Love Thy Neighbour

Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as "a tradition in himself." Musician, singer and songwriter, Andy has maintained his highly individual performing skills throughout his over 50-year career. From Sweeney's Men in the mid 60s, to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s, his duo with Paul Brady in the later 70s and then from Patrick Street to Mozaik, LAPD and Usher’s Island, Andy has been a world music pioneer and an icon for traditional music and musicians.

As a soloist, Andy fills the role of the archetypal troubadour with a show and a travelling lifestyle that reflect his lifelong influence, Woody Guthrie. To quote The Irish Times, "Often copied, never equalled", his repertoire consists of Irish traditional songs, dexterous Balkan dances and a compelling canon of his own self-penned songs.

This is an 14+ event

Andy Irvine

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Arthur McBride

Andy Irvine - Never Tire of the Road

Gigs

Brighton

Lewes Con Club

Ozric Tentacles are regarded as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 going on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals. The creative vision of multi-instrumentalist Ed Wynne, the Ozrics’ uniquely trippy soundscapes connect fans of progressive rock, psychedelia and dance music culture.

In the 1980s the band built a fan base on the festival circuit and made a series of cassette releases, sold at gigs and via a fan club. Their first label release was Pungent Effulgent in 1989, which was also re-released in the early 2000s, packaged with Strangeitude. This was followed by Erpland (1990), an album dedicated to Erp, a character who appears on many of the band's album artworks. 1991 saw the Strangeitude LP. The track "Sploosh!" was used by BMW in an advertising campaign and became the band's only single. By 1993 the band had grossed over three million dollars, and their Jurassic Shift album reached the top ten of the U.K. album charts.

The band has gone through many line-up changes, with only Ed Wynne (guitar and keyboards) maintaining a constant presence. The sonically illustrated excursion through the musical realms the band have explored has resulted in 17 albums to date, with their latest, Lotus Unfolding, released in their 40th anniversary year. The band maintain their identity and continue to tour worldwide and produce intriguing albums.

This is an 14+ event, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult

 Ozric Tentacles + System 7 

Chewier

System 7

Ozric Tentacles

Concorde 2

Immersion are Malka Spigel and Colin Newman best known for their work with Minimal Compact and Wire.

The project emerged in the early 1990s and has always prided itself on a diversity in approach and an ability to be both self-contained and a vehicle for collaboration. Recent work has seen Immersion collaborating with the likes of Tarwater, Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Scanner, Thor Harris, Cubzoa & SUSS in their ongoing Nanocluster seriesof events & albums.

The collaboration with SUSS took the form of a month long US tour in March / April 2025 as well as the album.

Malka & Colin will undertake their 2nd UK tour in as many years during October / November/ December 2025 in support of the new Immersion album WTF??.

This is an 18+ event

Hi-Fi pub is open Wednesday to Saturday, 4pm until late.

The live space is open whenever there is an event on. See listings for dates and times.

When are we open? 

Yes, the Hi-Fi pub is open to the public regardless of whether you have a ticket for a show in the live room.

Is the Hi-Fi pub open to the public? 

Can I reserve a table at the Hi-Fi pub? 

Immersion

Immersion & SUSS - In The Far Away

Immersion - In The Far Away

A L P H A B E T

How many bands have the career longevity to release ten albums? They might have been perilously close to falling apart on various occasions in their history, but the Dub Pistols have rolled with the punches and are now gearing up to release their tenth album in early 2025.

It’s been a long road travelled, full of twists and turns, but with their legion of faithful fans and numerous collaborators and friends the Dubs are in a better place now than they’ve ever been with a new album, their own festival, a documentary, a book and more international tours on the horizon. These renegade Pistoleros are unstoppable.

Dub Pistols

Dub Pistols & Ed Solo - Camberwell Carrot (Ed Solo Remix)

Dub Pistols - You'll Never Find

British ska band, Chainska Brassika, hit the UK road to bring its sounds to the live stage this Decembber

The World Reggae Champions will be playing their hard hitting ska anthems, blazing horn lines and laying down the classic geezer vocals - bringing their fresh, new wave version of classic British ska live to the stage.

