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MIDNIGHT CONFIGURATION GENERAL INFO THE PAST Trev formed “Midnight Configuration” originally as a solo project back in mid 1993 with the purchase of his first sequencer. Shortly afterwards he put out his first solo CD maxi called “Gothtec”, a four track affair where Trevor did absolutely everything! Once the wheels were in motion Trevor started work on the second maxi “Spectral Dance” which was released on the 31st of October 1994 at the very first “Carnival Of Souls”, the famous Gothic/fetish festival then held at Rock City in Nottingham. This night also saw the debut performance of the “band”. As time went on now famous then label mates “Suspiria” wanted to tour the UK and wanted a band to tour with them. So Trev formed a proper “Midnight Configuration” which consisted of Trevor Bamford, Lisa Ross (backing vocals) and Nick Hopkinson on guitar to tour with them! Shortly after this time the “Kissing Skull”, their highly acclaimed debut CD album, was released. It was a homage to Goth, horror films and fetishism which included a 28 page booklet of fetish/Gothic photographic artwork! This CD cemented “Midnight Configuration” in the Gothic public’s mind eye. Before that time “Midnight” was a solo project, now it was a band with a very strong identity. A lot of the imagery associated with the band revolved around the mesmeric and photogenic Lisa. The tainted sweetness vocaled ice queen of Goth. The famous “Dark Desires” t-shirt has gone down in modern gothic history for its shocking nature! In August 1997 Midnight Configuration released their long awaited second album “Funeral Nation”. This CD was more explosive and dynamic than even the “Kissing Skull” album! As the dust settled after the hectic release and gig schedules, Midnight Configuration released in Early 1998 the groundbreaking remix album “Digital Interference”, which features a collection of remixes and outtake scratch-mixes recorded over the period from “The Kissing Skull” to “Funeral Nation”. This CD was received and raved about across the board! The “Sanctuary” organisation of Switzerland named it as their album of the month! The fame and underground credibility of Midnight Configuration finally reached the ears of US label giant, “Cleopatra”, who promptly commissioned Nightbreed to compile a Midnight Configuration “Best Of” called “Dark Desires”. The CD was released in the US in early 1999, and has brought the band a new underground US following as a result! THE TRAUMATIC PAST Early on in the year 2000, band figurehead Lisa left Midnight Configuration due to outside commitments. This change coincided with Richard C (MC’s studio engineer and occasional live keyboard player) and Trevor’s growing technical prowess in the Nightbreed studio. With Lisa gone, and technical skills improved, MC began to take on board new influences and to try out new ideas in a way unthinkable less than a year previously. Traditionally the vocal side of the band was always a “Heaven + Hell” sort of thing with Lisa providing the angelic female vocals and Trevor the Pitchshifted deep vocals. After Lisa’s departure Trev began to experiment with different vocal styles and moods creating startling results! The studio proficiency gave way to techno and industrial influences coming into the band alongside the desire to “crank up” the guitar. The end result of all this work is the album “Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross”. For the first time in the band’s history, MC were in total charge of every aspect of recording and production, making this album the most honest and true representation of Midnight’s music so far. The album was immensely well received throughout the Global underground, winning the band new fans alongside pleasing older fans of the MC sound. In many people’s eyes, this was the band’s finest release to date! It was certainly a best-seller for MC as the album had to go into second pressing less than a week after its release and is currently into its third pressing! As soon as “Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross” was finished, Trev ploughed on with writing and recording material for the follow-up album entitled “Redemption Of The Physical World”, which was released on the 22nd of October 2001. This CD continued where “Dark Hours” left off but is at once harder, stronger, faster and darker than ever before! Truly a milestone recording! Then after another turbulent year of working and reworking material, Midnight Configuration released “Sepulchre Rose”. This album is/was totally cutting edge with its blend of black industrial and electro Goth. Essentially an album that is VERY focused and in a lot of ways “back to the roots”, as well as cutting edge. The album is divided into two parts: “Disco At the End Of The Earth” and “Riders Of Darkness Upon The Sea”. Part one is a satanic blend of post-Gothic commercialism, electro Goth and darkwave dance floor. The second part is a satanic tour de force of banging electronic beats, cruel guitars, black industrial sensibilities and wicked, yet poignant samples. A truly original and heady mixture of pure, raw genius! THE RECENT PAST Entering “The Distortion Field”. Midnight Configuration in 2004-2005 then settled down to a three-piece and gone was the fetish stuff of past incarnations. The band were harder, nastier and more angry than ever. The guitars were louder in the mix and the programming more caustic and edgy than ever. The band were, as always, striking out against the world via their own brand of honed satanic, Gothic evolved industrial, using guitars and sequencers like scythes and fists against the confusion of reality. This album was without doubt the heaviest they had produced so far, and its release challenged and confounded the public in a way as yet to be seen for a band who was used to shocking its audience. Fans of the “traditional” side of the band were not disappointed as the usual elements of the band’s music was still in evidence, but so much more than ever before! This CD was the soundtrack of a nightmare, a realisation of truth for our times! THE NEW BREED Shortly before Xmas 2005 Mark K left the band, and was augmented immediately by Estelle van Goth on visual keys, thus returning the much missed feminine fetish element to the band. Currently The band have just released their most explosive album to date, namely “Parallel Worlds”. Check out what is being said all over the global gothic underground! “This is without doubt one of the most dynamic and powerful CDs the band have EVER produced. Rare is the CD where virtually every song is a class A product! Every track is a blaster, designed to reinforce the band’s standing within the music scene, as well as to push the frontiers of musical innovation even further than ever before! A sonic invocation of darkened energies that could wake the dead, as well as put some much needed fire in the living! This album has it all! The band have stayed true to their subcultural Gothic roots, but have whole-heartedly embraced the power of new technologies and guitar approaches. Imagine Ministry, but with a darker Darkwave approach, fuelled by the “Voice of the Unclean” that is Trev Bamford, the sheet metal slabs of guitar riffola courtesy of Nick Hopkinson, and the Dark Lady herself, Estelle van Goth on the seductive and sinister synth washes. An angry and groundbreaking CD. Every home should have a copy! MIDNIGHT CONFIGURATION DISCOGRAPHY. MAXI CD’S GOTHTEC – 1993 (DELETED) SPECTRAL DANCE – 1994 (DELETED) ALBUM CD’S THE KISSING SKULL – 1996 FUNERAL NATION – 1997 DARK HOURS OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS - 2000 REDEMPTION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD – 2001 SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2003 THE DISTORTION FIELD - 2005 PARALLEL WORLDS-2007 REMIX ALBUMS AND COLLECTIONS DIGITAL INTERFERENCE - 1998 (Remix album) DARK DESIRES – 1999 (US market “best of”) SEPULCHRE ROSE - 2004 (Russian Version with bonus tracks) SIDE PROJECTS BROTHER ORCHID. WINTER SHADOW-1998 Band Members Trevor Bamford Nick Hopkinson Estelle van Goth Some quotes about Midnight Configuration “Linda Blair and her demons within should be scared shitless of the sonic exorcism performed by the most scary band in the universe, at least I am!” Ville Vallo (Lead vocalist, Him) “British Goff? Let’s fuckin’ av it!” Gian Pyres (Ex-Cradle Of Filth) “…An utterly relentless rhythm drives thudding basslines and jagged guitar into the craniums of the assembled throng. In terms of sheer bloody-minded viciousness” Damien (Terrorizer Magazine, Ex-Cradle Of Filth)

