Juice Box at The Blue Note, Hoxton Square, N1. Another exclusive for the Blue Note. December 3rd with A Guy Called Gerald, DJ Tamsin, the massive 4 Hero crew, Kurt from K Groove, Mark and Milou.
Info: 0171 729 8440. Dress code: none, cloakroom: £1 water: £1, capacity: 400

(Flyer from borosix.co.uk)

Space Children
PRESENTS
Be Here Now

Saturday November 29th, 1997 Maritime Hall, San Francisco
exclusive LIVE performance by electronics pioneers from the U.K.

planet dog recording artists - 1:00 AM

Eat Static
U.S. debut LIVE performance by drum n' bass legend from the U.K.

juice box, island, and sony recording artist with a full live ensemble - 11:00 PM
A Guy Called Gerald

U.S. debut LIVE performance by Europe's leading techno innovators from Scotland
sativae recording artists- 3:00 AM

The Sugar Experiment Station

west coast debut sativae records founder from Scotland

Dave Tarrida

and space children DJ's

graeme - barry weaver - cesar

Rock n' the House

preston - michael dog - galen

$20 before 11pm

Planet Alice (actionsspeaklouderthanwords)
The Ballroom, Nottingham, England

With:

A Guy Called Gerald, Springheel Jack, T Power & Luke Vibert

From Google Groups:

"I just thought I would inform you of a rather cool gig happening this Wednesday (short notice - sorry, I forgot) @ Subterania in Notting Hill (LONDON).

The name of the night is 'Still I Rise' and it's in aid of Body + Soul, an AIDS charity for women and children. The wicked line-up, which includes a mixture of live and DJ'd drum + bass is as follows:

4 HERO + THE REINFORCED CREW
BRYAN GEE
DJ LADY MISS KIER (of DEE-LITE)
NICOLETTE
A GUY CALLED GERALD
DRUM FM (Marque Gilmore + DJ LeRouge + MC Tricksta + Mannafest)
J Magik
MC GQ

And lots more people who I can't remember/don't know yet...

The reason I know about the gig is that I'm playing the violin with the DRUM FM crew, so if anyone decides to come along, then don't be scared to come and say 'hi', or anything else you feel like saying. I'm not scary, I'll be the small girl with the big trainers and the wispy hair...

love Emmma xxxxxx"

Listed in NME - 22nd Novvember 1997.

Jungle-starved Newcastle gets another drum'n'bass fix on November 14, when Andy C, A Guy Called Gerald and the J Knights (formerly the Jedi Knights, until Star Wars honcho George Lucas stepped in) visit new night Spider at the City's Northumbria University Student Union.

Friday 31st October
Planet Alice (actionsspeaklouderthanwords)
Que Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham

With:

Main Room: Autechre (Live), Space Time Continuum (Live), Cristian Vogel, Placid, Ultramarine (Live)

Drum & Bass Room: A Guy Called Gerald, Luke Vibert, Subtronic

Cafe Expose Room: Neotropic (Ninja Tune), Sons Of Silence (Leaf Records), Melt, Mixmaster Morris - supported by The Concorded

Tour Residents: Cloud 9, Slack Throb, Darius Akashic, Psy

Lighting: Darkness and Company

Video: Siricom / Slunk (Headspace)

£15.00 in adv. Tickets available from Mike Lloyd - Poster Place - Depot.

10pm-6am: Strictly Over 18's: No Admission after 1am.

NY Sushi, The Music Factory, Sheffield

October 25th. Opening Night.

Wall Of Sound Presents:

Mekon / Propellorheads,
Jumping Jack Frost,
A Guy Called Gerald,
Dani 4Play / DJ Stav.

Digital Slam 2,
Digital Diaspora,
Talvin Singh's Anokha w/A Guy Called Gerald

GLOBAL ONLINE JAM KICKS OFF THIS WEEKEND

Commemorating the launch of "urban America's answer to MTV", New York-based new media company Virtual Melanin Inc. links up with its British corporate cousins Digital Diaspora for DIGITAL SLAM 2 - a three day online music festival spanning from London and Cape Town, South Africa to San Francisco and New York September 21-23rd on the World Wide Web. Pioneered by Digital Diaspora founder Marc Boothe, the event kicks off from London-based nightclub Dingwalls and features performances by Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and video artist Darryl Hell in New York. The London component showcases spoken word artists The Blank States, Anthony Joseph, T-Kalla and Sonia Sohn. Other performers include A Guy Called Gerald and MIDI saxophonist Steve Williamson. Fusing elements of drum 'n' bass, hip-hop, jungle, ambient dub and African beats to create abstract soundscapes, Digital Diaspora will be collaborating with leading DJ's and musicians to take 'live' multi-media performance to a new level. The global gig will be link via ISDN lines carrying video and audio signals to explore the 'cut and mix' of contemporary urban culture and on-line collaborations by artists at the edge of leading multi-media technology performing simultaneously between the four major cities. 

