For your listening pleasure, a mix of sounds from our forthcoming Supersonic Festival launch party.

Weekend tickets have now sold out – there are a limited number of day tickets available, make sure you don’t miss out!
www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

Supersonic Festival are delighted to be partnering with Warwick Arts Centre to bring to the Midlands a night with John Carpenter live, on Thu 27 Oct 2016, 8pm.
Tickets are available www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/choose-seats/?PerformanceId=13129

John Carpenter is a major cult film-maker, musician and film music composer. He is a true film polymath, often directing, screenwriting, producing, editing, composing and playing. His films have included; The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, Dark Star, Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween, Escape from New York and Starman to name a few.

Capsule have been busy behind the scenes, and are happy to announce the return of Supersonic Festival in 2017.
There’s much more information to follow in the coming weeks, in the meantime, we’re pleased to announce an official launch party on 4th and 5th November in the intimate surroundings of the Centrala Gallery space in Birmingham to celebrate the return of the festival.

The launch, much like the festival, features a variety of exciting talent which Supersonic would like to shine the limelight on, including local musicians and artists from across the globe. This event is the first of manu collaborations with Milque & Muhle, be warned capacity is super limited and advanced tickets are advised.

Details as follows:-
SUPERSONIC 2017 LAUNCH PARTY
FRIDAY NOV 4TH LINEUP:
Xylouris White (Jim White from Dirty Three + George Xylouris, Cretan lute player)
Sex Swing
Mothwasp

SATURDAY NOV 5TH LINEUP:
Giant Swan
Rattle
Kuro
Bismuth
Rainbow Grave
Stinky Wizzleteat
+ Sausage DJ’s
Milque & Muhle pop up record stall

Centrala
Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, B5 5RT Birmingham

Tickets – https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/supersonic-mini-weekender/10042028

We’re delighted to announce that we are partnering with Supernormal Festival as part of a 2 year programme, which will develop collaborations between organisations and platforms from cities across the UK.  In uncertain and challenging times, we must work together to support each other to continue to forefront the boundless innovation and diversity that thrives within this scene.

As part of this programme Supersonic Festival will be presenting two live immersive AV performances in the Vortex space as well as bringing another one of our raucous Supersonic Kids Gigs to this years festival.

Supernormal Festival takes place on the 5-7 August at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, tickets can be purchased from HERE

MOTHWASP
Mothwasp descend from the long line of leather-and-denim clad noise-mongers that post-industrial Birmingham is so fond of producing, yet remain the Midlands’ “least tattooed rock band”. Combining the brute force of drums and guitar, experimental film soundtrack techniques and audio-responsive video experiments derived from defunct analogue projection apparatus, the duo sculpt movies for the ears and soundtracks for the eyes.

Mothwasp website from Beat13 on Vimeo.

MOONSEER
A live visual and music performance conceived by artist and film maker Conny Prantera as part of her MOON series which includes MOON RA and MOON ROSE. Uniting a group of musicians with her seductive and disquiet visuals the performance tells tales of earthly wonder and ethereal relics to an ecstatic ritualistic climax within the wink of a third eye.

THE BUTTERFLY WHEEL from the moonseer on Vimeo.

We’re delighted to announce that our next  Supersonic Kids Gig will be taking place at the mavelous Sineater Festival in Shropshire on Sunday 19 June. Featuring a live performance by Tor Invocation Band.

Ever since Schoenberg and Kandinsky became pen pals back in 1907, avant-garde art and experimental music has been attempting to find some common ground. But, it’s not been easy. Here’s Capsule’s contribution towards a solution: Supersonic Kids Gigs ‘Big Sounds for Little People’. If you couldn’t guess from the snappy title, it’s a gig for kids and their families, which aims to introduce children to experimental music at an early age. Kids Gigs provide a fantastic opportunity to show children the beauty of live music.
Recommended for kids under 10

Tor Invocation Band is an ever evolving project led by Jake Blanchard, the music is largely improvised and the lineup for the band is ever-shifting and has involved members of Woven Skull, The Family Elan, Core of the Coalman, United Bible Studies and Sam and the Plants amongst others. Mangled dilapidated drone meets ecstatic disintegrating psychedelia.

In honour of Tony Conrad’s passing last week, we have released an incredible interview with him from when he performed at Supersonic Festival in 2011, he talks about the New York scene, improv music and Fluxus amongst many other things. Tony Conrad was a true pioneer and we were incredibly honoured to have him be part of the festival. RIP

many thanks to HTF Media for creating the film.

Dear All,

Capsule has been creating work for you, our loyal and curious audiences, since 1999.

We have made the decision to take this year off from delivering Supersonic festival and are setting ourselves a challenge: in a UK with 1,000 festivals how can we keep producing adventurous work that is distinct and groundbreaking? We want to show you something new, offer challenging and memorable experiences, and support artists to achieve their most ambitious work.

We need your help.  In addition to learning and collaborating with other art organisations, businesses and artists, we want to hear from you.

What do you love about Supersonic / Capsule’s work?
Can we make improvements?
What new collaborations do you think we could make happen?
How could the festival grow and change?

Supersonic operates on mixed sources of income, a combination of ticket sales from our loyal audiences, grant funding from the Arts Council and trusts/foundations, and some support from donors. Fundraising can be time-consuming, highly competitive and bit unpredictable, however it would be very difficult (if impossible) to produce work with the Supersonic level of ambition on ticket sales alone, so grant funding will remain an important part of our income. Capsule is a not-for-profit enterprise, which relies on your support, so we are extremely grateful to our audiences, artists and funders.

To ensure that the next Supersonic is the most adventurous and exciting yet, we will use 2016 to recharge the batteries and do things differently. Capsule’s Artistic Director Lisa Meyer is already laying the groundwork for Supersonic Festival 2017, and there’ll be other Capsule activity in 2016, so keep your eyes peeled.

Thank you so much, and we look forward to more exciting music, art, performance (and cake) very soon.

Lisa Meyer, Creative Director

Supersonic Festival and Sound of Static are teaming up to present Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Warwick Arts Centre on Thursday 22 October.

The show is the post-rock legends’ only Midlands date and there are NO London shows happening this time. This will be a very special show indeed, in the Grand Ole Warwick Arts Centre main hall to boot.

Formed in Montreal, Canada in 1994, the legendary Godspeed You! Black Emperor continue to release genre defining albums and still perform breathtaking live shows.

Returning to UK shores for a handful of live shows this autumn, GY!BE will be showcasing their 2015 album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, along with some hefty numbers from their extensive back catalogue. A truly rare evening and one not to be missed.

Poster designed by David Hand

+ Support tbc.

£24 + booking fee

http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/2015/godspeed-you-black-emperor-plus-guests/

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Get your hands on our beautifully designed 2015 Supersonic merch which includes a ltd edition T created by David Hand, gold ink on a black cotton shirt and/or our tote bag.
BUY NOW

The profits from our tote bag will all be donated to Sifa Fireside.

A charity set up to support those experiencing homelessness or who are vulnerably-housed. Many of the people we work with – our clients – are affected by alcohol, facing mental and physical health problems or otherwise socially excluded.
Find out more about them from www.sifafireside.co.uk/about/

Feel free to browse our shop for a range of limited edition merch created by a number of specially invited artists – SHOP

We will start posting up our Supersonic Collective memory (first started in 2009) over the next few days, so feel free to send your comments and blog post links and photos to us, let us know your highlights.
 Supersonic photos should be added to our Flickr group (if you could tag them with band name & supersonic 2015 or ssfest15)

Gazelle Twin Photo by Joe Singh

SUPERSONIC QUESTIONNAIRE

We know that people who come to SUPERSONIC are a knowledgeable and opinionated lot so we’d like to ask for your assistance to develop and improve the next festival by answering a few questions about you and your experience. This should take no more than a few minutes of your time, and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Your answers here will aid us in keeping our work going and in making sure new and interesting artists will keep coming to the festival – so your input really does matter in making SUPERSONIC work.

