Because I’m a librarian like archivists, I’ve uploaded some clippings of ‘auld news’ from my very old website which you can find archived here.

Many links are bound to be broken now, but I like the little momentos from the HTML world…

July 2007

James May’s 20th Century video

I appear like a fleeting ghost on James May’s 20th Century:
The Teenager, broadcast on BBC2, 24th July 07, playing Saint-Saens
“The Swan” on a short piece about the theremin.
See the video here

June 2007

Babyslave gig – Salford (Manchester)

Babyslave will also be making their first live appearance of 2007 with
the Subterfuge Arts Group (alongside The Matinee Orchestra.
and Slipped Disco) on Friday 15th June at Islington Mill in
Salford. Further details of this event.

See a review of the Subterfuge event on the Babyslave blog.

November 2006

Sunday 5th November 2006, 8pm

The Goat, 1287 Argyle, St

Glasgow, UK

New Release:

Dawn of The Replicants + Hypnotique

It was way back in November 1996 when Dawn Of The Replicants
got their first EP “So Far So Spitfire” back from
the factory. To celebrate their 10th birthday and the new
singles album ‘Bust the Trunk’ hitting the shop, it’s now
time to light the candles on the cake and let that mother
bake!

DAWN OF THE REPLICANTS ‘BUST THE TRUNK – The Singles’

Following in the long history of greatest hits 45 collections
and golden moments, on their 10th anniversary Dawn Of The
Replicants bring you a singles collection that rivals
‘Abba Gold’ and the ‘Complete Miles Davis’
in the category ‘most electrifying compilation’.

‘Bust the Trunk’ pop’s the A-side padlock
and lets you peek-a-boo through a stunningly diverse assortment
of richly different tracks that will inspire and delight you.
Fashions and trends blow like mists through the night but
The Replicants have always delivered and here’s the proof…
22 tracks side by side like slices of granny’s gingerbread
chew.
Features Hypnotique playing on the tracks:

- Everyone in Heaven is Afraid of Heights

- Smoke Without Fire

May 2006

TV SHOW, MONDAY MAY 8th, 5pm

Paul O’Grady Show, Channel 4, UK

Miss Hypnotique will appear as a special musical guest demonstrating
the theremin with the aide of fellow guest, the king of daytime,
GMTV’s Eamon Holmes. Expect tame TV hijinks – ether
diva style – and a tribute to the sinking of the Titanic.
Show starts at 5pm on Monday 8th May, slot is likely to be
around 5.45pm. Expect no rollovers. Stoke yourself a cuppa,
sit back and wig out.

Watch the video of Paul O’Grady

THEREMIN ENSEMBLE LIVE SHOWS, Sat 6th and Sun 7th May, London

A night of a thousand theremins…

Masami Takeuchi, Japan’s first professional thereminist and inventor
of the Russian doll-shaped theremin, comes to London on his
European tour. Together with 10 advanced students from Japan
they have formed Mabel, the only existing theremin
ensemble that can emulate a full orchestra. Through a variety
of tones they imitate the sound of cellos, violins, flutes
and even the human voice. This will be an awesome spectacle
not to be missed!

You can check them out at:

Saturday May 6th, 8.30pm
The George Tavern
373 Commercial Road
London E1 0LA

Entry: Donation of £2

The proceedings will be opened by me (Miss Hypnotique) and
Bruce Woolley (Radio Science Orchestra) offering to the
gods a few esoteric numbers and songs to whet the appetite…

Then the Japanese troop will playing at:

Sunday May 7th

Ginglik
1 Shepherds Bush Green, London, W12 8PH

Entry: ADVANCED BOOKINGS £6 CALL O7714 207 914

ON THE DOOR £8

DOORS 7PM, PERFORMANCE 8.30PM. BAR 7PM – 12.30AM

No plans for myself and Bruce to play that night yet – but I’ll be there.

See Masami Takeuchi’s website

NEW MUSIC

I have been ‘experimenting’ with a sharp change of musical direction:
pop music, which is as dark and challenging as ever, but will
you be able to tell when you’re dancing to the pulsing, disco
beats? Produced with the kind aide of the ever-dazzling DJ/producer/performer
and Warp Records artist John Callaghan – check out
the first results:

“You Lie! You Cheat!“

It’s a tribute to girl power via Riot Grrl, Kirsty MacColl
and the Buena Vista Social Club realised through Spanish-holiday
style grooves, woodwind licks, megaphone expletitives, and
an instrumental performed on an egg slicing device. I’m hoping
it might make it as a B-side for the next Geri Halliwell release.
It’s on My Space thingy (dreadful but somehow useful):

http://www.myspace.com/misshypnotique

…and check out John Callaghan’s website, too.

