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Karma Sheen, an International Hindustani Classical Psychedelic rock group based in London. The band is spearheaded by Sameer Khan, who from a very young age had been exposed to the Hindustani classical music tradition of Pakistan. In particularly the Shaam Chaurasi Gharana (School of Thought). Soon after he began formal training from Ustaad Latafat Ali Khan, the master of the Khayal and Ghazal forms. With the help of his companions, they create an eclectic mix of 60's/70's psychedelia whilst over and under, runs through Hindustani classical sounds and Sufi inspired lyrics that complete the psychic fuzz toned sound that is Karma Sheen. Ready to deliver their music to the rest of the world, enticing the masses into psychedelic trips, deep bass driven rhythmic beats with a force and demand that calls to the mountain tops. Meet them there. Karma Sheen’s Raag and Roll sound effectively combines the energy, passion and devotion found in both Hindustani Classical music and Rock n Roll, with an energy that is carried into their live shows that just keeps getting better and better.

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Karma Sheen

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Stripnroll

Gigs

London

The Shacklewell Arms

Support from Fat Concubine + The Silence

Standing alone in the cold unforgiving north, militant DIY duo, northern noisemakers Polevaulter toil and labour to explore the limits of underground achievement. Known the country over for their hypnotic live performances home and away, the pair have built an interest from nothing few can argue with.

The wide sonic spectrum the two create is grounded in the marriage of seismic bass and thundering electronic beats, garnished with haunting loops and clips from the infinite spectrum of doomed culture. The words which are yelped and brayed atop the musical landscape are boastful, accusing, repellent and inviting, questioning and ridiculing masculinity, sexuality, toxic culture, the music industry and the miserable reality of England.

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Polevaulter, Fat Concubine & The Silence

Polevaulter - Room

Fat Concubine  

Polevaulter

The Silence

Mary Anne’s Polar Rig is a guitar/producer duo coming straight from the underground rock scene of Malmö, Sweden. With a sound heavily influenced by the 90’s scene as well as the new wave of female fronted rock, they play a sort of “fuzzed out” pop where the dynamic vocals together with the noisy jangly guitars are in focus.

MAPR take their name from a mining-station (now hotel) on the Arctic island of Svalbard, an identification that implies a little bit of toughness, an ability to take a few knocks and keep on rolling. You can certainly hear something of that in their sound – the Malmö duo, Malin Hofvander and Harald Ingvarsson, serve up rough-and-tumble rock and roll that can handle anything the world has to throw at it

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Mary Anne's Polar Rig

Mary Anne's Polar Rig - All I Need

snake eyes’ distinguishable sound is supercharged, having already mastered the fiery choruses, grungy riffs and catchy hollering britpop sensibilities. Aptly coined by the band as ‘grit pop’. Alongside mostly upbeat music, heffy’s lyrics hold the meaning of being kind and the freedom to express yourself no matter who you are. the visuals created by the band’s own Thomas Coe-Brooker, accompany the music with a story - always pleasing aesthetically with their scrappy, colourful, nostalgic style - think Wolf Alice, Nirvana, Blur and Pixies. snake eyes has noticeably ramped up their skill as a band in a very short space of time since launching in 2020, with the maturity of the songwriting and performance evident. Jim, Nicole and Brooker came out of lockdown hungry to slog away at as many live shows as they could - so far including a Music Venue Trust and National Lottery Revive Live co-headline tour with James and the Cold Gun. Plus, a host of support runs for Gender Roles, Delta Sleep, Sick Joy, Bad Nerves and UK album chart toppers Don Broco - on top of this selling out their headline record release show in Brighton in November 2021. snake eyes’ main goal is to forge a bond with like-minded people that find comfort and joy in their songs. We have only just scratched the surface with what the Brighton trio are capable of and they are looking to grow their reputation as a phenomenal live act to match the energy of their records and spread the word of grit pop everywhere.

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JaguarShoes Collective

snake eyes

The Victoria

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii play wild and weird apocalyptic lounge music - a twisted amalgamation of angular art rock and transgressive post-punk, transmitted directly from the heart of the forbidden zone.

ESOP's music is populated by grotesque imagery and vivid symbolism, drawing from artists across different mediums, such as Lynch, Dali, Bacon, Blake, Cronenberg, Jodorowsky, Mapplethorpe.

The band have received airplay on BBC Radio 6, Radio X and BBC Radio Bristol, and have won accolades such as: Best Local Band 2021 (The Bristol Gig Guide), and Best Band UK 2020 (LWM Awards).

Along with a tour planned for later in the year, 2022 sees ESOP playing Bigfoot Festival and supporting 80's legends JoBoxers.

FFO: Talking Heads, Pixies, Nick Cave, Gang of Four, The Fall, XTC, Roxy Music, Primus, Thee Oh Sees, Nina Hagen, Walt Disco, Viagra Boys.