Sarah Angliss in residence withe the MOOG Soundlab photo by Tom Tebby

Previews

The Times
The 50 best events this summer – in at no.2 Supersonic
“For Curious Audiences, announces the poster for this inner-city Birmingham festival. From Ethiopian wandering minstrel Afework Niguisse to Oregon space rockers Eternal Tapestry, this is a celebration of the expressive, challenging and generally out there music.”


Louder Than War
“The Supersonic Festival is always one step away from everybody else, Capsule, the people behind the festival are fearless when putting the line up together. Be it music, art installations or literature, they never fail to deliver something very special. I have never left Supersonic festival without at least one new favourite band that I would never have heard of without the festival.”

Tiny Mix Tapes  “Narnia. Wonderland. Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival. What do these places have in common? Answer: they’re pure magic. What’s the sad difference between them? Answer: only one of them is real. (Which one is up to you.) You might not be able to step into an amazing otherworld through a large piece of furniture, but you can go to England to experience the finest in musical festival lineups.”

Momondo Names Supersonic as one of the best 10 European Festivals

Brum Notes ” Table Scraps drummer Poppy Twist looks ahead to the city’s most adventurous festival.”

Time Out “Travel back in time with Supersonic Festival’s All Ears exhibition”

Fact Magazine “Birmingham’s Supersonic is always one of the UK’s most adventurously programmed festivals”

The Quietus  “Supersonic is back! The perennially ace experimental music festival in Birmingham has just announced its 2015 edition.”

The 405 “Birmingham-based festival Supersonic has announced the lineup for its 2015 iteration. Taking place from 11th to 14th June, it’s run by production company Capsule”

Birmingham Mail “Birmingham arts event organiser Capsule launched Supersonic back in 2003 to offer “a sense of adventure for curious audiences” with a cocktail of music, arts, workshops, talks and other activities.”

Guardian Guide “With a programme that takes in talks, exhibitions, workshops, films and peripheral installations, straightforward gigs make up only around half of Supersonic’s lineup.”

The Skinny “Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival has today announced plans to host the debut live performance between two uncompromising and quite naturally aligned masters of ambience, The Bug’s Kevin Martin and Dylan Carlson of Seattle-raised drone titans Earth.”

The Skinny (Scotland) – Happy Meals “Scottish Album of the Year nominated duo Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, aka Happy Meals, look beyond their roots with their brand of minimalist European disco. It’s already proved a hit in Moscow. Now it’s the turn of Supersonic festival.”

The Skinny – Flamingods podcast “As a prelude to this year’s Supersonic Festival in Birmingham (running 11-14 June), we present this cosmic podcast carefully crafted by Flamingods.”

The Skinny – Moog “Experimental music weekender Supersonic Festival has announced details of a free festival-curated museum exhibition, as well as details of two of its 2015 art projects.”

The Skinny – Holly Herndon “Experimental sound manipulator Holly Herndon will bring her challenging new live show to this year’s Supersonic Festival in Birmingham.”

The Quietus – Will Gregory “Will Gregory, accomplished multi-instrumentalist and composer, not to mention one half of electro-pop duo Goldfrapp, is gearing up to embark on a tour of the UK this summer with his Moog Ensemble. The group will be reinterpreting classical pieces by the likes of Bach, John Carpenter, Burt Bacharach and Olivier Messiaen on vintage synthesisers.”

The Quietus – Richard Dawson podcast “Supersonic Festival returns to Birmingham in just two weeks complete with a line-up that includes Holly Herndon, Gazelle Twin, Liturgy and The Bug vs Dylan Carlson. Also on the line-up is Richard Dawson and, above, you can listen to a special edition of his Delight Is Right podcast, ahead of the festival, featuring music and chat from the man himself.”

Tiny Mix Tapes – The Bug vs. Earth “Capsule are apparently pretty keen on upping the ante through their own version of a musical boxing match (in which nobody gets hurt). Announcing… The Bug vs. Earth!”

