101 High Street, Totnes - instagram - @summersisle. Sea Change 2017
One of the elements we’re most excited about for the 2017 edition of Sea Change is our first foray into eating with Summerisle, our special edition pop-up “What we are planning gastronomy. to do is give Totnes It is the perfect combination for Totnes; the feast it deserves. seasonal produce, locally Traditional British sourced and flirting just a little tiny bit with the Ocakbasi, vegetable occult. At the helm is our very good friend Patrick based curries all tinged Hanna who has vast with a little smokey experience at Riverford Field Kitchen, Rochelle occult and washed Canteen, Duck Soup and most recently Offley down with some locally Works Canteen. sources hard liquor.” His small team will be taking over no. 101 High Street for the weekend with the best kind of fast food.
The cross axis of traditional, modern, weird and boozy. There might even be glitter. Welcome to Sea Change, lightning is striking twice.
If this is your first time with us, welcome to and we want to build something genuinely Totnes. We’re so glad you came to meet us different with Sea Change. and join in with what we’re trying to do down here. If you are coming back, we just couldn’t For 2017 we have even more music makers, be happier that you have once again put your even more curators, a cinema, pop-up faith in us not to catch fire and spiral out gastronomy, way more cocktails and plenty of control… unless maybe you want this to of other stuff bubbling away as we strive to happen? Maybe you are here purely to see have as much fun as we can. That’s what this us get bigger, bolder and well and truly bite is all about you know, this is pure and simply off more than we can chew? You still paid us constructing what we think is the most fun though, that makes the whole thing easier, so possible then inviting you all along for the ride thank you. And lastly, if you’re local, thanks to subsidise our weekend on the town. for your trust, patience and support in letting us do this all over again. We love this town We hope you have an amazing weekend.
Written by Rupert Morrison. Edited by Louise Overy. Photographed by Jay Bing. Thank you to all of our friends. Some info
It’s easy for us, we live here. Queuing Bob The Bus We know the roads, the venues, the bands and the pubs… so Some of the individual gigs will There is a series of yellow buses we’ve tried to think about all the be over-subscribed. We have called Bob. They will be running info that we can convey that tried to carefully schedule the shuttle services from the might help you to have the best events to spread you all out campsite in Dartington to the possible weekend. evenly, but let’s face it, some of top of Totnes High Street (by these artists are playing more Drift) and down to the bottom Box Office / Wristband intimate shows then they have (The Plains). There are late night Exchange in ages or ever will again, so it services on Thursday, Friday and will be crowded. The security Saturday from Unit 23 to the The Box Office is based at the and stewards know the building campsite. It is a volunteer-run top of the steps in the foyer of capacities and will not breach community bus operating in the Civic Hall. Our team will this for all of our safety, but they Totnes and the surrounding rural take your tickets and give you are going to work with you to areas. They are very nice, don’t your weekend wristband to come operate one in and one out so go giving them any shit when it’s and go and attend all music, that we can get as many of you late and you’re all drunk okay! films and talks across our venues. into different shows as we can. If Friday lunchtime and Saturday you have come especially to see Thursday schedule morning tend to be busy, but one act, then get there early… the guys will try and get you all this isn’t flippin Glastonbury, you 6.00pm - 8.00pm through and ready as fast as they will get to see who you want to, Campsite > Unit 23 can. just plan ahead. We think that the worst bottlenecks will be for: 0.00am - 2.00am Venues Aldous Harding, Blanck Mass, Unit 23 > Campsite LOWLY, Jane Weaver, Temples, The venues are marked out Ryley Walker and Avocet Friday schedule on the map for you. Broadly Revisited. speaking, Totnes is one street 10.00am - 12.00pm (Fore/High Street). St Mary’s Stewards Campsite > Town Church, Totnes Cinema, Birdwood House, the Civic Hall, The stewards know what is 7.00pm - 0.00am Barrel House and Drift are all going on and are here to help. Campsite > Town within spitting distance of one Anything you need, please let 1.00am - 2.30am another. Unit 23 is just down them know. Although there is Unit 23 > Campsite onto the industrial estate; you a map, they can direct you to want to walk down the town, left venues, the train station, taxi Saturday schedule along Station Road, across the ranks, places to eat and drink, roundabout and following the or assist with first aid and even 10.00am - 12.00pm road to the right. Turn right onto hangovers. Feel free to buy them Campsite > Town Ford Road, nearly opposite the drinks. Leatside Surgery; bend to the 7.00pm - 0.00am right and it’s on your right. It Campsite > Town takes about ten minutes. 