A gig on Friday 11th May. The event starts at 20:00.
SLACK ALICE RETURNS AFTER A HIATUS.
We are delighted to welcome Mick Harris for a rare DJ set...
"Mick Harris has many names: Scorn, Lull, The Weakener, Quoit, Monrella and, he reveals, Mickey Mongoose. "I'm a hyperactive little bastard," he grins. "And you haven't got to live with me! The wife can tell you the rest!"
His energy levels might explain his dizzying contributions to music. As the drummer of Napalm Death in the late '80s, he invented the blast beat and the term "grindcore." Put off by "that whole sex, drugs, rock & roll thing," he left the band in the early '90s to explore electronic music. Under the name Scorn—first with ex-Napalm Death member Nic Bullen, but soon solo—he explored a dread-filled downtempo sound that, 25 years later, seems visionary. Other aliases refracted ambient, techno and drum & bass through his gloomy lens. And that's to say nothing of his role in the Birmingham scene. Surgeon made his 1994 debut EP in Harris's converted toilet studio, and it was Harris who connected him with Regis, helping kickstart Downwards Records and the Birmingham techno sound.
Harris has a cult following, and the wider music world pays attention every now and then. A decade ago there was talk of Scorn's uncanny foreshadowing of dubstep; last year, a 1994 Fret record got a new lease of life on Objekt's Kern mix. But lasting success has eluded him, and his energetic personality has, he says, led him to "burn bridges" over the years. In late 2011 he retired his Scorn alias, got a job as a technician in a local music media college, and stopped making music—for good, it seemed."Harris has now however returned as Fret.
LINE UP:
ROOM1:
MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, LULL, NAPALM DEATH)
OCTOBER (SKUDGE, HONEY SOUNDSYSTEM, HAPPY SKULL)
ANTI FUN (HAPPY SKULL)
EC RYDER AND AMOS (DANCE PARTY)
MATT LIGHT AND KELAN (SLACK ALICE)
ROOM 2 : INSTALLATIONS FROM BRUNSWICK CLUB RESIDENTS
£7 ENTRY OTD
LIMITED £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE PLEASE EMAIL:
[email protected]
ITS ALSO OUR 2nd BIRTHDAY BRING CAKE AND CHAMPERZ
NO IDIOTS OR SCROLLING ON THE DANCEFLOOR XXX
Entry requirements:
We are delighted to welcome Mick Harris for a rare DJ set...
"Mick Harris has many names: Scorn, Lull, The Weakener, Quoit, Monrella and, he reveals, Mickey Mongoose. "I'm a hyperactive little bastard," he grins. "And you haven't got to live with me! The wife can tell you the rest!"
His energy levels might explain his dizzying contributions to music. As the drummer of Napalm Death in the late '80s, he invented the blast beat and the term "grindcore." Put off by "that whole sex, drugs, rock & roll thing," he left the band in the early '90s to explore electronic music. Under the name Scorn—first with ex-Napalm Death member Nic Bullen, but soon solo—he explored a dread-filled downtempo sound that, 25 years later, seems visionary. Other aliases refracted ambient, techno and drum & bass through his gloomy lens. And that's to say nothing of his role in the Birmingham scene. Surgeon made his 1994 debut EP in Harris's converted toilet studio, and it was Harris who connected him with Regis, helping kickstart Downwards Records and the Birmingham techno sound.
Harris has a cult following, and the wider music world pays attention every now and then. A decade ago there was talk of Scorn's uncanny foreshadowing of dubstep; last year, a 1994 Fret record got a new lease of life on Objekt's Kern mix. But lasting success has eluded him, and his energetic personality has, he says, led him to "burn bridges" over the years. In late 2011 he retired his Scorn alias, got a job as a technician in a local music media college, and stopped making music—for good, it seemed."Harris has now however returned as Fret.
LINE UP:
ROOM1:
MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, LULL, NAPALM DEATH)
OCTOBER (SKUDGE, HONEY SOUNDSYSTEM, HAPPY SKULL)
ANTI FUN (HAPPY SKULL)
EC RYDER AND AMOS (DANCE PARTY)
MATT LIGHT AND KELAN (SLACK ALICE)
ROOM 2 : INSTALLATIONS FROM BRUNSWICK CLUB RESIDENTS
£7 ENTRY OTD
LIMITED £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE PLEASE EMAIL:
[email protected]
ITS ALSO OUR 2nd BIRTHDAY BRING CAKE AND CHAMPERZ
NO IDIOTS OR SCROLLING ON THE DANCEFLOOR XXX
Entry requirements: