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SUMMARY:Vegan Vampires From Zorg @ The Peer Hat
DESCRIPTION:  \nVEGAN VAMPIRES FROM ZORG\nTHE MOVIE\nSee what happens when the camera tracks a bunch of wanna be actors to Hollyweird to make a Bee Movie that goes disastrously wrong!\nEverything crumbles as these Vivacious Vinyl Junkie Punky Geeks unwittingly get entangled in aeroplane fights\, dark web porn\, axe killings\, satanic rituals and a whole lot more…A horror film within a horror film is born…\nFeaturing contributions from John Otway\, Fuzzbox\, Johnny Kaplan and Daryl Hannah\, Melanie Williams and Peter Hook and many more.\n  \nPunk Producer Mike Bennett Makes Musical Slasher Vegan Vampire film in California!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/vegan-vampires-from-zorg-the-peer-hat/
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SUMMARY:Paracetamol//Stuart Pearce//Worried
DESCRIPTION:This PARACETAMOL is not the kidney straining pain killer available from most newsagents. No\, THIS Paracetamøl is a powerful noise punk project from Arnhem\, who set out to convince and overwhelm via undeniable raw power. With winks to bands like METZ and Oh Sees\, and respect paid to the originals like Jay Reatard\, Richard Hell and The Clash\, these four talented musicians aim to get you to the edge of your seat and beyond (be that the floor or elsewhere). Playfully vicious and sincerely contagious\, what you see is what you get\, nothing more\, nothing less.\nSTUART PEARCE might be thought of as the midlands premier beat combo. Making every effort to wring dialectical materialism for nuggets of actual punk joy\, Stuart Pearce are as tough as their namesake\, but with far more flair.\nWORRIED a howl from the depths. Heavy alt rock with a musical core.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/paracetamol-stuart-pearce-worried/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:LUNATRAKTORS & GUESTS
DESCRIPTION: Jim Hickson\, Live Review\, May 2022 ​  \n​ \n‘Traditional British music filtered through layers of avant-garde theatricality to create something both intricate and dramatic. Off-kilter rhythms\, weird dissonances and voices so rich they could fill a stadium: Lunatraktors would be folk as high art\, except they don’t take themselves too seriously. Instead\, their music is majestic\, madcap and totally unique.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Liz Aggiss\, December 2021 ​  \n​ \n‘Lunatraktors smash their unique genre of broken folk\, to a pulp. Listen well and watch carefully with all senses alert. This is no lie back passive experience\, but an active contract to engage in a compelling stage presence.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Jo Kay\, October 2021 ​ \n​ \n ‘There have been many uplifting\, exciting & joyful moments so far at this year’s Manchester Folk Fest\, but my discovery tonight of the inspired Lunatraktors feels like A Moment. Yes\, in title case. Original\, wildly talented and utterly utterly charming.’  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Françios Gorin\, Telerama\, July 2021  \n​ \n ‘Affreusement beau\, terriblement régénérant\, drôlement triste.’ [Awfully beautiful\, terribly refreshing\, absurdly sad.]  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Harry Harris (Interview)\, M Magazine\, June 2021  \n​ \n ‘Folk music is conceptual art\, and not only do Lunatraktors understand that\, but they run with it. It is music and storytelling that invites us to consider everything that has come before\, and everything still to come.’  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Robin Denselow\, Songlines\, June 2021  \n ★★★★ – ‘An intriguing duo… a sparse\, bravely original style.’  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Nick Barber\, Spiral Earth\, June 2021  \n ★★★★ – ‘Resistance and opposition is core to the release but it’s not delivered drily – there’s dark humour… irony and character in the vocal delivery that underscores the message.’  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Will Dum\, Muzzart\, June 2021  \n​ \n ‘The missing star est en tous points abouti\, imprévu et singulier. On s’incline devant sa performance\, on loue son esprit délibérément défricheur.’ [The Missing Star is in every way an achievement\, unforeseen and unique. We bow to its performance\, we praise its deliberately pioneering spirit.]  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Fiona Haic\, Get in Her Ears\, June 2021  \n​ \n ‘The Missing Star is an intriguing and innovative album. In its clever reworking of old and new\, what endures still resonates – love\, betrayal\, loss\, corruption. Stories of our common humanity beyond borders and time are told with a beautifully stirring musicality and striking emotion.’  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Billy Rough\, Folk Radio UK\, April 2021  \n​ \n ‘A powerful comment on the politics of our day\, it deserves a wider listen\, and I for one\, would love to see this performed live. A timely recording. We need this.’ 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/lunatraktors-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Beautify Junkyards & Guests
DESCRIPTION:What a pleasure it is\, to welcome BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS to The Peer Hat. Here’s a little about their last album\, which ought to illuminate this splendid band for you:\n“The fourth album for the Lisbon based band and their second on Ghost Box following on from The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards in 2018. Cosmorama is a beautifully crafted and lavishly produced adventure into tropicalia tinged psychedelic dream pop. A hallucinogenic fusion of Os Mutantes and Broadcast. The eleven songs here are instantly rewarding and transportive\, but the rich production rewards the listener with new detail on every repeated play. Its music that’s knowingly informed by Portuguese and Brazilian vocal traditions\, with gauzy layers of male and female voices moving beguilingly amongst each other\, shifting\, dreamlike\, between languages. This is set against an electroacoustic backdrop of complex percussion\, masterly acoustic musicianship and a matrix of haunted electronics that makes this album perfectly at home in the world of Ghost Box records.\nThe Band: Beautify Junkyards are a very talented group of multi-instrumentalists headed up by João Branco Kyron on vocals and keyboards\, Helena Espvall (formerly of Espers) on cello\, flute and electric guitar\, João Moreira on acoustic guitar and keyboards\, Sergue Ra on bass and Antonio Watts on drums and percussion. Newest member\, Martinez was recruited just in time to contribute vocals on Garden by the Sea. Joining the band as writing and performing collaborators on Cosmorama are: Nina Miranda (of Smoke City fame) on vocals on the title track and on Reverie and Parangolé\, Alison Bryce of NYC’s Lake Ruth on vocals on Deep Green and classical & contemporary harpist Eduardo Raon on A Garden by the Sea and The Fountain.”\n\nMonorail Music\n\n\n\n\nCHRYSALID HOMO; noun: (pronunciation Kris-sah-lid Hoh-Moh): The futurist sounds of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.\nIn 2019\, three brothers emerged from the ashes of Salfordian Prog-Punk outfit\, Trojan Horse. Heavily laden with synths\, harmonies and crooning\, these heralds of a dark and dangerous future are here to shock and awe. Not afraid of drawing influences from those that have come before\, this merry band of mad-max musicians can name those early pioneers of electronic music; Kraftwerk\, The Human League\, John Foxx (to name only 3)\, as shaping their own unique sound. Fear not\, they aren’t flogging horses here (alive or dead)\, they’re pushing the boundaries of electronic music to carefully curate a sound that is unique\, interesting and\, dare we say\, pop.\nThe sounds emerging from their secret studio in sunny Eccles\, are steeped in satire and the rich history that comes with living in the cradle of the industrial revolutio
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/beautify-junkyards-guests/
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SUMMARY:RED MAR & DWELLINGS