"From the sublime to the profane..." - Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6

"...something thoroughly artful and agitated." - Destroy/Exist

"...some of the most chaotic, disconcerting, fun and positively danceable music of the year." - Independent Music News

"Very few people can pull off IDLES’ signature vitriol, or HMLTD’s glam romp, and combine it with a chaos all their own, but Erotic Secrets of Pompeii do that very well indeed. Gloriously, in fact." - Soundsphere Magazine

"Exquisitely visceral stuff, a bloody spotlit, guilt ridden series of askew dioramas of our sins that feel like a nucleic acidic stir of artists, and dark visionaries..." - American Pancake

"Like Gary Numan in a horror-filled nightmare jamming with Tom Waits and Franz Ferdinand." - Trust The Doc

"Deliciously Disturbing..." - Fresh on the Net

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Erotic Secrets of Pompeii

YUKE - Stranger Still

KILL, THE ICON!

YUKE

"Anti-authoritarian and resolutely individual, LibraLibra come bursting out of the traps at every opportunity, constructing these rattling, roaring blasts of sound.” - CLASH

“A constant experimentation in their sound that is intertwined with pristine pop hooks, it is impossible to pin LibraLibra‘s sound down, but it’s not hard to pinpoint the reassuring and inclusive feeling that permeates their music.” - The Punk Site, Hail Mary Review

A chaotic postmodern Frankenstein’s monster, LibraLibra sits simmering in the fractured space between art-pop and punk. From bursting house parties, to supporting Psychic TV at Heaven, to headlining the Brighton Dome, LibraLibra is a DIY collective with an uncompromising creative vision that holds up a cracked mirror to the chaos of modern life.

A Pandora’s box that first opened itself to the world in 2018, LibraLibra has continued to erode the stability of convention with each ambitious release. Founded by vocalist Beth Cannon (fresh off of a tour with Simon Raymond of the Cocteau Twins) & Producer/Drummer Joe Caple (CLT DRP, Lambrini Girls, The Physics House Band) the couple soon enlisted long time friends; multi-instrumentalist Guy Jones and virtuoso guitarist Daniel Martell to complete this genre-defying line-up, whose explosive videos & aesthetic are matched only by their visceral live performances.

Several weeks of working with producer SPACE (IDLES, Never Not Nothing, Jamie Lenman) saw the birth of their 2020 self-released debut EP ‘ Hail Mary’ championed by Melita Dennett from BBC Introducing The South and receiving praise from BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music. Fast-forward to the present day, their second EP ‘Modern Millennial’ was born. Incubated in the womb of a hysterectomy, mental collapses, breakups, loss, a global pandemic and existential dread, this self-produced release lays screaming in the operating theatre gasping its first breath. Through pain is growth, through death comes rebirth. LibraLibra are excited to bring their blemished child into the broken world. A collection of songs that serve as a soundtrack for the apocalypse. A hint at the limitless possibilities that are yet to come, whilst laying to bear the past that lead them here.

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LibraLibra

Lonely Girl

Hex Girlfriend

PleasureInc. is the genre-fluid musical brainchild of brothers Jesse and Louis Baker. Jaded with playing in indie bands, the Norwich based duo began formulating a new type of project in early 2021, creating music and visual content that reflected their love for hip hop, indie, pop, fashion, film and the 90s. Through aliases Kenny Pleasures and Jonny Silver, PleasureInc. project a playful perspective in their music, pulling sounds and attitudes from the likes of Blur, Beastie Boys, easy life and Tyler, The Creator. Character is key: PleasureInc. have it in droves.

It didn’t take long for the duo to gain attention from ears and eyes across the country. Harnessing the mystery of their brand, the brothers built a fast online and live following, selling out venues across the UK, including a packed House of Vans performance alongside Joey Valence & Brae in November 2022. Returning in March 2023 with their debut EP ‘For the Fun of It’, a focus on modern production techniques brings the duo closer to the hip-hop realm than previous releases: the title track (out 3rd February) channels the punky wit of Beastie Boys, whilst tracks like ‘What’s My Name; and ‘OBO.i’ point towards Blood Orange and Frank Ocean in their softer moments. The duo embark on a UK tour in March 2023 bringing the songs to life with their 5-piece band.

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PLEASUREINC.

Club.The.Mammoth. presents at The Shacklewell Arms on 25th March 2023...

A very special double headline show with two bands from the Big Scary Monsters roster.

Short Fictions

and

Other Half

\+ more tba!

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Short Fictions + Other Half

Other Half

Short Fictions

Genre-wise Swedish Agent Side Grinder has always existed in some kind of twilight zone. Deeply rooted in early electronic and industrial music as well as proto and post punk, their sound is driven by iterative, suggestive beats and sudden bursts of untamed ferocity — built on equal parts dissonant samples and elegant melodies.

Their upcoming album ‘Jack Vegas’, preceded by the single ‘Waiting Room’, will be out early 2023.

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Agent Side Grinder

This Is Us

Agent Side Grinder - Life in Advance

The Lower Third

“Melding post-punk” Clash Magazine

“Experimental punk” Gigwise

Portsmouth upstarts Hallan announce second EP ‘The Noise Of A Firing Gun’, set for release March 31st via Nice Swan Records (English Teacher, Sports Team, Courting), and share lead single ‘Unwomanly Face Of War’, out today (February 16th).

Partnering with the tastemaker label for their brand new record, the thrilling quartet are primed to build on acclaimed debut EP ‘Reporting Live From The Living Room Floor’, with their newest work seeing the band experiment with production elements and shift their gaze towards synthesised sounds of the ‘80s, whilst retaining their post-punk edge.

Detailing their frantic and jarring lead track, enigmatic frontman Conor Clements explained: “After an exploration into “The Unwomanly Face of War”, a book penned by Nobel Prize winning author Svetlana Alexievich, I discovered the real life stories of hundreds of female soldiers who endured horrors and loss during the Second World War. Having fought for the Soviet Union these women of Russia recount their memories and nightmares in honest detail, sharing their experiences on the front lines and back home.

‘Unwomanly Face Of War’ is written to remember the realities of a time not long ago and the sacrifices and efforts given by women of the past; it reminds us all to ensure above all else that no daughter or son need know the noise of a firing gun”.

Leaving the mundanity of the 21st century behind and turning to real-life events of the past, Hallan bring attention to the stories of historical individuals within their new EP. Having already attracted an array of acclaim throughout the press landscape (Loud & Quiet, The Line Of Best Fit, Dork, CRACK Magazine, Clash, Gigwise, The Forty-Five, Rough Trade), as well as supports with Sports Team, Porridge Radio and Pom Poko, and considerable BBC 6 Music playlist (Steve Lamacq) exposure, Hallan are readying themselves to hit the road this April for a full-scale UK tour, coinciding with their EP’s arrival.

Hallan’s ‘Unwomanly Face Of War’ is out February 16th via Nice Swan Records and will be available on all digital platforms.

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Hallan

Modern England

Hallan - Hands Up

Death and Vanilla return with ‘Flicker’, presenting their unique pop music that defies categorisation. Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve; ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises notwithstanding, they return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after assimilating dub reggae, the motorik spirals of Can, the modal meander of Philip Glass and The Cure’s dreamier pop sounds; plus the twice removed symphonic ambience of Spiritualized and Talking Heads under heavy manners from Brian Eno. By osmosis their period of transition since 2019’s much darker ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ has hatched new eclectic electronica anthems riddled with melody lines, and layered for lush love.

“Baroque pop through a dreampop filter.” The Guardian

Forming in Malmö, Sweden, Death And Vanilla gravitated towards vintage musical equipment; from vibraphone, organ and mellotron, to tremolo guitar and Moog synthesisers. Soaking up soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, listening to library music, kosmiche, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych, Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin were fashioned by the city’s austere industrial past and flat pack present, and all in the shadow of the Orsesund Bridge that links their dreamworld to mainland Europe and a darker reality.

“Deploying vintage instruments in their quest for melancholic utopia.” Electronic Sound

Death And Vanilla at once sound like everything is possible; but nothing else at all. There is a flicker of hope for everyone.

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Death And Vanilla

Death And Vanilla - Arcana

Death and Vanilla - Arcana

With supports tba!

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Cold Cave

Confetti

O2 Academy Islington

The Lottery Winners third studio album, Anxiety Replacement Therapy (A.R.T), is set to be released late in April. 2023 is set to be a mammoth year for the 4 piece band hailing from Leigh, Lancashire. Their unrivalled and astoundingly energetic live shows have already secured the band a plethora of main stage slots at the biggest festivals, two massive headline tours, support tours with Frank Turner and Kaiser Chiefs, as well as taking them even further afield, returning to the USA and Europe to various festivals and shows, after firmly and impressively making their mark in both territories last year.

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The Lottery Winners

The Lottery Winners - 21

Lafayette

Floral Image are a psychedelic pop band from the third-eye of Norwich, UK. Formed in 2019, their sound is the reincarnation of the summer sun which is spun in a perpetual party twilight. They harness the noise and drive of early 70’s psychedelic titans Hawkwind - with a bright helping of neo-psych acts such as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Tame Impala - whilst still incorporating an acid house groove underneath their bright and luscious melodies.

The band’s early demos were championed on BBC Introducing by both Huw Stephens and Jamz Supernova, featuring on the 2020 ‘Ones To Watch Show’ alongside Dry Cleaning and Porridge Radio. Following the release of their first singles including ‘Dial In’ and ‘Why I Leave’, they have sold out shows across the country, including supporting Triptides, Flamingods and Flying Moon In Space, where their live show has proven to spiral audiences into trancelike, grooving hedonism.

Join them in the neverending solstice. Forever.

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Floral Image

With members originating from The Netherlands, Spain and the UK, indie-rock three piece CIEL came together in Brighton on the South Coast of England. Drawing influence from the creative baggage of three countries' scenes - whilst not really feeling like they belong to any of them - CIEL’s music has a nagging yet fresh, dark and sometimes quietly glorious quality to it. Combining their love of fuzzy indie rock, goth and shoegaze, the band’s broody and gritty music is tempered by the soft, icy, but emotive melodies of singer Michelle Hindriks.

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CIEL

CIEL - Fine Everything

The Lexington

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This is a 16+ event.

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