Saturday 17th May 7pm

SHIFT & The Tuner House present:

David Birchall, Kelly Jayne Jones and Richard Harrison + Cowboy Builder 

Part of a series of performances showcasing the best experimental music and sound art from Wales & around the world.

Kelly Jayne Jones is a Manchester based artist making work that combines performance, installation and sound. She began working in experimental concrete music and her practice has expanded to include dance, gesture, sonic drawings, stone sculpture and film.

David Birchall is a guitarist, free improviser, composer, guitar teacher and organiser living in Manchester.

Richard Harrison lives in Manchester and first came to prominence drumming in the farm-punk group Mudhutters. He is now probably best known for playing in Spaceheads with Andy Diagram but a varied career since the late 70s has seen him play with both Derek Bailey and Nico amongst a multitude of others.

https://www.kellyjaynejones.org/

https://davidbirchall.neocities.org/

https://spaceheads.co.uk/about/richardharrison/

Cowboy Builder may have been secretly trading for longer under misleading handles and fake names. Mutated 2020’s misremembering of folk w/ dub damage. Elements of noise and improvisation. Beats with half the hits missing.

For the past 3 years they have operated as a 4 piece with double drum parts. This year they will be playing as a stripped down two-piece of guitar and drums playing against arrhythmic samples.

“Veering from nasal rants to startling sweetness, the songs slither into a precarious transcendence…. the whole album feels like it’s been knocked into a battered out-of-placeness by reality speeding up around it”

Daryl Worthington, The Quietus, 2022

Cowboy Builder has toured Europe twice including an appearance at Murf/Murw in Tilburg and features members of Dr. VZX Moist and Bamya. Their most recent release is the 40m travel diary ORGANS EP in 2023.

https://px4m.bandcamp.com/album/px4m0013-organs-ep

https://www.instagram.com/cowboy.builder

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