1.00am - 2.30am Unit 23 > Campsite Under 18s (and superbly titled) Sausage The Bay Horse Inn Beer and World. Totnes has an abundance Cider Festival Most venues are open and of great places to eat. We have welcoming to under-18s. Unit two fish & chip shops - the The Bay Horse are running 23 however will be an OVER 18 Albatross next door to Drift and their much-loved beer and cider ONLY venue after 8pm on both the Silver Grill at the very foot festival through the Sea Change Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Fore Street. There are three weekend, with over 20 guest night. This is not something Indian restaurants, with Drift’s ales and 15 guest ciders, sourced we have decided, that is just neighbour Cafe Mumbai putting from across the country. £7.50 the rules we all have to meet. on a special eat and dash menu gets you 6 half pint tokens, £15 If you have young people with for the weekend. Elsewhere gets you the ‘bakers dozen’ 13 you this weekend, they must be there is the brilliant Pie Street; half pint tokens. They will also accompanied at all times. two tapas bars with Jano and have live music on Friday and Ben’s (from the Riverford Saturday night. Social Media family); and the highly-regarded Rumour Wine Bar and The Totnes Cinema On Twitter and Instagram we Curator Cafe & Kitchen. There are called @driftseachange. are so many more, also icecream We’re so hyped to be presenting Our Facebook page is the same (Delphini’s Gelato) and loads of films at the Cinema this year, address: www.facebook.com/ coffee joints. Take some time out the work they have done in driftseachange. We encourage to walk up and down the high renovating the space is amazing. you to follow us as we will be street. We have a daytime programme, posting some announcements and the cinema will be operating during the weekend. commercial in the evening with The Totnes Brewing Company two hand-picked screenings. On Record Signings Friday they are showing ‘Lost in The Barrel House Ballroom Translation’ and on Saturday they There will be regular appearances sits neatly on top of the Totnes are showing ‘This Is Spinal Tap’. and signings at Drift during the Brewing Company, craft beer weekend. There will be a daily bar and local producer. They have Beaches blackboard so keep checking created a special Sea Change back, oh, and check those social beer that will be available on tap Torbay is about 6 miles away. So networks. Drift are all weekend. Your wristband gets that is Paignton, Goodrington, @driftrecordshop you a 10% discount on all cask Broadsands and Torquay beach beer. They have a full weekend of front. You can get buses to and Eating guest DJ spots in their garden. from. If you want to go further afield, there are some beautiful We are so hyped to bring you New Lion Brewery (more rustic) beaches… search our special edition Summerisle for Thurlestone Sands (14 eatery. The cross axis of The New Lion Brewery is on miles), Blackpool Sands (12 traditional, modern, weird and Station Road (see map). Anyone miles), Slapton Sands (13 miles), boozy. There might even be wearing a Sea Change wristband Bantham (16 miles) and Bigbury glitter. is welcome to a 10% discount on Sea (18 miles). at the New Lion bar. Further to Elsewhere: on both Friday this, they will be hosting some Trains and Saturday there will be very special and intimate live markets during the day time sessions at the brewery, be sure The train station is a five-minute at the market square, before to follow walk from the centre of town and we take over at 6pm, with @NewLionBrewery on Twitter is indicated (with a best route) on replenishments from Il Vulcano for those announcements. the map. pizza and the award-winning The last trains on Friday night Alcohol & Drinks are: All of the venues are licensed Exeter - 00:22 (Platform 2) premises and will be selling Plymouth - 23:43 (Platform 1) alcohol for your enjoyment… The last trains on Saturday night yes, even the church. Please are: do not try to bring your Exeter - 21:44 (Platform 2) own alcohol into any of the Plymouth - 23:30 (Platform 1) venues... the security will take it away and give it to us. 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Across the Sea Change 2017 Blanck Mass play this amazing LP in our weekend we have booked our Friday, 1.00am, Unit 23 church venue. widest pool of speakers, films, The solo project of Benjamin artists and music makers yet. John Power, one-half of the Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Some you’ll know, some you mighty Fuck Buttons. Across Band might not, but these pages will three studio albums he has Friday, 11.30pm, Unit 23 help you decide who you want to produced some of the most Philadelphia’s Chris Forsyth has go see. intense, challenging, euphoric long proved himself a skilful and and primal music we’ve ever had inventive modern guitarist, one Aldous Harding the pleasure to stock, and we are whose combination of hard- Friday, 11.00pm, Barrel House hugely excited to welcome him won chops and dazzling natural Aldous Harding’s music is not to Sea Change as part of The ability can easily awe the sort for the faint of heart. Disarming Quietus weekend takeover. Full of people who maintain Tumblr in its desolate imagery and stark AV show, this will be late, loud pages devoted to photos of pedal instrumentation, her songs draw and a full body experience. boards. His new LP ‘Dreaming from the core facets of life: Do not dare miss. In The Non-Dream’ comes death, birth, grief and love. There out today (Friday, Drift has are few happy endings, but the Brazen Head loads of copies) and the band power is in how Harding enters Saturday, 4.00pm, will be playing long, hypnotic, into battle - with a dancer’s Barrel House psychedelic cuts long into the grace and a boxer’s stance. We first became aware of Brazen night. We’re hugely excited. This will doubtless be the most Head at our emerging talent intimate show she plays this year, competition back in May. We all Death And Vanilla with her new LP ‘Party’ going kept humming their songs, a sure Friday, 6.30pm, Barrel House stratospheric since its release. fire bet we’d want to see them Fire Records Present There will be queues, there will play again. Very glad to welcome Formed in Malmö, Sweden by be amazement. Get in early. them back to Totnes. Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson, Death and Vanilla Amber Arcades Daniel Brandt & Eternal utilise vintage musical equipment Saturday, 8.30pm, Civic Hall Something such as vibraphone, organ, Heavenly Recordings Present Friday, 10.30pm, mellotron, tremolo guitar and Amber Arcades is the band- St Mary’s Church moog to emulate the sounds of de-plume of Annelotte De Erased Tapes Present 60s/70s soundtracks, library Graaf, a woman inspired by Daniel Brandt, co-founder of music, German Krautrock, ‘time, continuity, coincidence Germany’s electro-acoustic French Ye-ye pop and 60s and magic’. The debut album ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, psych. They revel in the warmth – ‘Fading Lines’ - was one of joined the Erased Tapes family of older analogue instruments Drift’s albums of 2016, and we earlier this year with his solo to create a more organic are hugely excited for what 2017 debut album. What started off sound, each loose wire and off- might bring. We’ve heard bits as a more simplistic idea soon kilter noise adding to the rich and were lucky enough to see evolved into something a lot atmosphere. the band play live a few times more complex as the London over the last 12 months, and they and Berlin-based music producer Douglas Dare have grown and grown... expect travelled across the world, Friday, 7.30pm, to gaze at your shoes whilst your experimenting with various other St Mary’s Church soul gets high. artists and different instruments. Erased Tapes Present A real honour to have the band London-based singer-songwriter and pianist Douglas Dare grew a series of increasingly focused H.Hawkline up in the small coastal town of albums of psychedelic pop. Their Saturday, 6.30pm, Civic Hall Bridport in south-west England. most recent, ‘Furfour’, is the sum Heavenly Recordings Present In a digital age where memories of a dizzying array of creative H.Hawkline is the musical are mimicked by pixels and projects by two key figures in activity of a man, born 1985. His identity is as malleable as static, an esoteric underground, still fourth record, ‘I Romanticize’, Douglas Dare’s most recent thriving despite the pressures was released early this year album Aforger questions the and pains of modern London. to much critical acclaim, boundaries between reality and I can’t believe the first time we highlighting his own unique take fiction. Inspired by recent events get to see this amazing band live on psychedelic. He’s had a busy and revelations encountered in is in our home town! old 2017 already, guesting with his life, these songs depict him a huge rollcall of musicians on at his most vulnerable, whilst Gulp many a stage, but he’ll be playing simultaneously reflecting back Saturday, 7.00pm, songs new and old in a very at us our own obsessions with Barrel House special solo show at Sea Change. reality and technology. Gulp are a Cardiff-based, garage space-pop band fronted by Guto Hey Colossus Ethan Barton Pryce (Super Furry Animals) Saturday, 10.30pm, Unit 23 Friday, 3.00pm, & Lindsey Leven. The pair are Forging a completely St Mary’s Church joined by Gid Goundrey on idiosyncratic combination of A Devon native originally, guitar and various friends on power, control, tenderness, Ethan is a Brighton-based drums, including Stuart Kidd miscontrol and more power, singer/songwriter crafting new (Euros Child/Norman Blake); Hey Colossus acutely channel sounds in the John Martyn and Kliph Scurlock (Flaming Lips/ the best of your record James Taylor moulds. Currently Gruff Rhys); Gwion Lleweyln collections and spit them back recording new material, playing it (Meilir Jones); & others. Few out into some quite astonishing for us first. bands have managed to capture shows and releases. Huge such a sunny vibe on record, this critical praise over the last few Gold Panda will be full on high times. years, but it’s the live events Thursday Night Launch Party, that have cemented a wild Unit 23 Girl Ray growing appreciation of what One of the most consistent and Saturday, 5.30pm, Hey Colossus are truly capable pioneering musicians the UK has Barrel House of. Make sure to be down early, produced in the last decade. His ‘Earl Grey’ is the debut LP from chances are they’re your new work has evolved, proving both the marvellous North London favourite band and you don’t endlessly addictive and creatively three-piece Girl Ray. They are even know it yet. ambitious and adventurous. He’s young (all nineteen I think) but also always been a good friend of there is a smartness about their Holly Macve the shop which goes over very songs that suggests they have Friday, 7.00pm, Civic Hall well in these parts. What a way been soaking up influences for Bella Union Present to kick things off with a full AV years and years. ‘Earl Grey’ A heavenly voice couched in show. on the surface is a set of pop spellbinding country & western bangers, but amongst the ballads, with a devastating Grumbling Fur jangling guitars and thudding emotional delivery: Holly Macve Friday, 10.00pm, Unit 23 rhythm section, it is, like all is a fantastic addition to the Bella ‘Somewhere, in the still- great pop, surprisingly maudlin Union family, and her album remaining quiet places of at times. Dead smart, super ‘Golden Eagle’ is one of the most London, Grumbling Fur is at addictive songs and the delivery remarkably assured debuts of work’. This being is the joint (vocally especially) sounds very this or any other year, especially manifestation of Alexander fresh. Word on the street, it’s given she’s only 21 years old. We Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan Iris’s birthday on Friday… make a are thrilled to invite Holly back which, since 2011, has birthed fuss of them please. to Totnes and Sea Change, this time with her band to play her the sinister, the personal and the avidly in August… this year has in quite wonderful new album. political, the mundane and the many ways been soundtracked by surreal. Julie’s ‘Not Even Happiness’. Her The Hundredth Anniversary second LP vividly archives what Friday, 5.00pm, Barrel House Jambinai would have otherwise been lost Brighton three-piece The Friday, 10.30pm, Civic Hall to the road - bustling roadside Hundredth Anniversary were Bella Union Present diners, the