The Old England Pub

Some of Earth’s noisiest experimentalists, gathered together under the everlasting Improv’s Greatest Hits banner! In the West Country vanguard, Paling’s mysterious post-rock meltdowns join Limited Ltd’s muscular post-punk stylings; from the northern flank, Edinburgh avant-gardists Raiments deploy playful jazz-drone alongside radical brass/bass pairings from Leeds' Iris Casling and Sam Spencer. IGH we salute you… Paling / Limited Ltd / Raiments / Iris Casling + Sam Spencer at The Old England Pub.

Anarchic, itchy post-punk infection that you definitely wanna catch – symptoms include doing the art school shuffle and depersonalisation. This ain’t your cut and paste 80s revivalism, Marauder dance to the off-kilter beat of their own careening paranoid funk. Casio-damaged ear-worms and bedroom sci-fi dreams abound FFO: LiLiPUT, eat-girls, Malaria, Essential Logic, The Serfs. One of best the no new wave bands on the planet

Ben Vince returns to Bristol with his first solo release in five years, diving into club terrain with spiralling sax psychedelia and industrial-weight sub-bass. An esteemed noise-maker on the London improv circuit + arch-collaborator (Joy O, Holy Tongue, Astrid Sonne etc), he’s set to spellbind with his kinetic wormholes of looping, FX and tripped-out jazz mutations. HUGE. BEN VINCE live at The Old England, Bristol.

Imagine an extra-terrestrial raised on a heady diet of Edith Piaf, The Space Lady, Soviet Kitsch-era Regina Spektor and dada cabaret, and you’re halfway to the sublime Mary Ocher. Her cerebral, operatic krautwork wouldn’t feel out of place in a ‘20s Berlin bar yet sits totally out of time (and space). A hymnary beamed from the cosmos, probably FFO: Molly Nilsson, Anna Von Hausswolf, Klaus Nomi, Kate Bush. Mary Ocher plays the Old E in Bristol as part of their UK TOUR! Support from the always intruiging Myer U Clark

Doomcore fuzz? Desert grunge? Whatever you’d call ‘em, Screaming Dolls’ gruff and groovy brand of existential dread has been climbing the local ladder ready for this headline shot at your eardrums, with pitch-perfect support from bass-and-drums punk pulverisers Peacelily too! Goodly guitar grot FFO: Pigs x 7, DFA 1979, Tad, Grandmas House, Human Leather. The Screaming Dolls & Friends, celebrating the release of their new EP