On 19th March 2026, exactly 25 years after the release of my album manipulate I kicked off the NHAM in concert series on tibTV by performing the entire album start to finish...and then a set of covers. Don't let the low tech presentation fool you, there were almost two months of physical therapy and production in there. It sucks that the dystopian themes of the album are even more pertinent a quarter century later. I am bouyed by how hard the community can rally in resistance to the times with some oontz and in support of one another.
Only bumbled some lyrics I think twice. Couple obvious voice cracks as it sabotaged me a few days prior. Body/energy gave all the way out in a few places but we got through it. Yeah I left the "retirbution" typo in the show. Had a controller blow up all the wrong notes once but kill switch worked quickly. I managed to hit 6/7 cymbals and I pulled off three wardrobe changes. Kick rocks Lady Gaga.
Here are a few of my quick observations from watching from reviewing chat and the show, some quotes, and some behind the scenes asides:
seems we would all listen to NHAM Sam read the Nando's menu on loop
"control looks so calm, so demure...wait not anymore...."
@shannoncurtisyes I will tear down your oil pipeline. hashtag landback!
check out my new album Attractive Dislike Apparatus
I will accept all trophies for synchronised fingers in the air
hack the planet...radar box...fight for the users
jeez, every stage blackout doesn't equal a bikini wardrobe change ya pervz
@meljoannbrands must indeed die
everyone loves panning!
wake the neighbours!
that's still not a mobile on the damn snare
to everyone that was on tea spill watch: all beverages stayed 100% in their vessels, albeit one near miss
crisp and also crunch
the official cymbal use count was 6, i forget to uselessly tink the ride, damn.
@futzleplease don't lick each others' AI
"delightfully noisy"
submit to the
@RobertaFidora Emoji ARRAY!
this is a gaffer tape and adjacent adhesives discussion safe zone
the invaders from mars are gonna see your chat on tv!!!!
@lislegaardthe geese are bulletproof
"RREEEEETRIBUUUTIONNNNNNNN"
"moody like stalking a disused underground line"
@wordsmithchairbouncers of the verse unite!
"we all need a little blip bloop now and then"
"just chuck those over there" that was cotton balls. my headphones are $12 Phillips joints, I have boxes of them from approx two decades ago. since so much ambient drum leaks in and I hit deceptively hard, cotton balls and crank the backing tracks. I forget to yeet them and couldn't hear myself for vocals on the next track, derp.
~00:49:35 mark, the front-end of tibtv stream crashed exactly as the lyrics said "NO MORE!!!", behold chat's confusion. I had no idea and here you can see I just kept on oontzing to the staging server.
@limebar sprinting in the production trailer! I edited out some dead air of making sure things were back. next track was drums and was extra fierce. still not a phone on the snare!!!
I dropped in a FLA - The Blade technohead mix esque riff to "manipulator". But before that chat came up with a it's giving S'Express by way of 242 and honestly I wish I'd had a beret and a keytar to ham that up.
Someone get
@gabek a football scarf!
wardrobe change. still no bikini you prevs
hi mum
HILARY FUCKING DUFF!
my mic was half off for Robyn, struggle bus to hear and had to "yell" and with a lost voice. I am decimated to have done her even further disservice.
wait, doesn't everyone do a chat choose your own synthpop banger covers adventure?
why does every cover and remix have the texas instruments "C 2" in it? see the replicate album lore...
keychains and snowstorms!
lovers of the world, unite!
go the spoes!
@CCirco80's kids nod, jump,
@hilljamabsolutely had nothing in the tank for the finale but was happy to debut a sneak of where REPLICATE 2.0 album will be going!
we have the absolute best community for chat on the interwebs. Hi5 team.
roll the credits! gaffer tape, the working class hero we need in these troubled times.
controlfreak
Gabe Kangas