Amniotic is the solo guitar project of Sussex born artist Johannah Henderson. Emerging from the aesthetics of black metal, Amniotic has grown from a home-recording project into a distinct live experience; often stripped down to bare guitar and voice. Henderson explores her familiars as rather distant instruments, catching echoes of something that falls apart as […]

Hello, we are AntiAntEaterEater, we hail from the Stoke family tree of Owd Ear Recordings featuring members of Amateur Assassins and Pig Eyed Bandits. We are a two piece tying together acoustic and electric guitars with folky warblings and psychedelic (insert word here). Despite AntiAntEaterEater being a new project both of us have played and […]

Formed in Brighton 2007, “a kind of meteoric fireball, esp one that explodes”, Bolide will be following up the jam-in-the-woods with Thee Bald Knobbers at last year’s Supernormal with more guerrilla incursions onstage and off. Various permutations from members will crop up throughout the weekend – F. Ampism, Cal Mag, Infinite Gaaah, Dan Spicer, Xen […]

Spectacular explosions…crazed killer cyborgs…deadly martial arts duels. All this and more awaits you in this special action packed box office sensation! H P also does Occult Hand with Isabelle Brooks. My performance will consist of just myself playing a reel to reel with other assorted junk. Cruddy tape-loop wonk and stalk-and-slash vibes abound…

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As Ekca Liena, Daniel inflicts moody, sometimes enrapturing long form ambient / noise works onto the world. These contrast with a more conceptual, compositional style under his real name. His interest in conjuring melancholia, ritual, landscape, melody and intensity are key to his work and this defiant diversity has shaded him from the light of […]

Absurdist tape-addled musique concrete by way of a nightmarish metaphysical blizzard of kids TV shows, Burroughs-via-Pam-Ayres cut-ups and queasy psychedelia. Theatrical terror and abstract abandon with a suppurating squawk of palindromic power all its own.

At 10pm each night we will be ushering in an installment of our drone based environments to cool down the Church after the frantic wallop hop of the day. With plenty of musicians operating in this field forming part of the crew and other acts (Daniel W J Mackenzie / Ekca Liena, Eka Ekca, Orok, […]

Susurrations cellist Rebecca E Davies will perform one-note-cello-drone-time-travel during one of the morning drone yoga sessions and as an accompaniment to the after-hours silent film screenings..

Improvising sound-manipulation duo. Since meeting at Brighton Safehouse Collective in 2009, they have collaborated in a various quartets, internet radio sessions, live slide-show scores and a John Cage recital, but have only recently worked as a duo, performing at March Hare Crossover and Splitting the Atom events in Brighton earlier this year. Z*qhygoem formed his […]

Tribute to the seminal early art-punk band The Swell Maps.

Prepared guitar improvisations from Dave Campbell, former I’m Bring Good guitarist and drummer who is now moving mantle with drone doom machine Sloath, who are also performing elsewhere at the festival.

The alter-ego of the festival’s very own Kevin Nickells, curator for Bang The Bore here. Multi-instrumentalist, intellectual bon-viveur and a lynch-pin in the Knobbers crew. Emulating a crippled Shnittke via violin and guitar improvisations; portentious mewlings a must. , Expect flashes of invention interposed with fleeting snatches of pop/country classics we all know and hate. […]

HUH 5 PIN is the rare duo of Kevin Hough and Duncan Harrison. Though countless showings in various experimental, improvised and difficult musical projects can be tallied between the pair, HUH 5 PIN probably represents the most head scratching and extreme manifestation of each artist’s work. Little is known of the precise meaning of the […]

A mass improvised doom guitar fracas led by Kev Nickells, Tom Roberts and Graham Newbury.

The most stalled of all the Bolide warts performing this weekend. Expect damaged kit, chewed tape and possibly enlightening muffled hectoring.

Hailing from the rural suburbs of the Isle Of Wight, JS Lowax are a high energy instrumental experimental noise band with a DIY appetite. Formerly creating visceral ambient drone music and improvisations under the name Jupiter Sands, both drummer and brother guitar figures have developed their sound into meticulous compositions of irregular time signatures that […]

Joshua Legallienne is a Brighton-based guitarist exploring the elusive territory between silence and the barely audible. Operating primarily as a free improviser, he is interested in the spatial exploration of acoustic sounds through the steel string guitar. His live sets are wholly improvised – even the tuning of his instrument is decided instantaneously on stage […]

Another of Bolide’s brethren, here putting forward text / sound delirium, surprise correlations, plus accidental straight-face news mangling.

Psychedelic vocal machinations from Amateur Assassins front man.

When not providing hardware manipulated voice textures in Plurals, Dave performs as singer-songwriter Me With Others. With an extremely dynamic, equally powerful and delicate voice, he makes his way through often lengthy, progressive acoustic songs that shimmer with a genuinely heartfelt sincerity. Definitely appealing to fans of Frusciante, Buckley, Fahey and Martyn. Material has been […]

If you’re in the mood for a double dose of disgustingly abject and heavily amplified improv-racket that sounds like the mental processes of an elephant that’s just drunk an entire oil tanker full of meths and has fallen into an enormous quarry full of deadly snakes, then Mothers Of The Third Reich will be right […]

‘Big Kev’, as he is affectionately known, is both big and Kev, which makes a useful distinction from ‘Little Kev’ who is indeed (relative to Big Kev) little, and again, Kev, though with more Nickells that you can shake a dick at. Often seen at the prow of the bad ship Knobbers, Kev has also […]

Nil By Nose is a lone bedsit knob twiddler, sometimes he might twiddle his knobs in public. Best seen out of the corner of both eyes.

augmentation of nocturnal emissions seeping out of Sussex like a ritualistic study of religions long since passed into the realm of fetish, it was as if an occult hand had pointed them out to each other from the sky and brought forth daring jewels down the belted ear system. Welcome to the offshoots of Jupiter. […]

Nicholas Boon is a musician, producer, DJ and composer who combines live instruments, synthesis, sample manipulation and live ambient recordings to create lush musical textures. He has worked with groups of musicians in an experimental and improvised context on many occasions. He plays most plucked or strummed string instruments, percussion, keyboard instruments and uses his […]

Dave HS (Me With Others), Daniel W J Mackenzie (Ekca Liena) and Michael Neaves (One Man Team Dance), plus a loose network of live and recorded guests form the human body of Plurals, who will be returning to the festival this year in the Church of Chaos. 2011 saw them tour the UK with Canadian […]

Brutal scorched-earth psyche skronk from Medicine and Duty/Kellar/Black Neck Band of the Common Loon drummer Andy Pyne, Tom Roberts (Bolide) and Jason Williams (Mothers of the Third Reich).

Brutal electronics abuse by beard.

Reds is a Brighton based improvising collective who create free-sprawling, stoned epics. Formed from members of Sweet Williams, Sloath, Red River Dialect and more, they are an amorphous psychedelic beast that pulls on a circa 1970 Swedish heavy jam yarn. The Church of Chaos will provide a suitably skewed, yet cosy space to settle into […]

Inter-Bolide duo that says what the tin sounds like and sounds what the tin says like.

From the loving bosom of the wonderful Coach House venue and its host Sara-Jane Glendinning, the Sunset collective converse with the wind. Impetuous and organic.

Susurrations are the self-proclaimed ‘quietest band in Brighton.’ Consisting of cellist Rebecca E Davies, guitarist Joshua Legallienne and vocalist Ingrid Plum, they specialise in creating special performances that are both completely improvised and wholly unamplified. Shunning loudspeakers and microphones in favour of a purer, acoustic sound, they provide an intimacy rarely found outside the rehearsal […]

Former lynchpin of much loved Brighton post-punk group Charlottefield Tom House initiated Sweet Williams as a solo side project. Swiftly expanded into a four-piece, more band structure affair, they have distilled their signature sound into something akin to House’s former groups but with a woozy, grumbling lurch. Though this suggests aggression, an agitated calm permeates […]

The Reverend Cal-Mag Boron was born in the Nottingham branch of Holland & Barrett in 1996 via transmission into the mind of an individual unsuccessfully attempting to shoplift there whilst under the influence of LSD. The Reverend Cal-Mag Boron is committed to ‘progress’ and has attempted the indoctrination of others at various venues across Brighton […]

The masked and robed ones responsible for initiating this whole thing. With a line up that’s often decided, in part, last minute, unleashing both atrociously haphazard and irreverently incendiary live appearances, Thee Bald Knobbers are pretty committed to chaos in a sonic and a performance sense. Normally ending up a wheezing, shattered mess of drums, […]