Dead Space Chamber Music / Futures We Lost / Slow Knife
Schedule
Sun, 13 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Peer Hat | Manchester, EN
Join us as we return to The Peer Hat, we can't wait to meet you again, Manchester!DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC (DSCM) are a gothic / experimental / doom band from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shape-shifting them into new and varied contemporary works. Incorporating improvisation and use of 'found sounds', and with vocals spanning medieval Middle English, Latin and Welsh, they blend elements of dark ambient, post-industrial, avant-classical, sacred chant and dark-folk in their powerful and atmospheric music.
DSCM founded the award winning independent live event series Dark Alchemy in 2017, playing and hosting other artists in crypts and churches. They are earning increasing acclaim for their compelling and ceremonial live shows having to date shared bills with The Danse Society, Cold in Berlin, Nero Kane (IT), Maud the Moth, Hawthonn, Kariti (IT/RUS), Khost, Deep Cross (USA), Some Became Hollow Tubes (members of thisquietarmy & Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Kate Arnold, Bonnacons of Doom, Nocturnal Emissions and Rose McDowell amongst others. They have toured the UK with internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail, and with hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten & Danielle de Picciotto of Crime and the City Solution). They have also collaborated creatively with several of these artists.
In 2023 DSCM’s “atmospheric and traditional choral reinterpretations” were referenced amongst contemporary gothic-tinged bands of note in the final chapter of John Robb’s book ‘The Art of Darkness - The History of Goth’. In 2024 DSCM played their first festival set at Ritual Union Festival, Bristol, and began playing DJ sets for Dark Alchemy’s new experimental / industrial / dark ambient club night, THROB.
Personnel for this show: Tom Bush (guitar), Liz Muir (cello), Ekaterina Samarkina (drums / percussion) and Ellen Southern (voice, psaltery, percussion & found sounds).
“Deeply storied and gloriously doomy…a mixture of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new” - The Quietus
“Compelling and totally genius. DSCM somehow combine neo-classical with moments of opera with musique concrete and medieval themes…confronting and embodying many emotions, from the boldly visceral to the melancholic with an edge of eerie. This is no normal performance and no normal group. It’s like the soundtrack to the best film you’ve never seen and a thrilling journey into painting with sound.” - John Robb, Louder Than War, UK
“The Black Hours is a record that wipes out everything else, 9/10” - Grind On The Road (IT)
https://dscm.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-hours
Mailing list and more: https://linktr.ee/deadspacechambermusic
FUTURES WE LOST is the dark post-industrial, cinematic techno soundscape of electronic artist and producer Doug Gordon. Rising from the ashes of 2020’s grief and inspired by the artist’s ancestral roots under the crumbling mills and industrial scars of the northern English landscape; this self-titled upcoming debut album explores these post-industrial graveyards and dystopian future visions through the lens of our present day neo technological horrors.
Sometimes a brutalist techno monolith to this mechanised slavery nightmare, sometimes a dark ambient soundtrack to the distortion and living death of our dreams. A sonic memorial to all those futures we lost…
“Examines the remnants of the industrial age in a post-industrial world” - Regen magazine
https://futureswelost.bandcamp.com/album/futures-we-lost
https://www.futureswelost.co.uk/
WITH SUPPORT FROM SLOW KNIFE (Manchester UK)
"Exactly what's needed to reinvigorate the lust for something sonically ferocious and lyrically frenzied. Gorgeous. Bizarre" - Lydia Lunch
"A vibrant and atmospheric melting pot of post-punk, noirish jazz, outright noise, post-rock, goth, no wave, and virtually everything inbetween" - JR Moores, author of Electric Wizzards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present
"The band seamlessly channel Tony Conrad while tapping into the structured chaos of Ornette Coleman" - Rhys Delany, Gigwise
https://allhailtheknife.bandcamp.com/
https://www.slowknifeband.com/
Where is it happening?
The Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester, M1 1, United Kingdom,Manchester, United Kingdom
