Saturday 13 June 2015, 8pm
Golden Lab Records began in summer 2005 as a means by which owner Nick Mitchell, then the guitar player in short-lived prog-ish no-wave group I Had An Inkling, could release his own music. Encouraged by Will Hesketh from electronic noise duo Ford Maddox Brown to begin hosting underground rock shows, the label expanded as a result of direct contact with more and more musicians whose work he admired. Output was influenced primarily by exposure in the early '90s to New Zealander Pete Morgan's Freek imprint with whom Mitchell had released records with his teenage band Summum Bonum and associated labels, as well as the intense influx, at the time, of touring so-called 'New Weird America' musicians into the UK.
Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In a career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse and prolific output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography. Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent work includes "deep wallpaper" music with Daniel O'Sullivan, and the potentially global site-specific Here Is A Big Place project with Raymond MacDonald. Initially a rare live performer, he has embraced the stage, playing throughout Europe in the past few years.
Michael “Mick” Flower is a founding member of Vibracathedral Orchestra and operates himself in a similar musical territory which focuses on the droning element of strings, guitars, wind instruments and handheld percussion. Occasional vocal mutterings may remind people of traditional Indian ragas, while other parts of his work hints more at the academic influence of say a Henry Flynt or Tony Conrad.
The duo of Stuart Arnot (Smear Campaign/Total Vermin Tapes) and Nick Mitchell (Chalaque/Golden Lab Records) formed in 2010 in order to create a spontaneous electronic music that captured the visceral attack normally associated with sounds made on traditional rock-ist instrumentation. Spewing forth a kind of un-danceable funk that's part Royal Trux, part Skaters, part Cabaret Voltaire, the band is set to re-issue its 3rd cassette All Right Hen on Golden Lab on LP in summer 2015.
