Friday 11th July - 9.00pm - 3.00am

Cutting Pink With Knives Dalek DJ /Rupture feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore Osaka Invasion feat. DJ Scotch Egg /Bogulta /Ove Naxx/ Maruosa/ Dokkebi Q/ Drumize PCM Rolo Tomassi

Saturday 12th July 4.00pm - 3.00am
Alexander Tucker Battles Beestung Lips Black Sun Cath & Phil Tyler Efterklang Fuck Buttons Guapo Harvey Milk Heatseekers Justice Yeldham Magnetophone Noxagt Oren Ambarchi Oxbow The Courtesy Group The Heads The Owl Service Thrones Wooden Shjips

Sunday 13th July 2pm - 11.30pm
Asva Earth Einstellung Errors Gravetemple feat. Julian Cope . Stephen O'Malley . Oren Ambarchi . Atllia Csihar Harmonia Kikuri feat. Merzbow & Keiji Haino Max Tundra Orthodox Parts & Labor Pierre Bastien Red Sparowes The Oscillation Zx Spectrum Orchestra

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Capsule
Since 1999 Capsule has been instrumental in the transformation of Birmingham, Britain's Second City, from a cultural backwater to one of the most important ports-of-call on the international experimental music circuit . Champions of all things across the avant-garde spectrum, Capsule present a year-round programme of live music, events and exhibitions.
www.capsule.org.uk/Supersonic

Alexander Tucker
A unique voice occupying his own space, this is folk with swathes of post rock and almost industrial soundscapes, woeful acoustic music all lovelorn, lost and bewildered. The vocals are delicate and broken, complemented with piano, cello and harpsichord, punctuated with darker waves of feedback and looped found sounds to create beautiful yet unsettling music, that will stay with you long after he has left the stage.
www.myspace.com/alexanderdtucker

Asva
Helmed by Stuart Dahlquist (ex SUNN0))), Goatsnake, Burning Witch) and joined by the cream of the Pacific North West's musical talent, including members of Burning Witch, Earth, Mr Bungle & The Accused, ASVA's sound is at once terrifying and reflective – huge wide open vistas and dense claustrophobic rumble, their music maps an internal geography of mountain highs, oceanic lows and the primal sense of nature. Imagine Carl Orff scoring Earth 2.
www.myspace.com/asvaband

Battles
New York four piece Battles comprise of Ian Williams (Don Caballero), John Stanier (Helmet, Tomahawk), Dave Konopka (Lynx) and Tyondai Braxton (Prefuse 73 collaborator and notorious avant-jazz solo musician) Battles have created a genre of their own...
http://www.bttls.com/

Beestung Lips
Spewed up from the murky depths of Birmingham at some point in mid 2006, Bee Stung Lips is a four-headed hideous beast, with blood-shot eyes and tentacles stretching far back into the Midlands music scene.
Chewing on notes from The Jesus Lizard, Hot Snakes and Oxbow, and then spitting them back out, with additional nods to literary giants such as Charles Bukowski and John Fante, they create a provocative mixture of willfully abrasive noise and viscera-shredding rock 'n' roll. Howling, anguished, and convulsive vocals tussle with rapid-fire drums, riotous guitar and blistering bass lines, before collapsing into a chaotic heap, breathless and foaming at the mouth.
www.myspace.com/beestunglips1

Black Sun
Black Sun was formed in Glasgow by Russell McEwan as a solo, sample-based project inspired by Scorn at the end of his involvement with 'krautrock experimenters' Macrocosmica. Shortly after followed the recruitment of guitarist Kevin Hare, the line-up solidified with the addition of bass guitarist Graeme Leggate. Visceral, scorched earth bombast for fans of Swans & Khanate.
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun

Cath & Phil Tyler
Anglo-American duo Cath & Phil Tyler have performed the rare feat of uniting the traditional and more avant folk scenes. Live, they're a musical force to behold, their blend of traditional English folk, primitive Americana and Sacred Harp re-tellings all circling a heart of carnal, gory darkness.
www.myspace.com/cptyl