Fact Magazine – The Bug vs. Earth “The latest addition to the Supersonic line-up is a very special performance by bass-obliterator The Bug and Dylan Carlson of drone metal titans Earth.”

Reviews

BBC 6 Music – Freak Zone
Interview with Gazelle Twin at Supersonic + tracks by Ravioli Me Away + Holly Herndon

The Skinny
“connects, challenges and inspires — everything that this proudly off-kilter festival strive to do. “

DIS
“the festival is correctly committed to diverse, mutating, never-the-same line-ups of weird and wonderful newcomers and cult old-school oddballs”

The Arts Desk
“The Supersonic Festival of the weird and the wonderful may now be in its 12th year but it is still more than living up to its long-running tag-line, “For curious audiences”.

The Quietus
Beyond The Bullring: Reflections On Supersonic 2015

Louder Than War
“a crowd that has seen and felt something truly, truly special.”

Brum Notes Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
“Outlandish, mind blowing, frightening and trippy-as-fuck, Supersonic is all of these things. It’s without a doubt a jewel for the Birmingham music scene. You must be open minded, you must be curious, you must be ready to challenge your preconceptions of what music is and what it means to you, because if you can do this, one hell of a journey awaits you.”

Birmingham Review
“Most importantly, year after year Supersonic maintains its bravery, spirit of adventure and openness to new experiences. And that is why, in 2015 – nearly a decade and a half since the first act was booked, this annual Birmingham event is still venerated as one of the most pertinent festivals on the planet.”

Louder Than War Friday Saturday Sunday
“Supersonic Festival in Birmingham has always been a place to discover new experiences, sights and especially sounds.”
“the perfect end to the best festival of 2015”

Fused Magazine
“It’s a collection of music that is often challenging, sometimes relentlessly so, but it’s worth it to find stuff like Free School, The Memory Band and Richard Dawson. “

Supersonic Kids Gig with Flamingods photo by Mark Rhodes

Gazelle Twin at Supersonic, credit Phil Barker

This week’s episode of BBC 6 Music’s ‘Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone‘ focuses on Gazelle Twin. In an exclusive interview, the woman behind Gazelle Twin’s uncanny, Cronenberg-inspired persona, Elizabeth Bernholz, discuss the inspiration behind her latest celebrated album, Unflesh. The show also features five tracks from the album.

The Freak Zone feature comes in the wake of a blistering performance from Gazelle Twin at Supersonic Festival. The episode also includes tracks from other artists from this year’s line up, including Ravioli Me Away and Holly Herndon. Stuart Maconie honoured Supersonic by making the Keynote Speech at the memorable Opening Concert, which took place at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and featured the fantastic Will Gregory Moog Ensemble.

Thanks, Stuart, for filling the Supersonic hole left in our lives…until next year’s festival of course. The link to listen is below:

http://bbc.in/1BvkdDA

Tonight Supersonic Festival 2015 kicks off at the legendary Birmingham Town Hall, with a performance by Will Gregory Moog Ensemble. As one half of the electronic music sensation Goldfrapp, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Will Gregory is passionate about creating new sounds and reinventing old ones. Here a stellar line-up stretches the possibilities of the Moog synthesiser through newly composed music, transcriptions of classical works, and their own versions of music from popular culture and film. Marvel at ten musicians on stage, including Portishead’s Adrian Utley and composer Graham Fitkin.

Will did a great piece in the Guardian explaining his love of the MOOG
‘Im in the Moog’

Opening the show are Fains, a new improvised project by Nick Jonah Davis on electric guitar and Johanna Cormack on violin creating sonic landscapes and new musical textures.

We are delighted that Stuart Maconie of BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone will be hosting our opening concert tonight which begins at 8pm. You can pick up your tickets from 7.30pm

Town Hall have just added an extra allocation of tickets for tonight’s show – see
tickets.thsh.co.uk/event/the-will-gregory-moog-ensemble/book/6645

To celebrate the start of Supersonic 2015 the wonderful folks at Independent Music blog have created an awesome Supersonic special podcast for your listening pleasure, and by way of introducing you to some of the key highlights for this years festival.

