meshmass (the sound of fat children) played live at dave's birthday party in lewes in a tiny room slightly taller than it is wide. most of the audience preferred to sit in sub-zero temperatures in a tent in the garden with a shishka pipe rather than suffer the ear-crushingly loud sound pressures generated by the pulsing sinewaves, squealing squeaks and throbbing throbs of the dreadfulMASS, amplified as they were through a p.a. system designed for somewhere larger (such as a matchbox) but anyway they (the audience) were dressed up in all manner of peculiar costumes so it was probably a good thing we couldn't see them. we did see a bearded person wearing braces. we saw a woman in a bathing costume and a tinfoil head-dress (but i cannot complain since she gave me a strawberry). there were people with hairstyles of impossibly complex design and bright red lipstick. i was trying to detect a theme but costumes seemed to range from the 1930's to the 1980's so i suppose the theme must have been 'whatever is available'. meshmass played for an hour and a half or a bit longer, performing pieces they had never heard before for the most part including invisible horse (which is available in prepared meals all over the supermarkets of britain and the greater european mainland). meshmass did not play in costume since a) they do not have costumes; b) no-one asked them to; (and) c) they find the english enthusiasm for fancy dress both ludicrous and faintly alarming. however, richard was periodically discovered to have skyscrapers on his trousers so i suppose he was making an effort. all in all it went surprisingly well and we have recorded evidence which proves that to be the case which however we are unwilling to disclose except perhaps in a closed courtroom where the judge and all legal representatives are blindfolded and have their ears stopped with tar for fear of otherwise endangering national security. ###################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### the mass (as they are not normally known) would come and play in YOUR livingroom if you asked them (auralwitness@gmail.com) at much more reasonable domestic volume and probably for longer for a small fee covering their expenses and the price of a cuppa tea guvnor. this is an offer of such startling and unusual generosity that it may not be available forever..... hurry now while stocks last.