stars over the high formed in January 2012. Their Jambinai sound less like a band desert, the aching weariness atmospheric and precisely than a force of nature, fusing the of change, the wildflowers of structured songs marry bright full dramatic range of post-rock the California coast, as well as guitar lines, rigorous percussion dynamics to Korean folk roots the irresolvable mysteries of and clear, honest vocals. Their to create an exhilarating, vivid love. There are atmospheric debut LP ‘Sea State Pictures’ on and unique fusion. Honestly, instrumentations and electronic Faking Jazz Together Records one of the most exciting and flourishes to Byrne’s unusual has been a real go-to for us this overwhelming live shows guitar tunings and fingerpicked year... hyped to see them play it we’ve ever seen. Last year’s ‘A melodies, moving the songs live for us. Hermitage’ LP on Bella Union from the front-porch into subtle was one of our most played of anthemia. We know how many of Jim Ghedi the year, and we are absolutely you are hyped on this one. Saturday, 6.00pm, thrilled that Bella have invited St Mary’s Church them to Totnes to headline their LOWLY Basin Rock Present Friday takeover at the Civic Hall. Friday, 8.30pm, Civic Hall Jim Ghedi is a 6- and 12-string Bella Union Present guitarist and folk singer from Jane Weaver LOWLY appeared out of the outskirts of Sheffield,. He Saturday, Midnight, Unit 23 nowhere in April 2014 with is the newest addition to the Fire Records and The Quietus the release of the bewitching Basin Rock family and his debut Present ‘Daydreamers’. The sound, so album (officially this winter) is Abusing, evading and obliterating rich and full, was like being put an absolute wonder. His current 20 years of whimsical pop under a magical spell. Initially solo work explores connections trends, Jane Weaver’s experience brought together - in hindsight to the natural environments and as a truly independent and I’d suggest by a visionary heritage of rural communities resilient female experimental alchemist - purely to fulfil part and landscapes across the British songwriter / sound-carrier of a short music project at the Isles, including the village in commands respect and school they all attended, Nanna, which he grew up, along the inspiration in equal measures. Thomas, Steffen, Kasper and Yorkshire/Derbyshire borders. An absolute shoo-in to flirt with Soffie immediately found the the top of all the end of year chemistry so many musicians ILL lists (she has just this week been search years to find. Their debut Saturday, 4.30pm, Unit 23 nominated for THREE AIM album ‘Heba’ received huge Formed in Manchester in awards!), 2017 is a busy one for critical praise and 6Music have early 2012, we’re still pinching Jane and we can’t believe she’ll been hammering it! Very excited ourselves that we have the all- be joining us at Sea Change. She to have LOWLY travel all the female four-piece joining us as was supposed to be on holiday way from Denmark to play for part of the Quietus takeover. you know! If you see her, thank us as part of Bella Union’s Friday ILL is a genre-evading band her! takeover. which believes in the power of disobedient noise. With a Julie Byrne Lux Harmonium repertoire of precarious pop Saturday, 9.00pm, Friday, 4.30pm, songs and frequent improvised St Mary’s Church St Mary’s Church departures, ILL revel in the Basin Rock Present Treading somewhere between right to be weird, exploring the Very rarely do we have an album the weird folk world of John borders between the funny and land in January and still play it so Fahey or Glenn Jones and the altogether more outsider pop of Michael Chapman native Nadia Reid’s 2015 album Robert Wyatt, Lux Harmonium Friday, 6.00pm, ‘Listen To Formation, Look For manage to take a menagerie of St Mary’s Church The Signs’, she claimed her influences and make them sound After five decades of recording place as one of the country’s altogether… well… old! It really is and touring, veteran British most evocative and profound an analogue affair, timeless and songwriter and guitar sage young songwriters. Her new strangely classic. He managed to Michael Chapman has finally ‘Preservation’ album is another cut half his hand off last year, so made what he calls his ‘American fine step forward, and one of we’ve invited him back… hope he record’, and the aptly titled ‘50’ this year’s best selling at Drift. makes it with a full complement now stands as his late career A richness of voice, a depth of of digits. masterwork, a moving legacy emotion, and wise beyond her statement by a legend. Chapman years; her music traces the sharp Mai Mai Mai tears into both bold renderings mountain peaks, azure coastline, Friday, 8.30pm, Unit 23 of new songs and radical and mirrored images of the land Mai Mai Mai is a solo project reinterpretations of material and sky that pinpoint her home by Toni C., also member of the from his revered catalogue, the country’s vast open landscapes. noise-rock outfit Hiroshima crack band adeptly scaling the Rocks Around and the duo same rarefied sonic heights of The Orielles Trouble vs. Glue. Mai Mai Mai classic Harvest Records albums Saturday, 5.00pm, Civic Hall is the materialization of a travel like ‘Fully Qualified Survivor’, The Orielles are a three-piece in time and space. Born on a guided by a true survivor’s from Halifax - teenagers Esmé little island of the Aegean Sea instinct, wit, and wisdom. Dee-Hand, Henry Carlyle around 30 years ago, Mai Mai Wade & Sidonie B Hand. We Mai since childhood followed As well as playing live, Michael have always trusted Heavenly his parents around Europe and will be the guest of James implicitly, but the look in their the Near East, assimilating the Endeacott at Birdwood House eyes when telling us ‘watch out’ different cultures, atmospheres to discuss his career and being a for The Orielles was enough and sonorities of the places he rogue. to have us