THE GREAT NORTH-EASTERN…

Roman Nose / Possett /
Lovely Honkey / Papal Bull
upstairs @ the Miner's Arms -
Thursday 15th May, 8pm

/shieldshaped/ returns after a hiatus of sorts.
And what better way to step back into the ring…

There’s been a swell of outsider goodness flowing from the north-east these past few years. A sprawling constellation of freak acts and outsider labels, unspooling streams of beautiful/deranged audiotape in all directions.  Very happy to have four choice exponents of the NE no-audience underground here in Bristol. 

ROMAN NOSE    The pet project of Jon Marshall, founder of Singing Knives Records – an essential node in the north-east outer – and member of improv folkskronk trio The Hunter Gracchus. With Roman Nose he uses vocals, various free-reed instruments and an array of pitch/timbre modifying effects pedals to create microtonal and polyrhythmic fevers of ecstatic dissonances. 

LOVELY HONKEY    Rarified solo throat-splutter from Luke Poot, of Very Rich Lexicon, Hard Pan, Chastity Potatoe and a twice-touring duo with Phil Minton. Lo-fidelity remedial sound poetry of the choicest order. 

PAPAL BULL    Rabid cluster of sounds using dictaphones, harmonica reeds, harmonium, sheng and voices. Particularly out-to-lunch drones & wails, vocals that veer from having that nice mouthful-of-mussels vibe to a more euro-academic too-much-coffee buzz to private language gurgle and “dictaphone work that would give Gwilly Edmondez the horn”. Junk rattling. Ouch. 

POSSET    J.G. Murray, the north-east's premier purveyor of dictaphone jazz-huff. He jams with a bank of old dictaphones and broken walkmen and antique effects pedals all wired together with strings of snot, scraps of sticky tape and bits of old wool. 

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Doing this one in the upstairs room at The Miner’s Arms in St Werburghs. A new venue for /shieldshaped/ but a sweet spot and a swell pub. Cosy. Up the stairs by the pool table. Only £4 entry, starts 8pm