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As you may have heard, Why? have had to cancel their appearance at Venn due to illness. A real shame...so what now?
The only way to follow a Why? is with a 'Z'. ZUNZUNEGUI are a Bristol-based band from the Blank Tapes stable (Bass Clef, Scatter, Thee, Stranded Horse), who mark a wild, musically lawless and HIGHLY danceable path somewhere between El Guincho and Oxbow. Throw in Konono No. 1 melodic surges, Boredoms-like sonic barrages and Kushal Gaya, a totemic Mauritian frontman who prowls his stage domain like a wounded panther...and, as a witness of their recent roaster of a set with A Hawk & A Hacksaw was moved to declare: 'If you don't like ZunZunEgui, I hate you'. Serve with rum.
STOP PRESS #1
Both Murcof shows at the Planeterium on Thursday are now COMPLETELY SOLD OUT
STOP PRESS 2: Changes in the ‘Cave’...
With K.NERS having replaced Afrikan Boy, we’ve remixed the ‘Cave’
Room timetable at Motion on Saturday night a little. Click here
to see the new times.
VENN 08 – 3DAYS AND COUNTING!
Final call for Venn 08 – Bristol’s four-day mixtape of overlapping sound abandon is reeled and ready to go.
TICKET DETAILS:
Not much time left to claim your super-discount advance tickets.
Remember: Joint Saturday Side 1 & 2 tickets cost just £17 + b.f if snapped up in advance – just over a pound per hour of head-spinning musical rapture. Tickets for all individual events over the weekend are still available at bargain pre-prices too – move fast!
Head here for full details of prices and outlets.
LINE-UP:
Exciting updates include PORTISHEAD guitar powerhouse ADRIAN UTLEY joining
the ranks of THE
BLESSING at the Arnolfini on Sat Side 1, alongside fellow P-heads Jim
Barr, Clive Deamer and Jake McMurchie. Another very special guest joins Anglo-Russian
drone maiden ARTAMONOVA
at Thekla on Sat Side 1 – ex-Spaceman 3, Spiritualized and Massive Attack
drummer JONNY MATTOCK. Metronomic noise/drone heaven awaits – Mattock
is a proven master of locking
down the chaos.
Also added to the bill – very special last-minute guests at The Louisiana on Saturday are BUCKY - the wildest, funnest two-piece pop/punk juggernaut in this or any state. Other late adds: Phil Collins-obsessed ‘karaoke tropical’ loon KATAPULTO (Louisiana, Sat Side 1), as well as Bristol hip hop’s flame-tongued new hero K.NERS (Motion, Sat Side 2). Venn in Motion is going to be the party of the year.
Be installed early for live cosmic disco nirvana from BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB. Get way down and dubby with Bristol’s PEVERELIST followed by the Basic Channel master MORITZ VON OSWALD (aka MAURIZIO). Then rise up and lose it with a jacking live electro session from Black Strobe maestro ARNAUD REBOTINI and cut-up techfunk mayhem with Berlin’s ERRORSMITH. All dancefloor bases covered. You’ll never need to club again.
CANCELLATIONS:
Arikan Boy, Anni Rossi, Rollin Hunt and One More Grain have all been taped
over, with regret.
WHAT ELSE?
Venn is getting through a LOT of wine in preparation for ERGO
PHIZMIZ and his incredible ‘Forest:
Part One’ installation at the Scout Hut. You’ll have to swing
by to see why...
Go gaming with FLYING LOTUS (Sun, Thekla) courtesy of XLR8R...download BANJO OR FREAKOUT’s brightest work yet for free (Fri, Arnolfini Dark Studio)...do your research on ANTON MAIOF AND HIS ORGONEOPHONE (Sun, Dark Studio)...and creep down beautiful corridors of song with LE VOLUME COURBE (Sat Side 1, Louisiana)...so much to discover.Nearly there...Venn 08
A new Venn commission for the legendary vocal improviser, Phil Minton, Century FC is a 'cascading' workshop-based composition process for 100-piece 'Feral Choir', drawing together participants from across the communities of Bristol. As an extension of Phil's longstanding Feral Choir project, the process uses the raw qualities of untrained voices in non-verbal vocal improvisation, working with sounds rather than song. No musical experience is necessary for participation and the process is very much about encouraging wider inclusion in music production and performance by people who might never have considered themselves musical. Phil will train 10 people from diverse community groups in Bristol, teaching extended vocal techniques and improvisation methods. Each participant will then train a further ten people from their respective organisations. These groups will unite to form a 100-strong choir, conducted in live performance by Phil. Century FC at Venn will comprise two separate 20 minute performances at Arnolfini on Sunday, 8 June. Each will be free and open to the public, with tickets available in advance, or on the day (subject to advance interest).
Commission produced in partnership with Arika (the second leg of Century FC will take place in 2009 at Glasgow's Instal Festival, enabled by the generous support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Scottish Arts Council and The PRS Foundation's co-commissioning scheme, with additional support from Bristol City Council's Festivals Fund.
Venn 08 is stoked to be hosting a brand new, brilliantly colourful and imaginative new work from composer, artist and trickster Ergo Phizmiz entitled 'Forest : Part One'. Let Ergo himself explain more:
"'Forest : Part One' is the first of a projected series of multimedia works in which I delve in various contexts into the fear-filled heart-lump of magical Bavarian woodland. In this case, a room sized collage across found-wood-organisations, fragmented folktales from Germany and Eastern-Europe, wooden and metal musical instruments, wolves, discarded Super-8 film, spiders, wine bottles, trolls, and strange birds, replete with performance interventions playing music notated from the shapes of dead twigs. The physical forest constructed in the room will remain still, whilst the sound of the forest grows from two lone jibber-jabberings into a dense foliage of tree-music, abounding with euphoniums, banjoes, harmoniums, and other such beasts of acoustic fury".
See www.ergophizmiz.com for more info on the man described as 'a musical equivalent to Chris Morris'.
