Supersonic preview

Birmingham’s premiere experimental music festival has revealed its final selection of acts.

Anyone who’s managed to hike out to Supersonic before knows how bloody good it is, and how much its organizers have done to make sure it’s a sidestep from the competition. While the majority of other festivals fight amongst themselves trying to snatch identikit lineups of bedraggled nostalgia-core reduxes and hype dance acts that’ll be forgotten in six months, Supersonic has solidified its legacy by simply picking excellent music.”
A wonderful right up from FACT Read full preview HERE

Don’t miss out folks we have just released a limited number of extra weekend tickets but be warned they are going quickly and once they’re gone they’re GONE. Buy tickets HERE

Full line up: Agathe Max/Alien Whale/Anta/Backwards/Basic House/Chris Brokaw/Evil Blizzard/EX Easter Island Head/Felix Kubin/Jenny Hval/Kunnst/Matmos/Opium Lord/Pharmakon/Rattle/Sleaford Mods/Sly & The Family Drone/Swans/Wolf Eyes/Youth Man
+ Bill Drummond talk/If Wet Salon/ Film takover with Death Waltz Records + The Duke Mitchell Film Club – cake and much

more!

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MV & EE interview

In advance of their very special Home Comfort Sound System tour, which comes to Birmingham’s Custard Factory Gallery on Wednesday 19th September, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder discuss their music and what we can can expect from this specially crafted tour, that will see them perform a unique audio visual set each night in response to their surroundings.

we’ve learned to be pretty ergonomic yet sonically expansive from all the touring stateside. since we last hit the UK terrain erika and i have expanded the repertoire considerably and go beyond what people might think is possible within our lil’ homestead, so be on the lookout for some new jams and some pretty major tonal surprises.

Read the full interview HERE

Tickets for the show, which swill also see a set from Health & Efficiency can be purchased from https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

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MV & EE – Custard Factory – 19th September

We are delighted to announce that Vermont’s MV & EE will play Birmingham this September as part of their Home Comfort Sound System tour. This should be a really special occasion as the contemporary folk-blues duo will be playing with the hand built sound system combined with visuals in the form of 16mm projections, slides, oils, and customised lighting. Each performance on the tour will be unique, responding to their surroundings.

They will perform in the Gallery Space of the Custard Factory on Wednesday 19th September with support from Health & Efficiency. Tickets are £10 and available from https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

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Supersonic just 1 week away!


With just under a week until this years festival and with such a packed programme we thought we’d assist you in the digestion of it all. In this mailout we’ve highlighted just some of the lovely stuff you can check out the over the weekend.

For all the latest news & further details about the line up relating to SUPERSONIC see our website http://www.supersonicfestival.com

SUPERSONIC KIDS GIGS

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There are still spaces available for families to join in with the Supersonic Kids Gigs, big sounds for little people. Two special performances will be taking place at the mac, introducing little ones to experimental sounds. On Saturday 22nd families can catch Lucky Dragons and on Sunday 23rd, The Berg Sans Nipple will bring their nimble fingered electronica wizardry. Tickets can be bought directly from mac.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/line-up/special-events/supersonic-kids-gigs-2

WORKSHOPS

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There are still limited places available for our various workshops, which include building the Mute Synth and a large group performance with DIRTY ELECTRONICS

GET A GRIP screen printing workshop and make a unique festival T-shirt

IMPERCT CINEMA – a workshop to contribute to an alternative documentation of the festival using endangered media technologies!

* you must sign up in advance of the festival.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/line-up/workshops

SONIC GRAFFITI

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Sound artist Sam Underwood has become quite a favourite at Supersonic, last year playing in the fantastic Lash Frenzy vs KK Null, delivering a Noisebox workshop and playing as Glatze in 2009. This year, as well as performing the tuba doom group ORE which promises to be very special indeed. Sam will be giving tours of his recent work ‘SONIC GRAFFITI’. Throughout industrial Digbeth, Sam has installed sound pieces for you to tap into the dark, decayed world around you. Meet Sam for a pre festival tour on Friday 21st October at 8pm outside VIVID, or if you can’t make that, there is another opportunity on Sunday 23rd October, same time and place.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/line-up/special-events/sonic-graffiti-2

SUPERSONIC QUIZ

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Think you know your Electric Funeral from your Electric Wizard? Well put your music trivia knowledge to the test with Club Unlikely infamous QUIZ. It’s free to enter, just come on down to bar 70eights on Sunday 23rd and register your team by 2.15pm.
http://www.supersonicfestival.com/line-up/special-events/club-unlikely

EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS

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Home of Metal has been a huge focus for Capsule of the past couple of years, and we were thrilled with the reception of our exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, celebrating 40 years of Heavy Metal and its unique birthplace. We’ll be bringing an element of this exhibition to Supersonic this year, to celebrate Birmingham and the Black Country as the birthplace of Heavy Metal. Grindcore CUT N PASTE is an exhibition that will explore the formation of Grindcore, Napalm Death’s early years and the cut n paste aesthetic and DIY approach at the heart of the music.