The Cooler - The meatpacking district's subterranean, steel-corridored home to alternative rockers, avant-garde-jazz musicians, and mind-expanding D.J.'s. A sleekly refurbished meat locker with black light, moody atmosphere, and a Patti Smith photo.

9/17: Push, a northern-English one-man dance-music factory also known as Luke Vibert.

9/19-9/20: Roy Ayers; Wunmi; A Guy Called Gerald.

9/22: Tower Recordings; Shadowring.

416 W. 14th St. (229-0785).

Saturday, July 26, it's Summer Technopolis with A Guy Called Gerald and
Little Simon D!
It should save for hefty hours in the Great Hall of the Student Society in
Trondheim. It starts at 21:00 and costs NOK 60 for members
and 80 for non-members. Tickets are available at Posten on tel. 815 33
1 33, or at the door on the day of the event. There is an 18 year age limit.

Saturday 28th June 1997:

Obsession 97 Music Festival, Vienna, Austria

Floor 2: A Guy Called Gerald

Normski's Biography:

BERLIN LOVE PARADE, MC with DJ and producer A Guy called Gerald for 1 million people, 1997

From Hultsfred Festival:

Hultsfredsfestivalen:

Date: June 12 - 14
Place: Hultsfred (Smaland)

Price: 1-day ticket 350 SEK, 3-day ticket 700 SEK (both +20 SEK advance fee) Tickets can be bought from Biljett Direkt (+46-(0)77-1707070)

(NOTE: tickets bought through Biljett Direkt can not be returned), ATG-outlets, Post offices, Julius Biljettservice (+46-(0)46-147888).

In Norway: BilletService (815 33 133).
In Denmark: BilettNET (38 88 70 22).

Line-Up (so far): Absent Minded, Apocalyptica (SF), BabyBird (UK), Backyard Babies, Bentley Rhythm Ace (UK), Biohazard (US), bob hund, Breach, Candysuck, Cardigans, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (AU), The Charlatans (UK), Cherno, Chuck Prophet (US), Daft Punk (F), Dilba, DiLeva, DJ A Guy Called Gerald (UK), DJ Fabio (UK), DJ Jonny L (UK), DJ Krush (JAP), DJ Seba, Dr. Kosmos & Friends, Eggstone, Elakelaiset (SF), Entombed, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Fidget, GBH (UK), Goldfinger (US), Handsome, Hellacopters, Helmet (US), Him Kerosene, Huutajat (SF), Josefin och Odjuren, Josh & Abel, Kid Loops (UK), Komeda, Ed Kuepper (AU), Kumikameli (SF), Loosegoats, Mansun (UK), Marilyn Manson (US), Millencolin, Minimalisterna, Monostar, Monster, The Mopeds, Morcheeba (UK), New Bomb Turks (US), Original Electric Banana Band, Ossler, Peace Love & Pitbulls, Peanut Butter Wolf (US), Petrol, Placebo (UK), Planet Of The Poodles, Probiscis, Prodigy (UK), Rage Against The Machine (US), Randy, Red House Painters (US), Reverend Horton Heat (US), S.P.O.C.K., Sherlock, Bim Sherman (UK), Silverbullet, Skint, Souls, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Stoned, Suede (UK), The Super Eight Group, Supergrass (UK), Superswirls, Bengt Sandh, This Perfect Day, David Thomas & Two Pale Boys (US/UK), Three Colours Red (UK), Voodoo Glow Skulls (US), The Wannadies, Wolfpack, Wu Tang Clan (US), Monica Zetterlund.

Rock School Barbey (Bordeaux)

11 May: A Guy Called Gerald

Taken from Fedelima Archive (la gazette magique)

Le Bikini (Toulouse)

10 May: A Guy Called Gerald

KUSH + A GUY CALLED GERALD + DJ NORMSKI + DJ GK

From this website: https://www.lebikini.com/programmation/concert/34544-kush-a-guy-called-gerald-dj-norm-ski-gk-samedi-10-mai-1997-le-bikini-ancien-toulouse.html

Taken from Fedelima Archive (la gazette magique)

With Normski & Bentley Rhythm Ace (Live)

With Normski.

