MAXIMUM SPIRIT ECONOMY w/SPECTRES + MANY MORE at Strange Brew
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"IT’S COMING HOME! The first Spectres show on home soil in 2.5 years comes with its own packed mini-festival with janglified lo-fi group Wych Elm, 3Dimensional noise from Silver Waves, angular atonal post-punkers Slag Heap, Elvin Brandhi +DJs. FFO: Swans, Sonic Youth, Sleater Kinney, X Ray Spex."

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A gig held at Strange Brew on Friday 17th September. The event starts at 19:30.


SPECTRES PLAY THEIR FIRST BRISTOL SHOW IN OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND WILL BE COMMISERATING THE RELEASE OF THEIR THIRD ALBUM 'IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN AND THIS IS WHY' AT THE SAME TIME, ALL IN THE STRANGE NEW SETTING OF THE BREW.

JOINING THEM FOR THE WALTZ WILL BE AUDIO EXORCISTS WYCH ELM, TWO FORMIDABLE FORCES OF NOISE SILVER WAVES & ELVIN BRANDHI WHO WILL JOIN CIRCUITS FOR A ONE OFF UNIVERSE PREMIERE COLLABORATION, FOUR PIECE POST PUNK PANT DONNERS SLAGHEAP AND DJ'S PMS CASUALTY & FRENCH MARGOT COMBINING TO SOUNDTRACK YOUR LIFE FOR THIS EVENING.

THIS IS SPIRIT ECONOMY AT IT'S MOST MAXIMUM. SUMMON YOURSELF AND WE WILL CLEANSE YOUR SOUL THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF NOISE.

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