Don’t let the name fool you: the members of psych rock group Barbican Estate didn’t actually grow up there – the Tokyo act are just big fans of Brutalist architecture. References to titans of art and culture are common for them, and they’ve cited the Beat Generation, William Blake, Greek mythology, and Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky as influences. “We seek to embody an art that is not limited by the concept of music,” said guitarist Kazuki Toneri.

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Barbican Estate

INFINITY FARM PRESENTS

BARBICAN ESTATE

SPEEDIAL

This is an 18+ event

Barbican Estate + Speedial

Speedial

Gigs

London

The Post Bar

THIS IS TMRW & KUSHIKATSU

PRESENTS

MON OCT 28TH

HARE AND HOUNDS 2

BARBICAN ESTATE

\+ GUESTS

DOORS: 7.30PM

TICKETS: £10

This is a 14+ event

Birmingham

The Hare & Hounds Birmingham

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳 / 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧.

𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐌𝐚̈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝!

𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐱 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞.

\*𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒\* @ 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐫, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧.

𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄:

𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐖𝐄):

\*𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬\*:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐱 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐉𝐏𝐍)

𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐖𝐄):

It is free rock. It is psych jazz. And it is even no wave noise rock. Eye Make The Horizon from Stockholm, Sweden are diving head first into the high energy swirls of musical risk taking, still being able to hold down a motorik groove that makes you want to dance.

The musicians of the band have been active in the Swedish scene of improvised music for many years and have played and cooperated with musicians such as Mats Gustafsson, Jim O´Rourke, Bo Hansson, Reine Fiske, David Stackenäs, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Terry Riley, JG Thirlwell, and Stina Nordenstam to name a few. Two members are also members of the well-established Swedish free rock/psych band Kungens Män.

Eye Make The Horizon have released two albums on Drone Rock Records (UK) and a third record is coming out in October 2024 on DRR in cooperation with the Swedish label Majestic Mountain Records.

Mats Dimming – Double Bass

Niklas Korssell – Drums

Gustav Nygren – Guitar & Saxophone

Mikael Tuominen – Guitar

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:

https://eyemakethehorizon.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/eyemakethehorizon https://www.instagram.com/eyemakethehorizon

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5uv0vJZzLGqQqvVDb0eowD

𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMbvNtkyWNwnHEmO_DDsZOA

https://youtu.be/HztGh3CpcgM?si=aPl696N0YWq26vPm

𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:

'The saxophone is bloodshot eyes and sweat stains feverish, the drums a trashcan symphony that never loses sight of the middle distance, while the guitar roils and rolls almost in another plane, barely anchored to the noise

being propagated here.' - 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐓, 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠

Opening track ‘Fever’ is a case in point… the first listen told me that there was something vaguely ‘Daydream Nation’ Sonic Youth going on here but, actually like that brilliant album, there was a heavy sonic meniscus on the top that needed to be overcome first.

Repeated listens have enabled me to dive into than and, once immersed, I began to get into the depth of the track and tap into its power… especially in the way that the guitar seems to freebase its way through. Then there is the sign of things to come when the more jazz-like elements kick in at the end. - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐱 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

The Jonny Halifax Invocation is a project orchestrated by Bethnal Green's filthiest psychedelic blues shaman. The one man skronk blues maelstrom of Honkeyfinger and the cosmic gospel fuzz of Jonny Halifax & The Howling Truth now mutate into the sprawling uncompromising free raga blues transcendentalism of The Invocation. The Invocation play out like a mind melting psychedelic western movie and feature an ever changing and evolving lineup of like-minded musicians.

Jonny Halifax is a primitivist free blues outsider, sonic shaman of the acid fuzzed lap steel guitar, demented blower of the howling harmonica of doom. The Jonny Halifax Invocation combines avant swamp blues heaviosity with kosmic free jazz experimentalism in a fluid collective of godless raag brut improvisations - sonic visions of an hallucinatory apocalyptic near future.

Inspired by Henry Flynt’s avant bluegrass experiments fusing country blues with eastern acoustic musical stylings, Spacemen 3’s contemporary sitar music, and the monolithic drone doom immersion of Sunn 0))). The blues are transmogrified, unhinged, reduced and re-imagined as intoxicating, trance-inducing, feedback-drenched noise paintings, along with live film projections.

The Jonny Halifax Invocation follows Jonny’s junkshop skronk blues one man band Honkeyfinger, and the Julian Cope endorsed gospel fuzz psychedelia of Jonny Halifax & The Howling Truth, whilst not forgetting his ambient drone metal side project; Deathenteredinerror. His musical CV also includes studio contributions to tracks by Andrew Weatherall’s Two Lone Swordsmen, UK metal behemoths Orange Goblin, Heck and Melting Hand.

Their debut EP 'Heavy Meditations' was released in 2021 on Greasy Noise, and their debut full length LP Acid Blüüs Räägs : Vol. 1 touched down on God Unknown Records in March 2022 and was followed by LP Acid Blüüs Räägs : Vol. 2 on the same label in April 2024, both relased to critical acclaim.

The band have picked up 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝟔 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 support and multiple radio airplays by DJ 𝐆𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐞.

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:

https://www.facebook.com/JonnyHalifaxInvocation

https://jonnyhalifaxinvocation.bandcamp.com/album/acid-bl-s-r-gs-vol-1

𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheJonnyHalifaxInvocation/videos

https://www.facebook.com/JonnyHalifaxInvocation/videos/221116140094103

𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:

“Shivering slabs of drone blues transcendentalism…Acid Blüüs Räägs : Vol. 1 is a burning junkyard of sheet metal blues… Hot stuff.

\- 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠! 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞

𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐉𝐏𝐍):

Barbican Estate formed in Tokyo in 2019 and consists of Kazuki Toneri (Gt, Sitar), Miri (Ba, Vo), and Koh Hamada (Dr, Percussion). They’ve consistently played shows in the Tokyo underground scene along with releasing an EP and 3 singles in 2020. They released their 1st album Way Down East in winter 2021. Barbican Estate uses drones, psychedelic soundscapes, driving rhythms, and vivid lyricism to create their massive sound.

The band's influences include Japanese psychedelic/noise rock, US experimental bands, classic film, as well as literary and architectural movements. From 2022, they moved to London, and are actively working mainly on live performances.

In June 2024, new new EP 'Viscum' was released on vinyl to critical acclaim with a headline release show at The Grace in London.

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:

https://linktr.ee/barbicanestateband

https://www.instagram.com/barbicanestateband

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064659580530

https://barbicanestate.bandcamp.com/album/viscum

𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬:

https://www.youtube.com/@barbicanestate9810/videos

This is an 18+ event. This venue has a strict No ID, No entry Policy. Physical government photo ID required, we do not accept photos or copies of ID’s.

𝐎𝐒𝐏 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐖𝐄) + 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐱 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞  (𝐉𝐏𝐍)

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