Doors from 8.30pm
Entry £5/£3
From 11pm to midnight the event will be broadcast live on the Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts show on Resonance 104.4 f or at http://
Harry Merry
The eccentric Harry Merry is an outsider singer/ songwriter. He first performed in 1996, after more then 5 years of experimenting on his keyboard in his attic. Harry started taking piano lessons when he was only 8 years old, but it took him a long time before he was satisfied enough about his music to take it to the stage.
He is influenced by both sixties beat as well as seventies glam rock, r…ock ‘n roll, rhythm and blues, schlagers, Latin, French chansons, classic and modern music, Slovenian pop and Serbian turbo folk. Harry likes to experiment with discord and strange registers, making music not everyone can follow let alone appreciate. After Harry Merry’s first first performance in Ro-Town Rotterdam back in 2001 a lot of gigs followed in about every club and bar in Holland that would book him. After his initial performances Harry toured throughout Europe. Countries like Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, France, and England. After that it was America’s turn. In 2004 Harry played in California, Texas and Louisiana on his first tour in America.
Phil Minton with Static Memories
Phil Minton comes from Torquay. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- Then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later of part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980′s. Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America and Russia with Lindsay Cooper’s Oh Moscow ensemble.
For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as a improvising singer in lots of groups, orchestras, and situations, all over the place. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians.
Since the eighties, his Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries.
Static Memories – a.k.a. Dan Powell & Gus Garside have been working together on improv project The Static Memories since 2007.
Dan Powell (laptop/guitar/sampler/
Gus Garside (double bass/electronics) has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. Gus formed arc in 1988 and their third album “the pursuit of happiness” was released on Emanem Records in 2009. He formed In Sand in 2004 and their first album “Whatever” came out mid 2008.
Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse collective. He has collaborated with a wide range of improvising and contemporary music players and dancers and frequently works with laptop musicians and also performs solo.
“…yet tribal loyalties were to be rent asunder because my favourite act were The Static Memories, who I could easily believe had been playing together since they were embryos. Their set was forever stuttering, building up and breaking apart again, but in a way that somehow sounded part of the plan. (Even though, clearly, there was no plan!) Even in it’s quietest, most fractured-sounding moments it held the room, pulling at our attention like a super-magnet in a room of steel screws. It seemed the very opposite of virtuoso show-off music, where all egos were subsumed and creativity made a force for the common good.” Gavin Burrows, Lucid Frenzy
Bermuda Triangle Test Engineers
BTTE are Melanie Clifford, Howard Jacques, & Nick Wilsdon. They broadcast a weekly sound art show on Resonance fm every Thursday from 11.00 pm to 12.00 midnight.
Reviewed by Chris Maume in The Independent thus: “…an avant garde bunch called Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts constructed an astonishing, hour-long noise epic using stuff lying round in the studio. Reminiscent of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music – which I realise for some of you may not constitute praise – it was a symphony of static: whooshing, wheezing, crackling and buzzing, muffled voices drowned out by the alarums of battle. It was the soundtrack to the end of the world. Resonance FM may not be for everyone, but its continued existence makes me happy, which I’m sure they’ll be pleased about at 104.4“
The No Frills Band
The No Frills Band are Han Fisher – fiddle, Jess Cahill – hurdy gurdy, melodeon, whistle, singing, Owen Llewellyn – mandolin, tenor banjo, spoons, Chris Cornetto – cajón, darbuka, harmonica, assorted percussion, Johnny B – octave mandola, singing, Pete Marsh – string bass. The South London Press recently described The No Frills Band as ‘ramshackle folksy Brixtonites’, the group play Irish, Welsh, English and Scottish tunes, American old time, bluegrass and western swing, Greek folkf, Turkish stuff, French & Yiddish tunes, East European and Scandinavian folk, and some old country songs.
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Emily Bee
Quirky, inappropriate and outrageous; Emily Bee finds magic in the most unusual places. Up her skirt, in the toilet… She is an all singing, dancing, hula-hooping fairy-tale gone wrong. Uniquely blending theatre, multimedia art, sound, burlesque, performance art, comedy and drag, Bee’s solo shows and cabaret acts take you to a bizarre world where all six senses can be tingled and tinged with nuisances of truth and distortion.
“The standout was Emily Bee, who used video to take us on a deadpan fantastic voyage. A projected backdrop of a bar was the set-up for a beautifully random act in which half-hearted sexting with a bloke named David somehow gave way to the realisation that there was a rainforest concealed, Narnia-like, in Emily’s dress. This was the three-minute format at its best: a strong, original idea, still rough around the edges but with evident potential to turn into something special.” runriot.com
