Thursday 21 August 2025, 7.30pm
Ryosuke Kiyasu has been active as a snare drum soloist since 2003 and is also known as a drummer in "SETE STAR SEPT", "Kiyasu Orchestra", Mr. Keiji Haino's band "Fushitsusha". He is also known as a founding member of The Endless Blockade in Canada.
His solo performances have been featured on BBC News (UK national broadcaster) and VICE Magazine, His performance in Berlin in 2018 was a big hit on social media with over 23 million views.
In 2022-2023, the world's largest classical percussion festival "Überschlag Festival", "Dr. Martens Fest 23", "Outsider Art Festival" in Finland, and "Alternativa Festival" in the Czech Republic. He continues to travel around the world and perform in various places.
In 2023, at the Edinburgh Art Festival in England, a short movie of his snare drum performance by a British director was shown as an exhibition and became a topic of conversation.
He also released a collaborative work with the Swedish apparel brand "Our Legacy". He has released more than 200 albums, both solo and with his band.
"The antics on display by Kiyasu aren't merely for entertainment, they serve as an in-your-face reminder that music is not about complexity or the number of instruments used; it's about the connection between the artist and the audience." – Lambgoat
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.
Meat Strap are a duo from South London, in which Delia Detritus plays drums, and Max K Weaver plays electric guitar. Spawned from many years of private improvisation and close friendship, their sound is a constantly shifting thing - from violent spasms of ecstatic noise, to wide and shivering ambiences, to interlocking grids of elastic rhythms. Their debut EP 'Live! at Cafe OTO' was released in January 2025. The band’s name means girl-dick.
https://meatstrap.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/meat.strap/
