We’re very excited to announce that everyone’s favourite slow and heavy band Harvey Milk will play the Hare & Hounds on Tuesday 22nd May. Capsule coaxed the band out of the States back in 2008 to perform their very first show in the UK and we’re thrilled to have them back.

Support acts to be announced shorty, in the meantime tickets are available here https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Before that, it’s all eyes on Friday and our very special show with Grouper. She will be performing her new piece ‘Violet Replacement’ with support from Diamond Catalog and a new piece by SWLLWS developed specially for this event. Admission includes entrance to the Fierce afterparty with live music from Harry Dawes Trio (featuring members of Pram and Juneau Brothers) and BOYD DJs into the wee hours. Doors are at 8pm, at VIVID. See you there!

Beautiful trailer for Esmerine’s upcoming tour:

Esmerine – May 2012 Tour from Constellation Records on Vimeo.

They perform in Birmingham on Saturday 12th May in the lovely location of St Paul’s Church. Tickets are available here

Hailing from Stourbridge near Birmingham, Adam Beckley uses field recordings and looped samples to create textures of sound, sometimes hypnotic noise, other times dreamy soundscapes.
Adam has released two tapes. The first called ‘Revere’ through the label ‘Carnage Club‘. The second and most recent release is a split tape with Los Angeles based musician Beru. This was put out on Adam’s own tape label ‘Armed Within Movement’ and is the first release for the label. You can listen to both these releases on the links below.

adambeckley.bandcamp.com
armedwithinmovement.bandcamp.com

Adam will support Esmerine in Birmingham on Saturday 12th May at St Paul’s Church. Tickets are available here

Excellent pictures from the Teeth of the Sea show at Hare & Hounds this month, by photography extraordinaire Katja Ogrin

Health & Efficiency

Victories at Sea

Teeth of the Sea

Photos from Panopticon to follow!

Diamond Catalog will support Grouper at her upcoming Birmingham show on Friday 30th March at VIVID, they make sound collages with a twisted groove. Their debut record has been released by NNA Tapes (Nate Young, Dylan Ettinger, Oneohtrix Point Never) who describe their record as the “sound of a distant rave in the midst of a disorienting drug spell, wading your way through the infinity of your mind’s own dark matter”.

Go here for more info and for tickets for this exciting show

The Quietus talk to fuzzed up, space rockers White Hills about their new record and influences

As a young kid I was all about San Francisco hippy bands but the biggest record that gave me my first proper mindfuck as a kid was P.I.L.’s Metal Box and that really set me off on the tangent. I then got into Juju-era Siouxsie And The Banshees and Bauhaus and that whole kinda

thing. Then I got into bands like The Telescopes and Thee Hypnotics, Loop, Spacemen 3 and that whole era

Read the full interview here

Thanks to all who came to see White Hills and Pontiak at Panopticon on Saturday. Part of Flatpack Festival (well done for another excellent festival guys!), it was a sold out event. Great bands, visuals and a lot of late night dancing – pictures will be posted up soon.

Both Panopticon and Secret Show sold out, so don’t miss out on our next show – Grouper performing new work at VIVID on Friday 31st March –

there are 4 live acts and DJs for only £8. Get your tickets here

Tickets for this much anticipated show have now sold out – but Fierce and Capsule are looking for volunteers to assist with the running of the event. Volunteers will need to be available 5.30pm – 10pm on Thursday 5th April and will receive free entry to Fierce’s Holy Mountain Party and Shabba Dabbah Dah, as well

as concessions on other festival tickets. If you’d like to volunteer, get in touch with [email protected]

Starts today and runs to Sunday 18th March. There’s exciting screenings and live events taking place across the city – find out more at http://www.flatpackfestival.org