Saturday 22 June 2024, 7.30pm
Mark Leckey presents two days of sprawling performances by UK based acts, interspersed with works by himself.
Mohammad Adam is an artist from Leicester, He developed notoriety working within the Leicester based collective MOHAMMAD FIVE who have received endorsements from BBC Asian network and The City of Leicester college. The collective's latest project SOMETIMES LIFE GETS HARDER THAN ANYTHING has received high praise.
"such an underrated album"
- zahrayousaf7189 (youtube)
uh is the brother/sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy. Born as the before-you-know-it fusion of readymade interests, uh united bedroom-burbling hardware jams, video-graphic performance art, spoken word, and a shared intrigue in the pastoral and the preconscious. It wasn’t long before uh would find a footing in the London DIY scene. Over time, they’d hone a cathartic, live, experimental acid-trancelike uplifter sound, touching on their Irish heritage, magical pastoral idylls, and staple styles from breakbeat to broken beat to balladry. The EP ’Seasick in Salts’ (2019) and LP ‘humanus’ (2023) saw back-to-back releases on PRAH Recordings, and serve as evidence of their ecstatic, heart-on-sleeve sweats. Their live shows are more heart-in-mouth, making ludicrous use of machines abstracted from their original intent. Fionnuala exploits a pitch module, echo, and live looping unit, producing freq-pranged monologues and cantos; Dominic wrenches the knobs on various Rolands, Doepfers and sequencers, causing juddering glitches in the system.
Wilfully eclectic nine-piece art-rock ensemble from mid-Bedfordshire, fronted by artist Andy Holden with long-time collaborator Roger Illingworth. Lost for a few years but imminently to return with a new album, Love in the Misanthropocene, this time backed by a brass section and once again writing according to their teenage manifesto, which called for ‘Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity’. In the past they toured the U.K playing only DIY artist-run spaces and shared a bill with Einstürzende Neubauten at Austria’s Donaufestival. They also performed live with Damo Suzuki. Their single To a Friend’s House The Way is Never Long lingers as a rallying call.
