amidst an unholy blitzkrieg of electricity pinning us all against the wall. Well it seemed like a good plan to put ourselves under difficult conditions to see how we coped with whatever eventualities the live situation might throw at us.

I've stopped shaking now and am no longer gibbering any more than I usually do. The doctor says I should be able to return to normal social functioning at any time soon.....once they take the straitjacket off...

May 20, 2008
RMI joins the MySpace Revolution

Radio Massacre International has finally been dragged kicking and screaming onto MySpace by the sterling efforts of our new friend Travis of Los Angeles California, who took it upon himself to create a page for us without us even asking. We are pleased to officially endorse the page and look forward to working with him. Way to go Travis!

May 16, 2008
New RMI Sessions: Gearing up for NEARfest

"We have been spending time preparing for Nearfest in our usual workspace The Greenhouse, where we can `grow' our ideas interrupted only by the spillage from next door's room of a truly pathetic version of `Teenage Kicks', and most entertaining tales from David, Greenhouse supremo and all round good guy.

We normally settle down to a day's work after some kind of deeply unhealthy but satisfying breakfast. Pictured below is Steve's Bacon, Sausage and Egg barm cake (with red sauce), hard won after approximately twenty minutes of detailed negotiations with the girl in the shop, who seemed not to know what she was doing there, or indeed that they even served coffee and made breakfasts. We can usually be seen hot footing it up a truly archaic and `wobbly in a scary kind of way' fire escape (or is that `scary in a wobbly kind of way' ?) and through the back door of our rehearsal complex, before the damn stuff we've bought gets cold.

Our room is long enough to accomodate drums at one end, keys and electronics in the middle and as many guitars as you want at the other end. The PA system at the bottom sends signals out to all in the area "Do not disturb, we're rocking all the way to the USA".

Aside from obviously playing as much as we can, we had an interesting diversion when a Midi Merge Box failed, causing us to lose nearly a day of preparation time as Duncan was forced to reconfigure the whole way our midi sounds are routed. Luckily I brought a good book, and finished it sooner than anticipated. Gary amused himself by dismantling one of his guitars completely to see if he could get it back together again. Still, some good work was done, and progress was made. Add to that, a couple of pints of Robinson's local bitter and some Fish and Chips for dinner and what more could you want?

As we leave on the last day, we come across a young band on the fire escape, enjoying a spliff or two, and no doubt chasing their own dreams of stardom in the rapidly fading edifice of a music industry. "Nice smell" says Duncan, "They'll never get on Top Of The Pops if they carry on doing that" I say. Maybe they are the guys who've been practising `Teenage Kicks' for the last month, in which case they really need to lay off it a bit. No one needs to hear that bloody song ever again".

Rock 'n' Roll Breakfast

One Little Box Can Cause A Lot Of Trouble

Gary moving fast

Rock'n'Roll Dinner

Duncan's Right, He's Always Right

No Strings Attached

Steve Does His Best `In The Court Of The Crimson King' Impression

Relax Girls, He's Already Married

...and This 'Un's Courting

 
April 11, 2008
New RMI Sessions: Pictures Available

February saw Radio Massacre International engaged in recording their first film soundtrack, for City 21 created by the Knossus Project, and due for summer release. It's an organisation which looks at alternative global futures and passes on these ideas through education and film. We had a very rewarding time playing music in a different way, all specifically and newly composed for the project. We were aware that there will be speech over this music 90% of the time, and performed accordingly. We have presented the Knossus Project with 20 pieces ranging from 15 seconds to 23 minutes. These pics were all taken at the recording sessions at The Greenhouse:

Thus spoke Steve: Lads, I'm sorry there's no blog but I just can't remember anything other than playing lots of music, drinking too much on an empty stomach, having a Chinese meal and being moved from our table but given bottles of Red Wine as compensation therefore getting more pissed, watching Boro in action, going to the Chinese chippy, and coming back to The Greenhouse and making more even more music but not necccccessarily in that order.

RMI's music can be heard in another new film `Maelstrom (Of A Reckoning)' directed by Nicolas Lopez (2007). The music comes from the `Maelstrom' album. `Maelstrom (Of A Reckoning) can be viewed at Youtube.

