**Art's Cool presents: Hailu Mergia**
Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo songbook melodies. At the age of 10, Mergia and his mother settled in Addis Ababa.
Mergia is known as a keyboardist, arranger, accordionist and bandleader. Mergia played with the Walias Band, an instrumental funk and jazz ensemble and fixture of the Addis Ababa hotel circuit. Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew released an LP album of instrumentals in 1977.
In 1981, Mergia and his Walias Band were part of the first ever US tour of an Ethiopian music group.They used this US tour to escape the dictatorial Mengistu Haile Mariam regime. Mariam was the President of Ethiopia between 1977 and 1991. The US tour took two years. Mergia and some members of the Walias Band decided to remain in the US. Mergia settled first in Virginia before making Washington DC his permanent home.  He is well known as a singing cab driver at the capital's Dulles Airport. Mergia, who has been playing his composed music privately, was rediscovered by the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, whose re-releases in the 2010s assisted him mount an effective late-career surge that resulted in the 2018 comeback album Lala Belu. 

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Elsewhere Margate

Hailu Mergia

Wede Harer Guzo

Hailu Mergia & The Walias - Tche Belew

Gigs

Margate

Elsewhere, Margate

Soundabout Promotions are pleased to bring Low Lying Sun to Elsewhere!

Essex based outfit, Low Lying Sun, a band of disparate musicians and artists, obsessively combine explosive guitars, weeping synths and pleading vocals to create a sense of euphoric melancholy. 

Bringing inflections from both sides of the Atlantic, they carve their own brand of alternative music, far greater than the sum of its parts. Low Lying Sun’s lyrics escape present disaster and search through nostalgia.

They invite listeners to rejoice in the time and love that they’ve wasted, providing a commentary of loss over the band’s ambitious instrumentation. 

Perhaps unintentionally, this visceral and earnest storytelling reflects the anxiety of the moment. 

The songs wrestle with the listeners emotions and allow them to indulge in their feelings, attempting to provide a certain cathartic narrative.

This is an 16+ event.

Low Lying Sun (+ The Circus Birds + Debdepan)

Low Lying Sun - Hymn To Say Goodbye

Low Lying Sun

Arts's Cool and Ramsgate Music Hall Present 
FEET 

Elsewhere 
27 May 2022
7:00pm 

This show has been selected as part of the This Must Be For You Community Ticket Fund, a new pay-it-forward ticket scheme.

This is an 16+ event

Feet

FEET

Drawing inspiration from the iconic discotheque Studio 54, **La Frette Disco** is a new party with an edge, a disregard for convention, a place where people can escape the chaotic reality of the current state of society and enter a new world, liberated from judgement and freed from pressure.

**Limited number of tickets for this event are FREE.**

DISCO ALL NIGHT LONG!

This event is 18+.

This is an 18+ event (Photo ID Required).

La Frette DISCO

**Art's Cool presents: Surfbort**
Originally perceived as a Brooklyn based punk band, SURFBORT is proving their cult cool translates coast to coast. Channeling inspiration from the 80’s punk scene to produce rousing, explosive music, their feedback strafed, guitar-shredding music says no to a digital age full of intolerance; they radiate love and friendship. All are welcome in the SURFBORT FREAK FAMILY!

This is an 18+ event

Surfbort

Hippie Vomit Inhaler

Witch Fever

**Art's Cool presents: Unschooling**
Leaving aside perhaps Crass or The Beach Boys, few bands can claim to sound like their namesakes. Unschooling, a freshly formed four-piece linking Rouen & Montréal, tick this box with style.
Students of art-rockers Women, these home-schooled egg-heads have thrown out the textbooks and put a deceptively mathematical brand of rock on the curriculum, where complex guitar lines flirt with lo-fi spontaneity.
Made up of ex-members of MNNQNS and other Rouennaise outfits, the four dunces have built their own Open University on the pillars of post-punk. The result is as noisy as it is sensitive. They’d still end up in the Dean's office if it wasn’t for a few shards of Pop propping up their grades from time to time though.

This show has been selected as part of the This Must Be For You Community Ticket Fund, a new pay-it-forward ticket scheme.


This is an 18+ event.

