A gig on Saturday 20th May. The event starts at 21:00.
Sonic Lab Experiments #01
Back after a 13 year hiatus Bristols Sonic Lab comes back with something a little different.
With the aim to showcase local up and coming bands and DJs.
First up we have Mammoth Toe
Bristol based post-rock oddballs Mammoth toe formed in 2016 over a love of delay ridden guitar, groovy bass lines and extinct mammals. After numerous hiatuses, they are back with a bigger sound.
Spanning multiple genres including grunge, metal, progressive rock and psychedelia, mammoth toe produce an eclectic sound from dreamy soundscapes and bouncy grooves to crushing heavy riffs.
And in support Lamears
We are Lamears, a three-piece made up of stragglers and dropouts of their respective music scenes around the southwest, who have joined forces with the singular goal of finally getting a free bar tab for the night. After many decades of rambunctious strobe-flooded basement gigs and a punishing catalogue of blinding after-show benders, Kevin Edwards realised that the Scientologist 90s Alien Goth Electronic Indie scene was no longer his calling. He got on the phone to his long-time party buddy and relationship councillor Ben Edwards (no relation), who by night and day would shred his way through two packs of strings a week despite only having 9 working fingers, to try to convince him to help create something a bit rougher around the edges where there were no rules, and where he didn’t necessarily have to play to a click track or even really stay in time. Ben was all for this new and untested approach, and together with their new bud Rob on bass and vocal duties, a long-haired lothario whom they occasionally found daydreaming in the park, high and drunk in the fields, and generally moping about looking like a tortured artist, they formed Lamears. Expect to be bombarded with hefty riffs, shrieking vocals, high-impact hi-hats and whatever else you may or may not expect… These guys are here to ruffle some feathers in the Mid-70s Psychedelic Desert Surf Rock Scorpion Pterodactyl Hardcore scene… don’t you forget it… Influences include the Doors, Allah Las, Fugazi, Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys and Kate Bush.
Then from 11:30 we have two hours of funked up Breakbeats from Sonic Lab residents.
Sonic Lab creator and resident Stan Collins with an hour of Bootleg Breakbeats so expect an eclectic mix of remixes and bootlegs of some funked up tunes.
Then we have an hour from Dealo Brown
Dale has claimed residencies for 212 RadioUK and for the ‘On Air Records’ label, Bristol’s finest underground house & techno label. Dale has also found DJ slots online too, playing for SubCode on more than one occasion.
Moving into 2023, expect to hear new music as Dale branches out into Production, and a stack of new bookings in which to play them at. Dale’s biggest target moving forward is to have the DJ’s and artists he has followed throughout the years finally play the music he makes.
Look out over the summer for a bigger scale Sonic Lab Experiment 2
Entry requirements:
Back after a 13 year hiatus Bristols Sonic Lab comes back with something a little different.
With the aim to showcase local up and coming bands and DJs.
First up we have Mammoth Toe
Bristol based post-rock oddballs Mammoth toe formed in 2016 over a love of delay ridden guitar, groovy bass lines and extinct mammals. After numerous hiatuses, they are back with a bigger sound.
Spanning multiple genres including grunge, metal, progressive rock and psychedelia, mammoth toe produce an eclectic sound from dreamy soundscapes and bouncy grooves to crushing heavy riffs.
And in support Lamears
We are Lamears, a three-piece made up of stragglers and dropouts of their respective music scenes around the southwest, who have joined forces with the singular goal of finally getting a free bar tab for the night. After many decades of rambunctious strobe-flooded basement gigs and a punishing catalogue of blinding after-show benders, Kevin Edwards realised that the Scientologist 90s Alien Goth Electronic Indie scene was no longer his calling. He got on the phone to his long-time party buddy and relationship councillor Ben Edwards (no relation), who by night and day would shred his way through two packs of strings a week despite only having 9 working fingers, to try to convince him to help create something a bit rougher around the edges where there were no rules, and where he didn’t necessarily have to play to a click track or even really stay in time. Ben was all for this new and untested approach, and together with their new bud Rob on bass and vocal duties, a long-haired lothario whom they occasionally found daydreaming in the park, high and drunk in the fields, and generally moping about looking like a tortured artist, they formed Lamears. Expect to be bombarded with hefty riffs, shrieking vocals, high-impact hi-hats and whatever else you may or may not expect… These guys are here to ruffle some feathers in the Mid-70s Psychedelic Desert Surf Rock Scorpion Pterodactyl Hardcore scene… don’t you forget it… Influences include the Doors, Allah Las, Fugazi, Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys and Kate Bush.
Then from 11:30 we have two hours of funked up Breakbeats from Sonic Lab residents.
Sonic Lab creator and resident Stan Collins with an hour of Bootleg Breakbeats so expect an eclectic mix of remixes and bootlegs of some funked up tunes.
Then we have an hour from Dealo Brown
Dale has claimed residencies for 212 RadioUK and for the ‘On Air Records’ label, Bristol’s finest underground house & techno label. Dale has also found DJ slots online too, playing for SubCode on more than one occasion.
Moving into 2023, expect to hear new music as Dale branches out into Production, and a stack of new bookings in which to play them at. Dale’s biggest target moving forward is to have the DJ’s and artists he has followed throughout the years finally play the music he makes.
Look out over the summer for a bigger scale Sonic Lab Experiment 2
Entry requirements:
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