BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE
+ UN.PROCEDURE
SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2024
Birmingham Royal Conservatoire
Tickets available on the door from 19:00
Supersonic Festival are delighted to welcome back Bohren & Der Club of Gore to Birmingham on Saturday 9 November at the stunning Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the first time they have graced these Midlands shores since our last rendezvous with them back in 2012. Bohren & Der Club of Gore hold their smoky line of doom-jazz in a sublime, haunting that taps into that interzone between classic Lynchian motifs and fizzing gothic undercurrents. They will be performing just a handful of UK shows.
The self-styled “doom jazz” masters were spawned in 1992 out of a mutual love of all things heavy and unholy but channelled their impulses into inspiration not influence. Bohren’s ineffable skill at lulling listeners into richly hypnagogic states. As they prize a deep sense of cool yearning that hearkens back to the slow burn atmospheres of classic film noir as much as David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks, dark ambient and the bluest jazz, plus the doom metal of Black Sabbath, Gore, and their dusty echoes in Earth. It’s a velvet cloak for the senses; essentially a heavily tranquillising sound, but one fraught with an existential angst that’s won them a cult audience over the years.
un.procedure are a Birmingham/Berlin based experimental-electronic outfit, made up of synth player Piera Onacko, drummer Nathan England-Jones and Mercury Prize nominated alto-saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi. The band’s sound flies anywhere between exploratory psychedelic textures and doomy, guttural grooves. Within a bed of electronic-led soundscapes and the dark drone of processed saxophone, industrial beats thrum and pulse, calling to mind elements of 70s sci-fi cinema, kosmische Musik and the avant-garde jazz movement of the late 60s.
“The band’s musical output is minimal, hanging on to notes until they vanish. They allow their instruments to inhale and exhale slowly. Time becomes immaterial. “
Crack Magazine
SHOW FAQS
Venue: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Rd, Birmingham B4 7XR
Parking: Millennium Point Car Park, Birmingham, B4 7AP
Accessibility: The venue is fully accessible, there is a lift on the ground floor.
Seating: Seating for this show will be unassigned, but there will be enough seats for all attendees.
Timings:
Doors – 19:00
Un.procedure – 19:30
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – 20:45
Curfew – 10:30