Hailing from Stourbridge near Birmingham, Adam Beckley uses field recordings and looped samples to create textures of sound, sometimes hypnotic noise, other times dreamy soundscapes.
Adam has released two tapes. The first called ‘Revere’ through the label ‘Carnage Club‘. The second and most recent release is a split tape with Los Angeles based musician Beru. This was put out on Adam’s own tape label ‘Armed Within Movement’ and is the first release for the label. You can listen to both these releases on the links below.

adambeckley.bandcamp.com
armedwithinmovement.bandcamp.com

Adam will support Esmerine in Birmingham on Saturday 12th May at St Paul’s Church. Tickets are available here

Excellent pictures from the Teeth of the Sea show at Hare & Hounds this month, by photography extraordinaire Katja Ogrin

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Victories at Sea

Teeth of the Sea

Photos from Panopticon to follow!

Diamond Catalog will support Grouper at her upcoming Birmingham show on Friday 30th March at VIVID, they make sound collages with a twisted groove. Their debut record has been released by NNA Tapes (Nate Young, Dylan Ettinger, Oneohtrix Point Never) who describe their record as the “sound of a distant rave in the midst of a disorienting drug spell, wading your way through the infinity of your mind’s own dark matter”.

Go here for more info and for tickets for this exciting show

The Quietus talk to fuzzed up, space rockers White Hills about their new record and influences

As a young kid I was all about San Francisco hippy bands but the biggest record that gave me my first proper mindfuck as a kid was P.I.L.’s Metal Box and that really set me off on the tangent. I then got into Juju-era Siouxsie And The Banshees and Bauhaus and that whole kinda

thing. Then I got into bands like The Telescopes and Thee Hypnotics, Loop, Spacemen 3 and that whole era

Read the full interview here

Thanks to all who came to see White Hills and Pontiak at Panopticon on Saturday. Part of Flatpack Festival (well done for another excellent festival guys!), it was a sold out event. Great bands, visuals and a lot of late night dancing – pictures will be posted up soon.

Both Panopticon and Secret Show sold out, so don’t miss out on our next show – Grouper performing new work at VIVID on Friday 31st March –

there are 4 live acts and DJs for only £8. Get your tickets here

Tickets for this much anticipated show have now sold out – but Fierce and Capsule are looking for volunteers to assist with the running of the event. Volunteers will need to be available 5.30pm – 10pm on Thursday 5th April and will receive free entry to Fierce’s Holy Mountain Party and Shabba Dabbah Dah, as well

as concessions on other festival tickets. If you’d like to volunteer, get in touch with [email protected]

Starts today and runs to Sunday 18th March. There’s exciting screenings and live events taking place across the city – find out more at http://www.flatpackfestival.org

Props to Rammel Club and Harbinger Sound for a brilliant weekender in Nottingham. A really diverse line up with some stand out performances from Bill Kouligas, John Wiese, John Wall + Mark Durgan, Dieter Muh and Bong.

SWLLWS also performed a great lo-fi set and you can catch a new piece from her at our show with Grouper as part of Fierce Festival on Friday 30th March at VIVID.

Sad news was announced today that VIVID will be ceasing trading. We’ve had a great relationship with the VIVID team over the years, from co-commissioning the Sonic Graffiti project, to housing great shows with Lightning Bolt, Atsuhiro Ito, Tweak Bird, Pram and lots more. We look forward to hearing how the VIVID legacy will move on.Read their statement here – http://www.vivid.org.uk/

Thanks to all who came the show last night –  a great night and a lovely enthusiastic Monday night crowd!

Health & Efficiency have posted up a nice little vid on youtube:

Tickets for our Secret Show with Fierce Festival are now SOLD OUT. So if you missed out, make sure you don’t miss the chance to catch our other Fierce Festival event – on Friday 30th March the inimitable Grouper will perform a new piece alongside live music from Diamond Catalog and SWLLWS. Tickets are only £8 and available here. This includes entrance to the after party with DJ sets from Birmingham collective BOYD (featuring members of First Fold Records, they produce monthly nights of eclectic live music and visuals) and a live set from the Harry Dawes Trio – a multi instrumental group featuring members of Pram, Juneau Brothers and Papa November.
It’s shaping up to be an excellent night – see you there!