A hot, sweaty dancing feast is guaranteed as Chainska Brassika promise to get the masses “bouncing from start to finish!”

ALPHABET

Chainska Brassika

Chainska Brassika - Bad Habits

Cubzoa, the solo project from Jack Wolter of Penelope Isles, today announces his debut solo album Unfold In The Sky due out 24th October via Bella Union and available to pre-order here. The album sees Jack fearlessly deep diving into a hook-lined, colour-saturated and sensation-soaked era. Imagine the one-man sonic universe of Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, laden with the electronic textures of Rival Consoles, then throw yourself headfirst into the waves of England’s South Coast, and you’re somewhere along the right lines. To accompany the announcement Cubzoa has shared lead single “Choke”, an expansive three-minute slice of summery dream-pop, lifted by retro string synths, in which Jack attempts to process the end of a ten-year relationship. The second verse of the song is beautifully sung by Nanna Schannong from Cubzoa’s labelmates Lowly.

My Precious Bunny is Lily of Penelope Isles new project. Jack says of it: With her debut coming out next year on Bella Union my lil sister, Lily, crafts undeniably beautiful songs: scenes of youth, love, and heartbreak, stitched together with toy synths, distorted acoustic guitar, and four-part harmonies. Built by a 7-piece rock band - MPB’s sound is sooo beautiful, yet Mega and will no defffo be a firm fixture in the Uk music scene next year! Search the internet for some demos.

Cubzoa + My Precious Bunny

Cubzoa - I Dreamed A Beach

My Precious Bunny

Cubzoa

From the age of 9, John Otway knew he wanted to be a pop star. But even at that young age, having listened to his sister’s Beatles and Stones records, he knew he would never be able to do what they do. However, when his sister got the latest Bob Dylan album, he knew there was a place for him and he set about learning how to play guitar.

Otway had to wait until 1977 and the rise of punk before his dream of fame and fortune would finally become a reality. Having caught the eye of the producers of the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test, Otway’s performance on that show would grab the attention of the watching audience. Otway, ever the showman, decided to jump on to the amplifier of his colleague during a performance of Bob Lind’s Cheryl’s Going Home. (Un)fortunately for Otway, he misjudged his leap and sent Wild Willy Barrett’s amplifier tumbling as he crashed down straddling the box under the amp.

For more info www.johnotway.com

John Otway & His Band

Seagulls on Speed

John Otway - Ok Father Christmas

John Otway

Hardskin RULE, well they are very good.

Hailing from South London, Gipsy Hill in fact and featuring Johnny Takeaway, Fat Bob and Nosher (later replaced by Nipper) they appeared on the ‘Oi’scene in London in the mid 90’s with the debut album Hard Skins and Hard Cunts (on Helen Of Oi records). Followed by ‘Same Meat Different Gravy’ on Household Name Records.

They first featured on Damaged Goods on the Double 7” single The New Wave Of The Close Shave (Damgood 111) with 6 other bands including OiZONE OiASIS andUNION JOCK. This is long since sold out.

We released the great live album of the Hard Skin called Live And Loud And Skinhead (Damgood 167). It’s worth buying for the banter between the tracks alone.

Their second album came out ‘Same Meat – Different Gravy’ came out on Oisold Name records and a live Japanese CD came out last year.

Hard Skin: Final Tour

Hard Skin - 12 Bars of Gold

Hard Skin

The Hope & Ruin

Spencer Cullum and Hollow Hand combine playing a special set of each other's tracks as well as a first play of new material! They'll be joined by some special guests announced nearer the show date, this will be a very special evening, do not miss!

Spencer Cullum, the Nashville-based musician is a renowned pedal steel player. Releaseing on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label, his music is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting. Romford to Nashville is hardly the most well-trodden of paths,but for Spencer Cullum it was a way of getting to the essential heart of pedal steel, what was then and remains to this day his musical raison d'être. Growing up in the large East London town brought him early exposure to classic pub rock by way of his father such as Dr. Feelgood and Thin Lizzy, and farther-flung music by way of his mother, such as Talking Heads and Lou Reed. However, it was learning pedal steel from legendary English player B. J. Cole that set him on the path he still walks today. After touring with Nashville-based groups and hearing tales of "seasoned Nashville steel players", the young musician upped sticks and found a "nice little crowd of weirdos" in his chosen city.

Hollow Hand is Brighton-based songwriter and musician Max Kinghorn-Mills who is often joined by an array of friends and collaborators such as Tim Smith (Midlake, Harp), Spencer Cullum, Holly Macve, Ryan Pollie and Oliver Newton.

"Enchanting and melodic third from folk-rock voyager... Max Kinghorn-Mills casts quite a spell on his third Hollow Hand album" - Uncut 7/10

"Tapping a Zeitgeisty folk-horror vibe in the video for recent Byrdsian single Heaven Just Watched, and variously evoking everyone from Stealers Wheel to Jeff Lynne to Tom Petty, Hollow Hand is a shape-shifting beast." - Mojo, \*\*\*\*

Spencer Cullum X Hollow Hand

Spencer Cullum - Betwixt and Between

Spencer Cullum - To Be Blinkered

Hollow Hand

Spencer Cullum

The Prince Albert, Brighton

Niall McNamee is an Irish singer-songwriter and actor rapidly making a name for himself through his captivating songwriting and charismatic live performances.

“Passionate, thoughtful and full-blooded … traditional Irish heritage pushing into contemporary rock and pop territory.” American Songwriter

Niall Mcnamee

Niall McNamee - Clapham Wine

Niall McNamee

The Folklore Rooms

Naima Bock tours the UK this Autumn for a selection of intimate, stripped back shows in great venues around the UK. Her second album 'Below A Massive Dark Land' was released by Sub Pop in late 2024 to rave reviews from Uncut, Mojo, The Line of Best Fit, Clash and beyond.

This is an all ages show

Naima Bock

Naima Bock - Feed My Release

West Hill Hall

Carefully pushing the boundaries of what modern Irish folk can look and sound like, Junior Brother is an idiosyncratic, challenging, and richly lyrical singer/songwriter from Co. Kerry. His much-anticipated third album, The End is officially out now, via Strap Originals.

Following singles Take Guilt, Small Violence, Welcome To My Mountain and A Lot of Love, this album is set to be a defining release for Junior Brother.

The End is a deeply instinctive yet carefully considered response to the chaos of modern life, with Junior Brother weaving the recent years of upheaval into the eerie folklore of Fairy Forts. These ring-shaped earth mounds, scattered across the Irish countryside, are known to possess an energy that can bewilder, curse, or even lead the unwary astray. Stepping into one is to risk losing yourself—both physically and spiritually. To Junior Brother, this ancient folklore mirrors the disorienting reality of today’s world.

“The sound of the album is supposed to take the organic instruments of Irish traditional music and lift them somewhere else,” Junior Brother explains, “like the otherworldly Irish music sometimes heard from Fairy Forts at twilight on country roads, impossible to recreate upon hearing.” The End captures this essence, blending the raw textures of traditional Irish music with spectral, unearthly elements. https://juniorbrother.bandcamp.com/track/take-guilt

Junior Brother

Junior Brother - Big House

Mermaid Chunky. It’s all in a name, sometimes. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be.

Freya and Moina are two visual artists and musicians from Stroud and South London, places where they importantly found communities (Stroud’s SVA and the capital’s Total Refreshment Centre) of like minded people just as willing to chase down an idea to its possibly illogical conclusion. And it is in the collective and the idea of participation that Mermaid Chunky really clicks. Thisis a party, a collective dance, made all the better with more: people, ideas, layers, kick drums, recorders, saxophones, frogs.

You might be wondering how we, DFA Records, all the way over incynical Brooklyn, entered the picture. There was a day a few years ago, sun shining in full Springtime splendor, when James heard something while waiting for a coffee down the street from the office. It sounded simple yet deceptively complex: a dance track, but one where the one -that anchoring first beat in a measure -could be heard a thousand different ways. He Shazamd the song, and brought it back to the office, where we all listened to it about fifty times. It led to an invitation to open for LCD at Brixton Academy in 2022. Mermaid Chunky has also played alongside The Comet Is Coming, Alabaster Deplume, Snapped Ankles, and many others.

