Congratulations to the Roadburn team in Tilburg for another amazing edition of their annual celebration of the heavy. We had a blast and saw some incredible performances. Cheers to Jess for the snaps.

Michael Gira performing a mixture of Swans and solo material

Justin Broadrick performing as JK Flesh. Justin had a residency at the festival and also performed as White Static Demon, Final and Jesu

J G Thirlwell’s Manorexia

Barn Owl

Some late night Gnod

J Mascis was at Roadburn perfoming in Witch, but also took part in a stellar ‘Heavy Jam’ along with members of Witch and Earthless

Each year Roadburn come along to Supersonic Festival to DJ and set up shop in the Marketplace. They’ve announced that Jus Osborn of Electric Wizard will curate next year’s Roadburn – more info here http://www.roadburn.com/

We’re delighted to co-host an evening with Stuart Braithwaite from MOGWAI as part of FLATPACK FESTIVAL on Sat 27th of March. We’ll be starting off with a Q & A followed by a screening of BURNING dir. Vincent Moon, a documentary of the band, filmed during their residency at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
This event starts at 20:30pm at Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth
Birmingham, B5 5SE  Advance Tickets can be purchased from HERE

We’ll be DJing alongside Stuart at the Plasticine Party held at VIVID following the screening – more details HERE

There are loads of amazing screenings on during the festival, highlights include Palace Of The Winds (Sublime Frequencies), Until The Light Takes Us (feat Birminghams own Black Metallers Frost) and No One Knows About Persian Cats.

Check out the Flatpack website for full programme.

Italian design company Malleus, whom we met earlier in the year at Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands have produced a series of limited edition screen prints for Supersonic Festival 2008. They will be on sale during the weekend in our ‘Market Place’ which will be held in the Old Library at the Custard Factory, along with a great selection of record stalls and other treats for your buying pleasure.