the terrible day approaches, almost as if time were moving steadily forward. james parsons (drumkit) and adam bushell (tuned percussion) are even now wondering what they have agreed to - and we can now reveal that it is this :- to play with MESHMASS for 2 hours in a room that smells of old carpets without having previously heard ANY of the material which is going to ooze unstoppably out of the computer. westgate chapel (which smalls of old carpets) was first used as a place of worship in 1662, on what they call the 'restoration of the monarchy', (not, for example the 're-imposition of dictatorship') of the and which describes not the reupholstery of some recumbent royals, or the retouching of some flaking makeup, but the reinstallation of undemocratic and centralised rule over the nations of britain. nothing to celebrate here, then, people, move along please. what particular denomination set up in westgate chapel then i cannot say, but most recently it was a 'unitarian' chapel, and unitarians are some sort of heretic of course, disbelieving the divinity of christ, which makes them rather like moslems, jews, or cynics. the 'west gate' to which the name refers is of course the west gate in lewes' town wall, which used to contain the prison. westgate chapel is almost certainly within and part of the town wall, which long preceeds it. it stands almost exactly opposite the masonic lodge, and is set back somewhat from the narrow section of the high street on which it stands called 'the bottleneck', opposite the twitten called 'pipe passage' where the town militia used to go and smoke, and where there was a pipe kiln, for baking tobacco pipes. the extensive history of religious dissent and heresy of course suits MESHMASS whose saxophonist studied such things to Ph.D. level and now spends much time playing the saxophone in churches around the area in an ongoing project called 'isolated churches', and whose guest drummer, james parsons, spends much time touring round churches on his bicycle and looking for ancient graffitti. adam will bring other things apart from his marimba. james will bring a drumkit. peter will bring at least 3 saxophones and a computer. richard will bring at least one guitar. i wonder which one? perhaps he will bring that thing that has no frets and which somewhat resembles an oud..... but perhaps not. indeed, we are not sure what is going to happen. how could we be? this is MESHMASS, after all.