DESCRIPTION:RED MAR produce an experimental and highly visceral form of rock music. The project was born out of the improvisations between two members in high school\, and has since established into a group of musicians whom together create a precise and expressive form of noise-rock\, while eschewing simple categorisation. Their live shows are confrontational\, and their recorded material enveloping and unpredictable. With an equal measure of ritualistic grooves and repetition set against a ruthless rawness. Since 2019 they have performed in and around East Anglia and London\, supporting the likes of GNOD\, Show Me The Body and more\n\nDWELLINGS a sonic drill with universal trepanation applications.\n“‘FORWARD’…possibly the best way to describe these tracks from the other half of the Gnod bass machine Chris Haslam. These Dwellings numbers are certainly relentlessly pushing forward but listen for the subtle changes that happen in each track and be sucked in by the trance inducing\, almost euphoric drones & overtones” – TOMBED VISIONS
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/red-mar-dwellings/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Miesha & The Spanks//Infidels//Vice Vera
DESCRIPTION:Where have all the riot grrrls gone? You ask – MIESHA AND THE SPANKS answer. If you’ve got a yearning for flashy yet classic hard rock\, look no further – this Calgary-based duo has the guitar hero-worshiping\, face melting\, whisky belting sound that you’ve been seeking.\nA modern singer/guitarist and beloved fixture on the local scene\, frontwoman Miesha Louie is the integral driving force behind Miesha & The Spanks. A mixed-Secwépemc artist living in Treaty 7 Territory\, she’s devoted her entire career to inventing and playing instrumentally brilliant melodies that unleash her passions and her full-throated vocal tones.\nAs a result\, Miesha & The Spanks have become a tighter and more muscular version of themselves with each new release. Miesha’s solos are as quintessentially rock as they come. Her anarchic\, femme-powered vibes causing audiences to erupt in devil-horn-raising celebration of razor-sharp hooks delivered with fire and flare.\nPercussionist Sean Hamilton (an accomplished singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist in his own right) is her psychic counterpart\, intuitively punctuating her soulful choruses with a pounding intensity simultaneously that elevates heart rates and ceiling rafters.\nBursting onto the circuit with a stamp of approval from producer and alt-rock idol Ian Blurton\, Miesha’s coming out party Girls\, Like Wolves\, was the virtual debutante ball from Hell. Interweaving her impressive song writing skills and vocal versatility\, that album & The band’s subsequent releases\, 2016’s Stranger\, and Girls\, Girls\, Girls (2018)\, tap into the synergy generated by Louie and her lone bandmate\, percussionist Sean Hamilton. Their latter album has landed in the number one position on Earshot!’s National Loud charts in Canada\, as well as topping on the Indigenous Music Countdown and winning no less than three Calgary-based music awards.\nThe group’s recent mid-pandemic EP\, Singles (April 2021)\, was quickly snapped up by CBC Radio 3 and SiriusXM’s The Indigiverse\, as well as meriting attention with features on The Rodney Bingenheimer Show\, Strombo Show\, Hockey Night in Canada\, BBC6 Recommends with Steve Lamacq. To name a few. After collaborating in the live tour trenches for five years\, the pair have never been more of their capabilities. They have been welcome additions to numerous festivals and have enjoyed performing at Future Echoes\, Reeperbahn\, Tallinn Music Week\, and an Enki Music/Breakout West showcase in London\, as well as at unique grassroots events like Siksika Nation’s Run As One Festival. Regardless of the venue\, Louie’s stadium-scale vocals and Hamilton’s fast and fresh beats culminate in a stage presence that is as remarkably solid as it is wild and unexpected.\nINFIDELS are from Hull and are cool! That’s right\, I haven’t written the biog yet!\n\nVICE VERA is the solo project of Manchester-based musician Tamsin Middleton. Using loop pedals\, haunting vocal melodies are layered with off-kilter guitars and percussive textures to create an insistent\, joyous and confrontational sonic landscape. Echoes of PJ Harvey and Siouxie Sioux can be heard\, though the songs retain a unique quality that is VICE VERA’S own.’
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/miesha-the-spanks-infidels-vice-vera/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS INFORMATION FORTHCOMING HARU NEMURI "SHUNKA RYOUGEN" with NORRISETTE
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS INFORMATION FORTHCOMING Haruna Kimishima\, known by her stage name HARU NEMURI\, is a Japanese singer\, songwriter\, and “poetry rapper”. Her musical style mixes influences from J-pop\, rap\, post-hardcore\, experimental pop\, art rock\, and electronica. She is currently based in Tokyo.\nAnthony Fantano of the The Needle Drop reviewed her debut album “Haru to Shura”\, mentioning that “Haru Nemuri’s debut album pushes J-pop/rap in an exciting direction by channeling Japan’s rich history of underground rock music.”[72]\nHARU NEMURI’s album Shunka Ryougen had been hailed by Pitchfork (“Blending elements of J-pop\, rap\, and hardcore\, the experimental Japanese artist’s latest album presents a convincing balance of nihilism and hope. and also from The Fader\, Spectrum Culture (“Nemuri looked to the balance of life and death and represents their intersection. That’s why the album is as celebratory as it is volcanic)\,Stereogum (“We named genre-exploding Japanese musician Haru Nemuri\, who mixes pop\, rock\, and hip-hop into her own beautifully experimental cocktail\, one of the best new artists of 2018.”)\, and Ones to Watch (“Treasure. We are constantly looking for it and by its very nature it remains elusive….everything about Haru Nemuri is comfortably atypical.”). SPIN stated “Rather than merely recreate her debut\, Haru Nemuri chose deconstruction for her second album. The word appears throughout Shunka Ryougen’s song titles\, and it’s key to how the record reconfigures Nemuri’s blend of art rock\, noise pop\, and hip-hop”\n\n\n\n\nNORRISETTE is a hyperpop / artpop artist who makes music and videos in her tiny flat in Manchester. Her first live gig was at Deaf Institute supporting Sylvette on the 23rd September 2021. Just ten months later\, she performed a solo set on the Nebula Stage at Bluedot Festival under the gaze of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope\, which she accidentally cosplayed as. \nTogether with Industries Norrisette set up FLUFF\, a regular night for queer electronic music producers at Fuel\, Withington. FLUFF has hosted the debut sets of many artists\, has promoted at Sounds from the Other City Festival\, and been mentioned in the Guardian for its role in the underground music scene in Manchester. \nIf you like any of FKA Twigs\, Kate Bush\, James Blake\, Björk\, SOPHIE\, whale song or PVC trousers then stick around. \n‘an electronic noise fest’ – Tom Robinson\, BBC 6 Music. \n\n\n\nHARU NEMURI “SHUNKA RYOUGEN” UK and IRELAND TOUR 2023\n2023/5/25 UK Newcastle\, England | Cobalt Studio\n2023/5/27 UK Cardiff\, Wales | Psych and Noise Festival\n2023/5/28 UK Southampton\, England | Heartbreakers\n2023/5/30 UK London\, England | Oslo\n2023/6/1 UK Glasgow\, Scotland | The Hug and Pint\n2023/6/2 UK Edinburgh\, Scotland | The Voodoo Rooms\n2023/6/4 UK Birkenhead\, England | Future Yard\n2023/6/5 UK Manchester\, England | The Peer Hat\n2023/6/7 IRELAND Dublin | The Grand Social
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/haru-nemuri-shunka-ryougen-uk-and-ireland-tour-2023-in-manchester/
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SUMMARY:MONI JITCHELL//M-G DYSFUNCTION//THE HATE
DESCRIPTION:MONI JITCHELL have earned a hellacious reputation on the Glasgow underground for eviscerating sonic assaults and extreme vocal stylings. We expect them to be a welcome addition to the many spectres that have traumatised audiences upon The Black Stage\,\nM-G DYSFUNCTION have previously shared the stage with The Bug and Marie Davidson.\nThey have released two albums via Don’t Drone Alone (Theo Gowans/TAYSTII)\, some EPs directly to Bandcamp\, and tracks on Voice Of Chunk\, the record label of the Leeds music co-operative/autonomous venue Chunk.\nM-G Dysfunction will perform at The Peer Hat in Manchester on 25/05/2023.\nThe set will last for precisely 25 minutes and 47 seconds.\nAs some of the performance will be at high volume and feature abrasive sonics\, you are advised to bring ear protection.\nLet yourself go into the bliss of eternity.\n\nTHE HATE are a Blackpool based punk outfit\, Edd(Antisocial/Concrete Bollocks)\,Gaz(The Awkwards)\,Cam(Hot Pink Sewage)\,Tom(Sights). Some of those names might be familiar. Let’s set them loose!\nSKYMOUTH SAYS: “I’ve done it again!”\n£5