Let me know what you think of this new direction. I hope the
track proves there’s more to Hypnotique than disturbing lofi
electro acoustic music, songs about genocide, infanticide,
Victoriana and ritual murder!

Feb 2006

Hypnotique
will be playing by Checkpoint Charlie as “someone in
a pre-WWII Berlin nightclub is laughing”, to quote Everett
True. Hypnotique will be playing in Berlin on Sunday 5th Feb.
Please email for more details as they are unveiled. As it that weren’t reason enough to
go East, Jean Jacques Perrey will be playing in Berlin on Monday
6th February. Cheap flights ahoy.

Dec 2005

Knowledge of Bugs + Hypnotique + theremin film

Friday 9th December, 8pm

Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK

From amidst his banks of circuitry and custom-built electronics
comes a flowering of songwriting from Bristol based musician
Knowledge
of Bugs. New album The Shifted Sands – possibly
the finest to come out of Bristol in 2005 – sees the travelling
man cross varied terrain, from bleak baritone led chorales
recalling Crescent to radiant electroacoustic folk more in
keeping with Jim O’ Rourke. Underpinning it all are gently
turning guitar drones, fluid improvisational passages and
subtle, effervescent electronics. A live performer with unique
presence and know-how.

Tom
Bugs welcomes theremin virtuoso Hypnotique to the Cube
to celebrate the release. Orwellian nightmares and macabre
real life tales meet in her live electro-cabaret show, as
hypnotic ether sounds and surreal lunar landscapes transport
the voyear from near drug induced euphoria to the obsessive
despair of high Romanticism.

July
2005

Friday
8th July, 8pm (free entry)

Hypnotique live performance, support from Sector
13

Namaskar Rooms

56a Seaside Road

Eastbourne, Sussex, UK

Tel: 01323 730152

Launch of Public Address – a new international
art show running from 3rd July to 28th August featuring artwork
and performances by Albert Oehlen, Dr.Randall Phillip
(Fuck Magazine), Foxtrot Echo (Coum Transmissions),
Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus/Death in June), Hypnotique,
Mike Rogers…and many more.

Curated by local Jase Williams (aka DK720), this subversive
collection of degenerate fine and sculptural art will metaphorically
have a bottle of bubbly smashed on its helm with a unique
one-off performance by Hypnotique. Enter at your peril.

Other things to do whilst in Eastbourne:

- Meet your downfall on Beachy Head, the beautiful
suicide capital of the world (iconicised in Throbbing Gristle’s
“20 Jazz Funk Greats”, the inspiration behind the
cover of Hypnotique’s “The
Hanging Garden“)

– Visit the largest Military Museum in the southeast
of England

- Get a full house at the Bingo Deluxe Club

- Visit a museum of Victorian shops. Toilet on premises

- Retire

- Die

Even more
things to do in Eastbourne

February 2005

It’s not often a legend rolls into town…and
less often they run into Oval (unless they’re a bowler…)
but for one night only, Hypnotique’s cousin (although
they bear a striking resemblance), Nikita Reisenberg a.k.a.
“The Ether Diva”, the world’s greatest
living theremin virtuoso, joins us all the way from Moscow
to present a cabaret of ether waves and espionage, whilst
en route to M15 in search of her English spy lover.

The
date is Friday 11th Feb, venue is South
London Pacific, 340 Kennington Road, London SE11,
between Kennington & Oval tube. See for venue details.

Show starts 10.30pm. FREE to get in B4 9pm, £3 from
9 – 10pm, and £5 thereafter.

Other
musical entertainment is provided by the venue’s house
band “24-hour binge drinkers”, and DJs spinning
laid-back exotic grooves and cocktail collections to groove
on out to ‘til the wee hour of 2am.

* the people at this gig were so pissed it
was a real battle of the Titans. There was a group of people
on a work leaving do, the girls got so drunk they danced around
in their underwear, and one of the walked out the toilet with
her beaver on show. My god. And that was in front of their
colleagues!

January
2005

Thursday

January 20th – The Spitz, Commercial St, Spitafields
Market, London E1 – 8pm

Another
sell out
“Wired Women” night
celebrating the most original all female electronic music.
(judging by general quality of acts that night, men can sleep
safely in their electronic music king-size beds..please girls
learn to play an instrument or do something other than get
your tits out!!)

Ann
Shenton (formerly of Add N to (x))*

Lolita Storm ^

Hypnotique

No Bra**
^

Tickets
£5 on door. Hypnotique on stage 9pm.

* formerly being the operative word.

** quite literally. And no talent either.

^ One of them was a bloke. So much for an ‘all
female’ night! ((bitchy, aren’t I??)

November
2004

Switched on presents… early electronic oddities

Friday 29th November 7 – 8.30pm GMT on London’s Resonance
104.4fm, or stream from www.resonancefm.com

An exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of
early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and
many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations
more info…

September
2004

Hypnotique to perform a demonstation of the new Etherwave
Pro theremin made by Moog
Music with an appearance by Bob Moog at two
promotional events in Aarhus and Copenhagen,
Denmark, Sept 21 – 22 organised by Danish distributors, High
End Tentacles. For further information visit
the High End Tentacles website (in Danish)

July 2004

Monday
July 26 – The Spitz, Commercial St, Spitafields
Market, London E1 – 8pm

Sonic Boom

The Birds (feat Cotton Casino from Acid Mothers Temple)

Hypnotique

Tickets
£7

A
great night of electronic innovation and hi-jinx from the
organisers of legendary nightclub
Kosmische.

See photos of the event in the gallery.

Saturday
July 03 – 14 Andre St, Hackney, London

10pm
- 4am. Hypnotique onstage before midnight.

Damned lies/destroy all monsters

HUGOS SPEAKER PALACE

MAN FROM URANUS

vOv

HYPNOTIQUE

With
the ether tastic double billing of Hypnotique and the sensational
and futuristic
Man From
Uranus -
this will be a guaranteed ear-turning night.

See
photos of May 15th Alpha Centauri Electronic Music Festival
show in Huizen, Netherlands with the group Intelligentsia
(external website, opens
in new window).

May 2004

Alpha Centauri Festival, May 15th, Huizen, Netherlands

Hypnotique will be appearing at the 10th Annual Alfa Centauri
Electronic Music Festival May 15 Taking place in theatre De
Graaf Wichman in Huizen, the Netherlands. She will be appearing
as a special guest with futurist electronic project Intelligentsia.

The show will feature: MIRAI, John Van Der Stap (Electronic
Drums), Hypnotique, MEISAI
(Progressive Dance from Japan), Richard Wentk / Bastiaan Winde
(Lasers, VJ & Visualizations), & the Operatic vocals
of ADEYTO.

For further details and booking info, visit
the Alpha Centauri website

May 19th – Hypnotique gives a theremin lecture/workshop at
the Greig Academy for adult education in Hornsey, North London.

April
2004

The new Dawn of the Replicants album ‘The Extra Room’ is available
now on Hungry Dog Records (Flying Sparks), featuring a guest
appearance by Hypnotique on three tracks including ‘Everyone
in Heaven is Afraid of Heights’ (forthcoming single) and the
joint Vickers-Hypnotique penned tune “Arctic Sails”
(‘a psychedelic torch song” – Rock Sound).

Here’s what the press have been saying:

“…a
never-ending concoction of musical campness laced with wit.
In a modern world gone mad, these bastard children of Frank
Zappa-esque grandiose are it’s sure-fire remedy.” (Record
Collector)

“…tender
mariachi brilliance. Probably the greatest institution nearly
nobody’s heard of, then. Still.” (Rock Sound)

“Free of mainstream influence they’re able to sway, skip
and swing their own rhythm, creating beautiful widescreen
masterpieces from the darker side of acid-abused pop. Way-out,
man.” (Time Out)

“Effortlessly
brilliant car crash of fizzy garage rock. crazy genius”
(Metro)

Gollum-like
streak of mischief and madness. Wicked lyrical humour.. surreal
pub-rock songs played with a nod and a wink and a wry, snaggle-toothed
grin.” (The Irish Times)

