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When: 7.30pm on Sunday 1 April 2018
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to be working with The Blow for the first time!

The Blow is Melissa Dyne and Khaela Maricich. A shape-shifting entity, The Blow has taken various forms over time and manifests in an array of media, employing popular music as a vehicle for broader explorations. After several years in the studio developing new sounds and new instruments for playing them, The Blow have a new album of experimental pop music, Brand New Abyss.

In live performances the duo performs with the same rig that they use to produce and record, a towering mothership of patched-together modular synths ancient samplers and other analog gear. Dyne comes from a background in installation centred on the physics of sound and light, and Maricich has worked extensively in the context of performance art; their live performances build on these foundations.

Their self-titled album The Blow, released in 2013, was listed among the top-ten songs of 2013 by New York Times, and was NPR music editor Bob Boilen’s #1 album of that year.

Their performances have been presented at art centres and in traditional music venues internationally. Together Dyne and Maricich curate WOMANPRODUCER, a generative archive of female, trans and non-binary producers and sonic innovators. They live and work in New York City.

Local support comes from Husk. Unadulterated Proper Electropop, unfettered synth melodies and a curious soulful tone for audio gender f**kery. Husk, the Transgender Electropop Maker, is like a rough & ready Prince with a rudimentary approach. Akin to the likes of CHVRCHES, Christine & The Queens and early Madonna, you’ll find remnants of 80s clapping snares and, of course, hooks that really get their claws in.

This show is a co-promotion with Comfortable On A Tightrope.

Buy tickets now. Tickets are available from the bar (no booking fee), Vinyl Exchange, WeGotTickets.comTicketline.co.uk and on 0871 220 0260.

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