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RUNNERS – Gig announcements, new Bandcamp site


First up, we’ve made a new RUNNERS site at Bandcamp, where you can listen to our tunes, buy them (and download others for free!), buy our t-shirts, etc… http://wearerunners.bandcamp.com

Next up is an administration apology to everyone expectantly awaiting the arrival of the next Monthly Marathon – confusion over whose turn it was to mix resulted in none of us making one for September. Ooops… Sorry! Monthly Marathon mixes will be back on track ASAP!

Looking back to the summer (yup, it’s all grey and damp now), Leeds Guide published an article on the Sony/PIAS warehouse fire and its effect on Leeds bands (including us).

We’re ready to move on from that mishap, chin up (etc)… we’ve started to gather a fair stack of new material since we’ve found home at Tranquility Base – hopefully we’ll get an mp3 or two up soon.

Three home town shows and a DJ set to announce…

Thursday 20th October – Zun Zun Egui, RUNNERS +1 more [£5]
@ Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ
Facebook events page

Saturday 29th October – RUNNERS + more t.b.a.
@ Fox & Newt, 9 Burley Street, Leeds, LS3 1LD


Thursday 10th November – New Villager, RUNNERS, Bear Mask [£7]
(part of the run up to Constellations Festival with Wild Beasts, Yuck, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, etc)
@ Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY
Luna Tickets link

Thursday 10th November – Golau Glau exhibition launch with RUNNERS (DJ set) and Hookworms (live)
@ Test Space, Unit 2-4, Melbourne Street, Leeds, LS2 7PS
Golau Glau exhibition launch featuring HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011) (exploring the history and future of ethical hedonism through a mixture of music, visuals, created and found sounds and treated field recordings) and PUBLIC INTEREST (a sonic work/book, dealing with threatened and extinct public libraries. The book will be published in November 2012 by Valley Press and the initial phase of the sonic work will debut at the exhibition).

RUNNERS – Monthly Marathon #10

RUNNERS – MONTHLY MARATHON MIX 10 – Download mp3

 

FORD & LOPATIN – Emergency Room
STAR SLINGER Vs TEAMS – Punch Drunk Love
ZOMBI – Escape Velocity
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Fright Night DAM_FUNK remix
REAL ESTATE – Out Of Tune
TAPE – Gone Gone

Monthly Marathon # 10 was compiled by Jon Nash, May 2011.

Each Monthly Marathon Mix will be something in the region of 30 minutes at 320 kbs mp3 quality, and we will remove tracks if requested.  We encourage you to buy the releases you love, just as we do. The downloads should take approximately 3 or 4 minutes at 70 kB/sec. You can also stream the mixes from our Facebook page and from Soundcloud.

This Ford & Lopatin (formally GAMES) track has been doing the rounds on the net for a while so you may have heard it already. These childhood friends and MIDI obsessed bros make astoundingly good music. The GAMES 7″ and 12″ EP’s were pretty awesome, but from what I’ve heard so far their debut LP ‘Channel Pressure‘ has gone 100% next level. ‘Emergency Room‘ channels the spirit of Scritti Politti‘s 80′s pop output and sprinkles it with wild Adrian Belew style guitar theatrics. It’s the crispiest tune I’ve heard since way back and If they don’t make it as artists they’ll sure be legendary producers. ‘Channel Pressure‘ is out later in the year on the duo’s own Mexican Summer imprint, Software.

This is another Mexican Summer related track. Star Slinger (a.k.a the king of Beat Repeat) is a remix artist/glorified DJ whose mixes are the thing of legend. Just type his name into Youtube and you’ll be bombarded by a host of awesome tracks he’s had a hand in remixing. I find it hard to believe instrumental hip-hop this sweet has been crafted by a lad from Manchester! Gotta love that shit. Don’t know much about Teams so I’ve no idea who is doing what, but who gives fuck, this tune is a beauty. Classic soul meets DMX style beats, what more can you ask for. Their S/T EP is still available from Mexican Summer if you wanna hear the rest.