hooked. We’ve seen was involuntarily taken to. Do them live and we honestly can’t not miss this show, it promises to Modern Studies wait to see them again. They are be spectacular. Saturday, 8.30pm, Barrel House young, explosive and musically Fire Records Present fully-formed, really quite Masayoshi Fujita Modern Studies are a chamber thrilling. Friday, 9.30pm, pop band from Scotland- St Mary’s Church via-Lancashire. Their quietly PIXX Erased Tapes Present experimental landscape songs Saturday, 10.00pm, Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese are played on analogue synths, Barrel House vibraphonist and composer based cello, double bass, drums, guitars, Signed to venerable indie label in Berlin. Masa first learned how a wine-glass orchestra and, at 4AD at just 19, Pixx released to play the drums, followed by the creaking centre of things, her first collection of music, extensive vibraphone training to a Victorian pedal harmonium. ‘Fall In’, in 2015. An EP of four craft and play his own, mostly Their beautiful ‘Swell to Great’ folk-infused torch songs, it is, jazz and electronics-influenced, LP was nominated for the 2017 by her own admission, a deeply compositions. We don’t think Scottish Album of the Year personal collection of heartbreak it has been put as well as by award - Fire Records will be and introspection. Still only 21, Pitchfork, who simply arrived reissuing it this autumn. Hannah Rodgers (for she is Pixx) at ‘melodic constellations so has released one of 2017’s most impeccably gorgeous that they Nadia Reid assured and arresting debut ache’. We’ll let you into a secret, Saturday, 7.30pm, albums. ‘The Age Of Anxiety’ this is the show we are most St Mary’s Church will be all over the end of year excited about! (shh) Basin Rock Present lists, and damn right too... it With 23-year-old New Zealand is complex, smart and hugely satisfying pop music. This will be Both 2015’s ‘Primrose Green’ and cultural curios. your one and only chance to see and 2016’s ‘Golden Sings That her in an intimate setting like Have Been Sung’ ranked high Sex Swing this. in Drift’s albums of the year Saturday, 9.00pm, Unit 23 magazines... and you know those Sex Swing are the British The Proper Ornaments guys don’t get it wrong. We’ve underground supergroup that Saturday, 11.30pm, been lucky enough to see him shouldn’t even exist. One Barrel House play a few times and we can’t member has survived a plane The Proper Ornaments is wait to welcome him to Sea crash. One has survived (and the project of James Hoare Change. Both in terms of his won) a chess/boxing match (Ultimate Painting, Veronica instrumentation, his band and against an opponent with the Falls) and Max Oscarnold ever more so his vocals, it’s going (entirely deserved) nickname (Toy, Pink Flames). The band to be a very special show at St ‘The Finnish Hammer’. Another germinated from their friendship, Mary’s Church. has survived being struck by which began when Max lightning. The Quietus have built distracted James from shop- Seahawks a hugely exciting double bill at keeping, as his then-girlfriend Saturday, 2.00pm, Civic Hall Unit 23 and we’ve got a feeling attempted to steal shoes. Max Seahawks have been on the that there will be a lot of talk of was freshly arrived in London waves since 2009, sailing on Sex Swing come Sunday. from Buenos Aires; helped out solar winds, cooking up their by Andrew Loog Oldham as it catches and beachcombing Tasseomancy happens, to escape a drug-led for discarded, unwanted and Friday, 4.15pm, Civic Hall implosion of a previous band and buried treasures. Sometimes too Bella Union Present a family member’s plan to have covered in thick tar for most to A big welcome to Sea Change him sectioned. notice. Psychedelic yacht rock, for Tasseomancy, aka Canadian deck shoegaze, hazy beach pop twin sisters Sari and Romy Rats On Rafts vibrations and marina drone are Lightman, whose album ‘Do Saturday, 7.30pm, Unit 23 all ports of call. Easy’ on Bella Union was one Fire Records Present of our winter bangers last year. Rats on Rafts swear spiritual Seamus Fogarty Former members of queer cold- allegiance to Rotterdam’s new Saturday, 3.30pm, Civic Hall wave band, Austra, the sisters wave, pop and punk scenes, with One of our best friends in this create music that’s serene, one proviso - the weirder the Sea Change endeavour has strange and magnetically sung better. Rats have been together been Kilkenny Roots Festival, – ‘ a deadbeat anthem for a for a few years and, after boring specifically the main man Willie generation’. themselves into finally getting Meighan. He told us a long time good, they have embarked on back that we needed to book Teleplasmiste a phase which is slowly seeing Seamus Fogarty... so we did! Friday, 2.00pm, Civic Hall them recognized as something a Originally from County Mayo, Teleplasmiste is the duo of Mark bit special. Fogarty now resides in London, O Pilkington (Strange Attractor, and the capital provides the Raagnagrok, Urthona) and Ryley Walker canvas for new LP ‘The Curious Michael J York (Coil, Cyclobe). Saturday, 10.30pm, Hand’ (produced with Leo The pair explore electricity and St Mary’s Church Abrahams). Fogarty’s method, nature through the use of two A very modern type of of lifting sounds wholesale from identical, extremely rare Fenix troubadour. Across his his environment and tucking II semi-modular synthesisers, four studio albums he has them into the folds of his songs as well as acoustic drone incorporated elements of finger- like keepsakes, renders himself instrumentation (including picked guitar and free flowing at once artist and archivist, as bagpipes), with the intention that folk-psychedelia, and proved well as twisting the notion of the the ear finds it hard to distinguish adept at the highest levels of folk singer’s role as collector and between electronic and acoustic improv, jazz and experimentalism. custodian of stories, traditions elements.
