Happy Pride y’all! There will be a special message for Pride from The Irrepressibles this Friday 27th June, so here I am playing along to the viola part with the other strings, from Jamie’s new piece “What I am, Queer #WhatIamQueer #Pride # #viola #queer
We went all over with @patrickwolf ! Here are a few snaps! The wonderful @sophie.u.crawford , @rhumbaclub and I will be playing this Thursday 19th June at Rough Trade East 8pm for Patrick’s in store/signing for his beautiful new album Crying The Neck 🧡
❤️Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Skate LOVE for sure. Joker & Cookie aka @drip_squad_dc & @cookie_sk8goddess you are the best ❤️ THANK YOU for all the love and encouragement and for inspiring Chip to put his skates on 🛼Such amazing teachers 😍 We can’t wait to skate with you again 💖🛼 thanks @rollerouge for skate music #skatelove #barcelona #drip_squad_dc #skatelesson #love #skaterbooty
Posted @withregram • @fire_records A psychedelic haze filled the Earth Theatre on Saturday as we presented 14 of our acts to a packed, sold out, attentive audience to celebrate 40 years of the label, most of which have been spent in Hackney. The now-fully-restored Earth Theatre was itself derelict for 40 years, a concept that was lost on almost everyone but who cares? Long time fan and occasional collaborator, and peerless host, Stewart Lee sang Happy Birthday while staff old-and-new raided the backstage for beers. A good time was had by all. A video reel of archival music videos played between the bands and Chris from Innerstrings carried the whole night with mind blowing projections, even if the cameramen occasionally stepped in front of them as Chris Carr helped himself to another bottle of wine. But what of the acts themselves? The accomplished Josephine Foster temporarily discarded the psych-folk of old for a trip into dark-wave ambience and imported bands like Immaterial Possession (From Athens in Georgia) and Monde UFO (from California), who have yet to headline their own shows in England, commanded the large stage as if they had been doing it for years, while Bas Jan and Islet always feel at home in places like this. It’s criminal it doesn’t happen often enough. Film composer/genius Graham Reynolds connected the daytime and evening bills with liminal luminescence before a show-stopping collaboration with Italian musician Marta Del Grandi, topped only by her set that followed. Somewhere in between this members of the Dream Syndicate surely put on the best mid-afternoon matinee performance of the last four decades, which included a wonderful duet with Jane Weaver. Of the headliners there is no voice in music that can fill a room quite like Kristin Hersh, and Giant Sand returned to both form, and their first London show in years, with eccentric and emotional effect.
More to follow.
Hosted by Stewart Lee and curated by label boss James Nicholls
Projections by Innerstrings
Photos by Anete Lapsa
Vibes by Mr Gordo
@damejosephinefoster@mondeufo@immaterialpossession@b_a_s__j_a_n@grahamreynoldsmusic@martadelgrandi@kristinhersh@isletband
Bas Jan -Our last gig of 2023!! Back to the Swamp album Launch this Wednesday 29th Nov @twopalmshackney with the wonderful @clementinemarch !! We’d love to see you there!! Come and get swampy with us and I f you’re not sure what that means then you’ll have to come and find out!💚