Mermaid Chunky

Mermaid Chunky - céilí

Mermaid Chunky - Céilí

Club Revenge

Irish musician Maria Somerville shared her second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, in April. A few months on from its release, Somerville now announces a brand new Luster (Remixes) EP, due 21 January.

In total, the EP gives six tracks off Somerville’s already mesmerizing, wind-swept record new life in fitting, and sometimes surprising ways via its enlisted cast of friends and collaborators (Seefeel, YHWH Nailgun, Fatshaudi, colle, Asa Nisi Masa & Oscar18, and Boris).

Alongside the announcement, today finds the release of three remix tracks off the EP — Seefeel’s slow-burning ‘Stonefly’ remix, where the track is extended over 7-minutes with crackling synths and whispered cosmological refrains; colle’s (Maya McGrory of Chanel Beads) ‘Projections’ remix, where she adds to the longing inherent of the single with delicately plucked strings and lightly swirling feedback; and Brisbane-based underground dream-pop artist Fatshaudi’s (aka Rachael Ryan) swooning and romantic remix of ‘Up’, where she takes the track to an even glossier, more atmospheric plane.

Maria Somerville

Spring

Maria Somerville - Garden

Green Door Store

“A proper folk singer” - Frank Turner

Beans on Toast hits the road with his full band and new album Kill Them with Kindness. Expect songs, stories, chaos and community in equal measure.The new record is up there with his finest work to date, bouncing between songs about the shitshow of planet earth and the fall of the establishment, to family life, planting trees, and the absurdities of modern living. The record was captured with his newfull band, who’ll bring it to life on stage alongside plenty of Beans on Toast classics.Every show is unique but always full of optimism, honesty and singalongs. His belief in positive change through kindness and his authentic folk style have made him a cult hero, and his passion is infectious. Step right up for a night of music, mischief and magic with Beans on Toast.

This is an 14+ event, under 16s must be accompanied by an 18+ adult

Beans on Toast

Beans on Toast - Watching the World Go By

Beans On Toast - Watching the World Go By

Beans On Toast

Heavenly are an indie pop band who released four critically acclaimed albums between 1991-1996, becoming key figures in the independent music scenes of both the UK and US through their associations with seminal labels Sarah Records and K Records. Highly influential on what has become known as “twee pop", they inspired generations of musicians with their perfect blend of punk energy and pop sensibility.

Originally forming in Oxford in 1989 from the ashes of legendary punk pop combo Talulah Gosh, Heavenly features Amelia Fletcher (vocals/guitar), Peter Momtchiloff (guitar), Robert Pursey (bass), Cathy Rogers (keyboards/vocals) and Ian Button (drums). Members of the indiepop scene in the UK and the burgeoning Riot Grrrl scene in the US, Heavenly created a unique blend of infectious melody and sharp-edged lyrics. The band’s original catalogue ran from jangly debut “Heavenly vs. Satan” (1991), through the harmony-rich “Le Jardin de Heavenly”(1992) and riot grrrl-influenced “The Decline and Fall of Heavenly” (1994), to the Britpop era “Operation Heavenly” (1996).

Heavenly reformed in 2023, after a 27 year hiatus. Amelia and Rob had been angrily approached by their daughters, wanting to know why their parents’ old songs were all over their TikTok timelines. Having established that this was not an algorithmic blip, and that there was genuine interest in their old songs, the band decided to play a few shows. Reunion shows in London, Paris, Madrid and New York sold out quickly, with both original Heavenly fans and a much younger audience clamouring to see the group live. Newly rejuvenated, the band started writing songs again. A new 7” single “Portland Town” was released in July 2025 and their fifth album comes out in February 2026. On their spring 2026 dates, the band will play songs from the band’s past career alongside tracks from the new album. This combination is important to the group. “If you’re just doing your old songs and nothing else, you’re almost like one of those cover bands—but of yourself. That would have felt pretty weird pretty quickly,” says Amelia Fletcher.

