27 (undergroove/hydrahead)
MOTHER TRUCKER
HADDONFIELD ILLINOIS

27 is a hushed and intense guitar, vocal and experimental sample
based band. 27 is Ayal Naor, Maria Christopher, and Neil Coulon.
Ayal was a member of several heavy art/noise bands including Taang!
recording artists Spore. Maria was in the melodic noise band and
Sony recording artists Dirt Merchants. Neil is a
multi-instrumentalist contributing clarinet, drums and other
various percussion.
 Their debut ‘Songs From The Edge Of The Wing’ was issued on
Relapse in May 2001, while the vinyl was issued by Escape Artists
Records. ‘Animal Life’ was first issued by Kimchee Records and now
will be available for the first time in Europe on
Undergroove.

They supported Isis on their UK tour in 2003
 

http://www.27.vg/

Formed in October 2003 Mother Trucker is the creation of Charles
Butler (Guitar), Thomas Moffat (Bass), James Davison (Drums) and
Christopher Scrivens (Guitar). Mother Trucker have tried to
solidify a sound with an instrumental barrage of
stoner-metal/post-rock with swift structural changes throughout the
songs, chugging riffs, noodling/twiddling guitars and crushing
drums. Drawing influences from Kyuss, Mogwai, Black Sabbath and
many more.

“Anyone who can write such punishing riffs deserves success” –
Metal Hammer (Demo of the month)

http://www.purevolume.com/mothertrucker
http://www.myspace.com/mothetrucker

Haddonsfield Illinois – Goblin influenced 70’s horror film music,
slowed right down, giving it a very doomy feel (all done on synths
and a bass guitar) – complete with dialogue samples from such
films. Esquilax side project

ASVA (members of Burning Witch/Mr.Bungle)
MISTRESS
ATAVIST

Asva is blowing through
town and taking the drone rock medium to new lows. Not your average
“doom” band, Asva’s saddlebags are filled with wooden chapel organs
and subharmonic drones. Their packs are stuffed with
electroacoustic sensibilities and hand-scribbled laments to the
alchemical stars – they rode through walls of electrostatic fuzz to
toll the mission bell on this side of the firmament – then they
smashed your piano to splinters just for the sound it makes. In
their wake nothing remains but tumbleweeds and twisters, dancing
pointlessly in ageless dusty darkness. Lead by former members of
SUNN 0))) and Burning Witch, the band features members of Secret
Chiefs 3, the Master Musicians of Bukkake, and Black Horse. Added
to the line-up of Asva was Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3 / Mr.
Bungle) on guitar.

http://www.dosfatales.com

Formed in Birmingham during 1999, MISTRESS have released two albums
to date  “Mistress” and “The Chronovisor”  to rave
reviews and have gigged with the likes of NAPALM DEATH, MAYHEM,
ELECTRIC WIZARD, BOLT THROWER and EXTREME NOISE TERROR. Their
hard-to-pin-down sound comes across as a sickening
sludge/grind/doom hybrid, reminsicent of the early U.K. grind scene
of the late ’80s and early ’90s, and has been described as “a vile
musical bastard, a bilious, screaming, snot-faced sludge orphan
with all the taste and decorum of a sexual encounter in Wormwood
Scrubbs.”

http://www.necronaut.tk/

Atavist formed in May/June 2004 in Manchester UK. We have got
Jamie “Boggy” Sykes Ex Burning Witch / Thorrs Hammer on drums. We
had one demo release ltd to #250 called 31:38 and have done tours
with SUNN O))), Ramesses, Esoteric, 5ives CRP, Unearthly Trance,
Moss, Indesinence, the end, transmission 0…. We have a self
titled album coming out in late 2005 via INVADA records (gonga,
ramesses, the heads) who are owned by members of portishead.
 http://www.atavist.co.uk/atavist.html

DAS OATH (coalition)
PANTHERS (City Slang!)
KNIVES
SEDUCEDWOMANDEAD

Unfortunatley this show has been cancelled due to the European
agent f*cking up dates, and so now the bands are playing in London
instead…

Ben Javens Current State- Jane Anderson Joanne Bannister Endfile-
Kate Pemberton Keith Burns Log Roper Si Peplow The Outcrowd
Collective Tsz Wan

A showcase of Birmingham’s new generation of Contemporary creatives” Birmingham is changing, culturally evolving from within, no longer the grey mechanised industrial heart of the midlands but a new, fresher, street savvy Metropolis. This metamorphosis is providing fertile ground for a new wave of confident, successful visual pioneers. Through the Creative Alliance’s After Hours Program, a group of these international freelance subversives have joined forces to show the rest of the UK what Birmingham is made of, bringing their eclectic styles and influences together for a week of exciting and inspiring exhibitions, dispelling some of the myths of our tired old city along the way.

