Our recent recommendations for Strange Brew
Sell out warning! Our hallowed Schwet has come out of early retirement to bring Shovel Dance Collective to us once again – they’re that good. Following on from their mirthful sold-out Bristol show last year, everyone’s favourite virtuosic radical folk collective return with their drone, improv and avant-garde explorations of folk by and for the people.
Schwet with Shovel Dance Collective + more at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Take a life-affirming jazz trip round the solar system with one of the last legit afro-futurist spiritual jazz units still in orbit. The Pyramids rewired the 70s in a sprawling, Sun Ra / Roscoe Mitchell fusion of pan-African sci-fi vision and mass free improvisation. Their revival is a divine blessing, once-in-a-liftime thing FFO: Don Cherry, Sons of Kemet, Angel Bat Dawid, Irreversible Entanglements.
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids + special guests at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Thunderous junglist breakbeats and rolling electro rhythms cut with thick smog and eerie ambience. Skee Mask’s sound is still a deafening statement of intent rumbling through the collective techno subconscious. As you know, these tix ain’t gonna hang around for long!
Strange Brew presents Skee Mask & Yushh at Strange Brew.
Sell out warning! Deep club psychedelia has no better hero than John Talabot. Blanco’s giving him the necessary space to stretch those godlike selects into the primordial cosmic battlecries in the Brew’s back room. Salon des Amateurs will feel as tame as a Mixmag office party after this one!
Club Blanco w/ John Talabot at Strange Brew.
Sonic bliss meets sartorial genius with the second Strange Brew coming of Vogue tipped up’n’comer Sophie Spratley aka rabbit, featuring a fairycore fashion show followed by a stacked five band bill. Elanor Moss’ heartrending indie rock and unsetting alt-electronic duo Orbury Common are big highlights. More catwalk + gig combos please Bristol!
Rabbit party no.2 - AW24 show at Strange Brew.