Order the CD and hear MP3s and video online at The
Replicants website

January 2004

Hypnotique produces ‘Switched On…In Conversation with
Jean-Jacques Perrey

Radio broadcast: 20th Janury 04, Resonance 104.4FM

On his 75th birthday, Hypnotique joins living legend Jean-Jacques
Perrey in the town of Lausanne, Switzerland to celebrate a
life of pioneering music with in depth conversation and rare
and classic recordings with the composer of ‘E.V.A.’ and ‘Moog
Indigo’. This is a personal voyage of a hugely inspirational
musical figure. Read more…

December 2003

Hypnotique will be joining the magnificent Art Terry &
The Fairies for a series of yuletide themed events as
a guest instrumentalist. You can catch this uplifting &
highly original chanteur and his vagabond troupe at the following
locations:

Friday
12th December – ‘Advent-garde’ – Resonance FM Christmas Party

Conway Hall (Red Lion Square, Holborn, London), from 7- 11pm.
ENTRY BY VOLUNTARY DONATION

Live
music from Billy Jenkins & the VOTP String Trio, Die Trip
Computer Die, Ergo Phizmiz and many more… come and celebrate
the season and raise funds to keep Britain’s greatest radio
station on air.

See www.resonancefm.com
for more details & flyer.

Saturday
13th December – Party at Sky Studios

Camden, London from 9pm

Join myself, Art Terry and the fairies for a ‘knees up’, email
for more details.

Sunday
21st December – Fairies Christmas Party

12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London W1. From 8pm. £5

Tinsel, glitter and lots of Fairies at the top of the tree…come
down for an intimate show with Art and the fairy boys and
girls.

Other
shows:

‘SOW: How Taliesen Got His Name’.

CBSO Centre, off Broad Street, Birmingham.

Thursday 18 December 2003 at 7.30pm.

Tickets £12 / £8 / £5.

Hypnotique
will be appearing in this multimedia production. Join the
feast of sight and sound as the Celtic pig of wisdom comes
to town. This is an exciting venture involving animation,
specially created artwork, storytelling and a veritable orchestra
of the West Midlands most gifted musicians involved in folk,
jazz, rock and avant-garde music. Hypnotique will be metaphorically
casting herbs and evil spells into the ether through improvised
music as the role of Ceridwen in the telling of this classic
Celtic myth. The production and composition of Sow is by long
time Hypnotique collaborator Andrew Bland.

For more on the artists involved and art works see www.corisandemusic.com

November
2003

Hypnotique
produces UK’s first theremin themed radios show

‘Into the Ether: The Music of the Theremin’ is a 90 minute
radio show to be broadcast on Nov 3rd 2003 to commemorate
the 10th anniversary of the death of Leon Theremin, on experimental
London station Resonance FM.
The show will showcasing the best in classic theremin recordings
and talented new thereminists from around the globe plus interviews,
discussions and specially composed new radio sound works.

Collaborative
art and theremin sound installation

Hypnotique is joining with Edinburgh based visual and textile
artist Mary Trodden to produce an installation work
combining Mary’s ominous doll creations with Hypnotique’s
equally ominous theremin installation as part of an open studio
event taking place on Sunday 16th November 2003 12 – 7pm at
Forest Studios, Bruce Grove, London N17.

August
2003:

Hypnotique in a Field

The next Hypnotique live show will be:

1am, Saturday 16th August 2003

Bedouin Stage, Shambala Festival, Taunton.

… expect a magical weekend in beautiful surroundings with
a diverse and warm natured crowd. Shambala has amazing live
acts, diverse performances, and a community spirit . Come
along, bring the kids, get involved with workshops, and see
some inspiring acts. Have a break from the rest of the world!…

“The South West’s Best Kept secret” – The Guardian

This promises to be an exciting and groundbreaking Hypnotique
event. She is back on form with the gobsmackingly multi-talented
Mr
Andrew Bland, with a harder edged sound and stage performance
combining bitter-edged lyrics, sickeningly twisted narrative,
deep and desperately romantic imagery with ear spinning electronics,
instrumental grooves and soundscapes that fly from 1920′s
Berlin cabaret through to the pits of futurisimo industrial
hell. The era of fairground electronica begins here!

July 2003:

Oscillator, Oscillator on the Wall, Who is the greatest
Cabaret Thereminist of the all? Me-Me-Me!

Hypnotique is currently featuring as a contestant on an interactive
global talent search. The idea of Me-Me-Me.net
is to say up yours to Simon Cowell and all those rubbish no
hoper ‘sing till you bleed’ TV talent shows. Me-Me-Me is more
Eurotrash than Eurovision, more Quality Street than quality
acts. Naturally, Hypnotique flies leagues above the other
sensationalist acts which is why you much vote for her as
the supreme talent!