This year’s SuperSonic Festival, staged in Birmingham, UK, at
the Custard Factory 8-9 July 2005. It’s a two-day event run by Lisa
Meyer and Jenny Moore of Capsule, the driving force behind the UK’s
most cutting-edge music events.

SuperSonic happens yearly and attracts a multitude of attention
from all corners of the UK and further afield – there really isn’t
another event like it in the UK that mixes such a prolific blend of
artists.

  “The Supersonic festival
at the Custard Factory was one of the most ambitious and eclectic I
have ever had the pleasure of playing at in the UK. The only thing
that I know of that compares would be Sonar in Barcelona for
diversity, setting, presentation and sheer love of
music.”

Strictly Kev – DJ FOOD

 Friday 8th of July
Capsule will join forces with legedary HOUSE OF GOD to bring two
rooms of the best Techno/D&B/Jungle mash-up with special guests
playing alongside HOG residents.

doors 9pm – 4am
Room one:
Surgeon

Paul
Damage

Sir
Real

Nicky
B

Harvey
Lane

Room two:
DJ
X

Shitmat (Planet Mu)
Chris Clark (Warp)

PCM
+ Capsule Girls Dj
set

Previous acts have included COIL . DJ FOOD .
LCD SOUND SYSTEM . THE BUG . V/VM . LUKE VIBERT . ZX SPECTRUM
ORCHESTRA . PRAM . SENOR COCONUT . SPEKTRUM . BRITISH MURDER BOYS –
Surgeon + Regis

check
here for SuperSonic 03

Saturday 9th
July
This year will see three stages of live
performances, art installations, film programme, video bingo,
karaoke and most importantly cake.
Doors 4pm – 4am
Outside stage:
Psychic
TV

Rother &
Moebius
(neu!/cluster/harmonia)

Granine + Stuart Braithwaite – Mogwai Dj
set

Dalek
(Ipecac)
Battles (Don
Caballero
/Helmet)

Jesu (Hydra Head ex
Godflesh)

Aereogramme
(Undergroove)

Esquilax

Theatre space:
*Merzbow vs Stephen O’Malley (Sunn
0)))/Khanate)

Brian Duffy and Modified Toy
Orchestra

Barbara Morgenstern + Robert
Lippok (To Rococo
Rot)

Black Galaxy vs Kreepa (ex Napalm
Death/Scorn)

*Martin Creed
+ His Band (Turner prize winner
2001)

*David
Cunningham

Sol_dat
PCM – special party set

Medicine Bar:
Trevor
Jackson

Colder
(Output)

Noise Noise
Alore!

Formation Flight

Granine +
Stuart Braithwaite – Mogwai Dj
set

Tunng (Static
Caravan)

Khonnor (Type
Records)

‘dotb on ice’ featuring live performances in an ice cream van from
Dreams of Tall Buildings/PCM
Commissioned by Capsule and Wolverhampton  Art Gallery
* Performancespresented  in collaboration with the Ikon
Gallery

Film programme by
7inch
cinema

Tickets are now also available from :
Swordfish Record Shop – Birmingham
Polar Bear – Kings Heath
Jibbering Records – Moseley

Old Skool Daze – Selly Oak  08707 544 445 (credit card
booking)
http://www.seetickets.com

Friday £7
Saturday £20
Combined Friday/Saturday £25

Cheapest hotel is IBIS – Ladywell Walk . Birmingham £52 for a twin
room
http://www.ibishotel.com/

In 1996 Wolf Eyes begins life as a single individual residing somewhere in the sprawling Metro Detroit labyrinth. Nate Young is Wolf Eyes, generating noises with electronics, programming, voice and whatever instrument he can (re)construct. Aaron Dilloway releases a few near-extinct cassettes of this initial Wolf Eyes incarnation on his Hanson imprint then he joins the group full-time, generating noises with guitar, tapes, electronics, horns, mouth and whatever instrument lies within an arm’s reach. Wolf Eyes (as two) tour and record incessantly. A steady stream of quick-to-vanish cassettes, split LP’s, lathe-cut records, and CD-R’s, flows into the general population.

