Astral Social Club and Alexander Tucker Play at Furballs #3 - THIS FRIDAY

09/02/10

FatCat's third 'Furballs' event takes place at The Freebutt in Brighton this Friday February 12th with a line-up featuring Astral Social Club, Alexander Tucker, and Cold Pumas. There will also be screenings of Semiconductor's cutting-edge animated films of shifting landscapes and systems in chaos; spoken word performance by Rowena Easton. ; and film screenings; FatCat DJs. Once again the first 50 people through the door will receive a free CDR, featuring tracks from all of the evening's acts.

A prolific and pivotal figure on the UK post-punk underground and founder member of the influential drone/psych rock outfit, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Neil Campbell's Astral Social Club recently featured on one side of a FatCat Split Series 12 inch. Currently one of the UK's few genuinely pioneering artists, ASC's output is a dazzling coming-together of blissful drone ambience, pounding warehouse beats, and tripped-out free-improv noise.
Signed to the ATP label, Alexander Tucker's darkly atmospheric music is a unique meshing of compositional song structures, old-fashioned fingerpicked acoustic folk, drones, stacked-up vocals and improvisations using cello, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and a bank of pedals.
Cold Pumas are a Brighton trio - an energetic and intensely insistent live act, their treble-heavy, locked-groove-punk recalls the likes of Liars, Health, Women, ESG and Abe Vigoda.

Furballs is a bi-monthly event, curated by FatCat staff. Based roughly upon the great success of our annual Open Circuit events in Hasselt, Belgium, we hope to also involve film-makers, visual artists and other creative types, to encourage the audience to get involved and to try to shake things up a little bit. If anyone out there (especially visual artists) wants to make suggestions / get involved, then please feel to get in touch at furballs[at]fat-cat.co.uk.

Tickets are priced at £6 advance, £7 on the door. They are available from Resident / Rounder / Edgeworld / and from the Freebutt itself (with no booking fee). Doors: 7.30 pm