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What an amazing way to kick production. Championed hard 2016. Its first release, recorded things off at Sea Change. by BBC Devon, they made their at The Nave in Leeds and Glastonbury debut this summer. produced by Matt Peel, is double Temples A-side single ‘Inspiration!’ / Saturday, 10.30pm, Civic Hall Trembling Bells ‘Nothing Is’. We are very excited Heavenly Recordings Present Saturday, 6.00pm, Unit 23 to have the band joining us so Looking like a West Coast Trembling Bells are a psych folk early in their career. Late, loud psych band, Temples bear phenomenon. The Glasgow and krauty. Perfect. The number all the hallmarks of cosmic based quintet have released of people emailing us about this, travellers. The Kettering four- five albums since 2008, all to the show will be full, get there piece are Britain’s premier unanimous critical acclaim. Their early! retro-futurists, with influences debut album ‘Carbeth’ received ranging from ‘60s psychedelia album of the month nominations Will Stratton to Motown, glam, Krautrock in Uncut, Observer and Rolling Friday, 5.30pm, Civic Hall and baggy, all viewed through Stone magazines and the group Bella Union Present a very modern kaleidoscope. have earned praise from artists Born in California, mostly raised Their self-produced debut LP as diverse as Paul Weller, Stewart in New Jersey and currently ‘Sun Structures’ topped many Lee and Joe Boyd. They are fine an upstate New Yorker, Will best of lists and became the friends and the band we have Stratton is a finger picking year’s biggest-selling album seen the most of in the Sea guitar player with a beautiful in independent British record Change line up… and even still, voice. Earlier this year, Bella shops. Again self-produced, their they are one of the shows that Union released his new album follow up Volcano topped charts we’d not dare to miss. Genuine ‘Rosewood Almanac’, his debut and has truly raised the band sonic adventurers. for the label. It’s a work of fragile to the stadium, spending all of magic, a hypnotic combination 2017 on a world tour and gracing VENN of beautifully breathy voice TV stations around the globe. Friday, 9.30pm, Barrel House and exquisite lyrical imagery, It is flat out ridiculous that they Ben Leverock and Stuart gorgeous melodies and soft-spun agreed to come and play for us Gardham met in 2013 whilst instrumentation, centred on his here… let’s go nuts. auditioning for a band they thrumming acoustic guitar and were involved in for six months, the verdant presence of velvet Tinnedfruit and subsequently sacked strings. Friday, 3.00pm, Civic Hall from, with no musical output Tinnedfruit are a three- of consequence. This time Wovoka Gentle piece garage rock band from together did, however, nurture Friday, 3.30pm, Barrel House Falmouth in Cornwall. They a friendship and musical affinity Wovoka Gentle are Imogen were unanimously the winners (in that order), that served as Mason, Ellie Mason and William of our first ever Sea Change the basis for the initial sessions J. Stokes. We’ve been following rising talent competition and that would become VENN. The them through their EP series they are VERY loud. They have line-up was finalised in late 2014 (Yellow in July ‘15, Blue in the deeply fun job of kicking when they found a perfect fit November ‘15 and Red in things off at Sea Change 2017 in John Petrie via a well-timed October ‘16) and we’re hugely on Friday afternoon at the Civic Gumtree ad. You know how looking forward to having them Hall. You ain’t heard nothing yet much we love that Motorik live in Totnes this summer. The man. sound… we are going to be front band released a new single back and centre for this. in May with more to follow this Tourists Autumn. Saturday, 12.30pm, Civic Hall W. H. Lung Neighbours of ours, Tourists are Friday, 00.30am, Earth Recordings Present: a five piece from Torbay and are Barrel House Avocet Revisited blending melodic dream pop with W. H. Lung is a recording project Saturday, 3.00pm, darker and at times more sinister founded in Manchester in mid- Birdwood House Our good friends Earth one of our principal partners prestigious Dartington College Recordings will be joining us in crime. His memoir, Out of of Arts and one of the world’s at Sea Change for a special the Woods, will be published in most respected and pioneering presentation of their amazing 2019. Having initially begun as a players in the gipsy jazz guitar ‘Avocet Revisited’ project. We historical exploration of Epping resurgence. Besides playing, will have live contributions from Forest, the book goes deeper to he will be talking about Django Trembling Bells and Modern explore concepts of masculinity Reinhardt, Hot Club and Muzica Studies, plus special mix CDs and sexuality, civilisation and bănăţeană. Come and watch his on the day. Label manager wilderness. “I *think* my reading fingers… it’s so intense. and project coordinator Kyle at Sea Change will be about how Lonsdale will be with us to talk I discovered forests give handy Simon Raymonde with Roy in depth about these wonderful cover for making dirty films… it is Wilkinson new works. probably not one for the kids.’ Saturday, 1.00pm, Birdwood House Laura Barton Michael Chapman with Simon’s musical CV is rich. The Friday, 5.30pm, James Endeacott son of arranger and composer Birdwood House Friday, 4.30pm, Ivor Raymonde, he joined Laura will be joining us’to talk Birdwood House Cocteau Twins and remained as about her exquisite BBC Radio The pitch was very easy. We’ve a core writer, also contributing 4 series ‘Notes From A Musical asked our favourite rogue to This Mortal Coil, producing Island’. The series saw her visiting James Endeacott to interview and mixing numerous records, the four corners of Britain and his favourite rogue Michael releasing a solo LP and this listing closely to the music Chapman about his life in music. year announcing a new musical found in different landscapes. James and I had a moment project called Lost Horizons Northumberland, Sunderland, bonding at Drift, of all places, with Richard Thomas. But at Belfast, Cornwall, Kent, many