GRUBBS is best known for his work work with Gastr Del Sol ( with Jim O’Rourke), Bastro (with tortoises Buddy K Brown and John McEntire), The Red Krayola, Squirrelbait (with Britt Walford & Brian McMahon of Slint), and with the likes of Tony Conrad and Will Oldham.

THE TOQUES were formerly known as Buick 6. The Toques have got the harmonies, melodies and songs that will be sure to capture the wide open spaces of your heart. Whether as an acoustic foursome, or as a full-on electric band, The Toques captivate audiences with their heartfelt and beautiful sounds.

Capsule presents Unabomber’s first public celebration and show
of the underbelly of artists
involved at the company. Past, present and future will be
represented by the likes
of Pete Fowler, Toby Paterson, Adam Neate, Nick Taylor, Will
Sweeney, Tom Barwick,
Pete Hellicar, Harry, GFM, Darryl Smith, Wig Worland, Rich Holland,
Marjie De Hass, Foz,
Simon True.
Launch night
Kid 606
Banknotes
Uncle john + Whitelock

Capsule presents Unabomber’s first public celebration and show of the underbelly of artists involved at the company. Past, present and future will be represented by the likes of Pete Fowler, Toby Paterson, Adam Neate, Nick Taylor, Will Sweeney, Tom Barwick, Pete Hellicar, Harry, GFM, Darryl Smith, Wig Worland, Rich Holland, Marjie De Hass, Foz, Simon True.

As well as existing work at the show there will be new commissions from each of the artists. Unabomber is the best skateboard company since records began, run by skateboarders, for skateboarders. Through its history it has worked and been supported by some of Britain’s greatest artists. This is unabomber’s first chance to exhibit many of the workings that go on and celebrate the talent that has gone into making Unabomber the legend it now is.

95mm2 An exhibition of beer mat designs featuring:
Chris Drury – fingathing (uk)
Johnny Fu (uk)
Marok – lodown (germany)
Capsule Girls Lisa Meyer (uk)
Momoko (japan)
Mr scruff (uk)
Capsule Girls Jenny Moore (uk)

95mm2 Capsule presents 95mm2 a collection of 7specially commissioned beer mat designs, to be exhibited within the medicine bar Birmingham UK. The designs presented are influenced, and respond to, the everyday activity and traffic of the bar. The artists have all been selected with their individual relevance in mind, each are a reflection of the alternating activities and audiences that pass by and take place within the medicine bar. Simple designs from each artist have been reproduced as beer mats, a limited run of 5000 per design will be “exhibited” within the bar for at least one month. The Medicine Bar as an exhibition venue obviously provides physical restraints on the type of work that can be displayed. 95mm2 offers a creative response to exhibiting artworks in a non-gallery environment and to an audience that are not specifically arts related.

Sponsors: Carling/ Medicine Bar/ Different Drummer/ Lodown/ West Midlands Arts/ fingathing

CLOUDDEAD
REACHING QUIET
BOOM DIP & DOSEONE
RADIOINACTIVE

cLOUDDEAD
Three artists, ignoring the rules and doing what comes naturally without care to style or sales, cLOUDDEAD is the avant hip-hop coalition of Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam. Their schizophrenic compositions, uninhibited vocal stylings, ambient soundscapes, and polished live show have both impressed and baffled. Lifescuksdie has said their work is “as close as you can get to a description of what doing whippets sounds like.” Skater kids claim them as one of their own. Indie kids hear rock’s future in their music. Hiphop heads debate is it or isn’t it, and all the while cLOUDDEAD blazes forward without a map or a care. Not just a meeting of the minds, but a blending of three individuals into a new entity, cLOUDDEAD is Mush’s most abstract experiment of word and sound.

Radioinactive
The West Coast Work Force presents the legendary Radioinactive. By way of Los Angeles, Radio has set foot on stage with many ground breaking artists: Freestyle Fellowship, The Shape Shifters, Off Mexican Descent, The Coup, The Sugarhill Gang, and Afrika Bambaata. A poet in arms and true maintenance man of the underground terra, he has been putting out new music since the last president. From his days with Log Cabin (members include Eligh, MURS, and Scarub) to his underground classic ‘Fotractor’, Radio has infiltrated music collections around the world. More recently, his show stealing performance on the Celestial comp ‘Beneath The Surface’ has left ears wanton and himself in the 1999 Urb’s Next 100. Stopping at no cadence and fitting no particular mold, it’s time to unleash the rhythm of Radioinacive.

