Peruse our selection of beautifully designed merchandise in the Capsule Shop, which includes tea towels, prints, totes, t shirts and more, and celebrates projects such as the amazing Home of Metal and, of course, Supersonic Festival.

We’ve given the shop a good tidy up this week – we must be feeling inspired by the whiff of spring in the air. We’re also running a sale on our vinyl collection. You can currently pick up limited edition heavy weight vinyl recordings of live performances by Tweak Bird, Iron Lung and Harvey Milk’s first ever UK performance at Supersonic 2008 for a sale price of £6.

Why not treat yourself? Currently not available in a shopping centre near you!

It feels as if we’ve been waiting an age for this, but the day is nearly upon us for ‘Supersonic Presents Sleaford Mods’.

Sleaford Mods are performing at The Hare and Hound this Friday 13th February. Coincidentally, it’s also the day that we’ll be announcing our first names from the line up for this year’s Supersonic Festival, so we’ll definitely be in a party mood.

Alongside support from Rainbow Grave, we’re pleased to announce that Youth Man are also joining the line up. See below for the band’s biography:

Kaila Whyte plays guitar and sings. Adam Haitof plays bass guitar. Marcus Perks plays drums. Collectively, Youth Man storm through a venue like a bull in a china shop, levelling everything in sight. Youth Man are all about unbridled X-Ray Spex-tinged passion and the high velocity punk energy of legendary Welsh trio Mclusky, mixed with an artistic edge that leans towards The Dead Kennedys’ trippier moments – throwing caution to the wind and smashing your guitar into a thousand sweat-soaked pieces.

To reiterate earlier posts, this event is completely sold out.

Capsule welcomes Harriet Coleman to the team. Having spent several years as a violinist, keyboard player, singer and arranger in indie pop band, Los Campesinos!, Harriet graduated in English Literature at Cardiff University in 2012. In the same year, she completed a production internship at Supersonic Festival. Since then, she has worked for Literature Wales, Hay Festival, Globe at Hay and Cardiff’s From Now On Festival.

Joining Capsule as Programme Assistant, Harriet will support us in the delivery of the 2015 programme. She will focus on marketing and promotion, as well as providing administrative support to the team and taking on the role of artist liaison at Supersonic Festival.

Harriet divides her time between Birmingham and the borders of Mid-Wales, where she helps her partner with his residential recording studio and plays music, chiefly in a band called Them Squirrels. She is also proud co owner of black and tan terrier, Bobby. There’s definitely a bit of sausage dog in his genes too, so he very much approves of her role at Capsule.

Here are a few photos from the incredible show by Ben Frost and Greg Fox and Eastside Projects, Mothwasp performed a beautiful AV set using lofi layerings of transparencies which filled the gallery.
There is a nice review of the show here by Hickeysonic

What party would be complete without men in pants, ladies with wigs and creatures from outer space – we had a blast witnessing a host of amazing performances and hope you did too! Huge thanks to the Milque and Muhle team and of course you guys for your continued support of Capsule and Supersonic Fest, here’s to an even better 2015.

photos by Katja Ogrin

Local black-metallers Hordes will complete the lineup for Supersonic and Milque & Muhle’s Xmas Cocktail at the Hare and Hounds on 13 December. Described as ‘unmistakeably Birmingham’ in Terrorizer Magazine, the ‘churning, sludgy’ metal outfit played alongside Denim and Leather at a special Milque & Muhle curated event earlier this year.

Tickets available from theticketsellers

Birmingham DIY punk favourites Table Scraps is the devilish duo of Scott Abbott (guitar/vocals) and Poppy (drums/vocals). Built uniquely over a stand-up drum kit and a single guitar fed hungrily through three amps, the band have attracted slots with exciting UK acts Fat White Family, The Amazing Snakeheads and Slaves, as well as US Burger Records import King Tuff and Aussie rockers DZ Deathrays.

Following the release of debut single ‘Bug’ this year, Q magazine, the NME and Clash Mag all agreed that their Stooges-shaped racket (complete with an inspired puppet performance video) justified the hype. Another single will follow in early 2015.

Table Scraps will play at the Supersonic / Milque and Muhle Xmas Cocktail at the Hare & Hounds on 13 December.

Read a great interview with Table Scraps in Fused

Tickets available from theticketsellers

We’re delighted to welcome back Sleaford Mods in what will be sure to be a sell out show at the Hare & Hounds on the 20 Feb 2015.
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

Be warned this show will sell out – ltd capacity
Tickets are available from HERE

Poster designed by the very talented David Hand and is part of our Supersonic Presents series.