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/moni-jitchell-m-g-dysfunction-the-hate/
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SUMMARY:BEN MCELROY//EDWIN WILLIAMSON BAND//RIK WARWICK
DESCRIPTION:In BEN MCELROY’S own words:\n“I am a composer/musician based in Nottingham\, UK but originally from the seaside town of West Kirby on The Wirral. I have been writing and recording music in various forms since my teens – teaching myself the basics of guitar and cassette based recording.\nSadly my shoe box of cassettes from this time dissappeared- I’m sure they’d contain all the cliches of teenage songwriting\, alongside some pretty ‘naive’ guitar playing\, but it would be nice to have a document of these early days! I think part of my drive to make music nowadays is a kind of yearning to recreate these lost gems- even including the odd wonky mix and interesting timings. \nHaving explored many musical styles I gravitated towards the earthy tones of folk music and learnt how to make sounds out of fiddles\, whistles and accordions. This\, coupled with doing a music tech course at Clarendon College in Nottingham\, led to my current musical mish mash of folky sounds fed and processed through my trusty old mac (the cassette recorder chewed up its last tape sometime in the early noughties).\nI have released a number of albums/eps to date\, some on small labels\, some self released. My latest album ‘How I learnt to Disengage From The Pack’ was released in January 22 on The Slow Music movement and received a 4 star review (as well as folk album of the month) in The Guardian. My next album is a collaboration with U.S composer/pianist A Spot On the Hill\, called Everything Was Different Yesterday is out 8th March 2023.”\nEDWIN WILLIAMSON BAND Comparisons to Scott Walker and Nick Cave\, fail to nail down Edwin’s spectral allure. Indeed\, Edwin’s presence behind the cheap set of Manchester’s modern musical scene\, forms part of the story of the city. He builds upon previous performances\, with a full band line up and the presence of the multi talented Astrid Williamson (Electronic\, Dead Can Dance) to further spice the pot. Unmissable.\nRIK WARWICK is a polyphonic guitar maestro. His classical guitar sets are always a joy to behold\, ripe with bewildering and delight inducing complexity.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/ben-mcelroy-edwin-williamson-band-rik-warwick/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Occult Fracture//Bourbon Hitcher//Heave
DESCRIPTION:Occult Fracture is a dark edged hard rock band. Their music features scathing guitar\, machine-like drums\, propulsive bass and soulful vocals that weave through the riffs\, creating a unique sound and vibe. Their live performances are energetic\, powerful and recall something of Jex Thoth.\n​\nBased out of Charlotte\, NC\, the band formed in 2020 and soon began playing out in local venues. They released their debut EP\, Fatal Unkind\, a few days before Halloween 2021. They released their follow-up EP\, Bones & Bonfires\, in May 2022. The band’s latest EP\, The War Inside\, dropped in November 2022.\n\n\n“This gloriously dark band from Charlotte features an intense vocalist\, Crystal Crosby\, whose energy seeps through stereo speakers like a home invasion. All four of the tracks exhibit a semi old school vibe\, sort of reminding me of the better art punk groups of the 1980s. This is their third EP in two years as a band. Recorded with a deceptively simple mix\, the production is flawless. I look forward to hearing a full-length from them in the future\, as this sampling has me instantly hooked.” – Art Ettinger\, Razorcake\n\nBOURBON HITCHER Loud\, heavy\, Welsh…the band has been garnering praise for their excruciatingly hard sets over the past couple of years.\n\nHEAVE are a heavy punk noise foursome that have an adroit turn of phrase\, coupled to eviscerating guitar licks. As good as chaos gets. Check them out…they’re local.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/occult-fracture-bourbon-hitcher/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Magic Castles & Guests
DESCRIPTION:Magic Castles are an American alternative psych-rock band from Minneapolis\, MN. The group is well-versed in the ways of blissfully floating psychedelically-inclined folk-rock. Gentle harmonies float above twanging guitar and farfisa organ.Their songs have an optimistic and light tone\, but the guitars often jangle and crash with the best of them. There’s a little for psych heads of all tastes\, and a lot to like for anyone who appreciates softer psych intonations with a distinct pop sheen. \nFormation & History \nMagic Castles was created by Jason Edmonds in 2007\, who immediately set to self-releasing three albums in their first two years. After fans uploaded tracks onto YouTube in 2010\, the music caught the attention of Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre\, who heard the Magic Castles’ song Ballad of the Golden Bird and signed the band to his indie imprint\, “A” Recordings Ltd. In 2012\, Anton’s imprint released a compilation of the first three self-released albums as a self titled 2LP Magic Castles. They also supported BJM on a successful east coast US tour in 2012. Magic Castles toured the west coast and southwest successfully in 2013\, building up a loyal following. In the spring of 2014 The Brian Jonestown Massacre released a Record Store Day split single with Magic Castles\, who contributed two songs on the B side\, adding to the bands mystique. In fall of 2014 they released the album Sky Sounds\, and again toured the west coast & southwest of the US\, playing several festivals. In 2015 the band released their third album on A Records\, Starflower\, toured Europe and UK successfully\, bookended by appearances in front of large audiences at Reverence Valada festival in Portugal and Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. In 2016 songwriter Jason Edmonds decided to take a hiatus to attend to his family\, and now\, in 2020 we see Edmonds’ return with the band\, releasing a new album “Sun Reign”\, their fourth on A Recordings. \nPress \n“There are bands who seem to channel their best qualities through the atmosphere\, who make production sound like their blood vessels\, and the Magic Castles are one of those bands. Like Kevin Shields engineering songs rather than writing them\, this band has created a floaty wonderland and then sung into it.” -Norman Records UK staff review \n“With a delightful undercurrent of madness\, the songs seem designed to absorb the listener and take them to some far off distant land\, where for the next thirty minutes one gets to dream without comprehension. And in that aspect\, the course Magic Castles have taken is right on the mark.” -Psychedelic Baby Magazine\n“I would like to encourage anyone planning to go to this concert not to miss the first act [Magic Castles]. I believe in their project enough to release it with my own money as a document. Actions speak louder than words. Music is meant to be heard more than talked about. I love the way some of their songs make me feel.” -Anton Newcombe of BJM\, Uncut Interview \n“Where many of their peers fall back on production tricks or simply borrow too liberally from their influences\, Magic Castles stands out from the pack for its skillful balance of recalling the acid-tinged tones of its forebears while aiming the compass at destinations unknown.” -AllMusic Review by Chrysta Cherrie
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/magic-castles-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:CANNONBALL STATMAN//JD MEATYARD//VICE VERA
