A brief history of tetchi

[tetchi]‘s first live outing was in the Summer of 2003, at an event they helped organise as part of Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Electronica-fest. At that point they were a purely-electronic two-piece band. Later that Summer they were spotted playing by a drummer, hankering for something new, and thus started something of a habit in acquiring new members.

Since then they’ve been morphed and merged through various incarnations, including a spell with a flautist and percussionist, some gigs with a renowned bagpipe playing folkster, tinkering with various live combinations and finally settling on the tried and tested, hallowed ground of the four piece with live bass, drums and various keyboards, squidges and laptop madness. Add to this the ability to move seamlessly between lazy Sunday afternoon chill out and full on Friday night mash up and you have an inkling into their versatile live potential.

Various combinations of [tetchi] have played gigs at established club nights in the North of England like Cabbage (Leeds), Kulu (Bradford), Sunrise (Manchester) and cross over club/festy newcomers, The Mental Elf Collective (Hebden Bridge). As well as indoor gigs they’ve also entertained at various summer festivals and events like Glastonbury, Solfest, Knockengorroch, and 2006 saw them headlining at Beat-herder and The Northern Green Gathering.

Last year the guys, while concentrating heavily on making the tunes more accessible to the live arena, carried on from the previous years good work spreading the [tetchi] word through some memorable live appearances, Beatherder Festival, Green Gathering and most notable among them, the Shamania festival in July, which sent a gentle buzz of excitement rippling through the psytrance forum pages.

Their aim of pushing the live side of the [tetchi] experience has continued to evolve through collaborations with VJ artists Magic Lantern, and Celluloid Disco especially, whose quirky visual endeavors add a unique live visual/audio twist to their performances and with whose input has helped turn party rooms and festival sites into soothing but swinging social spaces worthy of any psychedelic or communal event.

Future Stuff

Things in the pipeline for 2008 so far include some tunes venturing onto a few compilations on some pretty familiar chill out labels; selling their live wares to the festival circuit and hopefully playing at some different events; releasing EP3 of “Bez23 mixed” tunes in March; and getting as many of their scrumptious new tracks into the live set as fast as ‘half-humanly-half-electronically’ possible so that the lucky clubland crowds can have a right good boogie.

Cheers for popping by.

[tetchi]