MINIBEAST w/ Mean Habit / Lud at Slim's

Name: MINIBEAST w/ Mean Habit / Lud at Slim's
Start: 2025-10-22T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Slim's Downtown

Schedule

Wed, 22 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Slim's Downtown | Raleigh, NC

—andmoreagain presents—
Minibeast
w/ Mean Habit & Lud
at Slim's
Raleigh, NC
doors 7:30pm // show 8pm
$12 adv // $15 day of show
Tickets on sale now
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MINIBEAST
Minibeast is a three-piece band comprised of Peter Prescott (formerly of Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized) playing guitar, keys, noises (mouth & other) & the mind bending rhythm section of Keith Seidel on drums n' percussion and Niels LaWhite on bass. It's liquid music...always moving. They gratefully accept influences from Fela Kuti, Can, and the Stooges.
BIRTH + EVOLUTION.................
Around the time that Mission Of Burma was winding down it's 13 year reunion run[?!!], I
started to do 8-track bedroom recordings, mostly angular instrumentals with bass/drum loops and ghostly samples. That became the first Minibeast LP, Look, Don’t Look. The first group put together to play this stuff live were great players from my new adopted home [providence,r.i.], but the group was not jelling yet............so we disbanded and I recorded another solo minibeaster, Free Will. The first one was a blueprint and this was more hi-fi and thought out. another live version popped up that had some mojo [Adam Autry and Eric Baylies].........when Adam left, i stumbled into percussion monster, keith seidel, who i play with to this day. he was lured in by me name dropping names like fela, public image and the stooges. eric,keith and i recorded 2 full length records called ISM Volume Silver and ISM Volume Gold. the material was super rhythmic and wild, the sound kinda murky.increased touring,opening for post punk heroes like wire,gang of 4,and mike watt.eric left,enter neils la white, who riveted his minimalist bass throbs into the sound with amazing force. This led to On Ice, a stretched out 2 record set that sounded and felt just right. Drummer, Keith, is a graphic illustrator and has done most of the cover art since isms. we invited killer saxmen, russ gershon and dana colley, to add psycho sax sounds to On Ice, as well as new sounds and production help from an amazing engineer, guitarist and producer by the name of pete weiss. last year, we slowly but surely plowed through our newest record, The Maze Of Now, finished and released in January 2025................this year, Neils moved on and Pete Weiss moved in on his original instrument, bass guitar………and this is where we are at-solid as a throbbing rock.......................................a few notes about the minibeast modus operandi-we never play the same set the same way twice...............songs vary in length................i "play" guitar,keys,samples and voice...in my way.......................we do not believe live music should be a static experience. it should be celebratory,absurd,unpredicable and transcendent and we do everything we can do keep it that way.........the name comes from my nickname for our black cat, buddy. he observes quietly, but struts around like he is a lot bigger than he is. take that as you will!......................peter prescott.........................
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/0FkkyfJIIb70oDEblsAWWv
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MEAN HABIT
seething post-punk, palpable raw rage
・Listen: open.spotify.com/artist/1OV3lX40DvuAdymm1rsfv9
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LUD
Once described in a review as "the greatest band you’ll never hear,” Lud has continued to play/record/do their part for more than 30 years. They rarely play anywhere outside of the same clubs in Chapel Hill and Carrboro where they started.
The two founders, Bryon Settle and Kirk Ross, do guitar things. Bassist Sara Bell, who first recorded with Lud in 1996, joined full-time in 2009 followed by Tim Salemy, the newest member of the group, who is now in his 13th year on drums.
They practice in a converted barn outside of Hillsborough where they mostly either play space jams or talk about food. They have eight records so far. Some are online.
The latest collection is a rather angry set of songs recorded in 2024 called Music for Librarians. Last year, they also released Lud Country — Country & Folk Rock Favorites 1997-2020 and reissued 1997's Sparkling Rope.
・Listen: ludmusic.bandcamp.com