The Lubber Fiend

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.

Another installment of our Kitchen gigs this Sunday! For this one we very excited to welcome Leyden Jars, label bosses for the brilliant Goods Outward, and incredible musicians themselves. "Put simply, Leyden Jars' sound is an experimental one, never lapsing into cheap noise tropes or tepid ambience. Truly experimental, in that it is adventurous and never sits still, always searching. Occasionally difficult, sure, but not lacking in regular glistens of beauty interspersed on the path throughout. The end result revealing something of a confluence, wherein various strains of folk, DIY electronics and sound art idioms comfortably coalesce." We also have Craig playing solo on support! Craig Stewart Johnson makes sounds which are pre-occupied with activities that occur in the in-between spaces of the quotidian, focussing in on the nuance of the often overlooked aspects of everyday lives.

Happy to reveal the full line up for this one! With Joy Moughanni joining Ellie and Mohammad! Joy is a Beirut-based producer and songwriter. Joy runs Basement Sounds, a recording studio and arts space he developed in collaboration with Jade, who founded legendary Beirut club The Basement. Joy has also worked with the U.S. Embassy-supported Sawa Music program, founded by OneBeat alum Samer Chami. Having been mentored by celebrated local producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal, Joy is a go-to production collaborator for a range of artists in the Beirut music scene while also performing with his own electronic and pop groups Pomme Rouge and Gizzmo. While the dire economic and political situation in Lebanon in the last years has caused an exodus for many in the creative field, Joy continues to build solidarity within Lebanon’s small but vibrant artistic community. Mohammad Syfkhan is an absolute wizard and this is a guaranteed party!

Its our birthday this weekend! Please come and celebrate with us! We are somehow 4 years old and still hanging on in, and we have put together a belter line up to celebrate! Its an absolute privilege for us to run the venue and to book artists that we love, and each year the birthday is meant to be a real celebration of what we do. Hard to argue with this years line up! We have Al Wooton headlining with his serpentine heads down Dub-Techno, Germ Lattice bring the wonkiest post-punk, A Happy Return is a beautiful homespun kind of minimal folk and Leucotome self describe as a Organic Industrial Femme Folk Cult. As if that wasn't enough, we're staying open late-late with the wonky post-everything sounds of the NTS resident Lupini and house fiend Jon C.