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THE GREY/ INDIFFERENT ENGINE/ MOUNTAINSCAPE
September 22, 2023 @ 7:45 pm - 11:30 pm
£7.70
Club 85 proudly presents a truly unique experience traveling through dark and light, exploring the deepest depths of the human psyche with 3 of the uk’s best ambient metal bands. From a “blend elements of post-rock, doom, sludge and ambient” to the “southeast Englands most intense live bands”
THE GREY
From the rattling Bluetooth speakers in the campsite to the thundering stacks flanking the main stage, there are heavy sounds everywhere you turn this weekend. Cambridge post-metallers The Grey make (largely instrumental) music that weighs down like few others’, though, marrying the pummelling feel of a band like Neurosis or Karma To Burn to big themes with striking nuance and colour.
The set climaxes with a monstrous, as-yet-unreleased swell of sound called Chvrch, dedicated to all those who’ve seen personal struggles spiral into mental health crises, which uncannily captures the layered turmoil of that experience.
It’s truly awesome.
KERRANG Bloodstock review.
INDIFFERENT ENGINE
With their third EP of impassioned, intense post-hardcore, Cambridge band Indifferent Engine have once again produced a fine release of driving, abrasive, in places unsettling punk noise that those of you enthralled by At The Drive-In’s appearance on Jools Holland way back when will thrill to. ‘Canis’ alternately soothes and pummels, right from Adam Paul’s screamed intro to opening track ‘Tachikoma’, through three tracks of rolling rhythms – complete with impressive tempo changes – courtesy of bassist Alex Wheatley and drummer Alister Gibbons, tinkering, explosive guitarwork (Ellis Hale) and all topped off with Adam’s dramatic, dynamic vocals that moves between visceral screams and pleading declamations. The three tracks – ‘Tachikoma’, ‘Canis Est In Horto’ and ‘Keelhauled’ provide a trio of noisy, abrasive, uncompromising tracks of excellent post-hardcore and the EP is rounded off by ‘Oblivion Manifold’, a delicate piano piece played over an ominous backdrop of electronic thrum and synthetic strings. It is, in its way, as intense as the three preceding tracks and proves that ‘Canis’ has bark and bite in equal measure.
https://www.indifferentengine.com
MOUNTAINSCAPE
Instrumental music is a strange beast. Some dismiss it out of hand (like my wife for example!) and others fully embrace the possibilities that it can open up. One thing is not open for debate though, and that is: instrumental music is hard to do, or more precisely, it’s very hard to do well. It takes a certain mindset as a musician to conjure something which holds people’s attention without the focal point of a front person or lyrics to hang your hat on. Painting a picture without words is difficult, very difficult, so when a band manages to produce something which not only holds your attention but keeps it held in a vice-like grip, well, it’s time to sit up and shine a light on that band.
https://mountainscapeuk.bandcamp.com
Doors: 7: 45pm
Tickets: £7 + 10% Booking Fee or MOTD
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Age: 16+ (bring ID) Younger patrons can be signed in at the door and accompanied for the duration of the show by a responsible adult.
Downstairs bar open until 1am.
Like all our gigs this show finishes well in time for the last trains North and South to Cambridge/Peterborough and London and we are just a 5 minute stroll from the station.
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