Sunday, 31 May 2015

SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE // JOSEPH CURWEN // WATTS // FRET!



Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings & Cruel Nature Records Present:


SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE

Using only drums and processed cassettes, and incorporating many elements of avant-garde music and sound art in their realisation, Sly & The Family Drone are a primal orchestra of drum rhythms, radiophonic oscillator noise and electronically-abstracted vocals. They forge hypnotic, textural workouts in the vein of Black Dice, Shit & Shine and Crash Worship.

Sly's reductionist take on music is literal; they split their drum kit to its singular base units, passing individual drums to the audience who maintain the beat while they free themselves for more noise and freestyle mayhem, ultimately eliminating any boundaries between spectator and performer. This egalitarian approach propels audience and band together into a shamanistic setting of catharsis and anarchic celebration, By the end of the set their drums and equipment are scattered; the remnants of their music lying bare across the floor.

There is no place for guitars within this band.

"Their live show are becoming legendary. Things usually get broken. There will be more than likely blood. A must see live experience. No gig by Sly & The Family Drone is ever the same." Club Velocity 2011



JOSEPH CURWEN

HP Lovecraft inspired post-rave hauntology rituals and radiophonic occult synth horror soundtracks.



WATTS

Organic atmospheric ambient noise by him from Dolmen Dweller, Colugo, Lump Hammer, Blind Spite, Plague Rider and so on...



FRET!

Noisy surf garage rock power trio who never fail to get an audience shuffling.



Friday 19th of June 2015
Northumberland Arms
Newcastle Upon Tyne
7ish - 11ish
£5 entry




Narc magazine wrote a few words about the show too:



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