Unschooling

Originally from Tokyo, and now based in London, Anchorsong AKA Masaaki Yoshida is a highly-fêted producer, and solo live act, renowned for crafting immersive and rhythmic releases.
Anchorsong has become globally recognised for his unique live shows, which spectators have described as “like watching a painter drawing on a white canvas”. He creates electronic music entirely live using an MPC1000, right in front of the audience. While he mainly performs solo, he frequently augments this setup with a string quartet, for a genuinely spellbinding show.
Masaaki dug deep into the roots of 70s African music on ‘Ceremonial’, while taking inspiration from 70s and 80s Bollywood film soundtracks and traditional Indian percussion on ‘Cohesion’ – a psychedelic, danceable and free-spirited listen that blurs rhythm and melody.
Since his relocation from Tokyo to Europe, Anchorsong has supported artists such as Bonobo, Portico Quartet, DJ Krush, Daedelus, Jaga Jazzist, and performed at prestigious venues including Queen Elizabeth Hall and Camden Roundhouse in London.
‘Mirage’ is the fourth album from Anchorsong, a record that evokes hazy soundscapes constructed with wind instrumentals, choirs, and global sonic particles. Building on Anchorsong’s long-standing tradition of “borderless music”, ‘Mirage’ fuses intricate rhythms with minimal yet immersive lush interplays of sound to create an auditory odyssey.






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Reflective Hands Presents: Anchorsong

Anchorsong - The Ocean (feat. Bookend)

Anchorsong

Come Join Pickled, Elsewhere, Margate, For A Night Of Good People Dancing To Great House Music.

We’ll Be Warming Things Up In The Bar, From 8pm, Before Taking To The Basement 10pm Till 2am.

DJ’s On The Night Will Be;

Derrick Patterson
Mr Creepy
Acia Gaar
Randy Watson
KT Custard

£9 In Advance Or More On The Door.


This is an 18+ event

Pickled at Elsewhere

Scum Of Thanet Open Mic is back again!

Celebrating local talent within the realm of spoken word, music and the sale of art from local artists.

All profits from ticket sales donated to the wonderful @micommunitymargate 

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Scum of Thanet

Burger Boys Promotion presents an evening of music featuring;

All Better
Ode To Sleep

This is an 18+ event.

All Better

Jokers Song

"The Right Time - technically the debut from Ural Thomas and the Pain - shows a soul star happily still at his peak even as he nears 80." - Pop Matters

Universally recognized as one of the most exciting singers remaining from the original soul era, 82 year-old Ural Thomas and his band The Pain just released their third LP “Dancing Dimensions”. 

Thomas initially made his name in the 1960s with stone-cold soul classic releases like “Pain Is The Name of Your Game,” “Can You Dig It,” “Deep Soul,” and his 1964 recording debut with The Monterays “Push – Em Up”. 

After a musical journey that commenced in his native Portland, Oregon, and led to Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and New York, sharing stages with everyone from James Brown to Stevie Wonder to Otis Redding to Etta James, Thomas became disillusioned with the music business and returned home to the city of roses at the end of the decade – where he continues to reign as Portland’s uncontested Soul Brother Number One.



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Reflective Hands: Ural Thomas And  The Pain 

Ural Thomas and the Pain - Smoldering Fire

Ural Thomas & The Pain

After spending nearly a decade recording and touring with the collaborative psych rock band Quilt, Anna Fox Rochinski has completed her first solo record, Cherry.
You’ll notice immediately that Cherry is a total departure from Quilt. Over the last few years, Rochinski realized pop was the most authentic vehicle for her and unites her varied musical influences under its umbrella. As she puts it, “I lost interest in chord-based guitar music and constructed this record mostly from melodies and beats and bass lines, with guitar as an accessory rather than necessary ingredient. That said, I think all my ‘psych’ inclinations will always be there, too.”
There are changes in the lyrical approach as well. She sees it as a second-wave coming of age record. “It’s the most personal stuff I've ever written,” she says. “It's basically a break up album.
Though this is her first solo outing, Quilt released three full length records on Mexican Summer between 2011-2016 and toured North America and Europe . Quilt completed several headlining tours in bothcontinents, as well as opening on tour for bands such as The War On Drugs, Luna, and Woods.
Anna's songs have been licensed and used for sync placement extensively, most recently in Netflix's "You", and Quilt signed a publishing deal with Third Side Music in 2016. Their musicwas featured in many press outlets including NPR and Pitchfork, and was performed live on KEXP, Late Night with Carson Daly, and NPR's Tiny Desk.


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Reflective Hands Presents: Anna Fox Rockinski

Anna Fox Rochinski - Party Lines

Anna Fox Rochinski

Burger Boys Promotion presents an evening of music featuring;

Hit Like A Girl
I Feel Fine

This is an 18+ event.