March 16, 2008
New Download Album: Antisocial

Antisocial was recorded live at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds in June 2005, and is released here for the first time. The title refers to the fact that we played at some volume, and for an uninterrupted hour and a half. The piece moved through several different sections which have been indexed and titled even though the piece is continuous. Other notable features of this performance were that one of Gary's speaker cabs had to be physically assaulted to calm it down, and Duncan managed to lose a filling mid-performance. The percussion set up included a baking tray full of pennies, all of which were subsequently donated to the Social Club's collection for much needed soundproofing.

Check the discography for the tracklisting or head on over to MusicZeit to download it!

March 4, 2008
And The Award Goes to...

Electronic Best Overall: Radio Massacre International “Rain Falls in Grey” – This is not pure electronic music, it is psychedelic space rock. However, I was so impressed with the musicianship, the passion, the boldness, and the overall sound of it that RMI totally won me over with an album that I frankly didn’t expect to like all that much.(Phil Derby).

For more information, head on over to ElectroAmbientSpace.Com!

February 15, 2008
Signal To Noise

Our friend Darren Bergstein (see our 2007 tour diary) has finally come through with this article about us. It's due out via Signal To Noise on March 14th...but here is your chance to read it first! Click here to check it out!

January 15, 2008
Gaglairchives performance avaialble for download

Download Radio Massacre International’s 2 sets and interview for Gagliarchives Radio at Gaglairchives.Com. This occasion was our first with Cyndee in the same room as us, we hope you enjoy it.

January, 2008
Welcome to our brand new website!

Happy 2008 and welcome to the new website. Many thanks to Graham Getty for all of his sterling work over the last eight years or so and please welcome our new webmaster, Mike Ostrich.

Duncan's been a busy boy putting cool stuff up on YouTube. Check it out!

You can now download the very rare and out of print October Gallery album from MusicZeit. To quote MZ directly, "The original release was a single CDR, this Redux release is the complete concert spanning a double album. Resplendent with new artwork, you can now download this fantastic rarity in full lossless quality (as well as high quality MP3)." Enjoy!

RMI are featured with exclusive tracks on two releases from radio shows who continue to support the band:

Resonance: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol 13 features `Gibraltar' (11'05") recorded for Echoes in May 2006 and unreleased elsewhere. Head on over to the Echoes website for more information regarding this album.

Star's End 30th Anniversary 2CD set includes `Philadelphia Rain' (18'43") which is an unedited excerpt from our Star's End session in 2002. Head on over to the Stars End website for more information regarding this release.

December, 2007
Happy Holidays!

We arrived back safely from the USA a couple of weeks back, and all agree it’s the best time we’ve had. Thanks to everyone over there who made our trip so special with their generous help and great company, and hello to everyone who came out to see us play. We’re back in June for Nearfest, and hope to see you all again.

Season’s Greetings!
Steve, Duncan and Gary

November 22, 2007
Radio Massacre International on Echoes

Via press release:
Tuesday, November 30
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL

English Space music trio plays electronic music the old-fashioned way, with their hands

While most electronic musicians are wed to their laptop screens, Radio Massacre International plays their music on old analog synthesizers, keyboards and electric guitar. They've become the leading torch bearers for truly live space music, conceived in the moment, without preprogrammed sequences. We hear them create new music live in the Echoes Living Room. For more information, head on over to the Echoes website.


November 20, 2007
Radio Massacre International plugs into NFX

Via press release:
As one of the premier electronic bands performing today, England’s Radio Massacre International has a long history of playing "in the moment" and is capable of just about anything. After 15 years and more than 25 albums, the band is continues to look over the horizon to broaden their craft. Their latest release, "Rain Falls in Grey" (Cuneiform) is "a prog album for those who get itchy at the thought of electronic music." A tribute to former Pink Floyd leader Syd Barrett, the album shows them adapting to a rock band format using the spirit of Syd to channel one of the best albums in their catalog. Having first performed in the USA at ProgWest in 2002, the buzz resulted in three performances at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia. Their rendition of "Rain Falls in Grey," performed in November 2007 while at Orion Studios, left the audience stunned; unaware that such power could exist within electronic music. RMI uses an arsenal of analog equipment, ranging from Moogs to Mellotrons to sequencers to Fender Rhodes, to create their sonic blanket of sound. RMI promises to present a very special show to the NEARfest audience and we are very excited to feature them at NFX.

For more information, head on over to the NEARfest website.