TBCxGZH19 A-Sun Amissa and Lauren Mason performing Water Scores

TBCxGZH19 - Tuesday 3rd March @ The Peer Hat, Manchester

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A-SUN AMISSA & LAUREN MASON performing Water Scores

In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges through deep ambience, crashing chaos and ebbing aftermath. 
During this new work Mason explores the curses of corporate extraction and pollution on our planet’s water, and listens in, as water speaks back. Mason is best known as bassist with now-defunct existential sludge band Torpor, where she often wove her spoken word pieces through heavy soundscapes. She has been developing her poetic practice for many years and published her first book ‘Rust Canyon’ in 2025. 
A-Sun Amissa are a group in a permanent state of metamorphosis, existing on the fringes of some kind of avant-rock, relentlessly pushing forward, shapeshifting and presenting their unique noise in new ways and on their own terms.  A sound underpinned and overlaid with drones, moving in and around a diverse chasm of post-rock, melancholic drone, noise, doom and ambient sounds.
This collaboration was born of a mutual love for each other’s creative output, an aligning of the political and the aesthetic.
After a hugely successful debut performance in November 2025 in Glossop for The Black Circle, Water Scores will be taken on the road in 2026.
Water Scores will be released on February 27th 2026 via Gizeh Records.

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DATE & VENUE

Tuesday March 3rd, 7.30-10.30pm

The Peer Hat, Faraday Street, Manchester

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TICKETS

£8 early bird (ends December 19th)

£10 advance via Eventbrite (+ applicable fees)

£12 on the door

There are a limited number of "pay as you feel" tickets available to anyone who is low or unwaged and wishes to join us.

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ABOUT THIS EVENT

The Peer Hat is approximately a 5 minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly station, and close to several bus and tram stops.

The event will take place in downstairs room; unfortunately no lift access is available so stairs will need to be navigated.

We will be accepting donations for Glossopdale Foodbank on the night of the show. The items that they particularly need at the moment are: tinned meat like chicken in white sauce or stewing steak; long life milk; tinned fruit; tinned custard; rice pudding; tinned sweetcorn; tinned vegetables; toilet paper; soap; shampoo and conditioner.

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