Little Chris aka Brumcast has put together a podcast show dedicated to celebrating Capsule's 10th birthday, it features some of the artists performing over the next few weeks as part of our birthday season. It's certainly getting us excited about what's on the horizon.
LISTEN HERE1. Beestung Lips - Reverse Alchemy (2:14)
2. Pram - Mother of Pearl (3:16)
3. Una Corda - Three (6:54)
4. Lightning Dust - Dreamer (3:46)
5. Modified Toy Orchestra - A Grand Occasion (2:07)
6. Tweak Bird - Whorses (2:29)
7. Einstellung - Tot (4:01)
8. PCM - Davros Dominion (5:05)
9. Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash (3:24)
10. Om - On The Mountain At Dawn (21:18)
Opening Party
Tuesday 1st December 2009
Capsule are 10! launch party
Monotonix + Beestung Lips
Esquilax + Cum Dogs@ VIVID. Heath Mill Lane . Birmingham
LIMITED CAPACITY
Doors 8.00pm
Advanced Tickets:
www.theticketsellers.co.ukThe launch party of Capsule’s 10-year retrospective exhibition features a number of special guests Israel’s garage rockers
Monotonix, who certainly know how to start a party, rock you senseless and leave you wanting so much more will be headlining the opening show. In celebration of some of the ground breaking local music Capsule have championed
Esquilax will be performing a special one off live performance, alongside Cum Dogs, a new project from Modified Toy Orchestra’s Brian Duffy. Infamous locals
Beestung Lips will also be joining the proceedings.
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Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Capsule are 10!
Tunng + Six Organs Of Admittance
Lightning Dust + Bela Emerson@ Town Hall Birmingham
Doors 7.00pm
Advanced Tickets ONLY from
https://tickets.thsh.co.uk/or phone - 0121 780 3333
An extraordinary night of entertainment at the spectacular Town Hall Birmingham. Special guests include old friends
Tunng who combine a perfect mixture of skewed electronica and pastoral English Folk music.
Six Organs of Admittance, psych-folk-pop, hippie jams updated for the kids of today.
Lightning Dust, the side project of Amber Webber and Joshua Wells, both members of Canadian band Black Mountain. Complimented by the bewitching
Bela Emerson, an innovative and prolific performer of electric cello, electronics, tenor viol and musical saw.
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Tuesday 8th December 2009
Capsule are 10!
Lightning Bolt + Tweak Bird +Pete Prescription@ Vivid . Heath Mill Lane . Birmingham
SOLD OUT
Doors 8.00pm
The mighty
Lightning Bolt will be performing an intimate gig in Vivid art gallery as part of Capsule’s 10th birthday celebrations. This strictly limited capacity show re-lives the first time Lightning Bolt played for Capsule back in 2004 in what is now the theatre space of the Custard Factory. Nothing less than a thrill to witness,
Tweak Bird’s heavy, progressive psychedelia has earned them a reputation as an exciting new live act. The man behind the world’s only and best Happy Hardcore covers band,
Pete_Prescription completes the line up, expect Krautrock, melody, Noise or something else entirely.
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Thursday 10th December
Sunn 0))) + OmThe Asylum, Hockley, Birmingham B19 3LS
Advanced Tickets:
www.theticketsellers.co.ukPolar Bear/Swordfish
Capsule’s favourite cult doom outfit
Sunn 0))) will be performing their ‘Monoliths and Dimensions’ album, illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear Sunn 0))) have become one of the most important experimental acts in the world.
Om provide support to create what should be a show rich in darkness and intensity.
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Friday 11th December
Pram with Visuals by Film Ficciones + Light Trap@ Vivid . Heath Mill Lane . Birmingham
LIMITED CAPACITY
Doors 8.00pm
Advanced Tickets:
www.theticketsellers.co.ukPolar Bear / Swordfish
Members of Haxan, Una Corda and sound artist Nicholas Bullen collaborate to create a progressive, experimental adventure in sound, Light Trap. Following this will be an eerie Victoriana inspired
Pram performance alongside Film Ficciones in the warehouse space of Vivid.
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Sunday 13th December
Capsule and 7 Inch Cinema present:
Afternoon Tea – a light buffet with a healthy serving of filmsVivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR
FREE EVENT 2pm - 6pm
Almost since day one,
7 Inch Cinema have been crouching in a corner at Capsule gigs with a video projector gaffa-taped to a stool showing films of hairy men shouting and small dogs in space. To celebrate the grannies' remarkable and unexpected longevity they shall be gathering up some filmic highlights from the last decade and showing them at Vivid, alongside the customary mix of light snacks and word-searches.
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Wednesday 16th December
Beak> (Geoff Barrow – PORTISHEAD)
Einstellung + Thought FormsVivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR
Advanced Tickets:
www.theticketsellers.co.ukPolar Bear/Swordfish
BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow. Geoff Barrow is a musician and producer best known for forming and producing music group Portishead and part owner of the independent record label Invada Records .
Einstellung blend glorious monotonous Krautrock with melodic tones and heavy slabs of Sabbath riffage, whilst finding time to declare sonic warfare on those tinnitus victims who have passed the point of no return.
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Thursday 17th December
Capsule & Created In Birmingham present:
Knowing Me Knowing YouFREE EVENT with complimentary wine from Barefoot Wines
6.30pm - 9.00pm
Wouldn’t it be lovely if we all just talked a bit more? If you’re doing something super awesome, got some plans under your creative sleeves, putting on interesting gigs, exhibitions and the like then tell people about it at this little talky talky chit chat in association with
Created In Birmingham. Or if you're just interested in meeting some like minded folks feel free to come along.
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Saturday 19th December
Capsule 10th Birthday Closing Party
Modified Toy Orchestra
PCM + Calvados Beam Trio
Una Corda + Stinky WizzleteatPlus a selection of special guests DJs
Vivid, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR
Advanced Tickets:
www.theticketsellers.co.ukThe closing party to Capsule’s 10th birthday celebrations will see a gathering of some of Birmingham’s most mind blowing experimental live acts – paying tribute to the ten years of exciting, genre pushing music that Capsule have produced and provided a stage for.
Modified Toy Orchestra are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians to create electronic music in a league of its own.
PCM, the dark lords of drum n bass have long been key figures in the Midlands underground dance scene and firm Capsule favourites.
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