Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek is a fresh and modern pop-group which combines Anatolian Folk and contemporary grooves, often contaminated by Psychedelia and progressive rock flavours. Led by Derya Yıldırım’s hypnotizing bağlama and vocals, the group draw a meaningful continuity from the Turkish folk repertoire to their original songwriting, with a strong sound identity and a dancefloor- friendly energy.

FFO: Altin Gun, Kit Sebastian, Sven Wunder

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Holy Wave is a band of multi-instrumentalists from El Paso, Texas, USA. Since making a move to Austin in 2008, they have cemented themselves as a unique force in the national and international touring circuit. After perennial performances at Levitation (Austin Psych Fest) and countless tours and festival appearances in the USA, Europe, Latin America, and Africa, Holy Wave is poised to continue expanding into new spaces and places around the world. The band has 3 critically-acclaimed LPs and 3 EPs (The Reverberation Appreciation Society, Burger Records, Volante Discos) under their belt, with a fourth LP, Interloper, slated for release Spring 2020.

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“Austin five-piece Holy Wave is certainly dreamy in a sense, but theirs is the kind of dream that’s more vivid than blurry, more present than passing.” - Consequence of Sound

“They've got the far-off, dreamy vocal wash of the shoegazers, but their guitars and hooks are anything but subtle” - Pitchfork

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Puerto Rico native Pachy García started playing guitar at a young age but his developing interest for early Jamaican music made him switch to piano & bass instead. It wasn’t until he relocated to Los Angeles that he began self teaching himself drums. Around that time he formed the band Prettiest Eyes and started collecting inexpensive recording equipment that he found at thrift stores and second hand music shops.

After having enough gear to make his own recordings out of his basement, Pachy began recording music to pay homage to the early reggae pioneers he grew up listening to. He named the studio “333 House” and started learning techniques used by the engineers responsible for shaping the sound of early dub reggae, particularly Scientist and King Tubby. The recording process of the music was documented on his Instagram account with videos that showed him playing every instrument and ultimately mixing the end result in one live dub take.

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The music of Sababa 5 centres around mediterranean rhythms and melodies, together with sounds from the world of rock and psychedelic funk, creating a real mix of east and west.

 

The band cites influences that range from wrecking crew recordings from the ’60s, to analog iddle Eastern music from the ’70s. The sound of the band is constantly revolving around different genres and rhythms, yet at its core Sababa 5 will always be a groove-centric band. The main sources of inspiration for the band are the nostalgic “beat groups” from Israel that played innovative combinations of psychedelic rock mixed with Mediterranean Arab music during the 60’s and 70's.

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Formed by Jack Pritchard (Vocals and guitar), Dan Shepherd (Vocals and guitar), Charlie Bogg (Vocals and bass), Owen Bullock (Vocals and drums) - with Eva Lunny guesting on Harp and Synth for studio records - Hutch set their stall on writing music that celebrates the wonders of the natural world and their own giddying adventures within it. Suffuse with child-like whimsy and escape from the mundane, snails, rainbows, wintry lakes and radiator shops rank high among the band's subject matters of choice. Regularly selling out venues in their native Brighton, Hutch have been gigging prodigiously since their live debut in 2021. Currently in the midst of a 13 date EU/UK tour with Gitkin, the band have recently earned support slots with legendary psych bands Love and Os Mutantes, in addition to shows with Yín Yín, Do Nothing, Oracle Sisters, Trudy and the Romance, Surprise Chef and Personal Trainer. Performing at this year's The Great Escape, last summer saw them reach the longlist for Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition and hit the stages of Dot to Dot, Victorious and 2000 Trees festivals.

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After the success of the last year's screening we'll be hosting another, this time at East Street Tap. Grab the popcorn and come discover the incredible story of WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc!

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Discover the psychedelic sounds of rock superstars WITCH in a guided tour through their mud-hut village formation to superstardom in the politically turbulent Zambia of the 70s, and eventual re-discovery by contemporary music fans. WITCH: We Intend to Cause Havoc is a vibrant, joyous celebration of life and music.

The film follows the twenty-first century formation of WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s and leaders of the ground-breaking ‘Zamrock’ movement. Lead singer, Jagari, whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger's, guides us through the band’s awakening to the sounds of the The Rolling Stones and the British Invasion bands of the 60s, which would see Jagari and the band develop their own unique blend of heavy psychedelic rock and African rhythms taking them to the pinnacle of Zambia’s music scene.

 

 

 

 

Well, here we are! 10 whole years of throwing parties, getting drunk and making some noise. So to celebrate, we thought it'd be nice to bring some old faces back along with some new ones and as we're now in double digits it only made sense to do two nights at two venues who've been there from the very beginning!

