- Running time: 3hrs
Tickets from: £11.25*
The Victoria Theatre is taking Antidote on Tour around Calderdale
Antidote is for audiences that like to challenge their understanding of live music and features some of the UK’s finest performers. Each event is unique, and guest curated by Andy Abbott of Adra Promotions*.
As part of Calderdale’s Year of Culture 2024 we’re taking our experimental and eclectic Antidote music series on the road, working in partnership with some of Calderdale’s most exciting and characterful grassroots music venues.
Sun 28 Apr 7.15pm The Golden Lion, Todmorden
In association with Todmorden Folk Festival
Featuring Ichi (Bristol-based Japanese experimental singer-songwriter, instrument-maker and performance artist), Thorn Wych (incarnations and drones on hand carved tree instruments from Todmorden) and Wire Worms (experimental Industrial folk from Leeds)
Tickets: £11.25 Tickets can be purchased on Skiddle - click here to book tickets
Ichi
‘What on earth is this?! It`s brilliant!’ STEVE LAMACQ
‘Hilarious & bonkers & brilliant!’ LAUREN LAVERNE
‘It's a trip to listen to and watch’ DON LETTS
‘It’s the kind of idiosyncrasy that cult fan-bases are built on, and you can’t help but feel it couldn’t have come from anywhere but the land of the rising sun’ - VENUE MAGAZINE
ICHI, from Nagoya in Japan, takes the notion of a one-man band to new limits, combining his quirky handmade instrument inventions (Stilt-bass, Kalilaphone, Balloon-pipes, Hatbox-pedal-drum, Tapumpet, Percussion-shoes & Hattrick-hat) with steel-drum, ping-pong balls, typewriter, toys & everyday objects all in the space of one short set. Somehow there's an ancient, ritualistic feel to his performances - he's like the misplaced leader of a tribe. To see ICHI live is to witness something so playful and unusual you know that you're experiencing something entirely new. It`s fun, it`s danceable, it`s exciting.
Thorn Wych
Bows, loops, and incantations ..
Hand carved tree instruments..
Freak folk from the hills of east Lancashire
Wire Worms are a Neo-Folk project based in Leeds.
We aim to intertwine English Trad with experimental electronic music.
The demo album of Wire Worms -- "The Golden Bough" -- explores a folk-horror kernel within the English folk oeuvre, following a trail set by the likes of Current 93, Hedningarna and Richard Dawson.
Specifically, the songs and stories that surround the sacrifice of sacred entities and the bringing of the seasons. A thematic within a myriad of traditional songs, more contemporary additions to the English catalogue, and the broader folk customs within which these songs are intertwined.
These literary elements are emphasised through a musicality that draws upon a different kind of British "folk" culture; through industrial, ambient, and bass music. This 'weirding', through disrupting the traditional compositional approaches to these songs, seeks to further emphasise and extract the relationship between the traditional, uncanny, and horrific.
Overall, we've tried to gather together a particular thread within the English oral tradition, while reinterpreting these songs through a broader conception of what "Folk" music entails.
Luke Carroll - Vocals
Jasmin Brown - Vocals
Matt King - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Joe Henry White - Production, Clarinet, Tin Whistle & Backing Vocals
Tickets
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