A Slowcore Matinee featuring Annie Gardiner/Dea Sul/Zero Gravity Tea Party

Featuring.
Annie Gardiner: A Welsh-Scottish-Italian artist based in Bristol, Gardiner has built a diverse career spanning experimental songwriting, noise-rock, jazz-not-jazz, improvisation and electronic music.

She gained a UK-wide underground following as the front person and bassist of noise-rock band Hysterical Injury, was one-third of Human Worth's post-rock outfit Olanza, and co wrote and performed vocals on Run Logan Run's 2022 album Nature Will Take Care of You. Singles from the album received airplay on BBC 6 Music, Jamie Cullum's BBC Radio 2show and Verity Sharpe's Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. In 2023, she joined Run LoganRun as a guest vocalist for their appearance on the BBC Introducing Stage at GlastonburyFestival.

A sought-after collaborator and improviser, Gardiner has performed on vocals, electronics and bass with artists including EP/64, Graham Costello & Run Logan Run, MXLX's ^—^, Jo Kelly, Carnivorous Plants, Zero Gravity Tea Party, Dan Johnson's Deep Listening Tour, Gallops, and in group performances with Maggie Nicols, Corey Mwamba and Yvonna Magda. As a lyricist and topline writer, she has worked with French electronic pop band The Penelopes on projects involving actors Isabelle Adjani, Lola Bessis, Virginie Ledoyen and Laura Smet. Alongside her artistic practice, Gardiner works as a music producer at Studio B in J&J Studios, Bristol, and has spent more than twelve years teaching songwriting in higher education. She is a Senior Lecturer in Songwriting at BIMM University, specialising in composition and improvisation, and regularly delivers vocals and electronics workshops at dBs Music Institute.

'Eight addictive songs of Gothic Folk' - Noel Gardner, Wire Magazine on ‘Sleeping Dogs’

“... Annie sets up the sensation of flames crackling by crinkling paper into a loop as abackdrop to hymnal feeling of the song which is brought to a crescendo and rapturous, well-deserved, applause.” - Paul Cook at Joyzine

anniegardiner.bandcamp.com
https://crystalfuzzrecords.bandcamp.com/follow_me
anniegardiner.co.uk 

FFO: Laura Marling, Aldous Harding, Big Thief (Adrianne Lenker), Agnes Obel, Ane Brun,

Lankum, Milkweed, Linda Perhacs, LOW, Nirvana Unplugged.

With support from...

Dea Sul: A very new Bristol instrumental, four piece utilising the sounds of Guitar, Cello, Upright Bass & Percussion. Featuring local dahlings, James King, Charlotte 'Chipper' Nichols, Graham Dalzel & Gary Say.

Expect extreme sloooowcore/drone, clean tones, with no discernable climax. Leading the listener through soundtracks of ennui, decay, the ruins of Blake's Jerusalem, with a tiny glimpse of glimmering hope" FFO Low/Earth/Steve Reich/Aerial M

And also...

Zero Gravity Tea Party: Liquid Library luminaries, spearheaded by the imitable cosmic teapot voyager, Charlie Miles. Expect Lofi, anti-capitalist-hex music, spinning through a dervish of dionysian fervour. Or something like that? FFO: Pelt/Claire Rousay/Infinite Body

Artwork by Annie G

Please note the basement is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a narrow enclosed staircase. For more accessibility info, please email [email protected]