MEMORIALS + VÄLVĒ + Agathe Max
Sunday 10th December 2023
VÄLVĒ + Agathe Max
At Lewes Con Club
Doors 7:30 pm
Price £13.50 + booking fee / £17.50 on the door
Melting Vinyl presents:
MEMORIALS + VÄLVĒ + Agathe Max
Con Club, Lewes
10.12.23
Doors 7.30pm / Start 8pm
£12.50 + booking fee / £17.50 on the door
Standing
Age Restrictions: Over 14s welcome, Under 16s to be accompanied.
MEMORIALS
Following their sold out show earlier in the year, we’re welcoming back Memorials for a special Christmas show. MEMORIALS is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane’s frontwoman) and Matthew Simms (Wire, Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU). As a duo these multi-instrumentalists cover plenty of ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic songwriting to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back again.
VÄLVĒ
Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is VÄLVĒ.
Agathe Max
Violinist and session musician Agathe Max is a graduate in Electroacoustic Composition, collaborates with many musicians and creates music and sound for documentaries, films, theatre, contemporary dance and sound installations.