Their spring 2026 tour also marks three decades since the release of “Operation Heavenly.” The band had expected their fourth album to be their most successful but they never promoted it properly due to the death of original drummer Mathew Fletcher just before its release. Drummer Ian Button now completes the Heavenly line-up.

Heavenly

Heavenly - P.U.N.K. Girl

Sassyhiya

Brighton and Hove

Hope & Ruin

Announcing new album REAL WARMTH, coming September 19th, 2025.

Joan Shelley has long factored place into her recordings. For her self-titled album (2017) she landed in Chicago, at The Loft with Jeff Tweedy producing. In 2019 she went to Iceland, bringing along collaborators Nathan Salsburg and James Elkington to make Like The River Loves The Sea. The pandemic kept her close to home in Kentucky for The Spur (2022), but as a new batch of songs began to take shape in late 2024—and as Shelley and her family began settling into their new home in Michigan—she began searching for a place where she could record in the company of talented friends. Joan, with husband Nathan Salsburg and their 4-year-old, traveled to snowy Toronto, ON in the winter of 2025 to make a record with Ben Whiteley, friend and bassist for The Weather Station. Ben tapped his rich community musicians for the session, including drummer Philippe Melanson, saxophonist Karen Ng, singer/songwriters Doug Paisley and Tamara Lindeman, Matt Kelley, and Ken Whiteley. Joan’s partner, guitarist Nathan Salsburg, also appears. Toronto artist Heather Goodchild designed and painted the cover and inner sleeve.

Real Warmth is the follow-up to Shelley’s acclaimed 2022 album The Spur, a record praised by The New York Times, Pitchfork and The Guardian. It was deemed the #2 album of that year by Uncut Magazine and prompted MOJO to ask:" “Is Joan Shelley America’s most consistently exceptional songwriter? Right now, that does not seem like too much praise".”

Shelley has toured and performed with the likes of Richard Thompson, Wilco, Patty Griffin, Michael Hurley and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. She has been featured on the covers of Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and has appeared as a guest on WTF with Marc Maron, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and Later… with Jools Holland.

Joan Shelley

Cycle

Joan Shelley - The Fading

Bibi Club is the musical project of Adèle Trottier-Rivard on vocals and keyboard, and Nicolas Basque on guitar. They explore the liminal spectrum between the here and beyond, pointing to love, nature, and community as the unifying purpose. The duo now reveal themselves through avant-pop and electronic body music with elements of dark wave and neofolk, simultaneously borrowing from baroque sounds with harpsichords, trumpets, and ritual chants to be learned by heart. The pair named themselves “Bibi Club” for the discotheque in their living room, where their “bibis”—loved ones—come to dance.

On their third album, Amaro, Bibi Club invites us to brave the dark beasts that shadow us beneath the surface and devote ourselves to the therapeutic power of a fierce will to live. It explores the sensitive spectrum between the here and there, pointing to love, nature, and community as the unifying purpose. The songs draw a map of a world of its own, following the trajectory traced by the Bibis in recent years. Now out of the living room, we dance in a mental space overloaded with grief and fear in their rawest forms. Following the death of two loved ones in the last year, the mantra “I want to love, I want to live” resonates intensely in each melody; if the heart is a place that never dies, we must reach it as quickly as possible.

Inspired by memorable artistic encounters, tours with Blonde Redhead and Circuit desyeux, and a collaboration with Calvin Johnson, Bibi Club now reveals itself in avant-pop and electronic body music with elements of dark wave and neofolk, simultaneously borrowing from baroque sounds with harpsichords, trumpets, and ritual songs to be learned by heart. Supported by a caring community, including saxophonist and activist Dimitri Milbrun (George Sand) and singer-songwriter Helena Deland (A Different Light), Amaro allows Bibi Club to define itself in both intimate and collective terms.

Bibi Club

La Plage

Bibi Club - La terre

For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it. Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs (which he continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed \`Originals’ music documentary strand on BBC 2) -there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn’t played.

He’s a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

14+ only, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.

Martin Carthy

Martin Carthy - Ye Mariners All

For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it. Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs (which he continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed \`Originals' music documentary strand on BBC 2) -there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn't played.

