Wednesday 11 January 2023, 8pm
Officine is an incendiary Franco-japanese female-fronted trio that may make you think of DNA and Teenage Jesus. It is composed of three prolific musicians who have galvanised the DIY scene in France through their different projects (including Oktober Lieber and Deeat Palace). After amazing shows at key events and venues in Europe they are finally to play the UK early 2023 to promote the release of their album on the Swedish label IdEAL.
RETURN OF THE LIVING DIRT
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU JUST BECAUSE IT HURTS
14th drawer down since 2017 or 2003, depending how you count it
Waiting for transport into Stab Central
our jawlines are splinters where glass used to be
our facial tissue is all tissue paper
never no layoff from this
condensery
Makrokakozebekikism from deep in the Welt am Draht plunge pool.
PENULTIMATE PRESS recording disastrists.
Incoming audio-falsifications in collusion with PSILT and AL KARPENTER.
Retirement from private life fully documented, incl. infantile Zeichnungen, in the anaemic volume Nothing is Possible (or Nervousness, or Immorality, or Don't Wait to be Hunted to Hide, depending which front cover you're looking at), P. Press, 2023.
Favours for the flinching strays
always weak and wide astray
Angusraze’s music is like nothing on Earth, or everything on Earth all at once. While wearing the heart of myriad cultural references on his sleeve – from homoerotic cult film and radical politics to J-Pop and surrealism – his vision is singular. Angusraze’s philosophy is in the realm of Sun Ra vs. Wanda Group, offering an expanded perspective from outside of this world while remaining rooted in concrete reality. His performance at Contra Pop Festival 2022 was a multimedia storm involving maximal digital chaos, shredded Dadaist guitar, a gamut-of-emotions lightshow and semi-structured striptease. When Angusraze goes out on stage, each performance is different from the last and he leaves nothing in the dressing room by way of heart or soul. When the lights come up and the show’s over, all that’s left behind is a pool of sweat and a battered American football helmet. What happens in between? Well, you just have to be there.
