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Would anyone like to tell me a bedtime story of what happened on this wonderful night?
I missed it all thanks to a cancelled train… waaah!

Perhaps you can tell it and make me feel like I was there…

So after the last mystery tour I’ve been waiting about four years to be suprised myself….but now I have a plan and a wonderful place to go so I’m happy to do another one.

I’d like a collaborator though, anyone up for it?
No, I won’t tell you where until AFTER you’ve accepted the mission!

Steve Stuffit asked me to post about The Peak Oil Olympics that is taking this place this weekend.

Peak Oil Olympics
1 Day and 1 Night of games and challenges investigating supply lines in a *Peak Oil world. In the urban wilds of bristol play and collectively locate : Food :Water : Shelter: Communication: Heat
Schedule
Sat 1st July - meet midday Cube Cinema for registration
1pm - 5pm : Feral Food and water location and collection
5pm - 9pm : Autonomous shelter location and creation, inc ferry crossing over the river (facilitated by heath bunting)
9pm - close : Feral Food Banquet, Heat generation, Team presentations
Feral trade coffee + snacks will be available during the event (traded by Kate Rich)
Throughout the day there will be opportunities to complete climbing, tunneling, permaculture and Peak Oil Propaganda challenges
Sunday 2nd July - Rest and /or open source challenges, Award ceremony
Suggested kit to bring
Water
Compass
Energy Snacks
Sleeping bag
Tupperware for feral collections
Misc
All participants will receive
A map showing location of challenges
Survival manual v 1.0
All material from event and user generated insights and techniques will be incorporated into a collective manual v 2.0 also containing cutting edge writings on peak oil, using MUTE’s Print on Demand service

An exhibition of all things peak oil at
Cube Cinema: 1 - 9 July

Create Centre Cafe: - 10 - 21 July
Links
http://www.stuffit.org/peak/ - general info
POPEX - Peak Oil People investigating Economies and Xchange

From the volunteers’ e-mail list . . .

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Marcus Valentine wrote:

> Perhaps someone can be persuaded to donate a better car, or donate the
> repairs.

–

dear all

cube car is probably going to be scrapped due
to age

has anybody got a car they can give to the cube ?

or

do you have a car you could sell at a good price to the cube ?

obviously, you could use it since you are a volunteer

anyhow

hope you are all well

heath

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Recently due to one thing and another, I’ve been serially envious of others who have enjoyed various magnificences I’ve missed at The Cube and elsewhere of late . . . However nothing could stop me from witnessing living legend Damo Suzuki performing with also legendary, but shamefacedly previously unknown to me, Cul-De-Sac ( though I had seen member Glenn Jones perform at The Cube in November with Jack Rose ).

But first we need to rewind a bit . . .

Friday was the opening of the Spike Island Open - a long weekend open running from the Friday through to Bank Holiday Monday ( today as I write ).

In a change with the usual tradition it also featured the work from some Artists based in other buildings across the city which, regardless of motive, seemed pretty mutually beneficial . . . though Spike Island’s presentation could have been better - no visiting artists were identified beyond a group studio name.

The Cube was represented in various guises . . . A version of The Cube Bar; Kate Rich & Lady Lucy’s Feral Trade Coffee / portraits collaboration; Bluescreen screenings; Dan Stringer via Jamaica Street’s involvement and Jem, Rod and me via Blackout for a series of events and screenings in the temporary ‘auditorium’.

I arrived with Rod & Jem at 2pm to set up the space and met with a longer haired, nearly recovered Chiz, in impish mood after touring with Fuzz Against Junk . . .

We finished around about 5pm, which was when I’d arranged to meet up with Elin. I had thought our Blackout performance - Bug Planet - was at 8pm . . . but in fact it wasn’t until 10 ( through to 11pm ), but there was plenty of people and things . . .

. . . to witness in the meantime - like the arrival of the dapper Here Shoppers . . .

. . . who I think went back to The Cube for the 2nd Herman Dune night.

Meanwhile, still in Spike Island, our performance went smoothly and bug free ( unlike the last Bristol performance at Ashton Court which was cut short by a power failure, or indeed, Chiz’s & my last performance at Spike Island which had the power pulled by the authorities for being too extreme ).

Saturday early afternoon I was back at Spike Island where I had arranged to meet Sam Jones ( Balky Mule, Crescent, Movietone ) to video for my cut-up project.

Before he arrived I got embroiled in a bit of setting up for Cul-De-Sac . . .

After some under railway bridge cowbell action, and a spot of long yellow tube fun we came back to the studios for pieminister pies and other refreshments . . .

. . . then into a very packed auditorium for Cul-De-Sac’s Faust rescore . . .

Their Re-score was fantastic, climaxing with an intensity that brought a tears to my eyes and filled me with eager anticipation for their performance with Damo Suzuzki at The Cube later that evening.

Having my camera and tripod handy also meant I had a chance to video a superbly expressive Lev with body and face moves & timing like 21st century Charlie Chaplin. Thanks Lev if you’re listening.

After packing down I walked with Jem to The Cube where it looked like for a moment we were going to have 3 cameras filming the event, but due to, frankly not very riveting battery and tape reasons it whittled it’s way down to just me.

The event was amazing - from Fuzz Against Junk’s psychedelic support to Damo & Cul-De-Sac’s hour and half long set. At the end of each extended track Damo applauded the audience and, I think, shook all their hands at the end ! He certainly hugged everyone in the office before he left, and beamed all the time he was in there. Incredible. One in the ear for all those “not meant to meet your heroes” arguments . . .

Phew.

Next afternoon I was videoing again ( for my project again ) - this time Freeze Puppy outside the Victoria Rooms - and another incredible performance from an uncommonly nice person. I just set up the camera and he immediately improvised wonderful melodies in a trance like state for a straight half an hour in front of the fountains.

After shaking hands and zipping up our respective carry cases we went off in opposite directions - him home, and me back to Spike Island to see the Picture This showreel.

However on arriving I once again got embroiled in Blackout business - this time loading up Jem & Rod’s stuff from their midday Flicker performance . . .

. . . and before I could get into the cinema space I bumped into a tessellation of cuboids . . .

. . . on their way to see Kate off to the Station for the first leg of her Music for Sweets journey ( planned to encompass London, Brussels, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Arad, Sofia, Istanbul, Tehran and Bristol ). They were about to sail up the river to Temple Meads on Hog’s boat, which sounded more fun than staring at a screen.

After dropping Kate off we went back down the river. I videoed Lucy as she interviewed me and drew my portrait on the boat roof ( not a portrait either of us was particularly happy with, truth be told! ).

At the other end there was some personnel swapping . . .

. . . Me, Lady and Kyla stepped onto dry land, and I videoed Aaron drumming with pencils.

After a strange encounter with a dog-on-string philosopher ( I think called Richard ) and then Cube enthusiast Charles who was upset that Nothing Can Surprise Us didn’t seem to be running to the prescribed schedule . . .

. . . we lost Kyla and Aaron, but gained Hannah who I videoed storytelling ( and lady skating ) as we made our way to Richard and Kari’s barbecue . . .

. . . where we met up with ( amongst others ) old school Cube faces Kathy, Laura and Julian.

Meanwhile, back at The Cube, Nothing Can Surprise Us continued, and ( as far as I know ) Hog put on a Volunteers’ screening of the Film that inspired Cul-De-Sac’s name, um, Cul-De-Sac ( see also here ).