 

Friday 8th Dec - Green Door Store

The Black Tambourines

Trip Westerns

Electric Cowboy Club

+ After party at The Hope & Ruin with guest DJs

 

Saturday 9th Dec: The Hope & Ruin

Ellis*D

Honk

Vieira and the Silvers

The Stanford Family Band

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Hailing from Holland’s southernmost city of Maastricht, Yīn Yīn entered the scene back in 2019 with the Thai psychrock influenced album The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers, which was followed up in 2022 with the more spiritual and cosmic sounding The Age of Aquarius. Mount Matsu finds the band - who now live and record in a nearby Belgian countryside home and studio - somewhere in between the two first albums as their sound has gradually shifted towards the land of the rising sun: Japan. Sticking to pentatonic scales, the band’s largely instrumental sound - created with a unique set of instruments including vintage synthesizers and a traditional Chinese string instrument; the ‘Guzheng’,  - features big jumps between notes with melodies that are easy to love as they draw the listener into unfamiliar oriental territories.

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“Tell them what you want - the time will soon be gone…”
Like the lyrics from their latest single C’est si Bon (it's so good!) that features on the album, the honeyed harmonising trio - consisting of the three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown who front the band - stay true to their word. These women have something to say and they are not afraid to play with the medium. Leaning into their “boundary busting discodelic soul” (The Guardian), their flawless harmonies twist and writhe, capturing listeners hearts with buttery vocals, fat funky basslines, catchy hooks and up-tempo grooves.

Silver oozes with quirk and the album is an adventure through 16 songs - a double sided LP that opens with an incantation and ends with the title track that will lull you into a dreamscape with a locked groove of silver noise.

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WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded a new genre dubbed Zamrock, fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown and mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs. At t the peak of their popularity, the band often needed police to keep fans at bay while their lead singer Jagari – whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s – riled up crowds by stage diving from balconies and dancing manically as the WITCH’s blend of psychedelic rock and African rhythms permeated the surrounding atmosphere.Jagari is the charismatic sole surviving original member of the band. As Zambia’s economy stagnated and the country buckled under the AIDS crisis, WITCH fell apart. Jagari retreated to a life of quasi-anonymity as a university music professor before being wrongfully arrested during Zambia’s toughest hour. Now a man in his 60s, he spends his time mining gemstones hoping to strike it rich, until very recently the band being just a nostalgic memory of his youth.

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Well, here we are! 10 whole years of throwing parties, getting drunk and making some noise. So to celebrate, we thought it'd be nice to bring some old faces back along with some new ones and as we're now in double digits it only made sense to do two nights at two venues who've been there from the very beginning!

 

Friday 8th Dec - Green Door Store

The Black Tambourines

Trip Westerns

Electric Cowboy Club

+ After party at The Hope & Ruin with guest DJs

 

Saturday 9th Dec: The Hope & Ruin

Ellis*D

Honk

Vieira and the Silvers

The Stanford Family Band

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SLIFT’s ILION is a towering work of rock music, a steamrolling record that starts at the highest peak and never lets up. If that sounds overwhelming, trust that this Toulouse trio have you in good hands. Their third full-length feels massive and oceanic, merging the furious intensity of metal and the wigged-out guitar heroics of psych rock with post-rock’s epic sense of scale. ILION is the kind of music where you listen to it and think to yourself, “This came from only three people?” It sure did, and SLIFT’s utter ferocity is way more than a tempest in a teacup. It reaches outwards for miles and creates new zeniths within unforeseen horizons of rock.

SLIFT is made up of brothers Jean and Remí Fossat and Canek Flores, who first met the brothers Fossat at (of all things) school. After the band formally came together in 2016, they quickly made their 2017 debut EP, Space Is the Key, which merged stoner rock’s heaviness with the sugar-rush qualities of garage rock. From there, things only got weirder: The trio experimented with faster tempos and bongos(!) on the following year’s full-length La Planeté Inexploreé, and in 2019, their KEXP session recorded at the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes became a viral sensation, racking up more than 1.4 million YouTube views

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“Tell them what you want - the time will soon be gone…”
Like the lyrics from their latest single C’est si Bon (it's so good!) that features on the album, the honeyed harmonising trio - consisting of the three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown who front the band - stay true to their word. These women have something to say and they are not afraid to play with the medium. Leaning into their “boundary busting discodelic soul” (The Guardian), their flawless harmonies twist and writhe, capturing listeners hearts with buttery vocals, fat funky basslines, catchy hooks and up-tempo grooves.

Silver oozes with quirk and the album is an adventure through 16 songs - a double sided LP that opens with an incantation and ends with the title track that will lull you into a dreamscape with a locked groove of silver noise.

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