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Supersonic Festival 2010, Birmingham UK, 22nd – 24th October

Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival will be headlined by Napalm Death, Swans, Godflesh and Hallogallo (feat Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth), Capsule are pleased to announce that a limited number of individual day tickets are now on sale, priced £20 (Friday) and £35 (Saturday/Sunday), with weekend tickets on sale at £75.

Friday night will be headlined by Birmingham extreme metallers Napalm Death, Saturday by Godflesh, for their first UK appearance in over 10 years, and Sunday by two equally unmissable acts, Swans and Hallogallo 2010 – Michael Rother + friends play the music of NEU!

Supersonic are also excited to reveal the final round of incredible artists who will be appearing at this year’s festival. From Doom to dub step and folk, Supersonic 2010 is set to cement the festival’s reputation as one of the most original and eclectic music festivals in the UK.

Regarded as pioneers of experimental music by the likes of Sonic Youth and Merzbow, KK Null’s incredible collective Zeni Geva will be bringing their prog-hardcore to the Supersonic stage, and KK will also be appearing alongside Birmingham sound artist, Lash Frenzy, in a truly unmissable performance. Also confirmed, Kevin Martin, creator of experimental dancehall project The Bug, with his incredible, critically acclaimed new project, King Midas Sound.

Aggressive, noisy and hailed by many as the successor to Napalm Death, Fukpig will be playing their new breed of Birmingham grindcore, along with heavy, heavy dub from Devilman aka DJ Scotch Egg and Dokkebi Q. Also confirmed, Monarch, with the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum.

Following a knock-out 2009 performance, Nisennenmondai return, bringing their driving rhythm section and metallic guitar sound, along with Mugstar, who will be playing their unique underground mix of psychedelia and krautrock.  Also confirmed, the most exciting new band to come out of London, Factory Floor, who will also be putting in one of their legendary brutal, live performances, and there will be an unmissable Cloaks DJ set from Steve Cloaks, who will be playing strictly Cloaks material only, in an exclusive performance for Supersonic 2010. There will also be heaviness, good times and volume a-plenty from Birmingham’s very own Stinky Weezleteet and distorto-death groves from Brighton’s Dead Fader.

World music meets psychedelic rock in a unique performance from Khyam Allami and Master Musicians of Bukkake, combining the sublime Oud playing of Iraqi musician Khyam Allami with the 7-piece out rock unit, Master Musicians of Bukkake.

French composer and surrealist inventor Pierre Bastien will also be bringing his musical machinery, which he has been making since the 1970s, and will share the bill with Male Instrumenty, the fantastic five-piece orchestra of toys and small instruments from Poland. Also, the “painfully young and unnervingly talented” American multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, who will be exploring minimalism and instrumentalism with tinges of folk.

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides provide a mesmerizing and unforgettable avant-primitivism,  oVo with their incredible combination of heavy riffage, bombastic drumming and unforgettable vocals, as well as a return from the dark lords of Drum and Bass, PCM. Dosh will be performing, complete with mandatory pots and pans, as well as Drumcorps, with their unique, high-energy mix of music production values and the raw power of American hardcore.

Tweak Bird are also confirmed, bringing their big drums, fuzzed out baritone guitar and tandem spacey vocal melodies, and also Cave, with their sickeningly tight drum and bass. There will also be multi-sensory art in the form of DJ and multimedia artist Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, and dark visual music trio Demons (W/sick Llama).



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Hallogallo 2010 (Michael Rother’s) Recent NYC Appearances Available For Streaming; Playing Holland’s Incubate Festival In September

Posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Hallogallo 2010, Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU!, recently performed during WFMU‘s broadcast at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, and had a show this week at Maxwell’s, Lincoln Center (NY). Michael stoped by WFMU’s Brian Turner show yesterday, joined by Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Aaron Mullan for ...read more

Album of the day: Neu! – Vinyl Box

Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: It might be a bit melodramatic to say that a man had to die to make this box happen, but there can be no doubt that Klaus Dinger’s passing in 2008 made its realization a whole lot easier. The well-documented friction between guitarist Michael Rother ...read more

Hallogallo 2010: Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU! At Tilburg’s Incubate Festival

Posted on Friday, June 18th, 2010

Hallogallo 2010, performing the music of NEU!, has been added to the lineup of this years Incubate Festival, set to be held on Sunday, September 19th. The legendary German group NEU! released only 3 albums between 1972 and 1975, but these albums had an influence wildly disproportionate to their modest ...read more

Hallogallo 2010: Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU!

Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Michael Rother will start performing selected concerts around the world in summer 2010 with his project Hallogallo 2010. Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will join him. Together they will play music by NEU! as well as some tracks by Harmonia ...read more

From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity

Posted on Sunday, February 7th, 2010

When we started The Quietus we made the fairly arbitrary decision that modern popular music started with Kraftwerk’s Autobahn in 1974. John Doran talks to Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Karl Bartos about the build up to this flash point in musical history. There are many terms that always crop ...read more

Album of the day: Harmonia – Deluxe

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Praise for Harmonia‘s Deluxe from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: A while ago we raved about the reissue of Harmonia’s first album Musik Von Harmonia and now Lilith has thankfully reissued Harmonia’s follow-up release from 1975, Deluxe. Although we loved Harmonia’s first album, Deluxe is, dare we say, even better!! Made ...read more

NEU! Box set coming

Posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Word arrives today that a box set of Krautrock pioneers NEU! is being prepped for release by guitarist Michael Rother. Rother of course co-founded the band in 1971 with drummer Klaus Dinger following the pair’s departure from an early incarnation of Kraftwerk; with producer Conny Plank overseeing the recordings. NEU! ...read more