DESCRIPTION:CANNONBALL STATMAN are an interdimensional rock band from New York City. Their frontperson has been described by LiveTrigger Magazine as “the king of modern anti-folk”\, and the band has often been noted for their unique sound and stage presence\, described by German Shepherd Records as “pure genius”. Their soulful\, articulate songs often tell stories in nonlinear\, surreal ways\, with intricate\, poignant instrumentation\n\nJD MEATYARD came to prominence as front man of post-punk outfit Calvin Party (formerly Levellers 5). A firm favourite of the late John Peel\, who described them as ‘the greatest undiscovered band’\, they recorded eight Peel Sessions\, charted in the all-important Festive 50\, and released a number of well-received albums including ‘Lies\, Lies and Government’ and ‘Sex and Other Life Tragedies’. Recent years have seen Jd continue to release records on Probe Plus. His anti-folk songs winning him airplay on Gideon Coe and admirers such as Half Man Half Biscuit with whom he regularly tours. Of Jd’s latest album\, 2018’s ‘The Batchain Pullers’\, Louder Than War opined ‘If there was still a Peel Festive 50 it would be in the Top Ten this year.’\n\nVICE VERA is the solo project of Manchester-based musician Tamsin Middleton. Using loop pedals\, haunting vocal melodies are layered with off-kilter guitars and percussive textures to create an insistent\, joyous and confrontational sonic landscape. Echoes of PJ Harvey and Siouxie Sioux can be heard\, though the songs retain a unique quality that is VICE VERA’S own.’\n\n£6 ADV £7 OTD
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/cannonball-statman-jd-meatyard-vice-vera/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Angeline Morrison
DESCRIPTION:The Peer Hat is immensely proud\, to welcome Angeline Morrison: singer\, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who explores traditional song with a deep love\, respect and curiosity. Angeline mostly makes music in the genres of wyrd folk and psych folk\, her work infused with elements of soul music\, literature\, ‘60s beat pop sounds\, folklore\, myth and the supernatural. With a feral approach\, a handmade sonic aesthetic and a belief in the importance of tenderness\, Angeline’s original compositions and re-stitchings of traditional songs focus on storytelling and the small things that often go unnoticed. Sounds like solitude\, memory\, nostalgia\, a rainy walk amongst trees… \n\nAngeline made her television debut on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’ in October 2022\, and there’s a major interview with her in The Guardian. In July 2022\, Angeline was announced as the fourth winner of the prestigious Christian Raphael Prize at Cambridge Folk Festival\, which generously supports the development of emerging talent in the folk genre. \n\nYou can also hear Angeline as part of alt-folk duo We Are Muffy with Nick Duffy (of The Lilac Time)\, and psych-folk duo Rowan : Morrison with The Rowan Amber Mill. \n\nThe Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience (released October 2022\, Topic Records) is a work of re-storying. The historic Black presence in the UK dates back to at least Roman times\, yet is often hidden\, forgotten or unacknowledged. The populations of enslaved African people and their descendants in the USA have their bodies of folk song\, which are vitally important for containing histories\, expressing feelings\, giving voice and claiming presence… but the Black ancestors of the UK have no equivalent body of song. The Sorrow Songs begins to address this. It is a gift to the forgotten Black ancestors of these islands\, and to the folk community here today. The album uses history and imagination to tell stories of UK Black ancestors in the sonic style of UK traditional and folk music.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/angeline-morrison/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:THE BLACK ENDS//CHEM TRAILS//THE MANIFESTATION GROUP
DESCRIPTION:THE BLACK ENDS describe themselves in two words ‘gunk’ and ‘pop’. Meanwhile\, the press in their native Seattle (and further afield\, have this to say):\n\nSludgy and magical.\nAudiofemme: Black Ends Bring Ground-Breaking “Gunk Pop” to Substation This Saturday\n“I feel like there should be more Black bands getting booked in general\,” she says. “I feel like there shouldn’t be all-white boy bands anymore\, like the shows that are all white boy bands. That’s just over.”\nThe band’s 30 minutes of distorted “gunk pop” elicited raucous applause after every song. The floor creaked as the crowd hopped\, bobbed and danced…\n…it makes me so happy to be living in a world where music like this exists.\nSwims’ unique talent and ultra-creative style of guitar playing is on fierce display on last year’s Stay Evil […] EP that manages to be both super listenable and super weird at the same time.\n…Black Ends produces a biting sound not often heard in today’s scene.\n…it’s supposed to be about finally accepting that fate- to release the thanatophobia we all feel at some point and just accepting that life ends and it’s okay.\nSwims’ vocal flexibility […] rides atop the band’s thrusty dynamic gutter sprawl.\n…Nicolle Swims\, an artist with both a unique viewpoint and the ability to successfully express that uniqueness.\nBeing black in America feels like a death sentence but I refuse to stop fighting.\n…front person and principal songwriter\, Nicolle Swims\, has a voice like imagination incarnate.\nThis shit is hard\, dude.\n\nSo that sounds like it’s worth doing\, wouldn’t you say?\n\nCHEM TRAILS The garage-punk and acid-corroded new-wave outfit that is Chemtrails first emerged as a 5-piece in 2016\, having started life as the lo-fi bedroom recording project of romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova. They were quickly snapped up and signed by Swedish label PNKSLM Recordings\, having only played one gig — at Trans Pride Brighton. Since then\, the prolific band has built up a die-hard following and churned out four critically-acclaimed DIY records in two years. Their three 6-song EPs and debut full-length album\, all of which were recorded in their living room\, have garnered praise from the likes of KEXP\, Stereogum\, DIY Mag and The Line of Best Fit\, with the LP “Calf of the Sacred Cow” appearing in the top 25 of the “best albums of the year” lists of Swedish music magazines Gaffa and Hymn in 2018.\nThe band cites their biggest influences as the Pixies\, Blondie\, Oh Sees\, Black Lips and sixties psych and garage punk\, but holding everything together is Mia Lust’s ear for melody and no shortage of hooks. Served on a bed of fuzzy guitars and polychromatic pop\, the lyrics center around alienation\, love\, the human condition\, the impending apocalypse and\, occasionally\, on Lust’s place in the world as a transgender woman.\n2019 saw Chemtrails play a live session for KEXP as part of their International Clash Day celebration in London\, after which the band focussed on recording album number two. “The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable”\, to be released in May 2020 on PNKSLM Recordings\, will be the band’s heaviest and wildest record yet\, with their trademark big melodies and harmonies performed over a frenzied wall of raw guitar noise and glistening synths.\nAfter their bandmates went their separate ways to pursue other projects Lust and Orlova relocated to Manchester from London in late 2019. They’ve now recruited a whole new lineup\, bringing a fresh burst of excitement and ideas to the band.\n\nTHE MANIFESTATION GROUP are a new music based spiritual science project\, revolving around the exhumation of various thought forms and ‘ghosts’ in the form of resonance and music. A thorough exploration of the power of ritualisation and relational beautification\, within the context of the contemporary song book. They invite you to join them as openers for the evening.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-black-ends-chem-trails-the-manifestation-group/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:YAWN//GAIN//HORSEMEAT