Black Galaxy features Nicholas Bullen whose abrasive work in Napalm Death initiated a new musical genre known as ‘Grindcore’ and later a member of the dark, isolationist and dub-influenced Scorn. In collaboration with Simon Mabbutt they fuse cold and alien galactic soundscapes with minimal warped bass and glacial rhythmic underpinnings to create nocturnal sonorities.

Esquilax are a shiny party plastic new wave avante-garde pop terror group -possessed by Devo, raised by Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

Rick Meyers
The Out Crowd
Wig + Rik Cooper
Kris Ludford (ideal skates)

A series of installations and exhibitions exploring the relationship between art & architecture created by Kris Ludford, Rick Myers, Wig Worland & Rik Cooper, The Outcrowd, Curated and presented by Capsule.

Space Raiders
Space Raiders is an installation of skate – able structures that look at the symbiotic relationship between skateboarders and architecture. Featuring a display of specially commissioned ramps and blocks designed to work both as functional skate pieces and aesthetic sculptural forms built in response to the surrounding architecture.

Capsule
Since 1999 the Capsule duo of Lisa Meyer and Jenny Moore have been busy transforming Birmingham from a cultural backwater to one of the most important ports-of-call on the international experimental music circuit. Champions of all things avant-garde Capsule present a year round programme of live music, events, and exhibitions working with artists such as Shepard Fairey (GIANT) and presenting exhibitions with Lodown Magazine from Berlin and UK Skate Label Unabomber featuring Pete Fowler, Adam Neat and Toby Patterson and many others. Capsule are also the brains behind Supersonic Festival which this year features act such as Psychic TV, Rother & Moebius and Trevor Jackson  – 8th & 9th July @ The Custard Factory Birmingham

Rick Myers – FootPrintsInTheSnow
An ongoing personal project charting the artist?s thought processes and creative connections. Rick Myers presents a collection of limited edition posters, screen prints and paper sculptures housed in a portable wooden museum.

http://www.footprintsinthesnow.co.uk/

The Out Crowd
Initially formed amongst a group of friends, skateboarders, illustrators, image-makers and lurkers. The out crowd has taken on an organic, parasitic growth form, spanning continents and breaking cultural boundaries as more raw creators mutate to survive.

For this exhibition the Outcrowd explore the relationship between cities and their architecture and the way in which skaters interpret these often mundane surroundings to find a more exciting perspective. The city is their playground and inspiration, but it is also their undoing and downfall; broken boards, broken bones and broken dreams. On each broken board are depicted ideas and dreams, taking the destruction and turning it into something hopeful and fun.

http://www.outcrowdcollective.com/

Wig Worland & Rik Cooper
Wig Worland had been documenting skateboarding for over 20 years, with pictures now published all over the world. Working in collaboration with Graphic Designer and Skateboarder Rik Cooper, the two have created a series of prints that capture the essence of the skateboarders reliance on architecture as their playground.

http://www.wigworland.com/

This project is happening during Architecture  Week and is a public celebration of contemporary architecture.
http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/

OXES (monitor records)
THE ARM
+ support

“This is amazing – make no mistake! Truly amazing. Not only is their name wrong, but their music is so wrong it HAS to be right… what can I say? This is perhaps the most post-modern rock’n’roll music that’s ever been made.”
– BBC Radio

“Eardrum-shattering, technically awesome math rock; listen and become the coolest outcast at your school.” –Alternative Press

Raised on the champion streets of Baltimore, the OXES have grown over the last several years to become one of the most innovative and exciting bands recording and touring today. Earning every penny, the OXES have been heralded by the likes of John Peel, Shellac, WIRE (the band), the British press, and fans abound. The best part is the OXES epidemic has only begun.

Combining the energy of three very talented musicians in a pyramid of extremism, moderation, and jokes, the OXES have created a tri-force of rock’n’roll fury.

To find out more check:
http://www.monitorrecords.com/FORTRESS-bands.html