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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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The Quietus: Godflesh – Justin Broadrick Talks Reformation

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

The Quietus’ Rob Haynes speaks to avant metal pioneer Justin Broadrick about getting the gang back together for a series of hellish shows… Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival will be headlined by Swans, Capsule are hugely excited to announce the second headlining ...read more

Godflesh To Play Supersonic Festival, Birmingham

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival will be headlined by Swans, Capsule are hugely excited to announce the second headlining act, Godflesh. Acclaimed by many as founders of the industrial metal movement, Godflesh will be returning to their Birmingham roots to play the ...read more

First Acts Announced for Birmingham’s Annnual Supersonic Festival

Posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival (set for 22 – 24 October 2010) will be headlined by Michael Gira’s massively influential NYC band SWANS, Capsule are excited to announce a first round of live acts who will also perform at this year’s festival, ...read more

Swans Headline Supersonic Festival 2010; New Festival Dates 22 – 24 October

Posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

To launch the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival, Birmingham promoters and curators Capsule are excited and proud to announce that Michael Gira’s massively influential NYC band SWANS will headline this year’s festival, which takes place from 22 – 24 October 2010. Tickets are now on sale! Featuring ...read more

Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen. One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill spent hanging ...read more

Supersonic Festival: Birmingham, July 24th – 26th

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We are currently gearing up for our sonic pilgrimage to Birmingham’s annual Supersonic Festival. Louise of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with promoter Lisa to find out more about their aural annual adventure. An excerpt from the chat follows below. What is Supersonic Festival all about? We aim to put ...read more

Thorr’s Hammer reunion at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival

Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

JamMin of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with  Thorr’s Hammer’s Runhild Gammelsæter. An excerpt from the interview follows below. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or find anything slower than Agoraphobic Nosebleed “a bit dull and uninteresting”, you’ve probably heard that legendary doom troupe Thorr’s Hammer (the Thorr’s Hammer ...read more

The return of Goblin

Posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Lovingly pinched  from Dazed Digital: The Italian prog rock band, who architected the soundtrack of Dario Argento’s films is back with a run of live shows (including a very rare live appearance at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham on Sunday, July 26th) and a new album. The soundtracks of Italian ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more

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