Gig review from last Saturday

Image by Katja Ogrin

Gig Junkies have published a glowing review of the show with Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur and Ex Easter Island Head.

“The reassuring predictability of any Capsule event (nothing so vulgar or prosaic as just a ‘gig’ about Capsule) will be its…well, unpredictability. And none more so that with this electronica/existential/experimenta triple line-up. Though it did take some getting used to watching congregated punters with pints shuffling politely in to high, wooden box-stall pews surrounded by the austere beauty of St Paul’s neo-classical columns and pediments.”

Read the full review by John Kennedy, with photos from Katja Ogrin via www.gigjunkies.com

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Photos from Saturday

Thanks to all who came to St Paul’s Church on Saturday to see the spectacular line up of Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur and Ex Easter Island Head. We do hope you enjoyed the event (and that strong cider!).

Here’s some photos taken by Katja Ogrin

A guitar-less Barn Owl, loving their new synth led direction

Grumbling Fur on stage at the grand St Paul’s Church. We love doing shows here.

Daniel O’Sullivan of Grumbling Fur

Alexander Tucker of Grumbling Fur

Ex Easter Island Head wowed with their mallet guitars performance

The next Capsule event takes place Wednesday 15th May with a firm favourite, Daniel Higgs of Lungfish fame, with support from The Horse Loom, at Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath. Hope to see you there!

 

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Screenprinted Barn Owl posters

 

Our good friend and designer/illustrator extraordinaire David Hand has screenprinted some beautiful editions of the poster he designed for Saturday’s show at St Paul’s Church. And they’re absolute beauties. We’re hoping to have them in time for Saturday for people to buy at the show, and we’ll make them available online after. They’re super limited so they won’t be around for long.

David also runs the wonderful Lancashire & Somerset records and is producing a great event in June in Shropshire with Kogumaza, Trembling Bells, Richard Dawson and lots of other good stuff, more info at www.lancashireandsomerset.co.uk

Tickets are flying out for the Barn Owl show at the moment so snap up yours via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Doors are 8pm and the first act will start soon after, so we recommend you get down early. See you then!

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April playlist

Here’s a sample of some of the sounds we’re currently enjoying. Featuring Grouper, Delia Derbyshire and Dinos Chapman’s new music project, and artists we’re looking forward to seeing perform in the next few months, including Barn Owl, Daniel Higgs and The Horse Loom.

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Welcome to St Paul’s church

On Saturday 27th April we’re bringing an incredible line up to the beautiful St Paul’s church in the historic Jewellery Quarter. If you’ve not been to St Paul’s before, we thought some pictures should get you excited for the event. It’s an amazing place to hear music, and famed for its acoustics. Last year we presented Esmerine at St Paul’s, next week Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur (Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan) and Ex Easter Island Head will take over the space. We hope to present more events in exciting places like this in the future.

We’ll also have a pop up bar with Purity ales and wine available.

Tickets are available via theticketsellers.co.uk

 

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Preview Barn Owl’s new album

 

Pitchfork are hosting a preview of the new Barn Owl album on their site. V sees Barn Owl in a bit of a new direction with the use of synths adding a new feel to their guitar drones.

You can see them perform material from their new record in Birmingham on Saturday 27th April at St Paul’s Church.
Support comes from Grumbling Fur, featuring Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan (Guapo, Aethenor) and Ex Easter Island Head (for fans of Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham).

Tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk. Doors are 8pm.

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Reviews of Barn Owl’s ‘V’

Reviews are coming for Barn Owl’s new record ‘V’. This time around the drone doom duo are exploring the use of synths and you can hear them perform this new material at their show at the beautiful St Paul’s Church in the Jewellery Quarter.

“…there’s a much larger keyboard profile on this new album. This moves Barn Owl’s basic architecture away from the colleagues in the string-drone division of the sub-underground, and closer to some of its more kosmische technicians. The Wire

“V comes as a spellbinding corrective, with vast synth banks lending a woven-wire near-dub framework to Evan Caminiti and Porras’ guitar drones.” MOJO (4/5)

Review of the track ‘The Long Shadow’:
“Echoing menace, layers of desolate synthesisers and looped guitar minimalism from the San Francisco drone duo of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti” Uncut (6/10)

Tickets are available for Saturday 27th April from www.theticketsellers.co.uk, support comes from Grumbling Fur and Ex Easter Island Head.

We’re currently enjoying the video for the track ‘Void Redux’

Barn Owl – Void Redux from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

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Barn Owl – Void Redux video

Clash Music have premiered the new Barn Owl video for Void Redux. Click through to watch in full.

“Unfurling as slowly and effortlessly as the track itself, the visuals seem to point towards the relationship between humanity and the often quite brutal beauty of the concrete world in which we inhabit” Clash Music

Tickets for their Birmingham show at St Paul’s Church on Saturday 27th April with Grumbling Fur (Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker) and Ex Easter Island Head (for fans of Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham) are available via theticketsellers.co.uk

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