Each year the lovely people at HTF Media volunteer their time to document Supersonic Festival for us all to relive our favourite moments. They’ve just completed a great snapshot of the festival, all to the sound of Goat, a musical highlight for many this year.
Enormous thanks goes to Matt and his team at HTF Media as well as students at Birmingham City University who volunteered with the film crew this year. Thanks also to Goat and Rocket Recordings for use of the track ‘Goatman’.
The much loved Hare & Hounds venue in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham is currently under threat as a hub for live music due to plans to build residential property directly behind the venue. You can show your support by signing the petition.
“It has come to our attention that an application for planning permission to build a flat behind the Hare and Hounds has been submitted to Birmingham City Council. If granted it could pose a real threat to us continuing to host live music and club nights due to it’s proximity to the main live venue. Although nothing has been confirmed yet we have decided to appeal against this application before it has the chance to be accepted.
To make our case stronger we need your help. Please sign this petition to show your support.”
Capsule have a long and happy relationship with this venue, with artists like Earth, Mono, Bardo Pond, Melt Banana, Emeralds, Prefuse 73, Merzbow and Efterklang all performing there. Sign the petition and show your support!
Heavy as ever, here’s some footage of Boris performing earlier this year. They headline our last event of the year at the Rainbow Warehouse on Thursday 13th December. Support comes from Joe
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Volk (Invada Records) and Opium Lord (members of Mothertrucker, Stinky Wizzleteat). Tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Opium Lord make desolate Doom-Sludge with a coal black heart. Filthy grooves meet abrasive noise to convey a menacing atmosphere akin to the dodgiest drinking establishments. Features current-and-former members of Mothertrucker, History of the Hawk and Stinky Wizzleteat.
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They join the bill on Thursday 13th December with Japan’s Boris and Joe Volk. It’ll be our last show of the year and tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Thanks to all who came out to the Town Hall for the Supersilent and John Paul Jones collaboration. The Led Zeppelin member took up a 12 string bass, whilst Supersilent contributed keys, trumpet, percussion and vocals. Support came from Aki Onda who plays a cassette player of found sounds and field recordings.
Thanks to Katja Ogrin for the photos.
Our next show, and final one for the year is the heavyweight Boris. They will play Rainbow Warehouse on Thursday 13th December. Tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and visual artist. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda shows slide projections of still photo images, shot by himself, as a performance or installation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Paul Clipson, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, MV Carbon, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jean-François Pauvros, Jac Berrocal, Lionel Marchetti, Linda Sharrock, and Blixa Bargeld.
You can see Aki Onda, and his Walkman, perform live next Wednesday 14 November at Town Hall Birmingham. Also on the bill are Supersilent feat. John Paul Jones. Unmissable! Tickets are available via www.thsh.co.uk
Our next Capsule event should be very special indeed; an exciting collaboration between Norwegian avant jazz group Supersilent and Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones. This show will take place in the spectacular Town Hall Birmingham and we’re told to expect to enter uncharted sonic zones!
You can listen to the legendary Led Zeppelin bassist discuss this collaborative project here: audioboo.fm
Tickets are available direct from www.thsh.co.uk and support comes from Aki Onda, whose preferred instrument is the cassette Walkman.
To celebrate 10 years of Supersonic Festival, musical instrument designers MortonUnderwood have created ten unique noise box synths for Capsule to auction. Each one is hand-painted by a talented designer in the Supersonic 2012 colours. The result is a beautiful set of bespoke synthesisers, which capture both the visual and sonic aesthetic of the festival. After being on display during the festival, the Noise Boxes are now individually up for auction via ebay. All proceeds will go towards future Capsule projects, helping us to deliver more extraordinary events for adventurous audiences.
A musician, predominantly a guitarist, producer, composer and visual artist from Seattle, Washington who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music groups, most notably Sunn O))).
London based Illustrator and Print-Maker. Working typically in pen and ink and traditional print making techniques with an enthusiasm for experimentation and combining Western and Eastern print processes. Working in collaboration with a wide array of contemporary musicians and artists including Boris, Earth and Wolves in the Throne Room.
A design studio and independent publishing activity organised by Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham. Working in many roles — as designers, editors, printers, researchers, writers — a primary objective of the studio is to support the production of new art and writing.
Sarah Coleman (Inky Mole)
“Nibs and ink are my thing. I draw on paper and ink-heavy, word-soaked imagery is my trademark. Though I creep into fashion and beauty, the worlds of advertising, fiction, packaging and music are where my work seems to fit most snugly. If ‘snug’ is the right word..”
An artist and illustrator who lives and works in London. Through her intricately detailed drawings, she tells us a story of disquieting and disturbed beauty, a collection of relics from a world of wonder which is suspiciously seductive and disturbing at the same time, but while with one eye she winks, to reassure us all is well, with the other she threatens with a baleful presage. Conny performed as part of Moonn0))) at Supersonic 2012.
A graphic designer and sometime illustrator who currently resides in the Shropshire hills. David works on a broad range of projects of any size, shape or form including music / typography / branding / identity / surface decoration inspired by original crafted design. David created the identity for Supersonic 2012.
A Birmingham based illustrator who has created many wonderful gig posters for Capsule events, other clients include The Guardian, Warburtons and Static Caravan. Ben is also a member of the Outcrowd Collective who created this year’s Festival of the Rea exhibition, which inspired the above design.
Ben Sadler (Juneau Projects)
Sadler is a member of artist group Juneau Projects, formed in 2001. The majority of their work includes participatory elements and involves projection, sound, music, animation and installation. Much of their work examines equipment-fetishism and the DIY processes which facilitate their electronic music.
Richard Sayer (French)
London based freelance artist / illustrator. A great deal of the illustration he has created has been for the skateboard industry, as well as music (Heavy Metal mainly) advertising, print, fashion and publishing. More recently he has been art directing and also curated a number of exhibitions.
Horror films of the 1970s, Marvel comic books, space travel, trading card graphics, traditional doom metal, twentieth century science fiction television serials and Yes album covers are just a few of the things that inspire Thomas in the making of his work. His work is created using a variety of materials, with an emphasis on hand-drawn illustration and typography.
