Flexing Swine was a mass improv group started in the basement of the building 141:an in Gothenburg, Sweden by Art and Technology students in 2003.

mcfalcon-l was a trio created with the ever fuzzy Matt Nish-Lapidus (mn-l) and Falconhawk's ever dazzling Kara Keith for Carl Wilson's Tin Tin Tin concert series at the Drake Hotel in Toronto in 2003.

We did a kind of spacey, fuzz, folky set about tigers, with Rubik's cube background noise.

Alex (my regular accomplice, Nim) and I played at Gothenburg's night of culture, Kulturnatta on my birthday a few weeks ago. <some poor photos are up, thanks to Lalye Gaye>

The show was at the yuppie lounge venue Respekt. Any of you aware of Gbg's cultural lore will probably have heard of the infamous v/vm show for the 2005 film festival. Essentially v/vm and the opener for the show, Pistol Disco, were screamy noise bands. Why were they billed for this yuppie lounge? who knows.

After Pistol Disco, from Gbg, screamed their set, everyone in the audience stood around wondering what was going to happen next, unaware that the management had actually refused to allow v/vm, who came all the way from the UK, to play. And that was it. Be wary of Respekt.

Alex and I were a little worried because our set was not exactly, um, melodic. Everything turned out to be okay. We played on old tape-recorders that controlled filmstrip-like projections behind us of photos of our family, etc. (The flyer up top is Alex's niece and an old photo of my father.) At the end we stormed off like prissy rockstars while the projection said "Vi har inte glömt v/vm på filmfestivalen" (we haven't forgotten v/vm at the film festival). We didn't plan to do that, I swear!