Love the fact that these dudes are on Relapse. You all know Zombi so I won’t bang on, but this opener track from their new LP ‘Escape Velocity‘ is a killer example of why they are kings of the whole Georgio Moroder / John Carpenter / Italian Disco aping crew. It’s so good it makes me want to give up playing forever. They’ll always be one step ahead of the lads.

This one I’ve included purely because I love the the fact that it exists at all. ‘Fright Night‘ was the highlight of Ariel Pink’s ‘Before now’ LP and the fact that future funk revivalist and all round good guy DAM_FUNK has got his hands on it brings a little tear to my eye. Not the greatest remix of all time but certainly a tastefully funkified LA re-jig of the original mix. Love that Claptrap business. Gotta get myself one of them babies at some point. Can’t remember where I found this but it might be on the Stones Throw website.

More new goodies. I assume this beauty will rear it’s head on the next Real Estate LP but for now it’s a lone soldier. From the opening bars it’s apparent that this is pure Fleetwood Mac, especially the bass line and Daniel Lopatin’s (Oneohtrix Point Never, Ford & Lopatin) guest synth contributions. Absolute country pop gold. I bet their parents love it.

This is taken from Tape‘s recent LP ‘Revelationes‘ which I heard kinda by accident whilst fulfilling my review duties at Norman Records. Very spacious, laid back playing. Reminds me of Tortoise and a whole bunch of other Chicago types. Incredibly tasteful stuff and a rare treat to hear a band perform so well together on record or otherwise. Still haven’t got around to listening to their back catalogue but it’s on the list.

RUNNERS – Expander Mix

RUNNERS – EXPANDER MIX [January 2011]
Download mp3 here (32mins, 74mb)

In lieu of the first Monthly Marathon of 2011, we thought we’d straddle some sub-particles to surround our recent remix of a track from PRINTED CIRCUIT‘s forthcoming new album, which will  be available as one of a bundle of free bonus downloads, including the likes of our mutual buddy Hawnay Troof. ‘Distance And Time RUNNERS Galaxy Remix’ is track two in the Expander mix. The last track in this mix came about by accident when two songs started playing on my computer at the same time, and it seemed too good to be one coincidental lost moment in time – Lazy Fat People and Bitchin’ Bajas (solo project of Cooper Crane – we played with his band Cave last year).

RUNNERS – EARTH IN A BUSY UNIVERSE

RUNNERS - Earth In A Busy Universe
Written, recorded and produced by RUNNERS, January 2011
Video by Say It Again Sagan, January 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTZy-l6hPk

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Have a great 2011 – hopefully see you out and about!

RUNNERS – MONTHLY MARATHON VII

Leon has truly gone to town with his second mix – a cinematic cocktail featuring no less than 16 tracks in 30 minutes and 6 seconds.

DOWNLOAD – RUNNERS – Monthly Marathon Mix VII (mp3)

PADDY KINGSLAND – Sequence
PHIL YOUNG – Science & Industry
RICHARD ATTREE – Artwork
PETER HOWELL – Merry-Go-Round
DELIA DERBYSHIRE – Talk Out
RICHARD ATTREE – Techno
JOHN CARPENTER – Assault on Precinct 13 – Julie’s Theme
JOHN BAKER – Good Morning Wales
DELIA DERBYSHIRE – Dance From Noah
PLONE – Be Rude To Your School
YERZMYEY – Fuck Off
BELBURY POLY - The Hidden Door
STEVE MARSHALL - Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon
ICY DEMONS - 1850
JACK AREL & PIERRE DUTOUR – Bumblebees Dance
JONATHAN GIBBS – Computers in the Real World

Each Monthly Marathon Mix will be something in the region of 30 minutes at 320 kbs mp3 quality, and we will remove tracks if requested.  We encourage you to buy the releases you love, just as we do. The downloads should take approximately 3 or 4 minutes at 70 kB/sec. You can also stream the mixes from our Facebook page.

