Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Free entry / PWYC! Delirious instrumental post-punk / post-jazz / post-prog genre-melters for your enraptured ears! The Brackish tie together idiosyncratic artistry and psychedelic experimentalism, side by side with The Flag Fen Project’s esoteric industrial druidism. Essential FFO: Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, John Zorn, Elephant9, The Jelas, These New Puritans."
Join the Headfirst mailing list for our unbiased recommendations.
A gig held at The Lanes on Saturday 6th September. The event starts at 19:30.
FIRST 150 TICKETS FREE!
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
THE BRACKISH • www.instagram.com/thebrackishmusic
The Brackish sound is characterised by its use of dynamics, long-form composition and improvisation. Face melting heavyness gives way to gentle, spacious soundscapes within a single composition. Kraut-like grooves, polyrhythms, violent melodic statements and psychedelic, freeform improvisation are present in equal measure. Always expressed with a strong emphasis on melody and narrative, aiming to take the listener on journeys of much needed escapism.
A musical hall of mirrors built with warped genius. Bristol-based four-piece The Brackish has become one of the must-see live acts of the area's rich music scene. And much of the delirious grandeur of their performances comes across on 'Atlas Day', their fourth long- player. ( Guitarist Mag 9/10 )
Bringing to mind the instrumental areas of “Tweez” era Slint in their guitar tonalities, they also tap the eternal build and release genius of Dave Pajo’s iconic group Ariel M. But they also go into some heavily unpredictable territory with breathtaking verve, guts and temerity. Going from deep harmonic abstraction, to driving, algebraic, Beefheartian romps to joyous, triumphant crescendos.' ( On Heavy Rotation' )
THE FLAG FEN PROJECT • www.instagram.com/flagfenrising
The Flag Fen Project are a live / electronic music group based in Bristol. They mostly consist of Adam Burrows (sampler, vocals, guitar, melodica) and Keith Hall (drums, percussion).
While close in spirit to punk / dance crossover bands like The Pop Group and Radical Dance Faction, their music draws on contemporary club sounds as well as folk and psychedelic rock.
The project’s roots lie in the Fenscape of Adam’s childhood: wild, haunted wetlands that survive to this day between industrial estates and intensive farms. The fens have long been known as a place of rebels, hermits and apparitions.
Archaeology, folklore and psych / rave / soundsystem culture are explored as ways of uncovering ‘what lies beneath’ and, ultimately, resisting the enshittification of human life and the natural world.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PRESENTED BY GRAVY TRAIN & BLG PROMOTIONS.
Gravy Train events • www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
The Lanes events • www.thelanesbristol.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Entry requirements: 18+
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
THE BRACKISH • www.instagram.com/thebrackishmusic
The Brackish sound is characterised by its use of dynamics, long-form composition and improvisation. Face melting heavyness gives way to gentle, spacious soundscapes within a single composition. Kraut-like grooves, polyrhythms, violent melodic statements and psychedelic, freeform improvisation are present in equal measure. Always expressed with a strong emphasis on melody and narrative, aiming to take the listener on journeys of much needed escapism.
A musical hall of mirrors built with warped genius. Bristol-based four-piece The Brackish has become one of the must-see live acts of the area's rich music scene. And much of the delirious grandeur of their performances comes across on 'Atlas Day', their fourth long- player. ( Guitarist Mag 9/10 )
Bringing to mind the instrumental areas of “Tweez” era Slint in their guitar tonalities, they also tap the eternal build and release genius of Dave Pajo’s iconic group Ariel M. But they also go into some heavily unpredictable territory with breathtaking verve, guts and temerity. Going from deep harmonic abstraction, to driving, algebraic, Beefheartian romps to joyous, triumphant crescendos.' ( On Heavy Rotation' )
THE FLAG FEN PROJECT • www.instagram.com/flagfenrising
The Flag Fen Project are a live / electronic music group based in Bristol. They mostly consist of Adam Burrows (sampler, vocals, guitar, melodica) and Keith Hall (drums, percussion).
While close in spirit to punk / dance crossover bands like The Pop Group and Radical Dance Faction, their music draws on contemporary club sounds as well as folk and psychedelic rock.
The project’s roots lie in the Fenscape of Adam’s childhood: wild, haunted wetlands that survive to this day between industrial estates and intensive farms. The fens have long been known as a place of rebels, hermits and apparitions.
Archaeology, folklore and psych / rave / soundsystem culture are explored as ways of uncovering ‘what lies beneath’ and, ultimately, resisting the enshittification of human life and the natural world.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PRESENTED BY GRAVY TRAIN & BLG PROMOTIONS.
Gravy Train events • www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
The Lanes events • www.thelanesbristol.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Entry requirements: 18+
Other prog rock gigs
— The Trinity Centre
experimental
psych
psychedelic rock
experimental rock
progressive rock