A very exciting night coming up at Newcastle’s Lubber Fiend on 21st June. My friends Kitty McKay and Michael Waugh have been working very hard to pull this off and bring some of the most exciting music-makers in the UK up to the North East. This is really not to be missed. Full information (with links) below.
The long-awaited debut of Microplastics: a supergroup comprising aya, Jennifer Walton and 96 Back
Friday 21 June, 9pm — 3am
The Lubber Fiend, 81 Blandford St, NE1 3PZ
£10 adv, £15 otd (tickets on sale now via RA or Lubber’s BigCartel)“Born of the fire and brimstone of a Wednesday lunch rush in Southport, the collective mind of aya, Jennifer Walton and 96 Back take matters into their own hands. With a scorched earth approach to the sensibilities that have weighed down weaker producers for generations, they vow to reconstruct the wreckage of deconstructions past, reassembling by hand every pane of glass broken. It’s the Vatican II of club music. It’s winning big on red in a casino on a Tuesday. Messy but ultimately needed.”
aya, Jennifer Walton and 96 Back are staples of the DIY club scenes in Manchester and South East London, and are among the most exciting producers in the UK right now. This show in Newcastle sees them performing and DJing together as a trio for the first time for three whole hours.
RESIDENT ADVISOR’S ‘RA PICK’ — NOT TO BE MISSED.
With support from xin & ZINZILE.
xin DJs and produces and often takes the form of a meat wad, pile of trash or smallish human. Their 2019 record, MELTS INTO LOVE, was released biodigitally through Subtext Recordings. On it, they sculpt neurofunk, hardcore and dubstep into a caustic, amorphous glob of reese basses and pseudo-breaks. In 2022-23 they used Aaja Radio as a vehicle in which to tunnel wormholes through possible worlds and their musics. Expect all good things wiggy, drippy and weird.
“Amorphous blobular hoonin hoovin shmoovin for the pod people”
ZINZILE (formerly known as FAUCI) is multi’medium + multi’dimensional: wurld’bringr, wurld’traverser + wurld’melder, working in the physical, digital + visionary realms. their practice is anti-specialist + is in continuation of a research project; tha study of SEREMONi. their practice melds internal wurlds as a microcosmic prayers for macrocosmic influence…
ZINZILE will be opening the spase with a warm + complex welcoming… please come with your hearts + minds open, or (at least) with a willingness for them to be…
Poster by Natasha Eves.