QU = ACE. I’d trust them with my PIN. Keep a regular check on www.qujunktions.com for a seemingly neverending line up of dates for your diary. Micachu! Cartune Xprez! Staff Benda Bilili! You lucky pups. This here gig is a bit of a feast, and calling out one band would be like choosing which of your pets to shoot. Go to this instead.
DreamState (Bristol)
Gravenhurst / Es / James Brewster / Chris Forsyth / Balky Mule / Headfall / Silver Pyre / Ignatz / Ice Bird Spiral
with DJs David Hopkinson + Milky Way
A certain night-time liquidness can be heard in Bristol’s best musicians, it produces a homegrown music that walks through walls/genres. Tonight’s music alchemists either come from Bristol or have lived here others, in true dream style, have nothing to do with the city but appear with their own magic hour music.
DreamState (Bristol) features
GRAVENHURST (Warp) is a poet of blissed-out feedback and literary dark thought. He is Bristol’s Nick Drake via William Burroughs. Out there on his own. ES (Fonal) lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. Patchwork psychedelia, magical realism, found sounds and devotional song all combine. JAMES BREWSTER (aka Mole Harness) produces waves and waves of sublimely sequenced acoustica / electronica. CHRIS FORSYTH (Peeesseye/USA) has both a raw power and intuitive delicacy to his amazing solo acoustic/electric guitar playing. BALKY MULE (FatCat) sings easy, breezy and woozy English songs that just charm in a dreamy summer style. HEADFALL (Kino Space) melt lo-fi hiss and crackle, strung out instrumentals, edged out spoken word, and deep space grooves. SILVER PYRE (West Country) forges accordion, beats and live drums into rural anthems with an urban Detroit edge. IGNATZ (Belgium) beams in blues from another planet incorporating detuned guitar, slap back echo, howling vocals and swathes of feedback. ICE BIRD SPIRAL (Wiltshire) inhabit a Interzone somewhere between psychedelic-noise and old school Surrealism, where found-sound and automatic writing co-exist with rural car-boot mysticism.
