Thursday 30TH JANUARY | 7pm |  £9 / £6 members and unwaged

"..The Bohman Brothers and Romuald Wadych have at last risen from the cinders of The Dave Craught Five. On this evening, after seven months of two shows a night at The Varna Club in Memel - they will arrive in Brighton to present a salute to some of those other members of the DC5: Jack McGrumber, Kenneth Trompette, Shane Forte. They will play a selection of the old material and a few new ones...."

The Bohman Brothers

Recording together since the early 1970s, The Bohman Brothers have created unique and impure experimental music that displays traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.

London-based Jonathan and Adam Bohman (aka the Bohman Brothers) are known for their unique experimental sound based live performances which use found objects, text and an innumerable array of sound sources.

The Bohman Brothers frequently perform live throughout the UK and Europe and regularly appear on London’s art radio station Resonance 104.4FM.

"The Merz-like collage method at work in the Bohman brothers’ music... a dense nugget of lo-fi grey noise, acerbic asides, pawky puppet-show music and strangulated distortion, all apparently recorded on the run with hand-held devices and patched together with a rough but sure sense of what feels right, even if it sounds wrong... Like beauty, the humour is there to be discovered by the audience, more engaging for having been harder won..." - Cooky La Moo

The Bohman Brothers have worked on the outer fringes of underground music for decades with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, they explore the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects.

Their humorous visual set-ups resemble hard-wired flea markets, and are the basis from which the duo, in the spirit of Fluxus, musique concrète and sound poetry, create their often grotesque soundscapes. They borrow and quote freely from any sound source available to them, including found texts such as advertising spiel, the sounds of amplified shoe brushes and tape cutups of seventeenth-century instruments.

**Fun Fact** As well as being sound recordists on the film Berberian Sound Studio (directed by Peter Strickland), the Bohman Brothers had cameo roles in the film.

The Burbling Mind

Karen Constance & Dylan Nyoukis, James Parsons and Al Strachan come together for a fourth time for more group think via electronics, tapes, percussion, voice and cornet.

+ The Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits