Solo performance from The Ex vocalist Arnold de Boer deploying guitar and sampler for an almighty bout of crazily high energy songs - urgent lyrics over guitar, roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. Joyfully obstinate, wonderfully bonkers.

"One guy stands playing his guitar like he’s trying to saw it in half with his bare hands, the other bashes at the vocoding keyboard devices like he wants them to explode, and they end up making one almighty racket that could be called ‘dance’ music. If you happen to dance like a malfunctioning washing machine, that is. Ace." Drowned in Sound

"It's incredibly bonkers, that's for sure, but it's so bloody energetic, so bull headed and so schizophrenic in its approach to crafting a tune that you simply can't fail to be impressed by it...The results are astonishing." Incendiary Magazine



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TEMPERATURES

Temperatures are a London-based duo formed by Peter Blundell (bass, voice) and James Dunn (drums, synth). Blundell's rumbling delayed bass runs against Dunn's bursting drums that simultaneously trigger an unruly ARP 2600. Vocals are both muffled and shouting at times and eventually end up getting buried under a (controlled) landslide of sounds. Thanks to their instinctive but thoughtful approach to noise, Temperatures can express a suffocating sense of alienation and mal de vivre, as well as today's over-communication resulting in a helpless lack of communication; but "Eksra" strikes most for its original and refreshing sound, far from the stale cliche that noise so often falls into. They can be compared to other bands like: early Throbbing Gristle, Lighting Bolt and the Dead C.

“One of London’s most spasmodically captivating outfits” (Byron Coley - Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine)

“It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into– which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things” (Thurston Moore’s Favorite New Band, Pitchfork)

“Temperatures can do noise, but this is very sophisticated and dynamic, at the same time exploring some difficult mixed emotions which are hard to name” (Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector Magazine)

LITTER

Performing in front of a backdrop of looped Super8 projections, Litter are a minimal guitar/drum duo playing (mostly) instrumental staccato punk that brings to mind DNA is the way that the guitar is treated like another part of the drum kit. Litter's members also appeared in other magnificent musical arrangements, such as 'Millions of Thatcher's Victims', 'You Killed Me First', 'The Migraines' and 'Amtrak'. They are still involved in South Londoners 'Butcher's Boy' and 'Tschilp' from Hamburg.