Sound activist and musician Charles Hayward returns with his popular evening of music that pushes at the edges of the new, challenging the already known, questioning frontiers and embracing divergent energies.
Drummer, songwriter, sound activist Charles Hayward was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. Moving forward Hayward has recorded solo projects of songs and imaginative sound worlds, performing throughout UK, Europe, North America and Japan. Zigzag+swirl is a solo set of drums, voice, zigzag and swirl, songs in quantum funk, never the same twice, no click, no fixed zero-point. The music does not exist in its own orbit. It is completed by ears, minds, bodies, the interplay between intent and perception. From This Heat to now: Forward Music!
THE UMLAUTS make expressive, confounding art-punk by wrapping elements of French, German and Italian traditions into their sound. Rebelling against labels, transcending borders of land and time – packed with twin vocalists equally competent in their skewering south-London drawl as they are in German, Italian or French – as in touch with the nostalgias of First-Generation post-punk or 80s pop as they are with the techniques of contemporary pop or …
PRAH Recordings x The State51 Factory sessions
The Umlauts: Sweat (Green Man Festival | Sessions)
TOOTH ADDERLY is a group of young players led by Sarah Downie doing her fresh songs in imaginative and evocative arrangements. New pop for the new now.
OVNI is a hypnotic audio-visual experiment between and towards.
Record label STATE 51’s Louise Mason and Gordon Wallace will DJ throughout.
This event will feature strobes and/or severe flashing lights.