And whilst we’re at it, here’s an updated list of our shows for the rest of 2010:

  • 22nd November - CAVE, RUNNERS, HUSH ARBORS - Upset The Rhythm at The Nest, London
  • 23rd NovemberSUN ARAW, ZUN ZUN EGUI, RUNNERS, HOOKWORMS - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
  • 28th November – CUT (Italy), RUNNERS, KLAUS KINSKI, TEENAGE DOPE FIENDS – The Red House, Sheffield
  • 4th DecemberMAHJONGG (Chicago, K Records), RUNNERS, MENOMENA (Portand, City Slang),  CISSY, NOPE - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
  • 14th December – RUNNERS, PUNCH & THE APOSTLES, AM ERIC ANS – Dont Drop The Dumbells (big green gate on Hardman Street), Liverpool
  • 17th December – RUNNERS, GUMMY STUMPS, TUT VU VU, DAVID SHRIGLEY (DJ set) - Studio Warehouse in Glasgow…  see Cry Parrot for info!

RUNNERS – MONTHLY MARATHON MIX SIX


A little later in the moon cycle than usual, but still keeping us within the boundaries of this being a monthly thing, here’s Nash’s second mix:

DOWNLOAD – RUNNERS – Monthly Marathon Mix Six (mp3)

HYPE WILLIAMS – Ooovrrr
DAM_FUNK – Fantasy
MF DOOM – Deep Fried Frenz
HIPNOSIS – Space Crusaders
ONRA – Sitting Back
OUTER LIMIT RECORDINGS – Berghiem Cruelty
WOMEN – Heat Distraction
DMX KREW – Party Up (Up In Here)

Each Monthly Marathon Mix will be something in the region of 30 minutes at 320 kbs mp3 quality, and we will remove tracks if requested.  We encourage you to buy the releases you love, just as we do. The downloads should take approximately 3 or 4 minutes at 70 kB/sec. You can also stream the mixes from our Facebook page.

HYPE WILLIAMS – Ooovrrr
This is obviously the best way that I could begin our latest mix. The new Hype Williams single begins in style. Take the opening vocal line from Drake’s ‘Over’, slow that shit waaay down, drop some lo-fi G synths and you got a killer tune on your hands. Loved the original tune but I like this better. Want some background on Hype Williams? It’s myths and talk but I can confirm that they are a duo whose names may or may not be Father Ronnie Krayola and Denna Frances Glass. They are from London. They pick things up and make them better and, much like Nate Dogg, they’re ‘high like everyday’. Head over to YouTube and check out some of the vids they’ve made to accompany these tracks, should explain everything. Buy ‘Do Roids and Kill E’ryting’ before it runs out. It’s on De Stijl Records. They also have an awesome untitled L.P on Carnival.

DAM_FUNK – Fantasy
Los Angeles “Ambassador Of Boogie”, DAM_FUNK is doing a fine job of reigniting the flame of funk with his synth driven take on the genre single-headedly resurrecting Boogie-Funk, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk in one deftly manoeuvre, utilizing only the finest vintage analogue synths and drum machines. You gotta be loving this guys jams! ‘Fantasy’ is one of the more upbeat tunes on the ‘Toeachizown’ CD/LP boxset on Stones Throw. I prefer the super long instrumental B-sides on the 12”s (compiled together on the second CD), but I thought I’d try and keep upbeat for the kids. Peanut Butter Wolf, I salute you for bringing DAM_FUNK to my attention – you are a good man.

MF DOOM – Deep Fried Frenz
This is an oldish track that everyone should be aware of by now. Taken from M (etal) F (ace) DOOM’s ‘MM Food’ LP, also on Stones Throw. He’s over in the UK playing a few shows at the moment and I’m a fool for not attending. The man is genius. Great style, great production (as with all his albums) and a consist output. Some might say consistent, but slow? Not me… I can wait.