Reaching Quiet
ladies and gentlemen… need we say more? Never one to follow a trend, why? has developed a style that is wonderfully complimented by the disturbing sweetness of odd nosdam, a real Dr. Strange of sampling. The duo is 2/3 of cLOUDDEAD and sit partially accountable for the under-urban legend known as Greenthink: why? as a member and odd nosdam as uninvited guest. Their music collage uses everything within their reach to meld personality into off white noize. Whether performing or recording as a couple of touching rock stars from the catacombs of art school X, Reaching Quiet just is. Their poetry-to-beat is… a release… fresh water and air in the same breath… a gorgeous meltdown of sounds around you… Reaching Quiet… ladies and gentlemen… need we say more?

To Rococo Rot (Germany – Domino records)
Mike In Mono

TO ROCOCO ROT ‘s stated aim has always been the transfer of electronic music from the club to everyday life, in which music in its fleeting, non tangible form becomes something more concrete. They formed in 1995 when brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok were invited by the owner of a gallery, in which they were exhibiting their artwork, to record some music instead of providing a catalogue. Rising to the challenge, they invited bassist Stefan Schneider from up and coming DŸsseldorf based Kreidler to join them, and the result was their debut album, released by Kitty-Yo in late 1995

The new album sees TO ROCOCO ROT at their most accessible, weaving intricate melodies amongst intimate sounds, whilst maintaining the trademark warmth and elegance that has always lain deep at the heart of their sound.

Oxes
Solway Fifth
calvados Beam Trio

whoopee!!! let the party begin oxes are back in brum, for those of you who haven’t seen these guys in action now is your chance and for those of you whom had the pleasure before, you know what a fine night lies ahead. support comes from our favourite west brom kids solway fifth + brums finest three some calvados beam trio

Oxes are a trio which have risen from the twisted wreckage that is the city of Baltimore. Armed with matching day -g lo yellow shirts and construction – sign orange flex- fit trousers, cordless electric guitars, a stack of drums and lip-curling stage antics, they commence at once with their metallic atonal scapery and vicious backbeats, stretching their harmonic-tinged pick stabs and angular riffs into far-flung directions, yet retain enough resiliency to quickly recoil, redirect and charge headlong into a brick wall or two.

They do not wear protective headgear.

On stage, Oxes are to rock venues what hyperactive children are to daycare centres. They are the fury dressed in shortpants. The drummer refuses to sit still, stopping midbeat to readjust his shorts, or pausing to gawk at the audience. The guitarists go from posing on black boxes positioned at the front of the stage to wandering backstage and amongst the unsettled crowd, where they flawlessly transmit the rock to their amplifiers by remote.
These live antics, whatever their humourous intentions, should not detract from the serious rocking qualities of thier music. An Oxes song, for all its atonal riffs, abrupt changes, and crashing drums and mathematical tendencies, is not a mish mash of guitar licks, trig equations and drum solos. Oxes combine these tasty, virtuoso elements with fliud transitions, odd stops and starts, false endings, phony introductions, manic aggression, and considerable aplomb. Add feature

plaid
richard devine
chris clark
luke vibert
russell haswell

People Like Us aka Vicki Bennet
Andrea Parker
Tokyo Lucky Hole

“people like us is the work of vicki bennett, whose cd’s and lps
on Soleilmoon Recordings, Staalplaat and Audioview labels feature
her unique plunderphonic styling. Dadaist samplings and reshuffling
of cultural oddities from discarded LPs is a recurrent theme, as is
the use of intercepted radio broadcasts gutted and completely
recontextualised, There is an air of both humour and impending doom
within the work of PLU. From her first release in 1991, to her
latest project, the forthcoming “The THermos Explorer” on Hot Air
label, people like us has created or contributed to more than 25
cds and records as well as several collaborative releases and
numerous compliation tracks.”

To find out more check:
www.peoplelikeus.org

“Parker’s predilection for the dark and brooding has garnered
her a curious following amongst the electronic
underground”

“Andrea parkers “Kiss My Arp” album (Mo Wax,1999) was a stellar
marriage of orchestral, electro gurgling and cerebral minimalism.
She took a few piano and cello lessons in school and a Cubase
course in college, but studying music in a formal setting has not
been her preferred approach. “Primarily,” she admits, “it’s about
my ears.” Having an army of classic analog synths and a
self-curated library of sound effects at her command can only help.
She performed recently at the Women Take Centre Stage Festival in
London in early March, and is currently at work on the first
release for her new label, Touchin’ Bass.”

Tokyo lucky hole’s penny treats us to some musical delights
featuring awkward indie and japanese pop, accompanied by an
eccletic collection of found visuals.

A night cuarted by Capsule for the Fierce Festival To find out more
check:
www.fierce.info/