The Utopia Strong - Rig Tour With Steve Davis

Recently Brighton's railway arch venue The Green Door Store, psychedelic outfit The Utopia Strong, featuring Kavus Torabi (Gong, Cardiacs, Knifeworld) Michael J. York (Coil, Guapo) and Steve Davis (yes, that Steve Davis, snooker legend and now music guru) performed.
Chris Black of nearby electronic duo Battery Operated Orchestra was kind enough to come along and ask questions.
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[@sgfisher100970]

I grinned when I saw Steve has a module called Crucible

[@uhuhmazn]

Cannot believe Steve Davis is into eurorack, what a thing to learn!

[@shitpains]

Kavus was in Cardiacs too. Without question the peak of all human endeavour

[@BOOelectric]

Absolutely! Strong contenders for greatest band in the world!

[@stephenjames4937]

What a great video. How friendly and open all three gentlemen are. No cooler-than-thou rock star swagger.

[@BOOelectric]

We can't say enough how completely transcendent these guys are live, an exhilarating, cleansing powerful joy to behold. If you get the chance to see them, take it! Even if you think it's not your thing. The albums are instantly classic works of beauty also.

[@spongeknock7387]

Lol i was thinking steve davis the snooker player is in to synths that would be crazy. Then I realised that steve davis the snooker player was actually into synths. This kind of blew my mind💥

[@1963pyros]

That was fab, thanks very much, saw them with Magma in Manchester last month, wonderful.

[@johnlowe-tq6ey]

Steve is the humble genius.

[@FUNKINETIK]

Cool sounds. Totally surprised Steve Davis is into modular in a psychedelic way - Cue the music Steve. : )

[@RickTransit]

I rather wish I hadn't watched this. That's about a grand's worth of effects pedals I want to buy now!

[@winstonschwarz1636]

Be Nice? Who is nasty here? Anyway, I am just off out to see these guys supporting Steve Hillage in Exeter tonight!

[@MoltenMusicTech]

it is a great t-shirt. Thanks mate!

[@dionysiaex5538]

Bet Steve can't play Snooker Loopy on that!

[@djm9937]

Go Steve !

[@djmikio]

Eurorack audio bleed: Supplying an overabundance of power headroom with a PSU on every row got rid of my bleed issue.

[@svetlovska]

Wow! Steve Davis! modular God!, who knew???

[@paultorbert6929]

What I would do to find people like that here in America.......! Brilliant!!!!

[@chitlun]

Fun vid... I really wanted to get my 4" soft bristle paintbrush on Michael's Mother 32 & Rack. I couldn't live with that level of dust!

[@gazfunk]

Did he really just tell Steve Davis his set up was interesting? lol

[@kellymelrose8527]

i saw them support hillage last nite i southampton ..very impressive ..i would have loved to hear more of them ..i had no idea that was steve davis..who would have thought it

[@RealJomo]

I totally agree with Kavus about swell pedals. You gotta have smooth AND sturdy.

[@chrisstronach5495]

Saw them supporting Steve Hillage at Newcastle University. They were wonderful. Blissed-out psychedelia ❤❤❤

[@RickTransit]

I saw them at the Forum in London on the same tour and couldn't agree more - they were jaw-droppingly, mind-blowingly superb.

[@brianreilly6545]

Clock is for the youth. Great footage, thx!

[@jameshodson3450]

Beautiful shoes Kavus!

[@InkyDaCaT]

Oooo this is very interesting ☺️

[@wishbonebrewery]

Very Interesting stuff.

[@steveapostolides2975]

Steve, where did those funky trim toppers on your SQ1s come from? By the way, I mounted mine into the rack, fairly simple thing to do, made up a cable to power via sub from the 5v feed on the eurorack bus, or usb from my DAW.

[@geoffhummerstone]

WOW...LOVE IT!

[@benelevate]

This dimension is wierd but I love it

[@EdwinSL]

There are enough bleed free active mixers in eurorack, bleeds usually come from passive mults and stuff like that is my experience.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

What a decent, and useful interview. Actually sayin g usefulk stuff aboiut their gear setups, instead of the usualk ''tell 'em everythingl, but tell them nothing'' approach which most other interviews tend towards. Gid forbid other people getting good!

[@thehowlingterror]

Nice fellas. Enjoyed watching. Ta

[@pixelfrenzy]

Somebody please tell me where I can get those add-on knobs for my SQ-1! Are they print-it-yourself on Thingiverse or something?

[@KozmykJ]

One for Kavus - I've found the cheaper plastic Boss FV-50 volume pedal to be very good and surprisingly rugged.

[@edwardferry8247]

Check out their book ‘medical grade music’ … interesting look into his (their) musical journey.

[@xahrfbkhdad]

Any idea where to get that exact modular jellyfish t-shirt? It’s awesome.

[@garypickin8174]

Interesting.

[@gingermanc]

Dope !

[@rossknowles5608]

pro interviewee

[@POSTMUSICLiverpool]

Brill that!

[@markschweter6371]

Obviously NOT Todd Rundgren's Utopia ... 🤨😏😉😎

[@andythomas6246]

City in my head. . .

[@markschweter6371]

@@andythomas6246 Indeed!

[@kaszaniarz]

about bleed "in mixers"... people please stop using (and buying) unshielded Euroract patch cables! Befaco, Doepfer, Black market modular (and probably many more) they all unshieded garbage! They will bleed, introduce noise...

[@keithraney2546]

go bhfuil go leor oibre i bhfad a dhuine uasail !

[@r.e.d.62]

Strobing warning would have been helpful...

[@ciatangallaghe2485]

I'm trying to be buts that's just prog nonsense