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"Qu Junktions double feature hitting the Brew! Glasgwegian art school avant-gardists Still House Plants meld free jazz, R&B and post-rock to make gorgeously fractured Don Caballero/Life Without Buildings style experimental pop; b2b with one-of-a-kind alt-rap subversion from Mica Levi collaborator & CURL Collective MC Brother May."
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Friday 12th April. The event starts at 19:00.
SHFTD & Strange Brew presents
Still House Plants
Brother May
7pm - 10pm
£10 adv
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Still House Plants are a UK group made up of Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Finlay Clark, and David Kennedy. From a bare bones set up of guitar, drums and vocals they create fractious and sharp music with a melting pop heart. bridging elements of sampling, slow core, and repetition the trio have developed a sound that constantly breaks apart and fuses together again.
‘If I don't make it, I love u’ is Still House Plants’ third LP and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where ‘Fast Edit’ formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, ‘If I don't make it’ is shaped by persistence - a commitment to the songs that makes the music solid & warmer. Playing with length and connections, the band have brought in analogue techniques - a Lesley cabinet on ‘Headlight’, sidechaining the snare with the guitar, pushing vocals through cheap DJ software - each process an attempt to bring one instrument closer to another, to give bass, body, backup. The most generous SHP record to date, the music is wide open, demands less.
BROTHER MAY
Brother May is a charismatic London-based MC, songwriter and producer, known for his off the wall lyricism and energetic live performances. As one of the founding members of London’s CURL collective (alongside Coby Sey and Mica Levi), May is a versatile and gifted collaborator who has also worked with the likes of Tirzah, Moor Mother, Kwes and Matthew Herbert.
His 2023 album “Pattern With Force”, co-produced with Mica Levi, is a charismatic and idiosyncratic piece that establishes him as an entirely unique operator in music today. His output also includes includes ‘Meeks and May’ (CURL, 2021), Love Is In Demand (self-released, 2021), and ‘Aura Type Orange’ (self-released, 2019), all of which combine May’s positive energy and rapid flow with co-productions by Mica Levi and others.
FFO: Bar Italia, ML Buch, Astrid Sonne, Mica Levi, Qu Junktions, Lolina, Moin, Coby Sey
Tickets on Headfirst now
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Still House Plants
Brother May
7pm - 10pm
£10 adv
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Still House Plants are a UK group made up of Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Finlay Clark, and David Kennedy. From a bare bones set up of guitar, drums and vocals they create fractious and sharp music with a melting pop heart. bridging elements of sampling, slow core, and repetition the trio have developed a sound that constantly breaks apart and fuses together again.
‘If I don't make it, I love u’ is Still House Plants’ third LP and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where ‘Fast Edit’ formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, ‘If I don't make it’ is shaped by persistence - a commitment to the songs that makes the music solid & warmer. Playing with length and connections, the band have brought in analogue techniques - a Lesley cabinet on ‘Headlight’, sidechaining the snare with the guitar, pushing vocals through cheap DJ software - each process an attempt to bring one instrument closer to another, to give bass, body, backup. The most generous SHP record to date, the music is wide open, demands less.
BROTHER MAY
Brother May is a charismatic London-based MC, songwriter and producer, known for his off the wall lyricism and energetic live performances. As one of the founding members of London’s CURL collective (alongside Coby Sey and Mica Levi), May is a versatile and gifted collaborator who has also worked with the likes of Tirzah, Moor Mother, Kwes and Matthew Herbert.
His 2023 album “Pattern With Force”, co-produced with Mica Levi, is a charismatic and idiosyncratic piece that establishes him as an entirely unique operator in music today. His output also includes includes ‘Meeks and May’ (CURL, 2021), Love Is In Demand (self-released, 2021), and ‘Aura Type Orange’ (self-released, 2019), all of which combine May’s positive energy and rapid flow with co-productions by Mica Levi and others.
FFO: Bar Italia, ML Buch, Astrid Sonne, Mica Levi, Qu Junktions, Lolina, Moin, Coby Sey
Tickets on Headfirst now
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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