moons ago over Michael’s Sea Change he will be talking Ramsgate and such beautiful amazing ‘Wrecked Again’ LP. with esteemed Totnes local sonic scenery in between. Roy Wilkinson about his Bella Robert Raths with Laura Snapes Union record label that has just Laura Snapes with Julie Byrne Friday, 2.30pm, turned 20 years old. It’s been and Nadia Reid Birdwood House home through the years to The Saturday, 12.00pm, Ten years ago, German-born Flaming Lips, Beach House, John Birdwood House Robert Raths founded the Grant, Laura Veirs, Explosions in In the incredibly over-saturated Erased Tapes label, home to the Sky, Jonathan Wilson, Ezra modern sphere, Laura Snapes Penguin Café, Rival Consoles, Furman, Fleet Foxes, Father is one of the few journalists Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm, John Misty, and Midlake, and has of whom we literally read Olafur Arnalds, A Winged a hugely impressive 2017 roster. everything she writes (and now Victory for the Sullen and more, says with her utterly addictive not forgetting Masayoshi Fujita, Will Burns & Adam Chetwood top 40-themed podcast, Daniel Brandt and Douglas Dare Friday, 6.30pm, Unbreak My Chart). A wild who all join us live this year. Birdwood House CV points above all else to one As they celebrate their tenth Poet Will Burns has long been a thing, she’s a huge music fan. birthday, Laura Snapes will be good friend to both the festival At Sea Change she will be in talking to Robert about ten years and the shop. We are delighted conversation with songwriters of fierce independence, evading that he will be joining us this Julie Byrne and Nadia Reid. any clear genre and opening a year to read, with most excellent sound gallery. accompaniment from pedal Luke Turner steel maestro Adam Chetwood. Saturday, 2.00pm, Toby Morgan Will was named as one of the Birdwood House Friday, 3.30pm, four Faber & Faber New Poets Luke Turner is co-founder Birdwood House for 2014 with his pamphlet in and editor of The Quietus, Toby Morgan is a graduate of the that series published in October 2014... we often have copies at motivated by a deep sense of two weeks in summer, Heima Drift. powerful, political radicalism. (meaning ‘homeland’) is the extraordinary record of these Tony Conrad: Completely in the + There will be a Q&A session gigs. Stunning. Present with the film’s producer, Paul Saturday, 4.00pm, Williams. Stop Making Sense Totnes Cinema Saturday, 1pm, Totnes Cinema (no cert) 2016, UK, 80 mins, The Last Waltz (no cert) - 1984, USA, 88 mins, Colour Friday, 4.00pm, Colour Dir: Tyler Hubby Totnes Cinema Dir: Jonathan Demme Cast: Tony Conrad (15) 1978, USA, 116 mins, Colour Cast: Talking Heads Dir: Martin Scorsese ‘Tony Conrad: Completely in Cast: The Band, Eric Clapton, With stylistic references the Present’ is a non-fiction film Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Joni to everything from Stanley examining the pioneering life and Mitchell, Neil Young, Emmylou Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove to works of filmmaker, musician, Harris, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Godard’s A Bout de Souffle artist and educator, Tony Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters & and with influences taken Conrad. Sometimes referred to others from Japanese Noh & Kabuki as the Bill Murray of the avant theatre, this concert film is garde, Tony Conrad is one the On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, The widely regarded as one of the great American artists of our Band gave its farewell concert at finest examples of the genre. time, yet to the world at large he Winterland in San Francisco. On The late great Oscar winning remains virtually unknown. Since hand to help say goodbye were director Jonathan Demme’s the early 1960s, Conrad’s films some of the most acclaimed (Something Wild, Silence of and musical compositions have musicians of the late 1960s and the Lambs) use of digital audio been the stuff of legend. Conrad 70s. This film is not only a vibrant recording techniques was hugely was an early member of the documentary of that historic innovative, as was his filming Velvet Underground; he toured evening, but also a commentary over three nights to record with Sonic Youth in the 90s; on the rock world at the time. different camera set ups without collaborated with contemporary Most of the picture is concert interfering with the energy of artists and has spent decades footage of The Band and their the audience or having the visual rewiring generations of young guest performers, highlighted by interruption of the cameras minds as a professor and media interviews with members of the moving in shot. A truly cinematic personality in Buffalo, New group, who eloquently articulate achievement, and winner of the York. His vast conceptual their personal involvement in the National Film Critics Award for multimedia repertoire has history of rock and roll. best documentary, Stop Making challenged the very foundations Sense is still the benchmark for of art, film and music and Heima: A Film by Sigur Rós all concert films. questioned entire belief systems. Friday, 1.00pm, This definitive film will place Totnes Cinema Tony Conrad’s 50 years of (U) 2007, Iceland, 97 mins, influence at the forefront and Colour Across the weekend there will explore his profound impact Dir: Dean DeBlois be all sorts of extra events and on generations of artists. Cast: Sigur Ros attractions for you all to find Combining intimate footage of across the town. There will be Tony and his collaborators shot In 2006 Sigur Ros returned artist signings at Drift; there over the last 20 years, his own home to Iceland after a world will also be some video sessions archive of recordings and films, tour to play a series of free being recorded. Drift are @ and interviews with fans and shows - from glacier valleys and driftrecordshop on the social colleagues, the film reveals not tiny church halls to the final gig channels and will be talking about only a playful approach to life in Reykjavik (the largest concert those real time, so get following and art-making but one that is ever held in