Richard Dawson at Flatpack

As part of the wonderful Flatpack Festival we are delighted to be partnering on a show with Richard Dawson. Touring on the back of his rapturously received album ‘Nothing Important’, Richard Dawson is one of those performers who makes an entirely different kind of sense live. Ragged guitar, discursive banter and songwriting that skips between tenderness and brutality – most memorably in his school trip epic ‘The Vile Stuff’. Tonight’s gig will begin with a short film selected by Richard himself.

As well as making brilliant music Richard is also no mean collage artist, and has agreed to bring along an original piece to exhibit at the Kavarna. Earlier in the day you can hear him talking about his work at Grand Union as part of Altered Yesterdays.

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Sleaford Mods

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We’re delighted to welcome back Sleaford Mods in what will be sure to be a sell out show.
Sleaford Mods started out sometime during 2006 whilst Jason Williamson was living in Nottingham. Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic situations arising from that trap.
“Sleaford Mods snap at you, lumber at you, insult you, your friends, probably some of your family too. They’re a force of nature, of testosterone and English crossness; of bile and humour.” The Quietus

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Supersonic + Milque & Muhle Xmas Cocktail

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Supersonic Festival and Milque & Muhle partner to bring you an explosive Xmas cocktail of aural delights and high-spirited performances across 2 rooms with

Palehorse
Bludgeoning sludge rock from South London , now signed to Candlelight. expect heavy grooves, pounding drums and dual vocals.

Sly and the Family Drone
A primal orchestra of drum rhythms, radiophonic oscillator noise and electronically-abstracted vocals.

Lowest Form
Swirly nasty hardcore from one of britain’s finest ensembles, full length now out on iron lung records.

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Ravioli Me Away
Ravioli Me Away are a dangerously ambitious and delusional all girl jazzy post punk, hip funk outfit from london.

Paddy Steer
Sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger’s shop.

Table Scraps
Local Garage Rock. Duo with guitar and stand up drumming with male/female vocals.

Rainbow Grave
Debut show formed from the ashes of Backwards (R.I.P) :'( – think Hate Sludge akin to  Stickmen with Rayguns/ Kilslug.

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Ben Frost with Greg Fox

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On Wednesday 12 of Nov we are delighted to present a very special performance which will take place at Eastside Projects Ben Frost will be joined by Greg Fox (Liturgy) on drums. Capacity is limited so we recommend advance tickets.

 

Born in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Frost relocated to Reykjavík Iceland in 2005 and working together with close friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective.

In 2010 he was chosen by Brian Eno as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protegé program for a year of collaboration, one of the outcomes of which was Sólaris; a re-scoring of the Tarkovsky classic for Poland’s Sinfonietta Cracovia. Eno and Frost continue to work together on a range of projects.

Frost regularly works with other musicians and artists; in the production of studio albums such as Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath1972 and Virgins, SWANS The Seer, Colin Stetson’s New History Warfare, and on various Bedroom Community releases. On the stage Frost has produced scores for Choreographers including Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, Akram Khan, and german Director Falk Richter. In film, he composed the score for the Palme d ́Or nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh, and Djúpið by Icelandic Director Baltasar Kormákur (with Daníel Bjarnason, for which the pair won the Icelandic film award for best score in 2013). And in the visual arts, where, with artist Richard Mosse, Frost travelled deep beyond the frontlines of war-torn Eastern Congo to produce The Enclave; a multi-channel video and sound installation that premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

2013 also marked the première of Frost’s first Opera, based on Iain Bank´s infamous 1984 novel The Wasp Factory. The project also marked his debut as a Director.

These various collaborations and alliances underline Frost’s continuing fascination with finding ways of juxtaposing music, rhythm, technology, the body, performance, text, art -beauty and violence- combining and coalescing the roles and procedures of various artistic disciplines in one place.