He's a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

\`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all' Q Magazine

Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair

Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries.

As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad sinder Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.

To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, AMT & Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.

In 2016, 21 years since the group's founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the name. We now view the first 20 years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in Taiwan, etc).

During pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums (including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”.

Autumn 2022, Finally the group went to the first European tour after pandemic. Also 2023, they toured North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) in Spring and Autumn.

They have since toured the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and other countries. Founder member Cotton Casino is scheduled to return to the tour in 2026.

The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto (the founder member), Higashi Hiroshi (the founder member), Satoshima Nani, Jyonson Tsu and Sawano Shozo.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. :

Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru

Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, fishin’god

Jyonson Tsu : voice, guitar, bouzouki, midnight whislter

Satoshima Nani : drums, another dimension

Sawano Shozo : bass, hex man

with

Cotton Casino : voice, synthesizer

https://acidmotherstemple.bandcamp.com/

Acid Mothers Temple + Cotton + Casino

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Interplanetary Love

Acid Mothers Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Outer Space Part.1 (2022 Remastered Version)

I Am Voyager 1

Cotton Casino

Acid Mothers Temple

LOVE with Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee’s longest serving band set to tour the UK performing the classic songs from Love’s first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course the timeless Forever Changes.

2026 also marks the 60th anniversary of their debut album and the release of its follow-up Da Capo.This year Rhino will release a five-disc vinyl box set (containing the first four albums and a disc of rarities) with a liner essay written by David Fricke, formerly of Rolling Stone magazine.

This isn’t just a nostalgia trip –their shows are drawing in an increasingly younger audience as teens and students are discovering the timeless music produced by these 60s legends performed by a band that is truly on top of its game.

Joining Johnny Echols on stage is Baby Lemonade who from 1993 until Arthur’s death in 2006 performed as his band and became an essential part of the renaissance of LOVE’s music.This iteration of LOVE saw many sold-out tours, as well as back-to-back Glastonbury performances and an appearance on Later with Jools Holland.

LOVE is:

Johnny Echols: Guitar, Vocals

Rusty Squeezebox: Lead Vocals, Guitar

Mike Randle: Guitar, Vocals

David “Daddyo”:Green: Drums

James Nolte:Bass

This is an 14+ event, Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult 18+

Love

Alone Again Or - 2015 Remaster

Love - Alone Again Or

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete is the sonic partnership of Lorena Quintanilla and Alberto González, a duo originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, now based in Ensenada, Baja California. Since forming in 2011, they have forged a reputation as one of Latin America’s most vital and visionary acts—drifting from heavy psych into post-punk, noise, avant-pop, and electronic minimalism.

Their early albums On Welfare and Corruptible Faces caught the attention of the internationalpsych scene, leading to their signing with UK label Sonic Cathedral in 2013. From there, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete embarked on over a decade of relentless touring across Mexico, the US, UK, and Europe, performing at festivals including LEVITATION, SXSW, LiverpoolPsych Fest, NRMAL, and Hipnosis.

Over the years, their sound has morphed dramatically. From the hazy, swirling textures of Chambers and Balance, to the raw experimentalism of De Facto—which landed at #5 on Piccadilly Records’ Albums of the Year—the band has continuously pushed forward. Their sixth album Datura (2023) marked a radical shift: a concise, bass-driven post-punk statement that earned critical acclaim and placed #18 on Rolling Stone’s Best Spanish-Language Albums of the Year.

Lorelle’s collaborators over the years have included Emma Anderson (Lush), Pye Corner Audio, and Dälek, and their music has won admiration from icons like Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins. They’ve recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 6 (Marc Riley) and KEXP, further cementing their cult status. With lyrics that navigate the turmoil of modern life—cultural colonialism, political tension, sleepless nights, and emotional unrest—Lorelle Meets The Obsolete balance venture with confrontation. Their live shows are intense, incendiary experiences, driven by catharsis, distortion, and defiance. As they prepare to release their seventh album, the band continues to question, dismantle, and rebuild their own sound.

