Photo by Katja Ogrin
Adam Beckley joins the bill for next Wednesday’s show with Daniel Higgs and The Horse Loom at Hare & Hounds. He plays ambient drone guitar, creating hypnotic sounds reminiscent Tim Hecker. You can stream Adam’s performance at St Paul’s Church last year, supporting Esmerine, via his bandcamp
You can grab a ticket in advance for £8 via theticketsellers.co.uk
It’s been a few years since Deerhoof have graced Birmingham, not since 2005 when they played with The Drones and Alexander Tucker. Well they’re back at the Hare & Hounds on Monday 24th June with their chaotic and noisy pop. The New York Time describes them as “one of the most original rock bands to have come along in the last decade”, high praise indeed.
Tickets are £10 and available via theticketsellers.co.uk
We’re very excited that in only one week the exceptional performer Daniel Higgs will be in Birmingham for an intimate show. We implore you not to miss this!
“It’s difficult to describe Daniel Higgs without tapping into his mythos. The once (and future?) Lungfish singer and lyricist is a punk-rock medicine man, high on tautological contradiction and subject to stories that are difficult to prove or disprove.
He once was known widely as a tattoo artist who didn’t take orders: A Higgs tattoo would be what Higgs chose, or rather, what he divined from whatever higher force he was channeling. Other rumors abound: Some of his own tattoos are said to glow in the dark. In his hometown of Baltimore, his beard has received votes for mayor.” Pittsburgh City Paper
Come meet him on Wednesday 15th May at Hare & Hounds Kings Heath. Doors are 8pm and support comes from Northumbrian guitarist The Horse Loom. Tickets are £8 advance and available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Daniel Higgs: Sing A Song Pt.I from Windows Have Eyes on Vimeo.
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
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!
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!
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.
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
