By Hana Sakurai Wernham, Second Year English
Produced by the teams behind Crack magazine, Love Saves the Day and FORWARDS, the lineup for the multi-venue Simple Things festival is set to deliver some of the most exciting names in contemporary music culture.
Names hot off the press to complete the lineup include shiny hyper-pop visionary BABii, synth wizard Danalogue, and Tracey, whose provocative A. G. Cook-esque breakout single ‘Sex Life’, featuring Riko Dan, is sure to turn heads.
Hidden in the Cellars space of The Bristol Beacon will be a full day of electronic experimentation, co-headlined by Bristolian dubstepper, Joker and frenetic artist-producer aya.
The weekday programme starts on Tuesday 4th of November, with one gig each night until Friday, featuring Moin, John Maus, Autechre, and Daniel Avery respectively.
Saturday 8th of November is when it all kicks off – Simple Things will showcase an impressive number of boundary-pushing artists across multiple city centre venues including all Bristol Beacon spaces, Strange Brew, and Rough Trade, to name just a few.
Highlights include impossibly aloof post-punk four-piece Dry Cleaning, whose performance is sure to be a tantalising one following the recent announcement of their third album.
Factory Floor and Decius will provide sexy danceable electronica, while Lucy Gooch and Eiko Ishibashi will keep things slower with breath-taking ambience.
Look out for jazz-adjacent duo Fievel is Glauque, who deliver dulcet vocals over maximalist Jenga towers of sound. For more low-octane but beautiful singing, look no further than Smerz. You might recognise their TikTok hit ‘You got time and I got money.’ You know, the one that starts ‘uh, put your hands around my body’? Look, if you could hear me singing it right now then you’d definitely recognise it…
Simple Things Festival runs from the 4th to the 8th of November. Tickets are on sale now at this link!
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