Outherlies - a two-day festival of fresh sounds and new collaborations. Brought to you by Pyramid Club and Swamp Soul. Featuring artists spanning multiple generations of Wellington's creative music community: sound makers, free improvisers, noise merchants, found object investigators, electronic misfits and more. All groups are entirely new collaborations - none of these artists have ever played together before! All the music is improvised.
Thursday 5 Sept
Kieran Monaghan (plant modular) + Roman Polaczuk (synth/bass)
Tom Shultz (drums) + Tom Callwood + Jade Holmes (synth/noise)
Jonny Marks (voice/synth) + Will Thompson (guitar)
Andy Wright (drums) + Baxter Gray (bass) + Bec Coogan (guitar/voice)
Blair Latham (sax/electronics) + Bridget Kelly (reeds) + Felix Tippet-Morrison (guitar)
Friday 6 Sept
Chrissie Butler (table top objects) + Fi Tarn (guitar/synths)
Daniel Beban (reel-to-reel tapes) + Mallory Elmo (violin/flute)
Isaac Smith (modular synth) + Fletcher Ng (drums/4-track)
Ritual Heaps (noise) + Sophia Frudd (stuff)
Zak Argabrite (circuit bent electronics/sax) + Shay Patel (constructed instruments)
Night 2
Chrissie Butler: the other half of recently defunct Mr Sterile Assembly. Plays solo as DSLB. Will no doubt have a table top stuff to make noise.
Fi Tarn: Elizabeth Sanctuary Welding School for Girls is her band. She'll be playing synths and keyboards.
Daniel Beban: a player of many strings and assorted lo-fi home made electronics. Will be performing on Revox reel-to-reels.
Mallory Elmo: In Frogmeat. She is a composer and experimental multi-instrumentalist. Violin and flute.
Isaac Smith: a most versatile musician, plays double bass through a modular synth.
Fletcher Ng: lo-fi tape demon. Plays in Mudgoose, Western Haikus and Wintermute.
Ritual Heaps: aka Bill Scott. Noise.
Sophia Frudd: the original Frankass multi-faceted noise pop artist. Plays in Silicon Tongue, Cook ie Cutt er, and also Frogmeat.
Zak Argabrite: originally from Kentucky, now spends his time circuit bending old audio and visual equipment and playing saxophone.
Shay Patel: of the band Feshh and Scramble 204. Plays guitar and constructs his own instruments.
$10 unwaged
$15 waged
$20 two night festival pass
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
