Herzbeat Hotel / Birds of Delay

Herzbeat Hotel, Soopa's psychedelic voodoo ensemble, remembered the anniversaries of the bombing of Tokyo by the USAF in 1945, the attacks in Washington DC by the Hanafi Muslim group in 1977, the recovery of the bodies of the Challenger space shuttle crew in 1986, and the shooting of Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, by presenting the piece "Armored Impala Cycle", which succeeded in driving out all the bad energy from the room. Or not...

Next up were Birds of Delay, the duo of Steven Warwick and Luke Younger, who brought their noise/major chord/drone/bliss to Portugal for the first time, entrancing the audience with a softly distorted alternative to Fripp&Eno's 70s classics "No Pussyfooting" and "Evening Star", until they were rudely interrupted by the DJ who was playing next, who unbelievabely walked on stage and told them to stop playing!

This "DJ" then gave everybody a lesson on how you can play techno on a friday night and still manage to clear a dancefloor... amazing!