Outherlies - a two-day festival of fresh sounds and new collaborations. Brought to you by Pyramid Club and Swamp Soul. Featuring artists spanning multiple generations of Wellington's creative music community: sound makers, free improvisers, noise merchants, found object investigators, electronic misfits and more. All groups are entirely new collaborations - none of these artists have ever played together before! All the music is improvised.
Thursday 5 Sept
Kieran Monaghan (plant modular) + Roman Polaczuk (synth/bass)
Tom Shultz (drums) + Tom Callwood + Jade Holmes (synth/noise)
Jonny Marks (voice/synth) + Will Thompson (guitar)
Andy Wright (drums) + Baxter Gray (bass) + Bec Coogan (guitar/voice)
Blair Latham (sax/electronics) + Bridget Kelly (reeds) + Felix Tippet-Morrison (guitar)
Friday 6 Sept
Chrissie Butler (table top objects) + Fi Tarn (guitar/synths)
Daniel Beban (reel-to-reel tapes) + Mallory Elmo (violin/flute)
Isaac Smith (modular synth) + Fletcher Ng (drums/4-track)
Ritual Heaps (noise) + Sophia Frudd (stuff)
Zak Argabrite (circuit bent electronics/sax) + Shay Patel (constructed instruments)
Night 1
Kieran Monaghan: previously drummer/vocalist of theatrical punk outfit Mr Sterile Assembly, currently performing with plant/fungus manipulated modular synth.
Roman Polaczuk: plays bass, makes sad country music, will probably be playing synth and ambient music. Plays in Mudgoose.
Tom Shultz: bands to mention: Porpoise, Thousand Acre Plain, Silicon Tongue, Mudgoose. Drummer and guitarist and general virtuoso, based deep in Newtown.
Jade Holmes: She plays in a band called Elizabeth Sanctuary Welding School for Girls. Synths.
Tom Callwood: double bass player par excellence (Devils Gate Outfit, Phoenix Foundation, Melancholy Babes et al). Puts his bass through weird and wild electronics.
Jonny Marks: the one and only throat singing suitcase AKS Synthi manipulating sound alchemist.
Will Thompson: does solo music under the name Till Whompson, also plays in Wintermute, Celtic Death and Western Haikus. Free improv guitar.
Andy Wright: drummer of subtlety and extraordinary focus. Also plays warped Love Boat style keyboards as Fist Kisser.
Baxter Gray: in Wintermute, Thousand Acre Plain, Silicon Tongue and others. Bass, no wave. Film maker. Swamp Soul head honcho.
Bec Coogan: conjures elemental inspiration from the deepest, most guttural regions of the psyche. Plays guitar, sings.
Blair Latham: a musicians' musician. Plays sax and other reeds through electronics. Invents instruments with springs and bits of metal.
Felix Tippet-Morrison: He's a guitarist. Not sure how to describe how he plays but he's very good at his particular way of playing. Intuitive while equally skilled. Plays in Thousand Acre Plain.
Bridget Kelly: multi-reeds player (sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute) with a mastery of tone. Has recently taken up harp.
$10 unwaged
$15 waged
$20 two night festival pass
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
