ROWF! ROWF! ROWF! 5
Sat 29th and Sun 30th August, 2009
Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW
Weekend tickets £15, Day tickets £10 from www.ticketline.co.uk
This year's festival is gonna be the sweetest yet, we hope. We already got some of our favourite noiseniks to commit, so we're reeeeaaaal psyched. Believe in...
Saturday
Motherfucking
Lyon based, tripped-out unit featuring Pascal Nichols on drums.
Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides
Sonic Youth supporting, warm-hearted, beautiful flute-and-drums duo.
Nackt Insecten
Glasgow based Sick Head Tapes honcho Ruaraidh Sanchan delivering Terry Riley infused psych drone of the highest order.
Bolide Awkwardstra
Brighton sextet who give us gonzo sizzling free improv. Reeds, tapes, percussion and vocal wail.
Hockyfrilla
Tonal, piercing, zone-out trance noise from Edinburgh's finest.
Blood Stereo
Chocolate Monk superstar Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance making crazed sound poetry and twisted electronics. Anyone who saw their set at the Dec '06 ATP knows this is gonna warp heads.
Usurper
Inspired Edinburghian makers of cracked, scraping, tonal sound-junk.
Helhesten
Grunts, squeals, clarinet drone, tapes and percussion from Upset The Rhythm's finest band.
Family Battle Snake
Bill Kouligas is a genius. With bizarre electronics, stabs of warped tone and an underlying hum of mum-vacuuming-style comfort, he creates joyful depth of drones to similarly joyful reactions.
Beach Fuzz
Dream action trio of Serfs' Tom Settle with GLR's own Fliss Horrocks and Nick Mitchell. You know the drill.
John Collin
Serfs member, guitar hero, slick operator. Get ready to be entertained slowwwwwly. Nothing Jo(h)n does is rushed. Every tone is fraught, essential, long. Recent stuff reminds us a lot of Scott Tuma's playing.
Sunday
Blues Control
OK, so they play guitar, drums and blues harp, but NYC residents Blues Control are fucking with you cuz they ain't blues. Their music's dripping globules of fuzz and puking lumps of dubbed-out echo, piercing yr eardrums and heating up yr dancing parts.
Tropa Macaca
Portugal's most revered noise unit, with sweet Terry Rileyisms and cascading patterns committed to LPs on QBICO and RubyRed and a new one due on the ever reliable Siltbreeze label.
Bridget Hayden
Former/sometime Vibracathedral Orchestra and sometime Sunburned Hand of the Man member, showing out some seriously deep slide guitar moves and epic head nod vibes.
Hathor Duo
Solar Fire Trio and Beach Fuzz members team-up, providing soaring sax and drums freakout.
Trinity
Manchester's answer to a beautiful, acid fried commune. Give these guys some beers and watch them collapse into a shambolic ecstatic, pulsating, bass-heavy, grooved-out power unit.
Stephanie Hladowski
Unbelievably from the present day and Bradford, no less, this is the voice of days and traditions long since obsolete from mainstream social function. Her 10" on Singing Knives is truly awesome.
Chora
Our second Sonic Youth supporting duo of the weekend, this time bringing us glorious clatter and wail drone gamelan.
Ross Parfitt
Sheffield based sound experimentor with a new tape due out on Lotus Birth, offering up palindromic experimentation with exquisite attention to detail.
Gnod
A shifting, Manchester based unit of K-hole cowboys, traversing the spaceways and nodding their heads to Sun Ra and Sunburned alike.
The Family Elan
Sunblushed fusion of folk musics from Chris Hladowski's glorious saz.
The line-up is now full. You can buy tickets from www.ticketline.co.uk or here:
Weekend tickets
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