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Abyss of the Future

Sean Rowe is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and forager whose music carries the weight of timeless storytelling. Known for his commanding voice and raw emotional presence, NPR’s All Songs Considered praised Rowe’s vocals, saying, “He can just crush granite with that voice. It’s so powerful.” The Wall Street Journal described him as “as timeless as his approach, recalling the ecstatic intensity of late-’60s Van Morrison and the stark subtlety of late-era Johnny Cash.”

Rowe has released five full-length albums and multiple EPs, earning a reputation for songs that are both intimate and cinematic. His music has been featured across film and television, including NBC’s The Blacklist and Parenthood. His song “To Leave Something Behind” became a breakout moment when it closed Ben Affleck’s 2016 film The Accountant, going on to surpass 16 million streams on Spotify.

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To Leave Something Behind

Sean Rowe - To Leave Something Behind

In the music of Charlie Parr, there is a sincere conviction and earnest drive to create. The Minnesota-born guitarist, songwriter, and interpreter of traditional music has released 19 albums over two decades and has been known to perform up to 275 shows a year. Parr is a folk troubadour in the truest sense: taking to the road between shows, writing and rewriting songs as he plays, fueled by a belief that music is eternal and cannot be claimed or adequately explained. The bluesman poet pulls closely from the sights and sounds around him, his lyrical craftsmanship built by his influences. The sounds from his working-class upbringing—including Folkways legends such as Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie—imbue Parr’s music with stylistic echoes of blues and folk icons of decades past. Parr sees himself merely as a continuer of a folk tradition: “I feel like I stand on a lot of big shoulders,” he said in an interview. “I hope that I’ve brought a little bit of myself to the music.”

With a discography simultaneously transcendental in nature and grounded in roots music, Charlie Parr is the humble master of the 21st century folk tradition. Parr started recording in Duluth in 2002, where he lives today. Life in the port town on Lake Superior has a way of bleeding into his work the same way his childhood in Austin, Minnesota does. Parr self-released his debut album, Criminals and Sinners, and did the same for his sophomore album 1922 (2002). With growing popularity abroad, Parr signed with Red House Records in 2015, where he recorded break-out albums Stumpjumper (2015) and Dog (2017). Parr’s music has an overwhelming sense of being present and mindful, and his sound is timeless.

Parr’s mastery of his craft is only more apparent when contextualized within the history of folk tradition of which Parr has dedicated his practice The land and lives around and intersecting with Parr have always influenced him, from the hills and valleys of Hollandale, Minnesota to the Depression-era stories from his father. Parr strives to listen to everything: “I don’t see that I’d ever be capable of creating anything if it weren’t for these inspirations and influences, books and music as well as the weather and random interactions with strangers and animals. So, the well never runs dry as long as my eyes and ears are open,” Parr said in a 2020 interview. Before he was even 10 years old Parr was rummaging through his father’s record collection—sometimes drawing dinosaurs on the vinyl sleeves—and listening to country, folk, and blues legends, many of whom are staples in the Folkways catalog. When Parr sings and plays his resonator or 12-string, you can hear influences like Mance Lipscomb, Charley Patton, Spider John Koerner, Rev. Gary Davis, and Dock Boggs. This is especially true in his playing, when, after a diagnosis of focal dystonia, Parr turned to greats like Davis, Doc Watson, and Booker White for two-finger picking inspiration. Gifted a 1965 Gibson B-45 12-string by his father, Parr has never had a formal lesson and learned by listening to records and watching musicians he admired.

Parr’s first album with Smithsonian Folkways, Last of Better Days Head (2021), foregrounded his lyrical craftsmanship and sophisticated bluesman confidence, with spare production highlighting Parr’s mastery of guitar and elevating his poetry. Last of Better Days Ahead is a portrait of how Parr saw the world in that moment, reflecting on time and memories that have passed while holding an enduring desire to be present. In his 2024 release, Little Sun, Parr weaves together stories celebrating music, community, and communing with nature. Putting forth an ambitious and raw album that exemplifies the best of Parr's sound: a blend of the blues and folk traditions he continues to carry with him and the steadfast originality of a poet.

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