#49 – 8 June 2015 (Supersonic Festival special) by Independent Music Podcast on Mixcloud

Become the city’s orchestra. A Folded Path invites a group of 30 people to take guided walks through the streets of Birmingham as part of this year’s Supersonic Festival.

Each person will carry a custom-built, location-sensitive portable loudspeaker. The speakers each play a different strand of a piece of music composed especially for this event and inspired by the landscape of the city. Responsive to their location and the movements of their bearers, the speakers allow a unique composition to take shape.

Places are very limited so book your place now, details below.

Booking info:

To book your free place email russell[at]capsule.org.uk with ‘A Folded Path’ in the title and the time slot you’d like. Each performance is for 30 participants only.

Friday:  7.45pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday: 2.45pm   and 5pm

The performance last about an hour and involves walking so please wear appropriate footwear. The city centre location will be revealed on sign up.

A Folded Path is brought to you in partnership with BCMG

Clad in a glowing geometric mask, Slow Magic’s performance of dreamy electronica is part animalistic instinct, part tribal ritual. Whilst his identity has masterfully been kept a secret, his stage presence is anything but guarded; the DJ pelts a drum kit against a backdrop of stunning light shows, and his set even allows for audience participation. Soundtrack your daydreaming sessions below.

Slow Magic headlines The Crossing on Saturday night at Supersonic Ltd Edtn 2015. Don’t miss out on your tickets.

It has finally arrived. Supersonic Festival week is upon us. To celebrate, we’re really excited to bring you a truly brilliant Supersonic Special Mix from the one and only Apostille. 

The mix opens eerily, with spoken word elements taken from Holly Herndon‘s track, ‘Lonely at the Top’. We then embark on a journey through Apostille’s personal highlights from the Supersonic line up and beyond, including tracks from Ethiopian troubadour Afework Nigussie and Scottish-Franco disco duo, Happy Meals.

Apostille is the solo project of Night School Records founder and all-round hero of the Glasgow underground, Michael Kasparis. Apostille performs this Friday at Supersonic Festival. A big thank you to Michael for making the mix for us.

Buy your tickets whilst they’re still around.

Stream the mix here:

Holly Herndon’s ‘Lonely at the Top’ licensed courtesy of 4AD Ltd

By arrangement with Beggars Group Media Limited
www.4ad.com

Ela Orleans is a multi-talented Polish musician, theatrical composer and performer
whose collaborative projects include a stint with pop samplers Hassle Hound and an
LP with Björk producer Howie B. She describes her rich electronic tapestries as
‘Movies for Ears’, a stunning example of which is featured below.

Ela plays Supersonic on Friday 12 June. Don’t miss out on your tickets.

Nice mention in The Guardian
“Supersonic, Birmingham

With a programme that takes in talks, exhibitions, workshops, films and peripheral installations, straightforward gigs make up only around half of Supersonic’s lineup. Opening the festival is one half of Goldfrapp, Will Gregory, and his Moog Ensemble (Thu), while Six Organs Of Admittance’s Ben Chasny hosts a workshop on his playing card compositional tool the Hexadic System (14 Jun), author Rob Chapman talks about his book on LSD, and RICHARD DAWSON curates an afternoon of performances (14 Jun). Headline slots are filled by the Pop Group (Fri), the Bug with Earth founder Dylan Carlson, and Holly Herndon unleashing her ASMR sound experiments (14 Jun). The Moog Sound Lab is also in residence at Birmingham City University, with Gazelle Twin, Sarah Angliss and Free School twiddling knobs over the weekend.”

Tickets can still be purchased via the Supersonic website, with weekend tickets priced at £60, and day tickets as follows: Thursday £15, Friday £27.50, Saturday £37.50. Richard Dawson’s Delight is Right is limited capacity and only available to those with 3 day passes, Digbeth Delight is a free afternoon of avant-garde performances, workshops and talks located in artist-led spaces based in the area.

