The Lubber Fiend

Just a week away until our next Lubber kitchen gig! We have a 3 band bill for this one - strangely enough all from Melbourne/Naarm! A city which seems to pump out brilliant experimental music like no one’s business! We have the entrancing and delicate folk of Field Commander Ali, the mutant dub pop of Static Cleaner Lost Reward and the hypnotic guitar of Jordan Ireland - plus it’s only a tenner extra for some food from the kitchen! It’s kind of mad that we have these acts on in such a small space - the Static Cleaner LP has just been reissued to much applause and is a bit of a cult classic and then the recent Field Commander LP is about as beautiful a folk record you will ever hear. Not one to be missed basically!

The enigmatic and beautiful music of Italian mystery man Esse Pi Enne will be in full swing this Thursday. A drifting and hazy mix of guitar, field recordings, snatches of songs - its a heady brew thats heavy on the intrigue and atmosphere. "shunting stunted rhythms & gonzo found sound onto slo-mo filigree guitarisms, not so much in repose as constantly building (to nowhere?) & then bottoming out. deliriously wtf on innumerable occassions throughout, leaving us to imagine the titular chamber as some dusted hovel with a soiled mattress & hissy-arse amp for company, the loosely-organised horizontal approach to kitchen sinkage giving that same aura as the best of the bedsit hometaped post-rock we forgot in ’99" Support ably provided by Competition whose recent foray into guitar based songs should be an excellent complement to Esse Pi Enne!

Very excited to have Night School and Stroom alumni Susannah Stark & Band with us in July! "Supernatural, spellbinding reframing of Gaelic folk with modular synth, field recordings, and deliciously creaky instrumentation by some of Scotland’s finest, including a duet with Cindy Sharp aka Cinder, whose work with 4AD staples The Cocteau Twins & This Mortal Coil is surely a nearby trig point, as are Aaliyah Enyo, Lankum, Brìghde Chambeuil, Lucy Duncombe, even Jon Hassell. On ‘Minor Gestures’ Glasgow’s Susanna Stark tactfully and daringly tends to her Gaelic heritage with an extended folk session in mystical locations around the Govan stones, river Clyde & underground streamlets. Accompanied by players from the city’s renowned experimental music milieu - Laurie Pitt (drums), Caroline Hussey (accordion), and Philip Cardwell (trumpet) - plus legendary figure Cindy Sharp (Cocteau Twins, TMC, Cindytalk), Stark cuts a striking figure in the mix.

Loads on this week! You can watch the England group game this Tuesday the 23rd June - and who knows maybe some knockout games in the near future? Wednesday we have Meagre Offerings - our improv and expermenal night Thursday is the Somewhere Press label showcase with Slowfoam and Sima as well as label DJs Friday is nearly sold out for the Sensor gig and then we have techno legend Rrose which should be a belter! Saturday we have more World Cup action with Englands final group game! Sunday is two Australian/Naarm bands in Synergy Trilogy and Prophetic Justice Ministry! Unfortunately Who Cares? can't make it anymore but these two have just released bangers on Infinite Expanse and Night School

The brilliant Alison Cotton returns with locals Yotuns and Adam Soper on support. "Cotton may expand folk’s raw emotions into more avant garde territories, but they still feel possessed by a blood-red muscle memory that goes back centuries." - The Quietus Alison Cotton’s fifth solo album is a mesmerizing weave of haunted atmospherics and avant-folk songcraft. Built around her viola, harmonium, and transportive vocals, the album moves between stark drone passages and more layered arrangements with piano, percussion, and synths. The Gods Laugh is a work of quiet, sublime intensity, cementing Cotton’s unique space in the contemporary English music scene — a space where richly textured sonics meet tradition, and deeply personal compositions evoke the experimental spirit of artists like Nico, John Cale, and Dorothy Carter.