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A night of leftfield contemporary performative artwork.
Dead Days Beyond Help
+ Tribe of One
+DJing by Neil Walker and Sseeaann Rrooee
Dead Days Beyond Help
DDBH is the duo of Alex Ward (guitar/vocals) and Jem Doulton (drums). Starting with their 2009 debut album “Access Denied” they have honed a unique compositional style melding delirious intricacy with powerful visceral impact, and their latest album “VI” takes their music to a new level of ambition and sonic range.
In their live performances, pieces drawn from all the band's albums sit side by side with free-wheeling improvisational excursions which could involve a leap into either a wall of flattening noise or the most emotionally direct country song. In negotiating this dizzying range of materials, DDBH bypass the pitfalls of irony and the obstacle course of genre by the simple guiding principle: intensity-at-all-costs.
Tribe of One
Strange, lonely broadcasts from long dead planets. Found sounds, field recordings, looped snatches of obscure folk recordings from the far reaches of the former Soviet Union. Semi acoustic instruments, some home made, some from Tibet and Ladakh. Vocal chanting. Long drones. Formed in the fenham triangle in Newcastle on tyne in 1983 as Surplus Human Beings.
Featuring on BBC Late Junction, BBC 6 music Freakier Zone and Soviet France, a Duck in a Tree Podcast.
£1 members / £5 on the door