After the success of the Gods White Noise event last year, VELZUVIAL will extend the concept to see a 24 hour improvised performance. This new performance is commissioned by Supersonic and Eastside Projects and is a collaboration between artists Christian Jendreiko and Andrew Moscardo-Parker (aka Lash Frenzy). It will take place at Eastside Projects from Sat 22nd 9pm til Sun 23rd 9pm. The performance will feature a core team of players as well as a number of special guests.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/line-up/exhibitions

MARKET PLACE

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We’ve now announced the numerous stallholders you can meet at this year’s MARKET PLACE. Go along and check out their wares, and put a face to that awesome label/distributor. Stallholders include Southern Records, Burning World, Cold Spring, Bad Egg, Future Noise and many more.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/info/market-place/

PODCAST

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The third installment of Brumcast’s Supersonic podcast is now online where you can check out Nathan Bell, Barn Owl, Drunk in Hell and many more.

http://www.supersonicfestival.com/news/supersonic-podcast-no-3-2/2011/

LINE UP & TICKETS

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Weekend Tickets £75 + booking fee BUY NOW

Friday tickets are £20 + booking fee BUY NOW

FRIDAY Doors 9pm  – 2.30am (Box office closes at midnight)
APPAT/CLOAKS/DRUMCUNT/MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN/PART CHIMP/SCORN/SCOTCH EGG/SECRET CHIEFS 3/SLABDRAGGER/

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Saturday tickets are £35 + booking fee BUY NOW

SATURDAY Doors 4pm – 1.30am (Box Office closes at 11pm)

– AGATHE MAX/ALEXANDER TUCKER/ANTILLES/BACKWARDS/BARDO POND/BERG SANS NIPPLE/ELECTRIC WIZARD/KLAUS KINSKI/KOGUMAZA/LUCKY DRAGONS/MONARCH/MUTE SYNTH/NATHAN BELL/ORTHODOX/PHAROAH OVERLORD/SKULL DEFEKTS/TEETH OF THE SEA/WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM/ZOMBI/

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Sunday tickets are £35 + booking fee BUY NOW

SUNDAY Doors 2pm  – 1.30am (box office closes at 10.30pm)

– ALVA NOTO/ASTRO/BARN OWL/BYETONE/CIRCLE/CUT HANDS/DRUNK IN HELL/DRUM EYES/ENVY/ETERNAL TAPESTRY/FIRE!/ICONACLASS/MODULATE/ORE/PEKKO KAPPI/SELFLESS/SILVER APPLES/TONY CONRAD/TURBONEGRO/WHITE HILLS/

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Supersonic Early Bird Tix – Sold Out!

Early Bird tickets for this year’s festival have been snapped up. Weekend tickets are still available though at just £75 for 3 days of music, art, film and of course cake.
Keep your eye on Supersonic Festival for more line up updates and news.

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Supersonic Festival 2009 collective memory


by meisai lee

An ongoing collation of mentions of Supersonic 2009 across the internet. Please feel free to let us know if you’ve taken photos, written a review or blog post or generally want to share your experience of the festival. We’ll be adding to this over the next couple of weeks. (the first incarnation of the Supersonic Memory was created by the rather wonderful mr Pete Ashton ( who was this year responsible for pulling together the Supersonic Twitter feed) – you can check out what folks thought from 2007 + 2008 both sit on the Created In Birmingham blog)

Previews
* NME
* Vice Magazine – Festival Guide Interview with Earthless + The Accused + Growing + Skullflower
* The Line Of The Best + Interview with Supersonic
* Drowned In Sound
* Terrorizer Magazine interview Iron Lung + Thorrs Hammer + Johnny Doom
* The Quietus interview with Goblin
* The Guardian : Festival preview + Goblin Interview
* Strange Glue
* Alex Fitch
* Jazz Breakfast
* Electric Sheep
* The Stirrer
* The Skinny
* Birmingham PostCreative Industries
* Birmingham Post – Brum Cast pod cast no1
* Birmingham Post – Helga Henry column
* I want your Skull
* Time Out Magazine
* blablaismo
* Dazed Digital – interview with Goblin
* Alt Sound
* Clash Magazine
* Fused Magazine
* Fact Magazine
* Jazzwise
* Sup Magazine
* Soundshock
* Russ L