DESCRIPTION:At the crossroads between beautiful improvised soundscapes and brutal down-tuned guitar riffs\, YAWN has established a unique musical expression that is unmistakably ear-catching for listeners drawn to experimental and progressive music. Their high-energy performances feature virtuosic sound design\, machine-like rhythmic precision\, and a larger-than-life light show\, all synchronized by custom-made software.\nYAWN’s debut album “Materialism\,” which seamlessly blends influences from metal\, jazz\, and contemporary electroacoustic music\, was released in February 2022 to an outpouring of positive reviews from all over the world:\n“In short\, this is one of the greatest albums I have ever heard” — Ever-metal.com: 10/10\n“Materialism kept me on my toes from start to finish” — The Progspace: 9/10\n“A massive\, synth-laced Matrix-meets-Meshuggah ultra-hell” —The Obelisk\n“For Improv-fans of the extreme type” — Jazz’halo\n\nGAIN Straddle the border between Doom and fuzzed out psychedelia…which is no surprise\, based as they are close to the the Peak District National Park.\nSounting members of Burial\, Wolfbastard\, Delta Mono and Gore Tech amongst their line-up\, their debut at The Peer HAt\, promises to be gnarly.\n\nConceived under the apocalyptic glow of 2018’s dying winter sunlight\, HORSEMEAT is the product of three men’s love of 80’s metal and 90s grunge in a safe and supportive environment. Whilst you could say Horsemeat is music for carnivores\, it can be equally enjoyed by listeners of all dietary persuasions. Tuck in….and let the mastications begin.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/yawn-gain-horsemeat/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Æ Presents Corvus & The Morning Star\, Springfield Elementary\, Bedroom Vacation & Scott Hepple
DESCRIPTION:CORVUS & THE MORNING STAR\nA psych/blues rock project from Manchester. With influences such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre\, Jesus and Mary Chain & Spacemen 3. Tonight they lunch their debut EP.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/corvusandthemorningstar\nSPRINGFIELD ELEMENTARY\nPsychedelic punky four piece Springfield Elementary were born out of blind optimism that they can salvage some credibility for themselves one broken guitar string at a time. Their music is said to cure severe headaches\, back pain and broken hearts.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/SpringfieldElementaryMCR\nBEDROOM VACATION\nSCOTT HEPPLE\n\nTickets available at www.seetickets.com
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/ae-presents-corvus-the-morning-star-springfield-elementary-bedroom-vacation-scott-hepple/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Tupenny Bunters w. Indian Pale Male
DESCRIPTION:Dave and Fi Dulake became TUPPENNY BUNTERS in 2012\, the same year they got married. Fi had been the Hammond player in Dave’s previous band\, The Virgo Intacta\, who were on The White Stripes “Satan” tour as 1st support. Parallel to running a notorious Southend music pub\, The Railway Hotel\, the duo\, after naming themselves after Regency prostitutes\, set about capturing the sound they perceived\, a piano dripping garage/pop wall of melodies and chord shifts. Their first album was recorded live to a Studer in the cellar of the pub. They released it on their own label\, Dansettual. Called “A Tuppenny Upright”\, the results\, while sketchy\, present them well. At times\, the piano (a Bluthner upright) threatens to cuddle you to death\, at others it appears to be absently flipping you off\, and the drums are tuned high\, dirty and loonar. If they were cleverer\, or could be bothered\, they’d be prog. Cooler\, or if they both dressed like Fi\, they’d be psyche\, and if they didn’t constantly feel the need to burst into song\, for their sheer sonic nerve they’d be garage.\nThe Bunters songwriting is all the way down the cracks between Pete Ham\, Syd Barrett and Lionel Bart\, but their live performance sits precariously on a web spun by X Ray Spex\, The White Stripes\, Wings and\, well\, Sparks\, I guess – in that\, you’re never quite sure who to watch. She smashes shit out of the kit with her hair going everywhere\, while he\, 20 years older and desperate to keep up\, pounds the Fender Rhodes and screams his fucking head off\, trying always for a snarling Steve Marriott but coming off more like an enraged Dean Friedman. Then they swap\, and now you’re totally on the back foot\, cos now he’s laying into the kit\, and she’s up…her intense brown eyes staring you down; melodies from an age way before her time and a piercing\, shrieking voice that only ever seems at home above top C. Fingernails scraping down a Marmite smeared blackboard. You won’t go to the bar though\, cos then there are the songs\, which\, possibly against your better judgement\, will tick one of your boxes. They’ll take you on an uncomfortable switchback ride through pop music’s wheat and chaff\, and just when you think you’ve dissed it or nailed it\, when you think “I can hear a bit of 10CC and The Damned in there…” then Billy Childish pops in with Julie Andrews and you still won’t know whether they’re tossers or visionarys. A review for Dave’s “Butterfingers” album in The Face back in 2003 called it “annoying and refreshing in equal parts”\n\nINDIAN PALE MALE is former Frazer King genius\, Nathan McIlroy’s latest project. Following a period of self imposed exile\, Nathan has returned–and Manchester is better for it. Now armed with a single piano\, IPM is a unique\, funny\, sometimes tortured\, sometimes jazzy excursion which\, if McIlroy chooses\, will only go on to garner further acclaim. Check it out.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/tupenny-bunters-w-indian-pale-male/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:The Guest List feat. The Social Club\, Fauna & Jack Cattell
DESCRIPTION:The Guest List are a young 5-piece band from Manchester who broke onto the indie rock scene last summer with their self-titled EP. Played live\, these songs come to life\, in addition to the new unreleased songs on their setlist. They’re made up of Cai Alty (vocals)\, Leio Hunter (guitar)\, Tom Quigley (guitar)\, Angus Gilchrist (drums) and Tom Coates (bass).\nSocial media:\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/theguestlist.band?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\nTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguestlist?_t=8a2ZqmFhCFR&_r=1\nYouTube: https://youtube.com/@theguestlist2699\nLink to EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/0LOoHwbKcIevXHgVC9J6na?si=E3oI_jGeS42uPMzcrlb72g \n\nThe Social Club formed in late 2022 and are already “one of the most talked about new bands in the Manchester indie-rock scene”. Despite only forming late into 2022\, the 4 piece indie rock outfit have already made their stamp on the Manchester Music Scene\, selling out their first headline gig at Lions Den only 4 months after their formation.Instagram- @thesocialclubbanduk\nlinktree- https://linktr.ee/thesocialclubband?fbclid=PAAabCHkhsgjdnUSrdDyefhbp88_VxRchuBrX3oviU3ub4y4rqpaoPxVVJnuc\n \n\nFauna is comprised of brothers Danny (Vocals and Guitar) and Adam (Guitar)\, Tom (Drums) and Charlie (Bass). Striving to keep creativity at the forefront\, Fauna are a band that like to keep things interesting and reward those who follow. The band are continuing to gain momentum after a string of live shows in 2023\, including a slot at Liverpool Sound City festival. Combining summery pop moments\, old school rock and roll percussion and soaring choruses\, Fauna’s unique sound has gained them attention from industry giants Radio X\, BBC introducing and This Feeling. Fauna’s on-stage energy is infectious\, this is a band that need to be heard live and loud.Links:\nhttps://www.instagram.com/fauna_music/\nhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0E5xZUkLT2NcpyCW7LoEWr?si=VZwiq3MmT9KU7YQOsnkU-w \n\nJack Cattell\, a dynamic and uncompromising artist hailing from Walsall in the West Midlands\, has spent years honing his craft and writing skills to kick start his musical career as a highly respected artist. His songs breathe new life into the teenage-angst category and concerns of the youth\, offering a refreshing new take on love and sadness in the modern age through candid and insightful lyricism.Links:\nhttps://linktr.ee/JackCattellMusic?fbclid=PAAaa-LXG-00T_lrIOtDPmeFsPVq5qayHBYvJGSBXDcChjv9qGLkXKT3shuMo\nhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6bMaBDDlpiQ2T70mw0r09E \n  \nhttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/tfsp-project-touring/the-guest-list-feat-the-social-club-fauna-jack-cattell/e-zakmpe