Hit Like A Girl

Boardwalk

Hit Like A Girl - It's Always You

**Art's Cool presents: Mannequin Pussy**
At the start of 2020, everything was looking up for Mannequin Pussy. The Philadelphia punk band had released their third album, Patience, to abundant critical acclaim, and was touring steadily behind it. After nearly a decade of playing, the band finally had gotten the chance to turn music into a full-time occupation. And then, just as their career was lifting off, the world around them collapsed. COVID-19 reached the United States, rescinding life as many people knew it. Live music shut down. Mannequin Pussy had just played a final show in Chicago when the group had to cancel the remainder of their tour and travel back to their home city. For a while, it seemed like maybe the lull would be temporary, a brief pause before things could resume as they were. And then the numbers ballooned, and the months stretched on, and memories of rooms packed with strangers started to feel alien, dangerous even in imagination.
Mannequin Pussy's new Perfect EP bursts forth from those sprawling months of social isolation and internet-fueled anxiety. After spending most of the year apart from each other and everyone else in 2020, the members of the band -- Missy Dabice on lead vocals and guitar, Bear Regisford on bass, and Kaleen Reading on drums -- decided to book studio time and work together in person again. They brought two pre-written songs into the session, but opted to write new material together on the fly from the excitement of reunion. 

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Mannequin Pussy

Drunk II

Flying Moon In Space are a six-piece band from Leipzig, Germany borne out of live improvisations which are known to last hours at a time. Having clocked-up nearly fifty shows in their home-city alone, as well as support slots with The Holydrug Couple, Elephant Stone and The Sweet Release of Death and a couple of headline tours around Europe, the group have now signed to London-based label Fuzz Club for their self-titled debut LP. A shape-shifting blend of driving Krautrock aesthetics, vivid psychedelic pop and techno-indebted electronics, FlyingMoon In Space’s ambitious first full-length. Although they cite influences that span the likes of Can, Neu!, Brian Eno and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, ‘Flying Moon In Space’ is an album indebted to the band’s own experimental live approach more than anything else. Their improvised live shows typically see them perform with four guitars, bass, drums and vocals, resulting in huge walls of sound that are awash with hypnotic motorik beats and orchestral walls of reverb. Talking about the album, they say: “We gain our main influences during experimenting live with different rhythms, layers of sounds and other textures. The energy that comes up playing live with that amount of people takes our perception of music to another dimension. We developed the whole album during our live shows in 2019 so they really capture a certain moment for the band.” It is unsurprising, then, that the free-wheeling approach that Flying Moon In Spaceapplies to their growingly-notorious live performances has resulted in a record that charts numerous musical sensibilities and moods.
Support from Clusters Of Eyes.


This is an 18+ event.

Reflective Hands Presents: Flying Moon in Space 

Flying Moon in Space

**Art's Cool presents: Yama Warashi...**
Yoshino Shigihara came into 2019 needing a change. The Japanese artist had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct Maloya-influenced raucous psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui. She then blossomed on her own across an EP and two albums of more meditative but no less territorially transcendent records as Yama Warashi. As in her music, though, Yoshino has always had a sense of wanderlust and it was perhaps no surprise that she’d eventually want to move again – this time to London.

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Yama Warashi

Jyomon Doki Doki

Yama Warashi - Jyomon Doki Doki

**Art's Cool presents: Tonstartssbandht**
A few years ago, Bob Weir was telling a writer about his process, and how the notion of constantly becoming—of life being lived in a state of flux—doesn’t just apply to the ever-changing self, but to the things the self creates. Speaking of the song “Saint of Circumstance,” which he’d been playing live for 40 years, Weir said, “I’m just starting to scratch the surface of what I can do with that.” This idea of a song as a living, breathing thing, a liquid portrait that sloshes to the borders of whatever frame is fixed upon it, is at the center of Edwin and Andy White’s work as Tonstartssbandht. Through constant touring, the brothers’ songs both take shape and change shape, becoming something a little different every night as they explore the possibilities inherent within them. With time, attention, and intention, these songs—long, languid, full of open musical questions and temporary answers—become distinct objects, and the process begins again. On Petunia, the brothers’ 18th album and second for Mexican Summer, they bring us to the earliest moments of this process, showing off a barn full of hatchlings already decked with splendid plumage.

This is an 18+ event

Tonstartssbandht

5ft7

Reflective Hands is proud to present: Enablers + Local Bliss 01/09/22. (THE SHOW THAT NEVER HAPPENED IS HAPPENING) 

Enablers: 
Established in San Francisco, CA in 2002, Enablers' subsequent five LPs and four EPs have signaled a transcendent approach to “Spoken Word” music. The 2019 LP, Zones (Broken Clover, Lancashire & Somerset, and Exile on Mainstream) is a further example of Enablers’ push for musical expansion and growth. Zones represents a band that is increasingly more comfortable with experimentation and improvisation, while continuing to embrace all the musical elements that have established their sound for close to twenty years coming up to thirty.
Enablers comprize of Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant).
Having recently re-pressed a special anniversary edition of Output Negative Space on Human Worth as well as a new record being released through wrong speed records. Expect a plethora of their thrity years worth of material LIVE!!
NY Times best-selling author, Beth Lisick, in The SF Weekly described the band as, “visceral spoken word backed by perhaps the world’s best power trio.”
Support by Local Bliss.