Friday 12 June – Vivid Projects 18:00pm

Diatribes are a Geneva based duo comprising Cyril Bondi and d’incise. They perform percussion, found objects and live electronics. Their work is an exploration of simplification and rational rituality, formed by strict sonic or structural principles. Typically their music features highly detailed textures, repeated gestures, soft tones, febrile pulses and acoustic hyper-sensibility.

The duo is currently presenting two new pieces based on the deconstruction of old Jamaican dub tunes, in an attempt to reinterpret this musical heritage and some of its trade marks in an very conceptual, electroacoustic and minimalist way.

soundkitchenuk.org

Dirty Electronics will be joined by long-term collaborator Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death/Scorn) for a set featuring works from Dirty Electronics’ new album released on Mute Records, and pieces for the Supersonic commissioned Horn & Bells sound object. Over the last decade, John Richards (Dirty Electronics) and Bullen have worked together on numerous projects from releasing music as Black Galaxy to co-organising Fluxus events. Bullen has also written several performance pieces for the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.
www.dirtyelectronics.org

The Supersonic Market Place returns this year to host an array of delights and delicacies. Featuring independent record labels, record shops/distributors, zines and printed artworks alongside a variety of cakes, ales and teas and coffees, we recommend bringing your pennies!
Open Friday 21:00 – 24:00 + Saturday 16:00 – 24:00

Featuring:

. Alt Vinyl – Northumberland based record label. They have built a reputation for issuing beautifully packaged and critically acclaimed vinyl releases by the likes of Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Zoviet*France etc.

. Ben Waddington (Skulls Out For Summer) – ‘Skulls Out…’ celebrates Supersonic’s occupancy of South Birmingham College and imagines what would feature on the syllabus and be created in the workshops were Capsule to become a permanent vocational fixture here.

. Bunny Bissoux – Bunny is an artist, illustrator and obsessive fanatic, raised in Birmingham and currently based in Tokyo, Japan. Bunny returns to the festival selling prints, zines, badges and stickers in addition to vintage trading cards, cult memorabilia and treasures from Japan.

. Drag City – Making records since the second death of “Paul McCartney”. A home to bands that actually smells like home featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, The Howling Hex, Bill Callahan, Black Bananas, Ty Segall, Six Organs of Admittance, Silver Jews, OM and Joanna Newsom, among many, many, MANY other amazing bands and artists!
. Edgeworld Records – A Supersonic regular since 2011. No longer a shop but still active with Pop-Up stalls specialising in all things Alternative, Outsider, Emergent…VINYL!

. Edgeworld Records – A Supersonic regular since 2011. No longer a shop but still active with Pop-Up stalls specialising in all things Alternative, Outsider, Emergent…VINYL!

. Exitstencil Press – 40 years of radical publishing. Books. Prints. Film. Music.

. House Of Thieves Tattoo – Custom tattoo studio selling original artwork, prints & merchandise.

. Irrational Media Society – Birmingham based record label creating vinyl for a worldwide selection of Artists with only one item on the agenda “Do what you love and do it well” … Electronic Music and Illustration.

. Lancashire and Somerset – A humble record label, currently living in the hills of Shropshire. Supporting and growing a family of bands with a like minded ethos. Artists include Enablers, Kogumaza, Nathan Bell, Daniel Bachman, Mugstar, Nick Jonah Davis.

. Melophobe Records – Buyer and seller of good quality vinyl records specialising in Indie, Post Punk, Noise Rock, Metal and Free Jazz.

. Milque and Muhle – An independent record shop based in the Custard Factory, Digbeth. Stocking alternative music for adventurous audiences, ranging from all alternative second-hand to current rare underground, we also stock cassettes and fanzines.