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-guest-list-feat-the-social-club-fauna-jack-cattell/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:Indifferent MonKeY & Guests
DESCRIPTION:SKYMOUTH has decided to throw down a bunch of press quotes for INDIFFERENT MONKEY! Is this lazy? SKYMOUTH says not! A night of delight beckons!\n“ Track Review  Take Faith – IndifferentMonKeY (@indifferentmonkey ) Another great band that I have found late \, Indifferent Monkey is Alt-Rock Band that are already winning plaudits for their work. Having been voted Best Band 2022 by @radio_wigwam \, 2023 should be a big year for them. So they kick it off with this beauty of a track. The track has a toe-tapping hypnotic beat that really blends well with the sultry passionate vocals\,The song is dark with a mysterious undertone that really suits the beautiful tempo and body of the track. When I heard it\, I had visions of this black and white setting with the singer in a red dress; the only colour coming through\, while serenading a room full of mobsters and gents in suits. A really Beautiful track!!”\nHeart Shaped Box – Heart Shaped Box\n“Well now\, with a song title like that you have my attention! Based in Morcambe\, Lancashire\, Indifferentmonkey started releasing music in September 2021 and say they are heavily influenced by: TripHop\, Heavy Rock\, Funk\, Jazz\, Electronic and Pop. I can hear a strong Jungle influence in this track too\, which makes me more than happy. Bullish\, dirty beats are exactly what I order for most Monday mornings and Filthy Dirty delivers. I was taken with this one on my first listen too\, gloriously frantic\, much like my life most days. Keep em coming please… Indifferentmonkey are: Pippa (vocals)\, Joe Lowe (Instruments\, writer\, producer) Jack Willan (drums\, percussion\, bass and guitar) and Brendan Syson (guitar) and they have gained support from BBC Introducing and KCRW in LA.”\nLouise Toal – Fresh on the Net\n“That was the Brilliant Indifferentmonkey with Space Race”\nWilliam Wolstenholme – BBC Introducing Lancs\n“FEATURES indifferentMonKeY – Human Diamond”\nStarryMag – Starry Constellation Mag\n“indifferentMonKeY have today released their new single titled ‘Space Race’. indifferentMonKeY is a project that has long found it’s sound and everything they release at this point in their careers is a continuous and solid evolution of that sound. Does anything else really need to be said about indifferentMonKeY\, at this point? This is one of those bands that you run into when you are looking for something fresh. Something new. Something different\, or\, indifferent. Go down the rabbit hole with indifferentMonKeY. You won’t want to leave.”\nBy RYAN MARTIN – Jammerzine\n“Love That” “Its great that” Quotes by Sean Mcginty and Rich Dyer (Founder of Highest Point Festival in Lancaster) after plaing our single “Cokehead”.\nSean Mcginty – BBC introducing\n“That was indifferentmonkey and Naked White Noise” (at around 17 minutes on the BBC Sounds Player).\nSean Mcginty – BBC Introducing\n“BBC introducing at around 21:09”\nSean Mcginty – BBC Introducing\n“That fluid trip hop that indifferentMonKeY is amped and stamped with approval and\, in a few ways\, veers from the road that indifferentMonKeY has been traveling the last couple years. There is more of a dark groove here. And\, if you’ve seen the new Bond film\, then you know that there are a lot of changes. And these changes in this music fit that schema. The lends me to the belief that indifferentMonKeY is in a transition. Sitting in that cocoon waiting to hatch as a different entity\, same in name only. Could this be true? Pippa really brings a different vibe to the music. And it is good. Lets hope we don’t have to wait five years like we would for a Bond film to find out.”\nRYAN MARTIN – Jammerzine\n“Q) Talk about the story behind your new song “God or Machine?.””\nJamie Steinberg – Starry Mag – Starry Constellations Magazine\n“IndifferentMonkey playlisted on the iconic LA Station KCRW https://www.kcrw.com/”\nAaron Byrd – KCRW\n“indifferentMonKeY has released the video for the track titled ‘God or Machine?’. A few weeks ago we reviewed the single from indifferentMonKeY and now the video\, in my opinion\, encapsulates the darkly sensual and introvertedly rhythmic sense of self within the song. Belle’s voice is angelic with a touch of sin and her walk on the beach gives that longing for what once was in this world. Doing that with style is an originality just out of reach from most but firmly in the grasp of indifferentMonKeY. Future funk with a touch of the new reality.”
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/indifferent-monkey-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:ST. JIMI SEBASTIAN CRICKET CLUB//THE TRANSCENDENTAL EQUATION
DESCRIPTION:ST. JIMI SEBASTIAN CRICKET CLUB is a Swedish project led by Jimi Sebastian some folk have described their music as an exciting mix ofbands like The Jam\, The Clash\, Arcade Fire and Pink Floyd This promises to be an interesting night\, as the Swedish underground continues to produce oddball gems like this band. SKYMOUTH SAYS: “It’s cricket\, but not Jiminy Cricket! That’s Jimi Cricket to you”\nTHE TRANSCENDENTAL EQUATION are an instrumental three piece (lead by ILL vocalist and bass player\, Whitney Bluzma) weaving sonic psychedelia in the vein of the Animated Egg\, with powerful tarot driven improvisational moments. A band guaranteed to constantly surprise and entice. Firm favourites here at The Peer Hat.\nSKYMOUTH SAYS “What do you say to an equation that’s asking which star you’re going to be tonight? ANSWER: Tonight Maths-ew I’m going to be Batman”
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/st-jimi-sebastian-cricket-club-the-transcendental-equation/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230301T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230301T233000
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SUMMARY:THE HIDING MAGPIES//RAT RUNNER//RICK SIMPSON
DESCRIPTION:THE HIDING MAGPIES are an alternative rock band based in North Manchester. Their first album covered all aspects of love\, loss and redemption\, with a nod to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Their latest album has established them as a great melodic band in their own right. Their recent album ‘Searching For Gold’ has been hugely successful with the single ‘Devil In My Soul’ reaching fans around the world. Regardless\, they are a formidable live band\, and if there last show at The Peer Hat is anything to go by\, this will be absolutely unmissable.\nRAT RUNNER are a 3 piece blues rock group hailing from South Manchester\, lead by songwriter\, TG Lee.\nSteeped in the blues rock of the late 60s such as Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and fused with the rich musical heritage that Manchester is renowned for\, we expect an excellent performance.\nRICK SIMPSON is a polyphonic guitar maestro. His classical guitar sets are always a joy to behold\, ripe with bewildering and delight inducing complexity.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-hiding-magpies-rat-runner-rick-simpson/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230226T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230226T233000
DTSTAMP:20230119T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Bethlehem Casuals at The Peer Hat
DESCRIPTION:Bethlehem Casuals are a jazz/psych/rock sextet based in Manchester. With an eclectic sound that infuses a world of influences\, heady grooves and stomping tunes\, the Casuals have been dubbed by some as “urban rock styled DIY world music”; but it’s of course open to interpretation. For the uninitiated\, they are living proof that six heads are undoubtedly better than one. With their infectiously idiosyncratic compositions\, strung-out live shows and\, of course\, their notably laid-back nature (it’s in the name); the past few years Bethlehem Casuals have been ensnaring growing audiences in their deliriously entertaining cocktail of sounds and wickedly lurid imagination.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/bethlehemcasuals\nhttps://www.bethlehemcasuals.com/\nSupport from: Seas Of Mirth\nSeas of Mirth have been stamping their own mark on modern music for the last decade\, mixing up styles and genres while also being known for their aquatic twist. The extensive instrument checklist includes xylophone\, bouzouki\, clav organ\, accordion\, and theremin (to name a few)\, joined by a shoal of effects and watery samples. The sonic span widens into areas of psyche\, dark funk\, jazz\, disco\, ambient\, latin and chime-pop – a far cry away from the galleonic jigs and shanty style vocals that made up their sound of old. Comparisons have been made to the likes of Cardiacs\, Stereolab\, Talking Heads\, Parliament\, Animal Collective and Frank Zappa.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/seasofmirth\n£6 adv / £8 OTD \nSee less