HIPNOSIS – Space Crusaders
Hipnosis (occasionally known as Hypnosis) were a short lived 80’s Italian disco outfit based in Parma and founded by Stefano Cundari. The line-up included Ugo Solenghi and Pauls Sears with Kirlian Camera joining later. Known primarily for their reworking of Vangelis’ ‘Pulstar‘, they also craft a pretty nifty composition in their own right… ‘Space Crusader’ being the best. Love the swing on the drum beat. Still can’t decide if it’s programmed or live playing. I’m probably tripping, but it’s just too good to be programmed?!

ONRA – Sitting Back
Don’t know much about Onra (he’s French, he loves modernsoul, electro, R&B and boogie…that’s about it), but I’m digging his new LP ‘Long Distance’ on Dublin’s All City Records. Super slick production, excellent use of synths, great guest vocalists (T3 of Slum Village, Olivier DaySoul, Reggie B) and amazing use of samples make for an outstanding listen. This Parisian super producer is a true crate-digger with an outstanding knack (much like the Hype Williams duo) for taking something great and making it even better. This is his 5th LP. There’s loads more to in get involved with. Check him out.

OUTER LIMIT RECORDINGS – Berghiem Cruelty
I’m pretty sure this is the work of Sam Meringue (Matrix Metals, Flashback Repository, Explorers), but I don’t know for sure. Described as an “esoteric glam-damaged concept record about Berlin nightclubs and foxy ladies”, which I hope is true… I’ve not spent a huge amount of time (if any) hanging out in Berlin clubs so it’s hard to say, but the album is mental; full of truly outrageous compositions that plays on the ideas presented by Ariel Pink, twisting them into strange and exciting new forms. Taken from the LP ‘Foxy Baby’, ‘Berghiem Cruety’ is a synth driven late night wig-out of epic proportions – a hypnotic beast.

WOMEN – Heat Distraction
One of the interworld’s most blogged out indie-rock bands, Women really came good on their second LP ‘Public Strain’, with ‘Heat Distraction’ being a personal hightlight. You’ve most likely heard this already… but if not, you should take a listen! Beneath the blissful forcefield of reverberance lurks pure craftsmanship and an ear for powerful melodies. I can hear all the champs in here… Velvet Underground, Gang Of Four, Pavement, Deerhoof… you name it, you got it. LP is out on Jagjaguar if you wanna get yourself a copy.

DMX Krew – Party Up (Up In Here)
You know DMX! You must know this track?! Never was a big fan of this sort of stuff as a kid (too busy listening to Beck, Folk Implosion, Blues Explosion…), but it’s growing on me as an older man. I blame Paper Rad. Anyway, get Lifepipe’d and enjoy. DMX; much love to you sir.

STARTING LINE / NEON LIGHTS / 2010 SHOWS / SPACE PORSCHE LIVE VIDEO


RUNNERS - Starting Line
Recorded by Ross Halden at
Ghost Town Studios
Mastered by Michael Ward, 2010


We are currently making perspex boxes to house our absolutely beautiful neon lights, crafted by the brilliant and lovely Richard Wheater and Julia Bickerstaff at Neon Workshops – we really can’t thank them enough! We sent Eoin Shea to Wakefield to make a film of the lights being made, so we’ll make a soundtrack for the video and put it up here when it’s ready. There are some sweet photographs of the neon lights being made on the Images page of this blog, and we launch the lights at NIGHT LIGHT LEEDS 2010 on Friday 8th October when we play with Blank Dogs and Spectrals with live visuals by Limn Art Collective at Nation of Shopkeepers.

XFM and the BBC have been playing our first two recorded tracks, Stay Frosty and Starting Line on the radio over the last few weeks, and some nice words have been scribbled about us on blogs such as Pinglewood, who also wrote about us on Pitchfork‘s new collaborative blog, Altered Zones. Closer to home, The Leeds Guide wrote about us in their best new bands feature, and we had a whale of a time taking the stage at 1am for Dave Lynch‘s 20th birthday celebration of Twin Peaks at Temple Works.

