Our recent recommendations for Exchange
A champion of the leftfield folk underground, Johnny Lynch has gone from Fence Collective origins to cult Lost Maps label owner and fabled Howlin’ Fling-er. All while knocking it out of the park with the ever-evolving Pictish Trail sound: lo-fi psych-folk meeting electro-indie-pop in a gloopy, cosmic hinterland. Iconic FFO: Animal Collective, Tunng, Hot Chip, Seamus Fogarty.
Pictish Trail at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Invisible Llama commandeers Exchange with an all-star celebration of the folk-punk-pop scene it helped build! Toodles and the Hectic Pity bring their beloved debut EP out of retirement, tenderly shredding alongside Auckland indie-poppers Dateline, sludge-noise two-piece Get Fucked + plenty more local legends in the mix. A veritable institution here, come give ‘em their flowers!
10 Years of ILM at Exchange.
Calling all bootscootin’ babies! High-camp country and western extravaganza Queer Cxntry gallops you into the Wild South West for one night only! Cabaret, music, line dancing and a costume competition, all deliciously delivered by Margate’s reigning queen Dame Jame, candyfloss-coloured country punks Pink Suits + a rodeo-worthy roster of drag performers. Your finest chaps, Stetsons and double denim only please…
Queer Cxntry at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Manchester’s peerless renegades of post-punk funk who’ve distilled everything from post-disco to Brazilian jazz into a sound that spawned a generation of bands like the Rapture or Sink Ya Teeth. Sounding revitalised 40 years in, they revisit two stone-cold classic LPs in a no-brainer nostalgiafest FFO Liquid Liquid, ESG, Talking Heads, New Order, !!!, LCD Soundsystem.
A Certain Ratio at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Shit-splattered Czech goregrind greats come to shower you in punishing riffs, hella catchy cricket vocals and digestive tract samples. What else do you need to know? Big goofy scat metal fun incoming FFO: Spasm, Ahumado Granujo, Impetigo, Dead Infection, Rompeprop.
Gutalax at Exchange.