Qu Junktions at 20 at Strange Brew
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"Sell out warning! The most eye-gougingly beautiful, quantuumly rammed lineup you’ll get all year, cos only Qu Junktions can summon a small festival on speed dial with Richard Dawson lighting the birthday candles."

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£20 advance

A gig held at Strange Brew on Saturday 28th September. The event starts at 19:00.


Line up: AUTOBITCH / COBY SEY / COMFORT / DAISY MOON / DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS / EXQUISITE CORPSE BY DOOZY / KLEIN / LODGE / MUN SING / OSSIA / RICHARD DAWSON / SLAUSON MALONE1 / SNOOZTAILS / TARA CLERKIN TRIO Time to reveal the line up for Qu Junktions 20th birthday party. A host of kindred spirits and audacious new allies lay on an epic concoction of live performances, DJ sets and unexpected twists and turns especially for the occasion. Early Arrival Recommended for this one. AUTOBITCH - a slap up combination of drums, accordion and poetry. Heartfelt, guttural and transcendent COBY SEY - tantalising, deep eclectic song covering all kinds of bases. Musical messages from the edges from a key player COMFORT - hardcore electro soul bangers from Glasgow with Sean on drums and Natalie on vocals, backed by wildly oscillating software DAISY MOON - making the futuristic bounce, Daisy re-casts club music into all kinds of shapes, weaving elements of house, techno, electro and blissed out blueprints DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS - vibrant hip pop funk, this earthbound band knows how to make a party stand up and celebrate all forms of cosmic life EXQUISITE CORPSE BY DOOZY - interactive, embodied art actions that bubble up experimental culture out of mixed mediums, movements and messages KLEIN - creative interactions between the hardcore classical, the foxy digitalis and from way off the grid, Klein sets course for unparalleled sound alchemy LODGE - singular and brilliant, this early worm makes way for the party MUN SING - staggeringly highwire technicolour music from Bristol's no.1 purveyor of illegal data OSSIA - ecstatic ground up dance music, roots and all. A producer who effortlessly realigns west country bass music with a thrillingly global moshpit energy RICHARD DAWSON - the provider of tunes that bear the fruit of mycorrhizal networks criss-crossing through all kinds of history, open-hearted terrain and circular songcraft SLAUSON MALONE 1 - Jasper Marsalis beams in his hook-laden, genre-busting art song/performance project for the night SNOOZTAILS - with a specially prepared piped in soundtrack by Sun Araw, art polymath Snoozy prepares strange brews for drinking TARA CLERKIN TRIO - zoned out blue jams from the slow burning Bristol trio www.qujunktions.com

Entry requirements: 18+

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