RUNNERS – Space Porsche, live at Yes Way Festival, August 2010
Video from
Atractivoquenobello

Next week we’ll be back with our sixth Monthly Marathon mp3 mix. Until then, here’s our live shows for the rest of 2010 to ponder over… see you down the front!

28th SeptemberTRUMAN PEYOTE, MANY MANSIONS, RUNNERS - Oporto, Leeds ***FREE!***

8th OctoberBLANK DOGS, SPECTRALS, RUNNERS - Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds

30th October – DRAG & DROP – HELLOWEEN SPECIAL – RUNNERS, THE CIRCUIT BEN REACTION – RockNRoll Circus Helloween (private party – details here), Leeds

22nd NovemberCAVE, RUNNERS - The Nest, London (Upset The Rhythm)

23rd NovemberSUN ARAW, ZUN ZUN EGUI, RUNNERS, HOOKWORMS - Brudenell Social Club (Games room), Leeds

4th DecemberMAHJONGG, MENOMENA, RUNNERS, CISSY - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

17th DecemberDAVID SHRIGLEY (DJ set), RUNNERS + more TBC at a warehouse in Glasgow… details to follow

RUNNERS – MONTHLY MARATHON #5

All four of us have now contributed one Monthly Marathon each, and so the cycle starts over with Dom’s second mix…

DOWNLOAD – RUNNERS – Monthly Marathon #5.mp3

PIERO UMILIANI – Automa
HINGROSS – Vance
SPECTRAL EMPIRE – Black Shark
JEAN PIERRE DECERF & MYRIAM CHADDAR – Aquatic
JOEL FAJERMAN – Cargo
CLECKHUDDERSFAX – The Numismatist
GYRATORY SYSTEM – Splurge Gun
TWO MINUTE NOODLES – Angle Blind
JOHN CAMERON – Action Replay
TALIBAM! – Rambo’s Passeggiata

Each Monthly Marathon Mix will be something in the region of 30 minutes at 320 kbs mp3 quality, and we will remove tracks if requested.  We encourage you to buy the releases you love, just as we do. The download should take approximately 3 or 4 minutes at 70 kB/sec. You can also stream the mix from our Facebook page.

It was tempting to up the length because I was struggling to contain everything into 30 minutes, even though I’ve been a true gentleman and left 2 artists for Nash to include on his next Marathon.  This one’s 10 tracks in 34 minutes so hopefully you’ll find enough chomp here to get your spaceface around…

Automa‘ is the sound of wonked synth and stuttering, cone-blown drums, creating dark eclipses of shady mechanical uprisings and bleak industrial meltdown. Piero Umiliani was one of the original Italian composers who helped shape the sound of Spaghetti Westerns, European spy flicks and B-movie soft-core horror fiction alongside the more well known names of Ennio Moriconne, Riz Ortolani or Piero Piccioni.

Vance‘ is a haunting brief encounter of a distant, droning space catastrophe, forefronted with deep surround-sound hi-hats. At first glimpse, Hingross seem to be radical Italian black-power funk who only appear on themed compilations, though they did release one full-length entitled ‘Suggestions‘ sometime I guess in the mid 70′s. However, like many of the musicians and composers involved in library music, Hingross is actually an alias – that of Giorgio Ingrosso. This is why I love library music – exploring the winding wrong paths, the mystery and puzzle of searching through the liner notes for the subtle clue that leads you on to the next discovery.

George Thompson and Kyle Martin first came to my attention a few years ago when I heard some online mixes they put together that I grabbed from a blog which I have since forgotten the name of (agggg, should’ve bookmarked). Spectral Empire have three 12”s out on This Is Not An Exit (‘Black Shark‘ is the second of the three, released in 2009), all of which are worth hard cash and repeated loud listening, as are any of their remixes. ‘Black Shark‘ is an immersive, dark pulse of minimal disco, washed with a creeping, sweeping visual-stimulant melody. I’m going to assume you’re already at a computer, so you should watch the video featuring the crew of a nuclear submarine. Immense.

