Monday, March 29, 2010

Hostess Trolley update! Ye Grymoire Support the Hurd 13/04/10 Red Lion Manningtree


Dear friends..you will no doubt be thrilled to hear that that most infamous of necromantic artifacts, The Hostess Trolley of Occult Significance will be making an appearance during our support slot with old friends The Hurd at the Red Lion Manningtree on 13/04/10! Who knows what delicious treats the chaps may distribute to the eager throng? Who can say what dire jiggery-pokery may ensue should the Trolley break loose from its moorings and, possessed as it is by unquiet spirits beyond human imagining, lurch, casters squeaking, into the crowd? For this is no ordinary Trolley - at night it squeals and rumbles through the darkling passages of the Grymoire Observatory, an eerie greenish luminescence casting a lambent glow over the dusty tapestries and uncomfortable chairs that line the gloomy, oak paneled walls. Mr Scott's collection of disturbing nick-nacks rattles and shakes as it trundles past; its inscrutable purpose unknown and doubtless unknowable. Imbued, apparently with a will of its own, it disappears for weeks at a time into the bowels of the Observatory; often emerging suddenly and terrifyingly from a spidery nook or long abandoned laboratory. Only last week, for instance, Mr Chives was startled half out of the meagre remnants of his tattered wits as the blessed thing, taking a corner near the library on two wheels, sent him blundering head first into Mr Scott, plastering the startled maestro with Victoria sponge and badly denting his organ. Make haste then to the aforementioned hostelry and witness first hand that unique combination of black magic and light refreshments that is The Curious World of the Grymoire!

Warning: May contain traces of nonsense.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Quay Theatre Sudbury Open Mic


Mr Grymme Harbinger can only recommend the Quay Theatre, Sudbury and its astonishing Open Mic night! What a curious and eclectic soiree awaited the lads on yet another of their spontaneous forays into the eccentric, peculiar corners of music land! Who could have known that Colin, who's laid a few floors in his time, once met skiffle legend Lonnie Donegan reading his fan mail in an MG Magnet outside a newsagents in 1957 and that after a couple of glasses of red would be compelled suddenly and alarmingly to jump and gyrate in the style of The King despite a recent hip op? Who indeed could have predicted the ghostly, ethereal organ grinding of the glamorous, if slightly disconcerting, 'Denise'? Further jiggery-pokery included Dave Vernon channeling Johnny Cash, two impossibly talented young guitarists with more talent than was right or fair and an enthusiastic tribe of ukulele practitioners known as Toots. All in all a splendid evening was had by all as The Grymoire stuck it to the assembled throng re ornithology, Satanism and nude gardening. A great honour was bestowed upon the chaps when no less an august presence than a certain retired and charming lady Mayor of that delightful burgh warmly squeezed Mr Shillaker by the hand and effusively thanked both of them for their sterling efforts! You will no doubt be relieved to know that Mr Grymme Harbinger was finally on hand to whisk the lads back to the familiar confines of the Observatory,a mug of cocoa, a stern lecture on the evils of boastfulness from Mrs O'Flaherty and bed. Some names have been changed. Next time...Jonty pulls it off!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Grymoire support The Hurd 03/04/10 Red Lion Manningtree Essex 8pm

Photobucket Blimey Vicar! Well, spring has definitely sprung at The Grymoire Observatory; perfect weather it seems for a spot of nude gardening! Clad only in a stout pair of tan brogues, Mr Scott beats down the blackened hemlock stalks with a whippy twig whilst his erstwhile compatriot Mr Shillaker, in nothing but a pith helmet and neckerchief jauntily sets to in the herb garden and tickles the stubborn winter sod into a fine, loamy tilth. As robins and redwings hop happily about in the dogwood, Mr O'Flaherty the postman (and husband of the terrifying Grymoire Observatory housekeeper and All Ireland gurning champion Mrs O'Flaherty) wheels his rusty penny-farthing up to the garden gate and raising his small, exquisitely crafted alpine horn to chapped lips, lets fly a low, sonorous note - baaaarrroooommm! Swiftly donning their rustic smocks Messers Shillaker and Scott down tools and rush to collect the post and to their delight, amongst the papyri, parchment, circulars and overdue gas bills, discover an invitation from their friends The Hurd to deliver their finely crafted nonsense at an evening of musical entertainment to be held at 8pm until 11pm in The Red Lion, South Street, Manningtree on the 3rd of April in the year of our Lord 2010. Further delights include Dragonfruit! Let there be jiggery-pokery!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Slackspace art happening thingummy doodah dada..

Well, an enjoyable if slightly bizarre evening at Colchester Slackspace with your favourite duo's finely crafted songs and end-of-the-pier nincompoopery wedged a little uneasily between edgy, randomly generated sonic noodling from Za Ginipiggu and 45 minute, improvised tribute to Can from Mother Sky - all very po-mo! Anyway, something for everybody there and some poetry to boot. Thanks to all concerned.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Colchester Slack Space March Mini-Festival 13/03/10 @ 9pm


Za Ginipiggu presents:
Natural Selection

"Destroying the conventional composer in favour of relinquishing control to YOU - the audience."

@ Slack Space Colchester

Dave Merryman
Za Ginipiggu
The Grymoire
Mother Sky

FREE ENTRY - GUEST LIST ONLY
To guarantee entry on the night, email your name to colchesterslackers@googlemail.com

Here be stuff...

Stop by here at the Grymoire Observatory for all your Grymoire news and nonsense - we'll be posting on gigs, recordings and other blather just as often as we ever can! Right, off now to remonstrate with Mrs O'Flaherty over the lamentable state of this evening's rice pudding..