Sly & The Family Drone//Friday Night Weird Dreams

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SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE
https://familydrone.bandcamp.com/

Expect a 'frenetic, a wild, free jazz cacophony, a melange of clamorous, ultra-hyped horns, sonorous lowed drone and is dominated by truly frenzied, cacophonous bent. Circuits fizz and hum while the percussion thrashes and crashes arrhythmically, throwing the listener around with reckless abandon a roller coaster of tempestuous sonic mania'

Sly's reductionist take on music is literal; they split their drum kit to its singular base units, passing individual drums to the audience who maintain the beat while they free themselves for more noise and freestyle mayhem, ultimately eliminating any boundaries between spectator and performer. This egalitarian approach propels audience and band together into a shamanistic setting of catharsis and anarchic celebration. By the end of the set their drums and equipment are scattered; the remnants of their music lying bare across the floor. 

There is no place for guitars within this band.

"Their live shows are becoming legendary. Things usually get broken. There will be more than likely blood. A must see live experience. No gig by Sly & The Family Drone is ever the same." Club Velocity 2011 

The ampersand is obligatory.

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FRIDAY NIGHT WEIRD DREAMS
https://fridaynightweirddreams.bandcamp.com/

A Portsea collective that operate a rotational line up of characters delving into territories such as tape loops, jazz, riffs, library samples and percussion. The wide tastes of the group manifest their output as a comfortable, engaging, yet dissident and claustrophobic experience that is crafted through improvisation, but on closer inspection is multi layered, minimal and sequential in nature. Featuring members of Battery Hens, Flybums, Samuel H James and Aeroplane Attack.