I still have live recordings of those show. Robert Hampson of Main/Loop is one of my oldest friends, since we were about 18 years old and early Scanner shows featured him improvising with me which was fantastic!
Good to have these memories flood back too. I saw Autechre play so many times in those days, even at a tiny pub opposite Angel Station I remember, before their debut album.
I can only imagine how fun that must have been - canât think of which pub it might be since Angel tube got renovated in the 00s and thereâs alot of pubs on that junction, but I used to pass through that station a lot, particularly when going to Slimelite.
I think the only other time I saw Autechre live was with Boards of Canada at LSE, which was amazing (and also in total darkness).
Just tried to look at the map and remember that the venue was almost on the corner of Upper Street and Liverpool Road. I saw Global Communications and Seefeel there too. Pub closed down ages ago and was sold on for other purposes, in the usual London style developments.
I was at that Boards of Canada show too, with Panasonic as well. I remember so many people being so bored with BOC as it was so slow that they stood outside smoking instead!!
I was at a lot of the Quirky nights but not the Autechre one AFAIR, for shame! That venue was a blast cos you went on big a loading bay lift to get in. Techno institution Lost was held there as well.
I feel lucky to have seen them play in Detroit at DEMF (now called Movement). Amazing show. Movement kinda sucks now. They used to have really interesting groups and artists play, now everything sounds like people playing on a computer directly into a blown-out monitor. Itâs all about the afterparties now.
One week I need to sit and read this whole thread and check out all the links while listening to all their music. Maybe make that a monthâŚ
Itâs a real journey, and there is often a big difference from one LP to the next. Also, donât sleep on the âEPsâ which are just as important and sometimes theyâre LP length as well.
defo. for e.g the Envane and Cichlisuite EPâs bridge an important gap between the earlier linear stuff and the first iteration of their, er, wobbly stuff. Always found it weird that EP7 is an âEPâ when its longer than most albums
I saw Seefeel and BOC at the same venue around that time (amongst others), so it must have been at that same place. Sure it was a largish pub type venue with a decent sized room⌠and you are right⌠BOC live wasnât great⌠I probably was one of the ones outside smoking 
edit just done a big of digging and this was it⌠one of the Warp Blech nightsâŚ
Yes, that was the venue, the Powerhaus! Apparently it was formally the home of Sir Walter Raleigh and is now a Halifax. How grim indeed!!
I saw so many artists play there at the time. Always funny to see BOC so under the radar in a sense for gigs as no-one was especially interested and now it seems everyone wants to still sound like them.
Those years were great. We used to travel down from Manchester all the time to different nights. Imagine working at âThe Halifaxâ now and being sat on the same spot that BOC played 27 years ago and not knowing 
That was a different venue to the Powerhaus that was on Seven Sisters Road as seen in the Blech flyer, formerly the infamous Sir George Robey, home of Club Dog and many a sticky-floored night; I saw so many bands there, including Muslimgauze and Plug when it was Powerhaus - and a Butthole Surfers secret gig before a Reading Festival appearance, with Coil, dressed in their full Time Machines teletubby suits, in the audience too.
The building was left in ruins for many years after the Powerhaus closed (Iâd pass it on my way to and from work around the corner) and now itâs been replaced by luxury flats.
The one that is now the Halifax was where it moved from (if I have my memories right) where I saw Psychic TV among many others. But never Autechre 
Ah, it gets so confusing 
That one opposite Angel Tube, which is where the bank perhaps now is, is where I saw Autechre, as well as Global Communications and others play live. A very small venue. I remember sitting on the floor during the GM gig in an almost empty space. Ah, the âgood old daysâ ha ha!
This is really interesting. I sort of remember the place thinking back to those days now⌠thereâs some info Iâve just found here:
Thatâs the one. I used to go to Club Dog a lot (so many great bands like Eat Static and Radical Dance Faction, Revolutionary Dub Warriors etc etc played there); then it turned into the Powerhaus, the floor became less sticky and the toilets were actually clean and usable, you could see and hear things â and it got really boring and corporate and failed soon after.
âŚthen it turned into the [INSERT NAME OF VENUE], the floor became less sticky and the toilets were actually clean and usable, you could see and hear things â and it got really boring and corporate and failed soon after.
Tale as old as time right there.
just ran into this on Reddit. had never seen it before, oddly. taken from Future Music Magazine, January 1995. seems legit, based on what I know of what they used back then (from live photos and interviews).
I was at that particular BoC/seefeel show as well. And had the opportunity to see Squarepusher a couple of years later, also around halloween but unfortunately couldnât make it. It must have been a great time to be around London.
Didnât get the chance to see autechre live until a few years later, and I think they had upgraded (or the paricular venue required) three bare lightbulbs instead of one.
recent bootleg. similar themes to other seets from the last couple years but more fleshed out and tighter w/a lot more detail it seems⌠hoping we get soundboards of these like the other live stuff⌠itâs just sooooo good.
edit: yeahâŚuh. just gets better and better as it goes⌠tops. so good. shredding.
I donât know if some of you were in Paris last night, but it was insane.
By far the best concert I had the chance to attend in my whole life.
If they play near you, you must go there. They are in fire.