Decerf recorded for the highly collectible Auvidis, amongst other labels. He’s one of the early European synth explorers who utterly mastered the art, comfortably skirting between the avant-garde, cosmic psychedelia, jingle-ditties, proto-type hip-hop, and just about anything else he fancied bending or inventing. Pioneering and relatively prolific, yet incredibly difficult to find any accurate information about – let alone getting hold of actual vinyl of his work (£££). You should keep an eye out though – it’s all gems! As for Myriam Chaddar, I have absolutely no idea – the closest I can find are a few badly spelled entries involving a quote from a TV comedy involving a character called Myriam and some Smoked Hickory Cheese, Miriam Cross being found dead in Cheddar Gorge, a novel about a Pakistani Bride, and a recipe for Chicken Cheddar Spirals.

Joël Fajerman was given the nickname ‘The Flangerman’ by the French musicians he met as co-owner of the first French synth-shop in Paris – he used the effect heavily on a lot of his recordings. You can only imagine my excited little grin as I read that whilst reading about Jean Michelle Jarre, which immediately sent me on the hunt for Fajerman’s records. ‘Cargo‘ is taken from his 1983 album, ‘Turbulences‘, and if this song hasn’t been used for a life-affirming, slow-mo-montage scene in a film, then something has gone wrong. Fajerman was also involved in a short-lived but brilliant cosmic disco group called Contact… the album ‘Just U.V.‘ from 1979 is also highly recommended.

There are any number of Cleckhuddersfax songs I could have included in this mix, but ‘The Numismatist‘ is the banger I’ve gone for… bouncing synths and brilliantly executed effected vocals (which I believe tell a tale about an Israeli collector of coins, though I could be mistaken) ride above the progressive glam-stomp of a 5-string bass and a sharp drum beat. I’ve had the complete pleasure of good-humoured antics touring with these dudes around Europe on a number of occasions, and it’s a real inspiration to be amongst a friendly group of intelligent, adventurous, high-skilled consummate-anti-professionals. Bias admitted (in that our old record label released their first album), their new record recently released by Upset The Rhythm is a certified winner – buy it!

Gyratory System is Andrew Blick (production, trumpet, sound treatments) who is fairly well known as a trumpeter and producer in the realm of the experimental, his son, Robin Blick (reeds, brass) and James Weaver (bass, synthesiser). ‘Splurge Gun‘ is an impossible to resist bonkers fanfare of pure jubilation, marching-drum rolls and heavily manipulated FX. Gyratory System have a few different versions of their Yowser Yowser Yowser single available, and an album called ‘The Sound Board Breathes‘. They replicate this danceable madness live too – get down!

A second helping from a band we’re friends with… though perhaps it’s fair to say more than friends, considering Leon and I played in CHOPS with Moz from Two Minute Noodles (also of Quack Quack, as featured on Monthly Marathon #2), and Nash lived with him for a few years. Friendship aside, there’s no denying the velocity of ‘Angle Blind with its jazz-bonced beat and melody driven kitsch organ that suits a good studio production workout… a sneak peak at their forthcoming album recorded by Ross Halden at Ghost Town, who is the good-guy responsible for the Runners songs we’ve recorded so far.

John Cameron is an English composer whose credits include writing a bundle of hits for Donovan and Hot Chocolate, scoring the themes to Kes and Crimewatch UK, and contributing to the brilliant KPM and Bruton Music Library. He was also a member of the early 70′s prog band CSS (Collective Consciousness Society), whose version of ‘Whole Lotta Love‘ was used on Top Of The Pops. This track is from the 1985 album ‘Hot Doughnuts‘ on Bruton Music Library, and like many great library tracks, you can’t provide any better description than the track title itself.

Accidentally completing a trio of bands who I consider friends (I didn’t intend it to work out like that), here’s Kevin Shea and Matt Mottell; New York residents responsible for maybe something close to a thousand top-grade musical (mis?)adventures… seriously, I’d love nothing better than to list them all here, but it’d just be ridiculous – search for yourselves (first ports of call – Kevin’s drumming with Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing or with trumpeter Peter Evans). Tactically improvised sonic overload taken from their album Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts - Talibam! have a lot of cool shit out!

