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I have just placed the Chelmsley Wood e.p on the last.fm so everyone can enjoy the entire e.p completely free of charge. If you wich to listen, then point your browser to: http://www.last.fm/music/Arcade/Chelmsley+Wood+e.p

This is a short-ish clip of video taken of me playing live at Concrete in Birmingham on Friday the 22nd of February. The event was organised by Project X Presents, where an eclectic collection of artists came together under one roof to make a truely wonderful night.

I have some photos taken during the night too, which I will put up shortly.

I have just been sent the official details for X-Lab hosted by Project X at the end of Feb. As you can spot if you read on that Arcade will be in be playing and I also have it on good authority that friends of Klunk - Loopz and Iron Fist of the Sun will be involved as part of the whole affair.

Here are the specs:

Name of promoter: Project X Presents
Name of night: X-Lab:VL
Date: Friday 22nd February
Venue: Concrete (formerly The Boiler Room), The Big Peg, 120 Vyse Street,
The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B18 6NF
Price: £5 on the door
Time: 9pm – 4am
Web-Site Address: www.projectxpresents.com
Venue & Club Enquires: 0121 212 9280 www.myspace.com/concretebirmingham
07968 366878 or 07968 260276

X-Lab:VL is a multi media performance. The show combines live music from many genres with VJs, DJs, interactive sound and light installations and one or two other surprises to create an unforgettable night out.

The night is carefully sequenced to produce an interactive fantasy journey: a seamless multi-layered flow of entertainment with action moving continuously around the venue and the audience entranced in the middle of it all.

X-Lab:VL is an event without parallel – quite simply: like nothing else out there!

Featuring:
Arcade – quirky electronic dissemblage
VJ Chromatouch – painting with light
Rich Batsford – meditative piano and instrumental epics
Shana Tova – anarcho rawk!
Koala Grip – spiky punk
DJ Marc Reck – uplifting breakbeat (Mr Elephant/Rockfall)
Object X – interactive installations

With many more playing a part during an unforgettable night.

Website: www.projectxpresents.com

I have offered my services to Project X Presents for their the show they are putting on during Feb (22nd to be precise). As part of the marketing of the event I was asked by Rob from PXP to send some history and a photo. I duely obliged spending an hour or so writing up the stuff I remembered doing. This then turned into a series of emails back and forth as Rob generated something snappy which captures the essence of the last 7 years worth of Arcade work.

We then agreed that this would make for an interesting article which may help others writing marketing material for themselves or other artists.

The email trail can be found here: http://www.projectxpresents.com/node/128

Being as everyone loves a freebie, I have knocked together a short track which is intended for use as a ringtone on modern mobile telephones. Below are links to both the MP3 and AAC formats. I have not been able to test the AAC format on another phone, so please let me know if it works.

Anyway you now too can have people look at you oddly when you mobile phone starts ringing - just like me.
Good Times

Arcade Ringtone MP3 Version

Arcade Ringtone AAC Version