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Aug 20, 05:03 AM

Radio Nightbreed Back on line

Radio Nightbreed is back on line and it's sounding bigger, brighter, louder than ever! Join the Gothic revolution and tune in!

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Jul 30, 04:54 AM

How to listen to Radio Nightbreed?

How to listen to Radio Nightbreed?
There are several ways for you to listen to Radio Nightbreed. The best way is to use our radio stream's url that you can open in Windows Media Player, Winamp or iTunes. (Found via the Pray Silence/Church Of Nightbreed site)
You can also share our player on your blog and in your Facebook profile page.
And of course, you can always listen to Radio Nightbreed on the Pray Silence/Church Of Nightbreed site
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Jul 23, 08:13 AM

Pray Silence/Church Of Nightbreed

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Radio Nightbreed is going LIVE on 31st of July!!!!
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Jun 07, 04:21 AM

Midnight Configuration update june 2009

Hi All.
"Demons Are..."
It all seems to have gone a little quiet at the moment in regards MC. The last big blast of action was to get all for the stuff for "Demons Are..." off to the Russian Record Label "Shadowplay" for manufacture.
To the best of my knowledge the album is now in production (finally) and I am awaiting a release date for the CD from the label. Be assured that as soon as I know I will tell EVERYONE
Live gigs for MC
OK, as some of you may know, we have hardly been touring to death over the last few years, and there is a reason for this. Appart from our non MC commitments being a consideration in regards gigs etc, I have been deeply considering the whole ethos of the "tour" and the small "Gig".
As far as I can see it the "times are a changing" in regards the way that people interact with and consume thier music. Without going into a massive accademic tract on the nature of music in society etc, it is suffice to say that what people want and need from music has changed,perhaps its due to the cheap or free availibility of music and or the massive increases in the depth and quality of music that has come about due to techological leaps in what people can do in a studio, and the cheap availability of music making equipment? Who knows?
But, the upshot is that in the Gothic scene at least, people expect a lot more from a gig, and infact are not really happy just to go to a gig, they would rather go to an event!
(Again we could get into a massive accademic discussion about exactly why this is so)
So, with all of this in mind I have decided that MC is not going to do the whole "Rock N Roll" flogging yourselves around the country playing everywhere you can etc. (been there, done that and got the t shirt to prove it). Rather we are going to take a different approach from now on.
To me, a performance is an "event" and needs to be treated with the consideration an "event" deserves, and from now on we will only play a selection of events and gigs in order to preserve this ethos.
In addition to this, we have already started and will continue to work with multi media formats in order to augment the work of the band.
Even as I type, I am brewing plans and ordering equipment for the next batch of MC performances in the pipeline in August and November.
OK, there is more to tell everyone soon concerning MC, but more shall be exposed in the next progress blog!
All the best.
T
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May 18, 11:28 AM

Midnight Configuration update May 2009

Midnight Configuration update May 2009
Hi All.
Just thought I would do the neo techno musician thing and update my blog to tell you all what is happening in the world of MC.
First up, as a lot of you may already know, the Midnight Configuration collection known as "Demons Are..." is not only complete, the masters and the contract is on thier way to "Shadowplay" in Russia even as I type. Not sure of a release date for this double CD, but I think that before Autumn is a reasonable guess.
What about the album I hear you say?
Disc one is a remastered "best of", and examples of my hard remastering work can be found on my page. As far as I am concerned the tracks sound crisper, louder, etc and so I am pretty pleaseed with what I have done.
http://www.praysilence.org/profile/TrevorBamford
Disc Two is an interesting beast. It'spartly a remix CD of different bands remixing MC tracks, partly a rarities disc as I have included two previously unreleased versions of a couple of tracks. Partly a "tribute to" CD with a number of Russian bands covering MC tracks and also a multi media CD as there are two rare MC videos contained there. Namely "Devil Dance" and "Chaos Mind".
Plans for the future?
As I have mentioned before, we are gradually working on an ALL NEW MC album alongside the aformentioned release and have so far to date mixed and mastered 10 tracks! (oh yes that many!) There are another 6 tracks at differeing states of completion and I am still hoping for a before Xmas release for this as yet unamed release.
For those of you who are eager to hear the new material, I have let one track escape onto the forthcomming compilation CD "Mechanical Evolution". This release being the CD put together by my students record label "SNC Recordings" at South Nottingham College. The escapee track in question is called, "Something About England".
The release date for this CD. 15.6.09
OK, thats about it for the moment, the only thig else to say is that in my next blog I will discuss live performances of MC and our planned promo videos.
All the best.
T
May 02, 05:34 AM