Iceland). Filmed over them. The New Lion Brewery have some instores from our artists amongst their casks, and will be Itinerary listing them on their blackboards (and websites). The brewery bar will be open between 5pm and 9pm both nights. The Lord Nelson have Conscious Club ______playing on Saturday night and the superb Silent Disco taking ______over on Friday. The Bay Horse will again be running their ______amazingly comprehensive Beer and Cider festival. They also have ______the Major Leagues label taking over Saturday, with The Death of ______Pop, Porridge Radio, The Dolce Vita, Brazen Head, Socket with ______Brass and meals in the garden on Sunday before Hot Club of ______Stonehouse. The Totnes Brewing Company (downstairs from the ______Barrel House Ballroom) have two full days of guest DJ sets in ______their garden, featuring James Endeacott, Basin Rock, Melodic ______Records, DJ Chunks (Republic of Music), Earth Recordings, ______The Heavenly Jukebox and some surprises! ______
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Fire Records was the original maverick psychedelic art pop The Quietus are doubtless label born out of the DIY one of the most unique and independent labels boom of the independent voices in music 70s. It intrigued and entranced journalism. They champion the with the splendidly surreal underground, the extreme and tales of early Pulp; embraced the overlooked; they also pull no We could not be more proud the famed pop shambolism of punches. In 2016 they hosted to welcome our good friends the Television Personalities, shows from Richard Dawson, Bo Heavenly Recordings back to the dashing tunesmithery Ningen and Teeth of the Sea. In Totnes, to again guest curate of the Close Lobsters, the 2017 they present an extended for us at Sea Change. Let’s sonic serenity of Spacemen two-day showcase at Unit 23 3, the legendary lo-fi art-rock think of this as a standing to include Sex Swing, Hey terrorism of Half Japanese, and order. In 2016 they presented Colossus, Trembling Bells, Blanck a wonderful tapestry of outré TOY on the eve of their Mass, Jane Weaver and more. It pop stretched over 30 years. The new album, introduced us will get late and loud. label was resurrected by James to The Parrots on the day Nicholls, who also founded sister their debut LP dropped, and www.thequietus.com label Earth Recordings. Fire brought along guests Rose www.twitter.com/theQuietus Records are bringing five of their Elinor Dougall and Ultimate current roster of amazing talents: Painting. In 2017 we’re thrilled Death And Vanilla, Rats on to have their newest signing Rafts, Modern Studies and one The Orielles in town, plus of our all time favourites in Jane showcases from H.Hawkline Weaver. (playing a rare solo show), Amber Arcades and the www.firerecords.com www.twitter.com/firerecordings Saturday night headliner in Temples. Still trippin’ that we managed to pull that together! Heavenly will also be bringing the Jukebox with them for some sparkling DJ Established by German-born Douglas Dare, Masayoshi Fujita sets. Robert Raths in early 2007, and Daniel Brandt. Robert will Erased Tapes turn ten this year also be talking to Laura Snapes www.heavenlyrecordings.com and are celebrating with us by about Erased Tapes on Friday www.twitter.com/heavenlyrecs putting on a special showcase at afternoon at Birdwood House. our 15th century church venue. They were in town hanging out www.erasedtapes.com last year and we’re so very proud www.twitter.com/erasedtapes to welcome them back with If you want to talk about from our stereo. Thrilled to young labels making have both Julie and Nadia immaculate debuts, playing live for us, alongside then Basin Rock have Jim Ghedi and a special guest Another birthday, this time unquestionably secured headline appearance from looking good at 20. Bella Union themselves a place in that Ryley Walker, in what will be was founded in 1997 by Simon conversation forever more. one of the most in-demand Raymonde of Cocteau Twins Launching (officially) this year shows of the whole weekend. and over the last two decades out of Todmorden, their first has become arguably the most two releases were the latest www.basinrock.co.uk critically and commercially albums from Julie Byrne and www.twitter.com/basinrockrecs successful independent label Nadia Reid... neither of which in the UK. Bella Union will be has spent much time away welcoming Will Stratton, Holly Macve, Tasseomancy, LOWLY and Jambinai to the Civic Hall on Friday 25th.
Simon will also be in conversation with Roy Wilkinson at Birdwood House on Saturday afternoon. www.bellaunion.com www.twitter.com/bellaunion Our good friends Earth Recordings will be joining us at Sea Change for a special presentation of their amazing ‘Avocet Revisited’ project. We will have live contributions from Trembling Bells and Modern Studies, plus special mix CDs on the day. Label manager and project coordinator Kyle Lonsdale will be with us to talk in-depth about these wonderful new works.
www.earthrecordlabel.com www.twitter.com/earthrecordings Blanck Mass
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
Daniel Brandt and Jambinai Eternal Something Grumbling Fur
Masayoshi Fujita LOWLY Mai Mai Mai
Douglas Dare Holly Macve
Michael Chapman Will Stratton
Lux Harmonium Tasseomancy
Tinnedfruit Ethan Barton
Teleplasmiste Friday. W H Lung
Aldous Harding
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Guest
Will Burns & Death and Vanilla Adam Chetwood
Laura Barton - Notes from a Musical Island The Hundredth Anniversary Michael Chapman The Last Waltz with James Endeacott
Wovoka Gentle Toby Morgan
Robert Raths with Laura Snapes
Heima The Quietus DJs
Jane Weaver
Temples Ryley Walker Hey Colossus
Julie Byrne Sex Swing Amber Arcades
Nadia Reid Rats on Rafts
H Hawkline
Jim Ghedi Trembling Bells
The Orielles ILL
Seamus Fogarty
Seahawks
Tourists Saturday. The Heavenly Jukebox
The Proper Ornaments
PIXX
Modern Studies
Gulp
Girl Ray
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Simon Raymonde Present Brazen Head with Roy Wilkinson
Avocet Revisited
Luke Turner Stop Making Sense
Laura Snapes with Julie Byrne and Nadia Reid