Distant Listening, BDGR & A23a (Stages: At The Venues)

Name: Distant Listening, BDGR & A23a (Stages: At The Venues)
Start: 2025-09-27T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Pop Recs Ltd

Schedule

Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Pop Recs Ltd | Sunderland, EN

Independent Live and Stages presents an At The Venues promotion. Badger, Distant Listening and A23a. 3 Electronic performers from drum kit-triggered modular synths to spoken word.
A23a
Broken. Spoken. Words. And Sound.
Claire Robertson and Martin Christie rip spoken word into pieces and rebuild it as drifting sonic architecture. Claire’s performance art presence collides with Martin’s live sound-carving, turning poetry into fractured echoes and warped melody. More than a gig — it’s part ritual, part hallucination.
BDGR
Techno? Rock? Electro? Doom? Post-punk? The answer is yes.
BDGR (ex-Badger) are a two-piece wrecking ball smashing no-wave, IDM and industrial noise together with pint-glass philosophy. They’ve torn through UK and European stages, had tracks remixed by Andrew Fearn (Sleaford Mods), and picked up plays on BBC 6 Music, NTS and beyond. Their 2025 debut album A Gifted Kind of Stupor is a slab of controlled chaos — and live, it’s even harder, louder, and messier.
Distant Listening
Andrew Hodson (Warm Digits) got sick of waiting for a guitarist, so he built one. His bespoke synth follows his live drumming, spitting out techn- fuzz, granular glitches and free-jazz bursts as if possessed. It’s part Frankenstein machine, part futuristic dream, and every performance is a one-off detonation of rhythm and noise.