You pay to vote by phone or text message, part of the money
will go back to the winner and you also stand a chance of
getting your hands on a wad of cash as well. Come on, it’s
better odds than the lottery and you can be contributing to
the fund to buy a snazzy new
theremin for Hypnotique!

Introducing…Babyslave

*Babyslave is a new project that
brings together the multi-instru-mental talents of Hypnotique
with electronic guru Carya Amara (Earthrid
Records), mixing studio recordings with occassional exclusive
live events that aspire to be more than a bit special.

Babyslave’s
live public debut was a low key arts event on Wednesday 23rd
July in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. The organisers asked
participants to accomodate feedback from the audience – and
Babyslave took them at their word. Noises from the audience
were, for once, encouraged: these reactions were electronically
processed in real time and integrated into the performance,
alongside the sounds of saxophone, theremin and synthesisers.
It would be fair to say, that Babyslave ROCKED the Spa.

More
on Baby Slave

March 2003:

Hypnotique has recently recorded a killer session with Dawn
of the Replicants in Edinburgh as part of a new e.p. to
be released late 2003 on Flying Sparks Records, provisionally
titled “Backstabbing Nation”. Hypnotique is currently
working with The Replicants on writing material for their
4th studio album.

Feb
2003:

Hypnotique has recently been recording with new band ‘Candy’,
an ethereal new country influenced band whose line up comprises
former members of The
Paradise Motel and Cindytalk

Dec
2002:

Hypnotique invited to entertain the Glitteratzi at Damien
Hurst’s Pharmacy Restaurant in Notting Hill. Not bad for a
mere plebian creature from the gutter! Let’s hope she doesn’t
get dissected in formalyahyde…

Wednesday 4th Dec 2002 5pm – Hypnotique
appears on Resonance
FM in a live interview with the Glass Shrimp collective.
104.4FM or stream from their website.

Nov
2002:

Dawn of the Replicants Tour Dates

Hypnotique will be packing her kit bag and taking to the long
& dusty road with Scottish nutters Dawn of the Replicants.
Rustling inside her leopardskin handbag to produce a musical
menagerie of sounds, The “Touching the Propellor”
tour will fly by night to:

Monday 18th Nov – EDINBURGH, Liquid Rooms (Ripping Records
0131 226 7010)

Tuesday 19th Nov – CARDIFF, Barfly (0870 907 0999)

Thursday 21st Nov – LONDON, Water Rats (0207 403 3331)

Friday 22nd Nov – OXFORD, The Zodiac (01865 420042) (Hypnotique
also appearing this night with the band Sunnyvale Sub Noise
Experiment)

Saturday 23rd Nov – MANCHESTER University (0161 832 1111)

20th November: Broadcast on John Peel’s show, Radio 1 of 4
songs in session with Dawn of the Replicants which were:

Hollywood Hills * Smoke Without Fire * Rockefeller Centre
1932 * Rhinestone Cowboy

The new album ‘Touching the Propellor’ and single ‘Rockefeller
Centre 1932′ both out now on Flying Sparks Records.

Oct 2002:

Hypnotique will be appearing on wacky TV talent Show “House
of Astonishment” broadcasting on Channel 5 every
Monday evening, 11.20pm from the 13th October – 1st December.
See her superior ariel ballet amidst the frolics of a man
stuffing scorpions down his sweater, rats in the pants, magnetic
maniacs and other eccentrics. I will be appearing in 5/8 shows
in the house band, but don’t blink or you’ll miss it! (I’m
not endorsing the quality of this televisual venture, but
not too bad for a giggle when you come in late from the pub).

Performance
annoucement:

The Idler presents THE MAGIC OF THE THEREMIN

@ The Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello Rd, London W11

Thu 24 Oct. Doors 8.30 Show 8.45 Ticket Price: £12.50

BOOKINGS: 020 7908 9696 (advanced booking strongly recommended)

Starring Hypnotique with the legendary Bruce Woolley and his
amazing Radio Science
Orchestra. Prepare for the thrills and chills of a live
performance of classic and contemporary theremin music &
historic prose from the vaults of Theremin Lore. This will
be followed by a late screening of B Movie director Ed Wood’s
triumphant Plan 9 from Outer Space starring Bela Lugosi

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