Radio
Rhubarb Radio Friday/Saturday/Sunday

Reviews websites/mags
* Bearded Magazine
* Drowned In Sound
* Liverpool Echo
* Muso’s Guide + Interview with Chris Herbert
* Guardian – Goblin show
* Dazed Digital – Goblin show
* Loud Vision (Italian review)
* MTV 2
* Birmingham Live!
* The Quietus review + podcast interviews with The Accused
* Strange Glue review + Flower/Corsano Duo + Monotonix + Tartufi + Pontiak + Arbouretum + Thorr’s Hammer + MMOB + Skullflower
* Londoners
* Terrorizer
* Freq
* Flashlight Music
* NME
* MTV News
* Heathen Harvest
* Birmingham Mail
* The Line Of The Best

Blogs
* Roadburn Festival
* Steve Gerrard Photographer
* Peapods
* NTU 07-10
* Build & Destroy
* A Man Walks Into A Bar
* Pete Ashton – There Are No Others, There Is Only Us
* Cthonian
*The Wirewool
* Invada Records
* Honey Is Funny
* Cows Are Just Food
* Phantom Circuit
* Bunny Bissoux + pet show
Outcrowd Collective
* Logulogu
* Vibes4life
* Birmingham Jazz
* Brum Blog

* Thee Claw
* Mark Titchner
* Golden Hands
* Digbeth Is Good
* Folking Cool
* Unsleeping Eyes
* Chris Hathway
* University Of Central Lancashire
* God Damn The Sun
* Metal Ireland.com
* Simon Peplow
* Collected Stories
* Mr Elephant
* Untiedknot
* Make Your City
* Ash-10 – Twitter use at Supersonic report
* Marmite Clock
* Glatze
* Data & Stuff
* Unsleeping Eyes
* Alright Pal
* Southern Lord
* Golden Hands
* White Blank Page
* Mass Movement Magazine
* AXXON
* Russ L

Photos
* Flickr Supersonic Pool
* Katja Ogrin
* JwRobinson
* Crimson Glow
* Make Your City
* Katchooo
* The Sleeping Shamen : Atomized + Thorr’s Hammer + Scorn + MMOB + Skullflower + Iron Lung + Diagonal + Rose Kemp
* Shot2bits

* Staf Magazine ( Spain) photo gallery review to follow

Video
*Pete Ashton 1200 photos in 6 min animation
* Monotonix 1 2 3
* Glatze 1 2
* Venetian Snares 1
* Sunn 0))) 1 2
* Head Of David 1 2
* Earthless 1
* Thorr’s Hammer 1 2
* Master Musicians Of Bukkake 1 2
* Goblin 1 2
* Iron Lung
1 2
* Memory Band 1
* Caribou 1
* Pontiak 1 2
* Theo 1
* Army of Flying Robots 1
* Rose Kemp 1
* Jarboe 1

* Marnie Stern  1
* Esoteric 1 2
* Khyam Allami 1
* Nancy Wallace 1
* Zu 1 2 3
* Bobby Previte 1

Social networks
* Facebook Group
* Twitter feed

Fora
* Doom Forever Forever Doomed + London Thorr’s Hammer Show 1 + 2
* Five Eight
* DIS

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Supersonic tickets

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Folks there are still tickets available for Supersonic Festival – day tickets can be purchased on the door

Sat from 4pm

Sun from 2pm

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Zu at Supersonic

14 albums, more than 1000 concerts, one really doesn’t know what to say about this trio from Rome, Italy. One more record to come by the hand of Dälek, more than 1000 concerts all around the globe, a collaborations list from here to Mars (King Buzzo and Mike Patton from Melvins to mention a sample). That deep sound to their music that goes down to the abyss and further is what makes them so special.

The bass lines maintain a deep, hard structure, over that is chaotic rhythm looking for freedom until it becomes totally lost. These guys don’t waste their time smiling.

Influenced by everything natural, ancestral and imaginary, they never seem to find time to centre on human emotions. Isolated landscapes, remote geological ages, astral forces are part of the compositions that become more obscure each time a new album is released. They are far removed now from the innocent grunge from records like the self-titled Zu, now closer to abyssal and chaotic atmospheres.

While keeping their original line-up since 1999 (drums, bass, saxophone) they have been touring with Mike Patton and King Buzzo from Melvins whom they share a record label with.

By Nicolás Gómez

Zu will play the Saturday of Supersonic Festival

24th-26th July

Tickets for Supersonic Festival are available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk

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