Cutting Pink With Knives
CPWK are as genre puddled as you like...electronic oriented punk with a spot of old-skool rave and a dash of grindcore.
www.myspace.com/cuttingpinkwithknives

Dalek
Dalek has rightfully gained iconic status as one of the finest alt-hip hop bands of our time. Until recently resolutely "underground", Dalek methodically undermines every idiom perpetuated by mainstream rap, choosing instead to blend assaulting hypnotic rhymes with a corrosively atmospheric, electronica-infected hard rock sensibility. The duo effortlessly embrace genres from hip hop to jazz, from jazz to metal, from metal to punk, from punk to noisecore, from noisecore to hiphop.
http://www.deadverse.com/

DJ /rupture feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore
An awesome sound clash, an MC driven turntable bass end party set. A groundbreaking collaboration because no one else right now is combining the 'singjay' style practised by Jah Dan with the kind of bashment via dubstep via inflected beats Rupture is laying down in his re-styled sets. Rupture is not a DJ to rest on previous highs, but who looks for new ones. This is a USA / Caribbean response to the sound taking over the basements and clubs this side of the Atlantic. Re-jigged, fattened up and dexterous.
http://www.myspace.com/deejayrupture

Earth
Earth are an American drone band based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1990 by Dylan Carlson, Slim Moon, and Greg Babior; the band took its name from the first incarnation of Black Sabbath. Although they have played various styles of music, they are best known as pioneers of a minimalist, long and repetitive form of heavy music known as drone. To a lesser extent their sound is referred to as doom metal. Earth, however, have little to do with metal in their current sound. Their early albums could be seen as a variation of the experimental doom-influenced metal of The Melvins.
www.myspace.com/earthofficial

Efterklang
10-piece Danish ensemble Efterklang, a band whose name translates literally to "after-noise" but more loosely to "reverberation" or "remembrance." All of these translations are in one way or another appropriate descriptors for the wondrous music created by the group, which settles beautifully into an open area somewhere between the elegant minimalist orchestrations of Max Richter, the electronically-enhanced chamber music of Rachel's albums like Systems/Layers, and the more contemplative moments of Godspeed! You Black Emperor.
The most obvious characteristic that separates Efterklang from these other artists is their extensive use of vocals to augment their spacious orchestral sound. The band are signed to the British The Leaf Label
www.myspace.com/efterklang

Einstellung
Featuring former members of Godflesh, Sally and Kat Bjelland's Katastrophy Wife among their number, Einstellung make incredible music that combines the motorik rhythms and sensibilities of Krautrock with the primal riffing more readily associated with their hometown of Birmingham through the likes of Sabbath. It's the sound of Lemmy jamming with Neu! on a hot day in hell.
www.myspace.com/einstellung

Errors
Taking elements of new-wave, electro, 90's rave, acid-house Errors make it their own along with the contemporary influences of purveyors of glitch electronica and IDM such as kid606, boards of canada and fourtet before melding it together in a package that has captured the attention of club kids, indie-kids and DJ's alike.
www.myspace.com/weareerrors

Fuck Buttons
Gloriously intense and euphoric yet challenging and confrontational with their music. They deliver layers of noise and intricate melodies but are not afraid to drone out and create slabs of sound.
http://www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons

Fucked Up
As monikers go, none could be more fitting for this group of individuals than Fucked Up.
Formed in 2001 as a by-product of a 'zine published by Gulag (rhythm guitar) and 10,000 Marbles (lead guitar), Fucked Up is comprised of people who were chosen for no reason other than their proven inability to work with each other. Front man Pink Eyes has been known to maim himself with bottles, microphones, and light bulbs, bleeding from his head as frenzied audience members throw themselves at the stage – and each other – with reckless abandon.

Gravetemple feat. Julian Cope . Stephen O'Malley . Oren Ambarchi . Attilla Csihar
You read that right – The Arch-Drude himself will be appearing as one quarter of blackened avant troops GRAVETEMPLE - joining the ranks of Stephen O'Malley (SUNN0)))/KTL), Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi and Hungarian vocal shaman Attilla Csihar (SUNN0))) / Mayhem)

Guapo
Guapo is a force of nature; an infinitely expanding climax, a controlled catastrophe, a sun forged in sound. It can be shaped, controlled, even tamed; but the strain of trying to contain it is etched into the contorted faces and flailing limbs of those brave and foolish men who take it upon themselves to do so.
Exposed to Guapo in a confined space, members of an audience will tend to do one of two things. Some will immediately seek the nearest exit, while those left behind turn to face the music, transfixed like prey engulfed in a tiger's roar
http://www.myspace.com/guapoband

Harmonia
Comprising of three of Germany's experimental music heavyweights, Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius – all of whom played in the stars of Krautrock namely Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster. The group was only together for 3 year (1973-76) and produced 2 albums; amazingly their sound is as experimental as it must have been thirty-three years ago

Harvey Milk
Too heavy to be post rock. Too weird to be metal. Too everything to be anything, Harvey Milk are unconventional and wholly unique, both structurally and sonically. Harvey Milk crafted inconceivable slabs of mesmerizing, ultra dynamic sludge, as well as precious moments of effortless grace and restraint. This is the first ever European visit from this cult band.
www.myspace.com/harveymilk

Justice Yeldman
What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is the unique work of Justice Yeldham who has an obsession with using sheets of broken glass as his musical instrument. He become enamored with the sonic possibilities of glass during a sound-check in 2003 and has been having a love affair with the material ever since. Amplifying the sheets using a high end transducer designed for grand pianos, he presses his face against the surface whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries. Helped along with the addition of various signal processors to create a wild variety of noises that are surprisingly controlled and oddly musical
www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham

Kikuri feat. Merzbow & Keiji Haino
This dynamic duo live performance features two legendary Japanese noise giants playing together . Haino plays guitar, percussion, a theremin-like device & vocals while Merzbow plays his computer filled with his own noise/feedback samples. It was pretty f**king scary
http://www.merzbow.net/

Magnetophone
Magnetophone are Birmingham natives Matt Huish Saunders and John Hanson. Friends since childhood, as boys they would often be found under water, weighed down by bricks and playing Stylophones. Displaying a gift for linguistic manipulation which has continued to sustain their career, they named this ritual the "Alpha Beti Bon-Tempi Underwater Electro-Hydro Sound-Fusion"
www.myspace.com/magnetophone

Mark Pilkington
Mark Pilkington publishes and edits Strange Attractor Journal, an irregular anthology of cultural marginalia and ethnographic esoterica, and curates events under the Strange Attractor banner. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Fortean Times, Arthur, The Wire and Plan B amongst others and his first book, Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edgewas recently published by Disinformation in New York City. Mark can also often be found making weird noises with the group Raagnagrok, Disinformation, The Stargazer's Assistant, Oort and the Stella Maris Drone Orchestra

Max Tundra
Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a piano. As a child he protested about the lessons in which he was forced to learn the music of the famous (dead) composers. "I used to prefer sitting at the keyboard at home and playing TV theme songs and music from adverts", remembers Ben. Eventually he realised that this expanse of black and white keys could be turned to his own advantage and he began forming his own musical inventions. His work has been described as "Intriguingly bonkers", and "Ludicrously enjoyable"
www.myspace.com/maxtundra

Nick Bullen
(b/1968) is a musician and sound artist whose work explores approaches at the extremes of sound. In his twenty-five year history as a musician (as a founder member of Napalm Death – creators of the 'Grindcore' genre - and Scorn), he has appeared on numerous recordings and performed extensively across the globe. He maintains a number of ongoing musical projects including the electronic group Black Galaxy and the Monium label. His work in the field of sound art has included installations, sound design for artists radio, writing on the use of the voice in music and art, a tour of cinemas producing improvised sound responses to key pieces of 'experimental' cinema, and lectures at art galleries including Tate Britain

Noxagt
Dangerous dirge blasts out of the tail pipe of Norway's ghost rider band Noxagt, their viola player replaced by Anders Hana (of Ultralyd and Moha!) on spring-loaded guitar
http://www.myspace.com/noxagt

Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it's a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK)
www.orenambarchi.com/

Orthodox
Orthodox from Seville in Spain, their musical influences (Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Melvins, Earth, Sleep) get mixed with their peculiar perception of the south-Spanish religious folklore. The result is a lethargic music with obsessive repetitions, minimalism, feedback, distortion and endless drones creating a primitive trance-inducing atmosphere
http://www.myspace.com/orthodoxband

Osaka invasion with: DJ Scotch Egg . Ove Naxx . Bogulta . Maruosa . Dokkebi Q . Drumize
An extraordinary group of artists from Osaka, Japan, are about to invade Birmingham!
The notorious DJ Scotch Egg, who's about to release an album on Load Records will spearhead the invasion with his unique gameboy madness. Joining him will be Ove-Naxx, also playing live. His fucked up breakcore jungle set is unforgetable to those who have seen him before. Headbanging never looked so good! Marousa will be thrashing his long black hair at you as well as his demented grindcore metal breakcore sounds. And last but definetly not least, and playing outside Japan for the first time, Bogulta, insane Osaka new wave party punk
www.myspace.com/djscotchegg

Oxbow
The provocative San Francisco-based quartet Oxbow formed in the late '80s around vocalist Eugene Robinson, guitarist Niko Wenner, bassist Dan Adams and drummer Greg Davis. Combining the squall of bands like the Birthday Party with elements of free jazz and musique concrète, the group debuted in 1990 with Fuckfest, Last years festival saw a very special performance with the Oxbow Duo and friends (Stephen O'Malley, Justin Broadrick, Dave Cochrane and Chipper), this year the whole band return to both scare and delight us
http://www.theoxbow.com/

Parts & Labor
Brooklyn noisepunks Parts & Labor create soaring melodies and cracked electronics, exploring a wide array of berserk, malfunctioning instruments and intricate, pummeling rhythms
www.myspace.com/partsandlabor

PCM
Supersonic just wouldn't be the same without PCM performing on Friday night, they are the dark lords of Drum n Bass. PCM were formed in 1990 by Neil Harvey and Nik Wells in Birmingham,UK Starting life as PCM Soundsystem, they began hosting parties in warehouses and empty buildings in the B'ham area and travelling to free festivals and outdoor parties with their sound. Playing an eclectic range of music from acid to hardcore to early jungle and often performing their own material live, they soon built up a large following in the emerging underground dance scene in the Midlands.
www.myspace.com/p_c_m

Pierre Bastien
The French composer and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Bastien and his machines collaborated with video artist Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, dj Low, British singer and composer Robert Wyatt and the Trottola circus. The most recent compositions were released on Lowlands and Rephlex
www.pierrebastien.com

Red Sparowes
Red Sparowes is epic without bombast, heavy without a single barre-chord riff and eviscerating without any clearly audible vocals. The chiming, spindly layers of effect-laden guitars and the swinging, entrancing drums on its Neurot Recordings debut At the Soundless Dawn create textures reminiscent of Goblin, Tones on Tail, Godspeed You Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth. Its attack is syrupy and serpentine; subtle but frighteningly deliberate
www.redsparowes.com/

Rolo Tomassi
Far more evolved than the constraints of 'jazzy noise' or 'synth-screamo', Rolo Tomassi leap confidently from genre to genre. Moments of oddly-timed chaos flow comfortably into sanguine prog-rock workouts, otherworldly, alien noises sit happily alongside bass-led doom riffs. It's eclectic stuff - without ever sounding disjointed.
And yes the majority of the band may only just be adults in the eyes of the law, but any issues people might have with this have been abolished by the bands obvious talent, drive and work-ethic.
www.myspace.com/rolotomassi

The Courtesy Group
Big egos, rambling post-punk grooves and twisted West Midlands wisdom are the ingredients in the Courtesy Group's over-blown and over-stated sonic attack.
Larger than life frontman Al Hutchinson, who could only be described as the camp bastard son of Mark E. Smith and Screaming Lord Sutch, rants over the top of a heaving rhythm section.
www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup

The Heads
Very rare live show from psychedelic rock outfit The Heads.
http://www.myspace.com/theheadsrock

The Oscillation
Veering between krautrock edginess and bittersweet pop melancholia, droning medicated tones and noise driven fuzz, The Oscillation recalls the kosmische musik of Neu! and Tangerine Dream interpreted with an eye on Pil's dubbed out punk funk, Miles Davis' experimentalism and Spacemen 3's strung out song writing
http://www.myspace.com/theoscillations

The Owl Service
The Owl Service formed through a mutual love of British films and television of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and {of course} the sound of the English folk revival. No retro obsessives, The Owl Service simply believe that music production peaked around 1969 and they merely seek to perfectly encapsulate the influence of the greatest albums and artists of that time. Beautiful music, simply arranged, exquisitely executed and captured on tape with authentic warmth - prepare to be enchanted by The Owl Service.
http://www.myspace.com/theowlservice

Thrones
What can you say about Mr. Joe Preston? Legend. If you have listened to any music that is considered heavy in the last 15 years then you have heard Joe howl, previous outfits include Melvins, Whip, Earth, Sunn o))) and High On Fire, but none of them could prepare you for the stench that is Thrones. The sound is intense, mixing heavily distorted vocals, bass heavier than any before it, ridiculously fucked up, raw programmed drums, samples and keyboards. In lesser hands this would be a disaster but Preston IS the sum of his parts, verging from a din inducing sludge racket to beautiful lulls of quiet sweetness, weird and wonderful, this rare UK performance promises to be very special indeed
http://www.myspace.com/thronestour

Transitional
Transitional is the new project of musician producer Kevin Laska ( Novatron ) and long time Justin K Broadrick and Kevin Martin collaborator Dave Cochrane. The debut 'Nothing real Nothing Absent' offers a rich variety in their approach to sound combining crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic ambience, mangling bass lines and distorted epic layers of textured guitar. Injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing Laska and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale before pulling you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off with some more soul dismantling sonic disfunction. This is a band which can deliver both sonic tranquility and extremely heavy slabs of dense music and just about everything in between.
http://www.myspace.com/transitionaluk

Wooden Shjips
"More of what we love, a relentless, never-ending blown out fuzzy groove, all warm whirring organ, fuzz guitar, and throbbing bass, the drums a super solid motorik framework, the vocals sort of sung / spoken, reverb and delay EVERYWHERE, the strangest addition is the haunting horns on the A side, that drift and moan ghost like over the fuzz jam below. One song spread out over two sides, by side 2, the band have locked it in and sound like they are never gonna stop. A looped cyclical minimal fuzzrock jam that sounds almost like some crazy crossbreeding of the Doors and Spacemen 3, which should appeal to Circle, Salvatore and Magyar Posse fans as much as all the druggy psychrock dronesters out there." -Aquarius Records
http://www.woodenshjips.com

Yukio Fujimoto & Brian Duffy
Japanese artist Yukio Fujimoto is renowned for his experimental use of sound. In a variety of ways, minimally, unpretentiously, his work demonstrates the nature of human perception, engaging his audience with a strange familiarity. He explains, "An aural experience consists not merely of listening to sounds, but also of perceiving momentarily a world hidden below the everyday, which cannot be captured by the eyes alone. When you make works using sound you are, as a matter of course, tempted into the realm of the philosophical. For Birmingham, Fujimoto will give a talk about his artistic practice overall, and make a performance "on a table".

Brian Duffy is a conceptual artist, whose work involves live performance/installations/original music composition/and the creation of new musical instruments. He is the brains behind the Modified Toy Orchestra which explores the hidden potential and surplus value latent inside redundant technology; a process creating sophisticated new electronic instruments from abandoned children's toys.

ZX Spectrum Orchestra (featuring:Brian Duffy/Mike in Mono)
Whilst the spectrum will produce a varied array of sounds which are pleasing to the ear there is a darker side to its operation. The capability to create a more unconventional sound is limitless. Everything you will see and hear is derived from a steep and logistic learning curve. Peek, Poke and Merge.
www.myspace.com/zxspectrumorchestra