The New Church Of Nightbreed

Hi All.
So what's happening with the Church Of Nightbreed? This is the question a number of you have been asking over the last few weeks.
Well very basically speaking, the company that hosted CONB changed hands and a German company bought up all the rights and contacts. In the process of this change over, they never issued a payment invoice and when the German company took over everything, they noticed that there had been no payment and decided to pull the site.
I tried to find out how to pay (not an easy thing I can assure you) and when I found the right online site to do this, I found that the site was not in English and could not be translated!!! We were snookered!
At almost the same time, via Twitter I got in contact with an old friend of Nightbreed who told me about his new "Gothic and Industrial Subculture" social network site he was in the process of setting up called Pray Silence, named after the track by ex-Nightbreed band, Intra Venus.
During conversations about all things Goth, Nightbreed etc,etc, he asked me if I wanted to move The Church Of Nightbreed over to Pray Silence.
From my point of view this was an act of the gods!
I said "Yes".
So, for the moment I would like all ex-church members and people who thought about joining but did not get round to it, to join Pray Silence in waiting for the glorious rebirth day of May the 9th when CONB will get its own section on Pray Silence.
So what is Pray Silence?
Blow me it is THE BEST Gothic, Industrial subculture social networking site in the world!!!! It is like a cross between Facebook, Myspace and the Church Of Nightbreed but with loads and loads of interesting features and functions that are destined to set the Gothic scene alight all over the world!!!! You can cut and paste videos, upload music, pictures, sort out direct feed from your other sites, take part in forums, instant chats, check out the gig guide etc,etc, and it all looks soooo damned sexy!
So get over there, be part of the internet Gothic revolution and join the party!!!!
www.praysilence.org
Don't forget that the Church Of Nightbreed will also be live and better than ever imagined on May 9th. Keep the faith!!!!!
Apr 13, 04:14 AM

Sneak preview of "Demons Are..." CD art

Sneak preview of "Demons Are..." CD art
Check out the artwork for the new soon to be released Midnight Configuration Cd on Shadowplay. Go to photos on this profile and seek out the "Demons Are..." folder.
T
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Apr 07, 07:25 AM

Spelling Issues

This is funny!
I got this "well educated" comment for my "Into The Groove" track on youtube. Check it out and show them some love! (ha,ha,ha,)
"hahahahahahah
wtf thart has to be the crasiest mash up of styles
goth and madona hahahah im pissing my pants
who is the retard that tough of this song "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcU4bIVL-s

Well it am me wat tough ov this!!!! Wat am u finking of me?
(Errrm, that last bit was written by me! He,he,he,)
Apr 05, 10:57 AM

Midnight Configuration on Ubetoo

Midnight Configuration on Ubetoo
We have signed up to another site. This time we get paid for plays. Please go and show us some love!
http://www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=11728
Also, I have uploaded some HOT new remastered MC tracks. Go and check them out before the release of "Demons Are..."
Mar 30, 10:34 AM

Demons Are...Running order

Demons Are...Running order
Hi Everyone
We can now confirm the running order for the Demons Are... album:
"Best of Disc"
The Fall Of Marianne- Previously released on "Parallel Worlds"
Lucifarian - Previously released on "The Distortion Field"
Resident Evil - Previously released on "Sepulchre Rose"
Devil Dance - Previously released on "Redemption Of The Physical World"
Dancefloor Poison - Previously released on "Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross"
Sinister, Sinister - Previously released on "Funeral Nation"
The Kissing Skull (Guitar Edit) - Previously released on "Digital Interference"
Eternity - Previously released on "Parallel Worlds"
Dark Warning - Previously released on "The Distortion Field"
Back To The Shadows - Previously released on "Sepulchre Rose"
Darkness Be Thy Name - Previously released on "Redemption Of The Physical World"
Dying Sea - Previously released on "Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross"
Forever - Previously released on "Sepulchre Rose"
Voodoo For You - Previously released on "The Distortion Field"
Legion - Previously released on "Dark Hours Of The Southern Cross"
Chaos Mind 2 (Reconstructed) - Previously released on "Funeral Nation"
The Wake (More Souls For the Fire) - Previously released on "The Kissing Skull"
Sorrow River - Previously released on "The Distortion Field"
"Remix, Rare Mix and Covers disc"
The Kissing Skull 2009. Magik Brite and Midnight Configuration *
InterFEARence. "TV Overdose mix" by Simian Artillery/ Martin Katscan *
Funeral Nation. "Toxic Remix" by The Toxic Avenger. - Previously released on "Digital Interference"
Parallel Worlds "Calm Blue Skies mix by Requiem FM *
Metaphysical 2 *
The Fall Of Marianne "Zombie Mix" by Reza Urdin= Inertia/Killing Joke *
Chaos Mind "Exposure Mix" - Previously released on "The Kissing Skull"
Rebirth 2 *
Funeral Nation by Sin.Thetic Squad *
The Kissing Skull by Liquid Omelia *
Inner War "Tardis Mix" By Martin Bowes = Attrition *
Undead " Totentanz Mix" Previously released on "The Kissing Skull"
Sacred Cities = Purple Fog Side *

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