Also featuring Rachel Auburn (Candy Girls), Fumiya Tanaka, Golden Kid, Shiro Amamiya and Mixmaster Morris.

(Flyer taken from Mixmaster Morris/The Irresistible Force's Facebook gallery).

With Normski.

Also featuring Golden Kid, Mart B, Fumiya Tanaka, Lil' Louis, DJ Krush, Darren Price, Susumu Yokota, Natsu, nobukazu Takemura, Artman, and Mixmaster Morris. Live: The Future Sound Of London (Sound via I.S.D.N. Link Live from London), NYC Peech Boys, Hamid Baroudi.

(Flyer taken from Mixmaster Morris/The Irresistible Force's Facebook gallery).

Party People- Hot Steppers-

Spring Heel Jack will be performing (Live Set) at Irving Plaza (NYC) this Thursday. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Throb Records, Breakbeat Science, Satelite Records or at the Irving Plaza ticket office (15th st.)

10:00 DJ Nickodemus

11:30 Spring Heel Jack

1:30- 4:00 A Guy Called Gerald

Spring Heel Jack with A Guy Called Gerald, at the Trocadero (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 10th and Arch Streets, at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $10. Phone: 215-922-6888.

From MyCityPaper:

Spring Heel Jack

Spring Heel Jack's Ashley Wales and John Coxon are way ahead of the curve. At a moment when new U2 and Bowie releases are rushing to embrace the sound of the electronic, these two Londoners are already subverting it. On their album 68 Million Shades, Wales and Coxon upend drum and bass standards, replacing the genre's familiar low-end heaviness with a symphonic array of strings, congas and horns. And though the group is only two guys and some samplers, expect Spring Heel Jack to put on quite a live show — substituting Coxon's live guitar for studio effects, and highlighting Coxon's turntable wizardry. Like-minded hardstepper A Guy called Gerald will open the night with his distinctive brand of freeform breakbeat jazz. The future is now.

Wed., March 19, Trocadero, 10th & Arch Sts., 922-LIVE.

Molecular Beats, Turnmills, London, England.

With:

A Guy Called Gerald, Tamsin, Lady Miss Kier, Randall, Ashley (Spring Head), Carl (Electronica).

Supporting Lamb with Dirty Beatniks (Wall Of Sound) & Geek & Matt Thompson.

Host, The Big Issue Party, The Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, London, England
With:
A Guy Called Gerald, Lady Miss Kier, Nicollette, The Propellerheads and Alex Turner (Atheltico). 

Molecular Beats, Turnmills, London, England.
With:
A Guy Called Gerald, Johny L, Rob Playground, Golden Kid, Ashley (Spring Head), Carl (Electronica).

L'Aeronef, Lille, France

Fevrier /13 : A Guy Called Gerald + Kool Keith.

Taken from Fedelima Archive (la gazette magique)

TECHNO

A Guy Called Gerald

Dans le monde mouvant d'une techno de plus en plus multiforme, Gerald Simpson alias A Guy Called Gerald, est une valeur sûre. Ce jeune black de Manchester a pondu un premier hit house en 1987 déjà: <<VoodooRay.» En 1992, dégoûté par l'insitance de son label Sony, à lui faire enregistrer des hits house à la chaîne, il fonde son propre label Juice Box Records, afin de pouvoir continuer ses recherches dans la dance underground électronique.

Ainsi, il lance une jungle/reggae hybride en 1993 avec «28 Gun Badboy» et lapremière productiond'ambientjungle en 1995.

Aujourd'hui, il continue à être programmé dans les clubs du monde entier et est appelé à remixer des artistes très
différents: que ce soit Flora Purim, ou très récemment David Bowie. (acr)

VEVEY. Rocking Chair, Gilamont 60,samedi 8 dès 22 h., tél. 021 / 923 65 93.

Molecular Beats at Turnmills, Clerkenwell Road, EC1. 9.30-3.30am. Chasing the rhythm with Spring Heel Jack, DJ Pulse, Kenny Ken, DJ Elite, Ross Allen and Carl Clarke on January 30th and A Guy Called Gerald, Reinforced, Lady Miss Kier and Kemistry & Storm on February 6th. Info: 0171 250 3409.

