Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
Keep these exhibition + gig double-features coming pls! Downstairs: a feast for your peepers with local visual artist Annabelle Keyes’ reinterpretations of wayfinding artefacts and sacred geography. Upstairs: plenty of action for your ears with Celtic / Americana crossover balladry from Eve Appleton Band, angular splurge-pop from Trans-Siberian Express and Melrose’s heart-on-sleeve bedroom folk.
Annabelle Keyes’ debut solo exhibition featuring her ethereally industrial paintings and found object assemblage sculptures. With music from local artists to celebrate the opening of her exhibition.
Take your most fucked up VU record (White Light of course…), leave it in the sun, return it to the stereo then TA-DA – you're one step closer to the jangling murk-pop genius of Index for Working Musik. Expansive drone-pop puttied from scraping strings and synth gurgles, set to radically rewire pre-disposed fans of: Flying Saucer Attack, Flying Nun Recs, The New Eves, Broadcast.
Index for Working Musik + The Black Lagoons + Bludud + bonVILLE
Cartoon Network composer turned indie rock oddity: if you’ve heard him on The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball you’ll already know that Xav Clarke’s cosmic mishmash of 70s folk whimsy and Flaming Lips-style psychedelia is a real heart-winner. He lullabies the Louis alongside lactose-loving blues-rock horrors Big Fright and singer-songwriter softie Milly Upton.
Xav Clarke launches his new album 'Harrison Digital Ford Dust' with support from Big Fright & Milly Upton
With their Plague Pit pals, Cryptbreaker are brewing the most rotten, stinking, bubonic-blackened hardcore Bristol’s ever seen. Come feast on Dungeon Rot in this headline celebration of the new EP, with surplus sacrilege from Priest Crippler’s anti-clergy deathgrind and Exterminatus’ downtuned Warhammercore. Battle-jacket-worthy FFO: Venom, Driller Killer, Final Dose, Hellhammer.
Celebrating the release of Cryptbreaker's new EP 'Dungeon Rot'
Sell out warning! Cyberspace sensation Good Flying Birds pull together 90s twee-pop melodies, ramshackle fuzz and Elephant 6-style whimsy – this is Midwest indie just like mama used to make! Warming up the Louis for ‘em: Soft Boys-evoking power-poppers Bramwell, lugubrious local janglers The Cindys, and Vehicle’s misty-eyed garage. Extremely dreamy FFO: Apples in Stereo, The Vaselines, Teenage Fanclub.
Cellar Door presents Good Flying Birds + The Cindys + Vehicle + Bramwell