We are really excited to be collaborating with The Gate – the brilliant creative studio / label for adults with learning disabilities in west London. We are also inviting some of our favourite collectives and labels here in Brighton onto the lineup: Ceremonial Laptop, Safehouse & Chocolate Monk will all put forward one of their acts.
Expect an awesome lineup of eclectic music for a special one off matinee show. From vocal loops and improv to future hip hop, EDM, tripped out funk and more. The Gate has already collaborated with many venues around the country including Cafe Oto and Supernormal Festival – we can’t wait for them to and do it here at The Rose Hill!
Listen to their latest Gate compilation release here to get a flavour: https://thegate54.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-2-the-gate-house
More acts TBA
info on confirmed acts below 🙂
Labake Sabbath x Wayne’s Drones
Labake Sabbath is a dynamic singer and spoken word artist who is also a lyrical free improviser. She writes music often with playful humour, sometimes about her lived experiences. This includes themes such as navigating public transport with limited mobility, memories of her friends who have passed on and celebrations of The Gate where she makes strong visual art as well as her music. Her live show incorporates this visual art and is as sincere and heartfelt as it is humorous. Her recent collaboration with Wayne from The Gate, who makes distinct drones on keys, brings in a frank and bewitching spoken word aspect to her work.
Wayne is a long-time member of 54 the Gate, who can play deep and mystifying drones for hours on the Gate’s freestanding keyboard. Lately he has moved over to the smaller Korg, which we can bring to gigs. His recent first-time collab with Labake Sabbath electrified Klein’s residency at OTO — so here the duo return, with more gigs and a release planned for the future… Listen on bandcamp
‘There are 17 songs on the debut album by Labake Sabbath, but despite this relative glut and its variable styles, it flies by with a keen balance of emotion and humour, personal and political.’ — Noel Gardner, The Quietus
Gate Loops
Gate Loops is an experimental collective from The Gate in Shepherd’s Bush, London. The project began as an accessible vehicle to encourage folks who don’t normally play musical instruments (and one or two that do!) to jam and join in, in a freeform way loosely based around a structure developed in workshops. Using self-made noise boxes, tape loops, and loop pedal, the work is never predictable and always compelling and with the deep sense of humour that the group share. Listen on Bandcamp
Love Permanent
Love Permanent is the Gate’s improv band, which comes together every Friday for a jam session at The Gate in which music facilitators jam with Gate artists. There is a predisposition towards tripped-out funk but it is stylistically unpredictable in the best way — it just depends who shows up on the day.
Mr AKA Amazing
Duane Warner (known as Mr AKA Amazing) makes distinctively vulnerable lo-fi hip-hop and distorted EDM, which he builds around voice notes using his phone. His softly spoken lyrics are raw and vulnerable, often about feeling misunderstood, although when performing live he enters a hyped-up surrealist freestyle mode.
‘Illegibility Mistakable: Master AKA Mr Amazing collects several tracks from earlier, self-released albums into one righteous lump of lo-fi hiphop that’s somewhere between cLOUDDEAD and Adam Bohman. “MANGOBAY” sounds like someone wrestling with the ideas of life and relationships while speaking through a broken supermarket tannoy.’ — Spenser Tomson, The Wire
2decks
Darren 2Decks is an intuitive musician and a born performer, equally at home freestyling or handling every stage of production. A longstanding member of The Gate, he brings a razor-sharp battle style of hip-hop that hits the audience like a storm. listen on bandcamp