. Oaken Palace Records – An independent record label based in Birmingham. The label primarily focuses on Drone and Psychedelic music. What distinguishes Oaken Palace Records from other labels is that it is 100% charitable, all profits are donated to environmental organisations that work towards the protection and conservation of endangered species and their habitat.

. Rope Press – The home for independent printing and publishing in Central England, based in Birmingham. Selling zines, comics, CDRs and cassettes.

. Upset The Rhythm are a DIY collective from London who have been promoting
shows and releasing records since 2003. Run with enthusiasm, sincerity, a
sense of adventure, and a desire to have fun in the process. Besides their commitment to the UK’s fertile underground music scene which has seen them release albums by Sauna Youth, Ravioli Me Away, The Pheromoans and Trash Kit to name but a few, Upset The Rhythm have also released a wealth of music from the USA, most notably working with John Maus, No Age, Future Islands and Deerhoof.

* Please note there is no cash point on site – nearest one is located opposite at Digbeth Coach Station

Post-punk-pop darlings Ravioli Me Away are a Supersonic favourite; having delighted the audience at our Xmas Cocktail, they’ll be back onstage at Supersonic, bringing punchy stand-up drumming, chant-along choruses and an array of spectacularly bizarre sartorial choices. Not to be missed – take your first taste from The Inevitable Album below.

Don’t miss out on your ticket – all details here.

Now with just 10 days to go until Supersonic Festival 2015, we’re delighted to say that day-glo loving musical voyagers Flamingods have created a special Supersonic Mix. Band leader, Kamal says:

I’d like to think of it as a journey through the many influences of Flamingods, touching on psychedelic music from around the world, hypnotics, cross-cultural integration and music from some of the artists we’re looking forward to watching at the fest!

Stream the mix at The Skinny now! Here’s the track listing for the curious:

1. Bekher – Telemachus
2. Moulana – Electric Jalaba
3. Radio International – Unknown Artist (Radio Algeria)
4. Maksim (Maxim) – Maurice Louca
5. Futura Grotesk – Tomaga
6. Turkish Delight – The Ebbinghouse Sound
7. Journey to the East – Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood
8. Raghupati – Ananda Shankar
9. Track 3 – Unknown Artist (Paradise Bangkok)
10. Pivotal Object from Wound Response – Rhodri Davies & Richard Dawson
11. Vacilando Con Ayahuesca – Roots of Chicha
12. La Danza de La Tanga – Pianonegro
13. Pedra Templo Animal – Lula Côrtes E Zé Ramalho
14. UMO – OOIOO
15. Thief of Fire – The Pop Group
16. Help Me Somebody – Brian Eno and David Bryne
17. Mingi – Mim Suleiman
18. Gonder – Afework Nigussie
19. Intro – My Panda Shall Fly

Don’t miss out on what promises to be a riot of adventurous music, art, talks, workshops and cake. Ticket info.

Liima has just shared four new songs from their residency at Salon IKSV in Istanbul back in January 2015. You can listen below:

The band sends their greetings from Madeira, where they are currently in-residence on invitation from aLeste Festival. They are writing new songs, which will be performed at Supersonic in under two weeks’ time!

Ticket information available here.

Wednesday to Saturday 12–5pm
86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR

In the main space ‘Silks’, Samara Scott’s first solo – show in a public gallery, rips up and ruptures the floor to create an irrepressible, erotic topography of consumer products. Her exotically prosaic worlds of poured and pooled misused materials – household chemicals, soft drinks, toilet paper, scented waxes, noodles, eye shadow and toothpaste – cascade, smear and mould into an archipelago of voids cut into the gallery’s concrete floor.

In the second gallery Roger Coward re-visits his 1975 Artist Placement Group project, which focused on Small Heath, presenting the exhibition ‘YOU AND ME HERE WE ARE’, which includes the artist’s film ‘The Most Smallest Heath in the Spaghetti Junction’ and a selection of archive materials.

Eastside Projects is a free public gallery in Digbeth that is being imagined and organized by artists, in partnership with Birmingham City University.

www.eastsideprojects.org
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