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Enablers + Local Bliss

Career-Minded Individual

Enablers

**Art's Cool presents: Alabaster DePlume**
Gus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume, has a pocketful of phrases that he uses all the time whether he’s walking down the street or holding court with musicians and an audience. For a long time the Mancunian would tell anyone who’d listen that they were doing very well. More recently, it’s an other phrase which has a similar effect and which belies his unwavering commitment to personal vulnerability and collective politics: “Don’t forget you’re precious.”
A process that is people - first not product - first ensures that the music is unique; often gem - like. Alabaster DePlume’s songs are built on sonorous circular melodies and luminous tones that transmit calmness and generosity in warm waves – unless they’re raging against complacency and the everyday inhumanity of end times capitalism. Most importantly, he brings a valuable transparency to his work. “This is what I’m really doing,” he says. “I want to talk about why I’m doing this, and how I’m doing this.

This is an 18+ event

Alabaster DePlume

Alabaster dePlume

Margate-based Night Works (solo moniker of Metronomy & Christine and the Queens collaborator Gabriel Stebbing) is thrilled to unveil his sophomore LP ‘Tongue & Groove’ at Elsewhere on the day of its release via new label 21CC.

The album is a journey through a kaleidoscope of musical influences ranging from sunshine 70s California singer-songwriter pop to Steely Dan, D’Angelo, Soul II Soul & the far-out deep cuts from Paul McCartney’s solo discography. Opening with the powerful voice of writer Ursula K le Guin, intoning on the power of words to affect societal change, this is no ordinary listen

Its creation was an epic, pandemic-interrupted peregrination taking in sessions in Paris (where the cigarette-stained keys of Serge Gainsbourg’s Steinway graced the tape), London and of course Margate

It’s here by the sea that the record had its genesis, and its final completion with the writing and recording of single ‘Good love’, which saw its radio debut on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music show on 4 May

Produced by Margate-based James Greenwood (Daniel Avery/Kelly Lee Owens/Foxes), the album is one worth waiting for and this launch show promises to be very special. The first 25 ticket/LP bundles purchased will receive a special limited-edition version of the vinyl album with a sleeve hand-drawn by Gabriel. Vinyl to be collected in-store on the day of show.


This is an 18+ event (Photo I.D required)

Night Works / album release show

Night Works - Good Love

Night Works - A Friend Indeed

Night Works

**Art's Cool presents: Regressive Left**
In dark, troubling times, maybe the most instantly gratifying solace one can seek is a wittily barbed diagnosis of the situation. “The fox has his den. The bee has his hive. The stoat … his stoat-hole,” Stewart Lee once remarked: “But only man chooses to make his nest in an investment opportunity.” Caustic retorts like this are what fuel the debut EP by dance-punk outfit Regressive Left, ‘On The Wrong Side of History’. For pervading through their dynamic and glitching music is a duty to report unflinchingly society’s ills. They are a staunchly political group, but far from your average po-faced by-numbers punk band. There is a gristly social commentary at the band’s core, but the songs themselves are characterised by a need to have fun, to find some kind of solace and escapism from the inevitable rapture.

This is an 18+ event

Regressive Left

Cream Militia

Regressive Left - Eternal Returns

**Soundabout Promotions are delighted to bring Peaness to Elsewhere!**

Formed late 2014 in Chester university digs, the three-piece band Peaness write catchy, fuzzy, harmony driven indie-pop songs about love, friendship, frustrations, Brexit and food waste.
The trio have been playing together since summer 2015, and their fun, friendships fuelled live performancses have been winning the hearts and minds of people up and down the country. They have secured nationwide and international shows with bands such as The Beths, Kero Kero Bonito, The Cribs, We Are Scientists, The Big Moon & Dream Wife.  The band have strong roots in the DIY scene, self-releasing their first EP ‘No Fun’, and releasing their critically acclaimed EP ‘Are You Sure?’ with UK independent label royalty Alcopop! They often make their own music videos, have close creative friends doing press shots and art work, and even have their mum’s making handmade squeaky peas for merchandise.

This is an 16+ event

Peaness

Peaness - How I'm Feeling

**Art's Cool presents: Plastic Mermaids**
They’re surfers, they build their own effects pedals and they once sketched out the designs for a synthesiser played entirely by pigeons – but on their second full-length album, the endlessly inventive Isle Of Wight five-piece Plastic Mermaids are facing their dark side.
At the heart of Plastic Mermaids is the creative force of two brothers, Douglas and Jamie Richards, sons of a Gurnard boat-builder, who approach life like an art project, putting as much love into their band’s visual concepts and staging as they have into their unique brand of psych-rock and electronica.

This is an 18+ event.

Plastic Mermaids

Plastic Mermaids - Drømtorp

The Districts • Listen >>  https://thedistrictsband.bandcamp.com/album/great-american-painting
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