RUNNERS – Ting (video live at YES WAY festival 2010)

RUNNERS - Ting

Live at Upset The Rhythm / Auto-Italia YES WAY FEST, 15th August 2010

Thanks to Don at aqnb for the video.

RUNNERS at YES WAY FEST

UPSET THE RHYTHM / AUTO-ITALIA – YES WAY FESTIVAL
Friday 13th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August 2010
Auto-Italia
, 1 Glengall Road (on the corner of Old Kent Road), Peckham, SE15 6NJ

We are very much looking forward to another total banger of a weekend at YES WAY FEST! The event began in 2009 as a two day festival celebrating the best and brightest of the UK’s art and music underground, a collaboration between London-based promoter and label, Upset The Rhythm, and Auto-Italia – a massive, collaborative exhibition space and studio,  residing in a former car showroom in Peckham.  Over the course of the weekend, acts from all over the country will be performing, alongside the multimedia work of various artists. Runners play on Sunday 15th at 8.30pm. See all the details here.

FRIDAY 13 AUGUST
MALE BONDING – Party hard echo-blown popcore
LOVVERS – Wild and carefree weirdo rockers
COLD PUMAS – Ecstatic and motorik repeato-jammers
MUNCH MUNCH – Technicolour epics of flight or fight acceleration
THE HUMAN RACE – Deeply catchy, ramble punk odd jobs
FAMILY – Wide stretching blurred synth dreampop

SATURDAY 14 AUGUST
CLECKHUDDERSFAX
– Progressive glam bounce party gang
FAIR OHS
– Tropically popping tribal garage
ISLET
– Energetic faith leapers and swap-arounds
PLEASE – Restless, prancing psychedelic adventurers
SLOWCOACHES
– Fuzzed-out interlocking screwball rock
HYPE WILLIAMS
– Chopped-n-screwed ritualistic fourth world trance
SCHOOL TOUR
– Slow blossoming evocative bliss trips
CHORA
– Kitchen sink gamelan, tape loops and freaked vocalisations
BLOOD STEREO
– Unholy inside-out noise headspinners
THE HAXAN CLOAK
– Blackened sorrowscapes of harrowed solemnity
TIME
– Eerie guitar, saddened viola and vocal psych laments
TEMPERATURES
– Unruly arrhythmic free hypno-rock
FORMER BULLIES
– Heart in the mouth sweetly spun beat combo
WAITERS
– Slow tumble clang and bang with added quiet sentiment
GOLDEN GRRRLS
– Winsome tunesmiths of lo-finest pop
LA LA VASQUEZ
– Super melodious surfy DIY discords

SUNDAY 15 AUGUST
PLUG
– Clatter punk post-something pop minimalists
PHEROMOANS
– Shambolic avant-garage gloop princes
VERONICA FALLS
– Supernatural jangle and heartfelt tangle
GENTLE FRIENDLY
– Smart and primed rainbow noise
RUNNERS
– Expansive, phasing, inverted disco synth explorers
DAM MANTLE
– Fluxing quakes and whispered pulselines
HUMAN HAIR
– Yelped sloganeering, intricate riffs and lurching rhythms
ULTIMATE THRUSH
– Frenzied scream-n-thrash revolt
COVERGIRL
– Pulse-quickening chaotic funk-punk supergroup
TWO
WINGS – Spooked soul and medieval mind-leap psychedelia
JELAS
– Crooked and passionately impatient no-riot-math-grrrl-wave
WAY THROUGH
– Wrong-footed haunted prism punk
KLAUS KINSKI
– Fast-n-primal disturbation heaviness
NO WOMB
– Uninhibited free vocal whirlwind vs. detuned punk
BITCHES
– No messing, no stressing burrito punk enthusiasts
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
– Stripped-back dubby garage mesmerists
TQQUNDO FRRRRR
– Shrine-based channelling sonic soup