Hey! I'm Meg. I guess you've read what Drum Monkey said about me being in the same band as him. He's fab. Love him to bits. Really. Anyway, let me tell you a bit about this band. It was a trio, it's now a duo, and who knows what in the future. We used to be a covers band. Well, technically we *are* still a covers band, but I'm not going to tell you what that's called, cos I don't really want you coming to see us play! hehehehe.
This band - Verfremdungseffekt - is much more interesting. It's also a little bit weird, and a challenge to explain. But I'll try, just for you. Seeing as how you asked so nicely.
The name - that's from Brecht. As in Berthold Brecht, the playwright. He had this thing he called 'The Distancing Effect' - trying to make sure the audience stay sort of dispassionate about the theatre, as a way of them being more engaged. For us, it started as a cool name, but makes sense, because we'll never be doing flashy gigs with lights and stages - it's the wrong music, and we don't want to. We want to put it in different contexts, and take our improvised music into cool places. Our first gig was in a bookshop. Looks like our second one will be too! hehehehe.
So that's why my twitter name is TheDistanceMeg - from the Distancing Effect. I know, it's not a great name, but all the ones I wanted were taken...
So, we improvise, we don't record, Drum Monkey plays space drums and I loop my bass. Gem plays guitar with us when he's not playing rock stars in Japan.
As you'll have seen in Drum Monkey's first post, he did me a lovely Spotify play list of great music to inspire me to improvise. Please make any suggestions you have have for that in the comments at the bottom :))))