LONDON: New River Studios

Friday 4th October, 2024

8:00pm

Event information

BLURT
Ted Milton - voice, saxophone
Steve Eagles - guitar
David Aylward - drums

Founded by poet & performance artist Ted Milton in 1979 and described variously as "post-punk pogo-jazz" and "no-wave psycho-funk" trio Blurt were associated with Factory Records during the 1980s before moving on to pastures new.

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, their performances at festivals, clubs and squats across a soon to be unified Europe as well as their uncompromising recorded output became legendary; symbolic of the riotous celebration of new found freedoms and the denouncing of long enforced social taboos.

Irreverent to the last, they continue to stoke the fires of the independent music scene in their own inimitable way. Of recent, cover versions of Blurt songs have also started appearing as a whole new generation discover their sound. Their latest release 'My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People'; a compilation of seminal live recordings is being hailed as an instant classic.

WORLD SANGUINE REPORT
Andrew Plummer - voice, elec. guitar
Matthew Bourne - harmonium
Ruth Goller - elec. bass, voice
Will Glaser - drum kit

Avant-rock band, World Sanguine Report perform material from their forthcoming album “Songs From The Harbour” - Plummer's bruised vocals and darkly-enthralling lyrics, alongside Goller’s voice are enveloped in a tide of swirling tones, textures and rhythms from accompanying guitars, bass, harmonium and drums. In often stark arrangement, World Sanguine Report revel on a journey through songs from a dark side of life and love.