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/bethlehem-casuals-at-the-peer-hat/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230222T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230222T233000
DTSTAMP:20230126T135653Z
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SUMMARY:Hugs Of The Sky//Vert De Gris//Sumos
DESCRIPTION:HUGS OF THE SKY are a Belgian psychedelic fusion of the bands Hugs and The Insect Soldiers Of The Sky.\nThere’s is a neo-psychedelic rock with elements drawn from the Limburgish countryside.\nTHeir new single has been described thusly: ‘Creature Up Your Feature’. A Tame Impala-esque sonic trip through psychedelic soundscapes of swirling guitar riffs and heavy-hitting drums\, ‘Creature Up Your Feature’ transports listeners into an otherwordly paradise. Equally dreamy and nightmarish\, Hugs of the Sky’ signature lo-fi psych-punk sound envelopes listeners in a fuzzy distorted glow.\n\nVERT DE GRIS French\, experiemental rock music\, charismatically fronted and with limitless potential. Music surfs the line between tension and bliss. All eyes are on seeing what this band get up to next.\n\nStarting out as a bedroom recording project before becoming a full band\, SUMOS play 90s influenced scuzz-pop.\nThey released their home-recorded EP ‘Weird Summer’ in 2020 and their debut album ‘Surfacing’ is out May 2023 on Meritorio/Safe Suburban Home. Sharp and melodic.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/hugs-of-the-sky-vert-de-gris-sumos/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230218T230000
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SUMMARY:Æ Presents Bones Shake\, Heave\, Gas Kunst & Blob Halford
DESCRIPTION:Æ Presents an evening of garage\, punk\, rock n roll with ….\nBONES SHAKE\nBones Shake are a scuzzy\, fuzz enthused garage rock trio formed in Manchester in 2011. They play everything to the extreme; violent bottle-neck blues riffs\, drums kicked\, pounded and exploited and squeals of reverb drenched vocals which when combined\, will help save your soul.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BonesShake\nHEAVE\nBrand new noisy punk laden noise channelled straight to your brain\nhttps://heaveband.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-reign\nGAS KUNST\nThe Gas Kunst Three are small town boys with big city desires. When they die they want to be fired out of a cannon in the desert; like their hero Hunter Thompson. Their music is chaotic and catchy\, fierce but not evil. Gas Kunst are passionate about music and their goal is to bring people together through music.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/gaskunst.gov.uk\nBLOB HALFORD\nStoner Groove Funk. One half Hillbilly/One half punk\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BlobHalford\n\nTickets £8 + bf
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/ae-presents-bones-shake-heave-gas-kunst-blob-halford/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Astral Elevator":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230216T230000
DTSTAMP:20230118T114328Z
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SUMMARY:Tengger
DESCRIPTION:The Beauty Witch presents\nTengger (South Korea)\nmore tba\nAlbum Earthing is TENGGER’s 7th studio album\, recorded during the year 2021. Staying at Studio Kyurt (Japan)\, located in the highlands\, walking nearby\, climbing mountains\, gazing at waterfalls\, or reaching the ocean\, they observed a lot of things. And then they could receive the message from nature\, “There is nothing divided and we are connected all in the life circulation.” and they could make it into this album in nature. Paying respect to “Now”\, the time alive with sharing the message with you\, all audiences\, through music.\n\nTickets £9 + bf
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/tengger/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Beauty Witch":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230214T223000
DTSTAMP:20230118T114804Z
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SUMMARY:Byronic Sex & Exile / Good Mourning\, Britain tour
DESCRIPTION:‘NIGHTMARE AVENUE’ MINI-ALBUM & ‘GOOD MOURNING\, BRITAIN’ TOUR\nA wonderfully busy 2023 for Byronic Sex & Exile begins with a new mini-album and UK tour in February.\n‘Nightmare Avenue’ features eight new tracks based around the Victorian gothic tradition\, and is due for release on 3rd February 2023\, and the accompanying ‘Good Mourning\, Britain’ tour will be an immersive hearse-driven experience showcasing the entire new album alongside an assortment of BS&E bangers. Further details and information coming soon!\n‘Good Mourning\, Britain’ tour:\nFri 10th Feb – Newcastle Prohibition\nSat 11th Feb – Bristol The Gryphon\nSun 12th Feb – Nottingham The Angel\nMon 13th Feb – York Black Swan\nTues 14th Feb – Manchester Peer Hat\nWed 15th Feb – Edinburgh Leith Depot\nThurs 16th Feb – Glasgow 13th Note\nFri 17th Feb – Norwich Louis Marchesi\nSat 18th Feb – London Aces & Eights\nSun 19th Feb – Leeds Wharf Chamber\n\nTickets: £7 + bf
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/byronic-sex-exile-good-mourning-britain-tour/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230210T223000
DTSTAMP:20230119T123822Z
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SUMMARY:Love Unsigned Presents Bad Heritage At The Peer Hat
DESCRIPTION:Love Unsigned Presents: A night of high octane Rock music with performances from. \nBad Heritage – a Manchester based band\, influenced by the likes of Royal Blood\, Rival Sons and Rage Against the Machine\, they offer catchy riffs and soaring vocals. \nMidnight Exhibition \nMidland Railway –  form of nerdy folk-punk\, influenced by the likes of Weezer\, Bright Eyes\, and The Smiths. Their songs cover important topics such as Pokemon\, serial killers\, and online football management. They are based in Manchester\, UK. Social media @midlandrailwayband Their ‘hit’ singles can be found on Spotify. \nand \nBlackberry \n  \nTickets available at https://www.fatsoma.com/e/pacetdph/love-unsigned-presents-at-the-peer-hat
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/love-unsigned-presents-bad-heritage-at-the-peer-hat/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Love music promotions":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230206T230000
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SUMMARY:The Peer Hat Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Peer Hat Open Mic Night\, legendary in the minds of the forsaken. \nCome one\, come all….courage is more valuable than skill or talent! \nAll disciplines and acts accepted! \nThe prize? A free drink from the cheap list!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-peer-hat-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230204
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DTSTAMP:20230117T080132Z
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SUMMARY:Manchester Folk Horror Festival V