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RITUAL CVLT FEST

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Supersonic Festival have been invited to curate and host a stage at the RITUAL CVLT FEST  in Barcelona on October 2nd/3rd. The artists we’ve selected include Nicholas Bullen co-founder of Napalm Death, a highlight of Supersonic 2014 Sly and the Family Drone , a brand new AV act Giant Axe Field and Robert Curgenven. In addition there will be a number of awesome experimental Spanish artists performing as part of our stage.

The aim of the festival is to develop relationships within the European arena, RITUAL CVLT FEST aims at connecting professionals in the sector to promote dialogue and discuss different ideas.

As an event, one of the main interests of RITUAL CVLT FEST is that of becoming a bridge between national and international professionals with an educational aim.
In addition the line up includes

YOB (USA)/Pallbearer (USA)/Foscor (Catalonia)/Orthodox (Andalusia)/Wolvserpent (USA)

Ghost Brigade (Finland)/Obsidian Kingdom (Catalonia)/Nicholas Bullen (UK)/Ken Mode (Canada)/Hark (UK)
To buy tickets and find out more details about the line up check ritualcvlt.com

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The Grand Cross Fayre

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Capsule have been invited to curate a festival of new music and performance as part of Appetite in Stoke-on-Trent. Appetite’s mission is to get more people in Stoke-on-Trent to experience and be inspired by the arts, working with a range of local and national artists and communities to deliver an expanding menu of artistic projects to develop the appetite for the arts.

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The Grand Cross Fayre will be taking place on Saturday 6 September in Hanford Park and will include live performances a line up that includes psychedelic sounds from Californian 4 piece White Manna, stunning 12 string acoustic maestro James Blackshaw and the delightful hypnotic rhythms of duo Rattle. The meanderings of Paddy Steer, who sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger’s shop. Opening proceedings are Haiku Salut, a trio from the Derbyshire Dales who play ‘Baroque-Pop-Folktronic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other’ by means of a glockenspiel, square lead, ukulele, piano, classical guitar, trumpet, loopery and laptopery.

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With a selection of workshops led by artist collective Juneau Projects and the dynamic, costumed Swoomptheeng. An array of Street food, vintage stalls and more to entertain!

Free – family friendly
Open from 12 with live performances from 1pm – 7.30pm

The event is free and will be open from 12 – 7.30pm

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Supersonic Kids Gig – Supernormal

Ever since Schoenberg and Kandinsky became pen pals back in 1907, avant-garde art and experimental music has been attempting to find some common ground. But, it’s not been easy. Here’s Capsule’s contribution towards a solution: Supersonic Kids Gigs ‘Big Sounds for Little People’. If you couldn’t guess from the snappy title, it’s a gig for kids and their families, which aims to introduce children to experimental music at an early age. Kids Gigs provide a fantastic opportunity to show children the beauty of live music.

We’re delighted to be partnering with the amazing Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. Leading the Kids Gig is FLAMINGODS

This Bahrain-born, Brixton-based troupe take African rhythms, repetitive grooves and a hedonistic sensibility to form a riot of sound and fury that’s both sonically adventurous and feverishly compelling. With po-faced muso tactics at a minimum and dancefloor frenzy to the fore, they bring a welcome and vibrant splash of day-glo to all or any proceedings.

 

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Supersonic Kids Gig – Sineater

Ever since Schoenberg and Kandinsky became pen pals back in 1907, avant-garde art and experimental music has been attempting to find some common ground. But, it’s not been easy. Here’s Capsule’s contribution towards a solution: Supersonic Kids Gigs ‘Big Sounds for Little People’. If you couldn’t guess from the snappy title, it’s a gig for kids and their families, which aims to introduce children to experimental music at an early age. Kids Gigs provide a fantastic opportunity to show children the beauty of live music.

We’re delighted to be partnering with the amazing Sineater Festival in Shropshire. Leading the Kids Gig is Woven Skull – think “minimal psychedelic repetitions made inside of haunted woods & burning bogs.”

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