Saturday 17th February 2024, 3pm - 10pm.
Live performances from The Rebel, The Pheromoans, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Malvern Brume, Paola Lesina, Possible Area and River Bodies.
Strictly limited capacity, suggested donation: £5 - £15. Drinks and snacks available all day from the wonderful Garden City Brewery next door. The venue is a 5 minute walk from Letchworth Garden City railway station (between Cambridge and London terminals).
Poster by Kristian Day.
Performing live:
The Rebel
The Rebel is the alter ego of Ben Wallers, best known for being the frontman of the infamous / legendary / notorious / messianic Country Teasers. For fans of (all but not necessarily or): The Fall, Kool Keith, Brainbombs, and Dolly Parton. His most recent releases as The Rebel are "Mublat Pecnoc" double album on Free Cds, and "A Cretian Build-Up” on Wrong Speed Records.
“In Ben's live performances as The Country Teasers or The Rebel, sometimes people think he's trying to wind the audience up or whatever, but it's always important that the audience is there and you're never allowed to be a passive spectator.” - Jarvis Cocker
https://thequietus.com/articles/24032-ben-wallers-the-rebel-country-teasers-interview
The Pheromoans
The Pheromoans are 5 piece rock and roll outfit formed in Brighton in 2005 and have been operating on the margins of mainstream music ever since, lacking the ability and passion to fully assimilate. Their new album Wyrd Psearch, released March 2024 on Upset The Rhythm, is packed full of memorable indie-rock showstoppers.
https://m.soundcloud.com/thepheromoans/the-pheromoans
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson is a Southend-on-Sea based writer, artist and performer. Her ongoing investigations concern the magico-materialist temporality of place and the esoteric ground rock of comedy, in work distributed across text, cassette, sonic environments, lino prints and local newspapers.
She is currently working on a book about landscape as the mythic substrate of the sitcom, read at the intersection of the arcane and the post-industrial. Her latest releases are the cassette album ‘Nuncio Ref!’ (Crow Versus Crow) and 'Orbit-Son'(Infant Tree) also featuring Adam Bohman, Sue Lynch and Jackson Burton.
https://www.sophiesleigh-johnson.co.uk/
Malvern Brume
Malvern Brume is Rory Salter, a musician, artist and technician living in London. He has released albums under various projects with Alter, TakuRoku, Infant Tree, Teeth, Zoomin’ Night, Are You Before, MAL, Bison, Kashual Plastik and more. His music is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty technologies, cassette tape, feedback and voice; motivated by a relationship to changing and chaotic environments, objects and walking.
www.rorysalter.online
Possible Area
Possible area creates site-specific live improv sets and projects in sound using objects, texture, resonance and feedback. Based in Cambridge, recent activities have included site-specific sound installations in Cambridge and Waterbeach Barracks. Solo and group improv performances include a recent appearance alongside Steve Beresford and Dominic Lash among others.
https://linktr.ee/possiblearea
Paola Lesina
Paola Lesina is a multidisciplinary artist crossing sensitive layers from visual to sound. She creates intimates spaces and sonic collage for emotions to move, merge and ride. Hot Conversation, her debut album, was released in 2020 by Falt records, is an erotic / esoteric conversation with the surrounding nature permeated by a surrealist imprint. “Candor & Guts “ is now released on the UK label Infanttree. Constantly focused on movement research and deep Listening she is founder of MOSSA, a review of appointments related to dance and exploration practices.
https://paolalesina.com/