UBU, Salle Musiques Actuelles, 1 Rue St Helier, Rennes, France

Fevrier /5 : A Guy Called Gerald + Dj's.

Taken from Fedelima Archive (la gazette magique)

Supporting Tricky

Supporting Tricky

Supporting Tricky

Supporting Tricky.

From Metroactive (January 30-February 5, 1997 issue of Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper):

"Opener Jeru Tha Damaja was off the tour. His sole replacement was a DJ who spun hip-hop and then later, house and jungle beats. At 10:20pm, the lights lowered and a Bowie-sounding track I had never heard ("I danced myself out of the room") was followed by a cut off of Snoop Doggy Dogg's latest album. Tricky, trailed by a bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, drummer and Martina, entered to a whoop of anticipation."

Supporting Tricky and Jeru the Damaja

Supporting Tricky

With Peshay, Tamsin, MC Normski, GK, Kid Loops and Carl Clarke.

(Presumably, Gerald flew back from the USA to England for this gig and then immediately back out again for the rest of the Tricky tour?)

Supporting Tricky (Jeru the Damaja was dropped from the tour).

(Presumably didn't take place as he was playing in London that night - unless he flew by Concorde!)

Reviewed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat on 30th January 1997:

"Opening act Jeru the Damaja dropped off the tour a few shows back, so inside the club, there's only one thing to wait for. When the lights go down, Tricky and his band silently take the stage."

(Seems to suggest that Gerald didn't appear?)

Although this review (from the Phoenix New Times on 30th January 1997) suggests he did!:

"Dozens turned away at the door chilled in the concrete mini-park of Hayden Square, checking out A Guy Called Gerald spin hip-hop beats through the open club doors and hungrily eying the will-call line for anyone with a connection that might get them inside. "

Supporting Tricky

Reviewed in Westword (30th January 1997) :

"Then, after appearing with Tricky in New York City, lead-off act Jeru the Damaja, profiled in last week's issue, vanished from the bill; speaking in Addicted to Noise, an on-line publication, Tricky chalked up his departure to "politics." Whatever the actual reason, the throng at the Fox (a mixture of Boulder-y intellectuals, local trendsetters and white hip-hop kids clad in rag-tag fashions cribbed from Yo! MTV Raps) went from looking forward to the concert opener to having none at all. Prior to the show's start, a DJ spun tracks by the Wu Tang Clan and Snoop Doggy Dogg--music that's estimable but painfully obvious. Listening to it, one couldn't help but fear that Tricky, whose brilliant recordings are tangled and ornate, would wind up doing karaoke versions of his best pieces a la far too many of his rap peers."

(maybe this was Gerald?)

Supporting Tricky

Tricky US Tour 1997:

Saturday 18th January.

The Metro, 3730 North Clark, Chicago, Illinois 60613, USA

Supporting Tricky

Tricky US Tour 1997:

Saturday 17th January.

St Andrew's Hall, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Supporting Tricky

Supporting Tricky

Supporting Tricky

Review from Boston Globe (16 January 1997):

"Say hello to the 28-year-old trip-hop star Tricky who just about executed that maneuver before a packed house at Avalon. Here's the skinny: Opening act Jeru the Damaja was booted off the bill after a recent New York show, leaving DJ A Guy Called Gerald and Tricky to fill all the hours. Prior to the set, the mercurial Brit informed (warned?) his Avalon hosts that his show could range anywhere from 45 minutes to three hours. We beat feet at the two-hour mark to make a prior engagement, and we did not fear we missed the Second Coming. As we exited, Tricky was mired in a lazy, near-ambient groove that one stagehand aptly termed "just like the Grateful Dead with way more bass." "

Supporting Tricky and Jeru the Damaja

Reviewed in the New York Times:

"Jeru the Damaja, a rapper from Brooklyn, shared the bill, condensing his songs to fit a short time slot."

(which indicates that Jeru the Damaja appeared at the 2nd Irving Plaza gig - this may have been his final gig on the Tricky tour? - see Boston gig - above)

Supporting Tricky and Jeru the Damaja

Supporting Tricky and Jeru the Damaja

"Also along for the Tricky ride is the DJ extravaganza known as A Guy Called Gerald. A legend in his own right, A Guy Called Gerald is known for practically starting house music with his pounding, sweaty insistent electronic mantra "Voodoo Ray." This ain't no party, this ain't no disco - this is a fucking lab experiment."

From Philadelphia City Paper

Supporting Tricky and Jeru the Damaja