DESCRIPTION:Once again\, a year passes with impossible swiftness and we find ourselves again upon the short path towards the Manchester Folk Horror Festival. As we’re quick to point out the festival has become somewhat broader in scope since it’s first iteration\, shifting from an amateur film gathering (in the name of folk horror)\, towards a more amorphous esoterica (and a hopefully useful exploration of relationality). \nThis year\, we’re still neck deep in the bloody shoals of the imminent. The apocalypse— all of them—are not swift. And whatever form the ‘doom of the world’ takes\, it has it roots in the severance of connection…with the land and with time itself. However\, this is no death cult! Thus we present ‘Becoming The Transmission: Re-enchanting The Apocalypse’ as this years battle cry. We cannot be destroyed… instead we transform\, becoming an emanation that pulses into new arrangements\, even as the horror swirls around us. This field is ours to be. \nThis year we present magic\, discussion\, music (of course—and what music) film and theatre\, all compressed into the basement men call The Black Stage\, the very bowels of The Peer Hat! And of course\, we look to you\, the visionary seekers of Manchester and further abroad. For only in finding and making those organic connections\, will we flourish. \n  \nGuest Speaker CAVAN MCLAUGHLIN is a filmmaker\, creative media practitioner and Senior Lecturer\, with his primary research interests being the role and function of ‘occulture’. He is a practicing freelance filmmaker\, graphic designer\, editor\, producer and director. As a media professional of over 20 years\, he has been involved in almost all aspects of audiovisual production\, specialising in promotional music videos and album-sleeve artwork.\nHe is the founder of Trans- States (www.trans-states.org)\, a transdisciplinary conference series and network exploring occultism\, mysticism\, shamanism and other esoteric and spiritual practices in contemporary occulture. He is also director of Trans- States Media\, their sibling media production unit. \nMusic from \nSQUARE THE CIRCLE “On her debut album\, Ether\, Irina Shtreis\, originally from St. Petersburg and now based in Reykjavik\, has tapped into some of the baseline mysticism of her current home\, using the album as an exercise in world building. Choosing organs and keyboards as her primary instruments\, she creates a musical palette that nods at being intentionally out of step with our reality\, bringing to mind old fashioned ideas of fantasy worlds.” \nTHOUGHT UNIVERSE Since 1994\, Tnought Universe EMS is a studio in Manchester (UK) producing electroacoustic music and sound-art. Thought Universe EMS is run as an independent organisation. The studio is available to produce electroacoustic music and sound-art. Thought Universe EMS aim is to support artistic development of electroacoustic music and its integration within other artistic areas. TU’s resident boffin\, Mark Pilkington returns to MFH with a UFO abduction deep dive. \nCHELSEA HARE is the only artist we’ve been happy to return five times to the festival\, if only because of the staggering diversity of music he has on offer and a determinedly demented spin that catapults us repeatedly into his orbit. Tom is a vision scarred artist\, for whom sound is a tool for the expression of otherness. We cajole him once more unto the Black Stage! “Disarming\, uncanny moments of theatricality sit comfortably alongside more downbeat moments of introspection. Tom’s incredibly funny and poetic lyrics provide a tremendous thread through the blizzard of fairly schizophrenic musical styles… but Tom’s voice is unmistakably his own.” NARC magazine. \nTHE MANIFESTATION GROUP are a music based spiritual science project\, revolving around the exhumation of various thought forms and ‘ghosts’ in the form of resonance and music. They promise ‘A thorough exploration of the power of ritualisation and relational beautification\, within the context of the contemporary song book.’ And a sing-a-long. \nDEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC “A beating dark heart of pure dream-drama and past rituals – easily one of the best live acts Bristol has to offer” RwdFwd\n“Fresh\, ancient and relentlessly innovative\, Dead Space Chamber Music embody the transportive power of music with each understated release.” Louder Than War \n  \nATTRITION “Inside a cage of sound\, writhes a human soul. Cold waves of electronics are juxtaposed against voices that seep through cracks in the walls of machinery and wires. Lyrics dart out in bullets from soundscapes peppered in sharp vocals and sound bites. A viola plays in the distance\, giving life to this inorganic mass… \nSuch is the imagery that spawns Attrition\, who\, with its marriage of the classic and modern\, has brought to music the equivalent of a surrealist painting. From its earlier sparse and stark soundscapes\, to a more expansive palette of orchestral work\, Attrition has successfully melded several genres into one. The music flows – from gothic to industrial to experimental to classical – so smoothly\, they might as well be making their own category. \nWith more than twenty albums of constant variety\, and an ever-expanding sound\, they remain one of music’s darker and fascinating lights.” \nSHARON KRAUSS We’re over the moon to welcome Sharon to Folk Horror V. Over the years Sharron Kraus’ musical career has pulled her in many directions and seen her collaborate with artists\, poets\, writers and researchers\, creating soundtracks\, podcasts\, musical accompaniments and responses. She is an intuitive improviser\, a compelling performer and a weaver of musical spells.\nThe spine supporting this body of work is songwriting\, though\, and it is to this most natural combination of words and music that she always returns. If prose writing is a tool for analysis and working out what we think\, because of the emotional dimension music introduces\, songwriting is a tool for working out how we feel. \nK I N \, her newest album\, is a collection of songs written during and partly in response to the pandemic and the relative isolation it plunged us into. Kraus dives into deep explorations of themes of kinship with other humans as well as the natural world\, and of what happens when those kinship bonds are severed or abused. Sonically the album is on a continuum with her previous solo album\, Joy’s Reflection is Sorrow\, with its layered synths and recorders\, and sits somewhere in the space between Jane Weaver’s electronica and the psych/folk of bands like The Left Outsides\, Modern Studies. \nFINALLY and with great pride\, we will be performing a late show of Paul A Green’s play THE MAGUS OF KLOOK’S KLEEK (Recently published by Scarlet Imprint in a collection entitled BABLON & OTHER PLAYS) . Paul Green grew up in London and studied at Oxford and the University of British Columbia. Magickal techniques are central to his writing practice\, which is ultimately an exploratory process. Thus his pursuit of the arcana of magic and the enigmas of esoterica is exemplified not only in Babalon and Other Plays but in poetry\, as in his collection The Gestaltbunker (Shearsman 2012) and in such novels as The Qliphoth (Libros Libertad 2007) and Beneath the Pleasure Zones (Mandrake of Oxford 2014). \nHe has made radio documentaries on aspects of the occult and paranormal featuring Colin Wilson\, Francis X. King\, and Iain Sinclair\, among others; while the plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3\, CBC Canada\, RTE Ireland and Resonance FM and have been staged by Travesty Theatre and New Theatre Works. He has performed or presented at many venues\, most recently at the Final Academy\, Magickal Arte Bristol\, the Moot with No Name\, the Electric Palace Hastings and St Augustine’s Tower in Hackney. He has especially enjoyed collaborations whether with musicians like the late Vincent Crane or with the artist Jeremy Welsh\, creating video poems like The Slow Learning and Radial City. He now lives in Hastings. \nFILMS HAPPILY RECEIVED AND SHOWN. GET IN TOUCH WITH nick@thepeerhat.com AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/manchester-folk-horror-festival-v/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230203T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230203T230000
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SUMMARY:Abattoir Blues Records Presents: Hot Pink Sewage / The Battery Farm / Dead Raze
DESCRIPTION:Abattoir Blues Records presents:\nHOT PINK SEWAGE:\nTrashy\, thrashy\, gimp glam punk gods from Blackpool\nTHE BATTERY FARM\nGutter punk pioneers from Manchester\nDEAD RAZE\nIrish\, scouse swamp blues garage punk\nAt The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE. Doors 7.30 pm. £8 adv. £10 on the door
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/abattoir-blues-records-presents-hot-pink-sewage-the-battery-farm-dead-raze/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, 14-16 Faraday Street\, Manchester\, M1 1BE\, United Kingdom
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