GREAT NORTHERN AMPLIFIER WORSHIP @ THE STAR & SHADOW / 17th December 2011 / £4

 

Celebrating the 10th anniversery of the discovery of black rectangular monoliths orbiting Jupiter, The Star And Shadow proudly presents the inaugural Great Northern Amplifier Worship festival. Showcasing bands and DJs of fearsome depth and urgency, GNAW promises to be a revelatory night of ecstatic igneous fuzz & clattering electric grooves.

 

Typically found crouched in front of shrieking amplifiers, local mess-entity Waheela bring their improvised regolithic sprawl for a suitably disorientating start to the evening's worship as they once again try to resolve their love for harsh jams & blissed out drones.

 

[ http://waheela.tumblr.com ]

 

Inspired by both kinds of Hardcore, Newcastle's Tooms fuse nosebleed techno & crushing metal for maximum visceral impact. Their undeniably potent sonic maelstrom, exhilarating guitar attack and groove brutalism will help drag GNAW into high gear.

 

[ http://www.toomslive.co.uk/ ]

 

Fearsome exponents of majestic narco-doom, Druganaut will invoke the deepest & darkest chugging filth. GNAW's abyssal black heart, their molten shimmer and dizzying cracked sludge will be the crushing gravitational core around which much else will circle.

 

[ http://www.facebook.com/druganautband ]

 

York's RSJ bring their deft and blistering agitated thrash attack to ratchet GNAWs intensity still further. After playing together for just under a decade, the dynamic, exploratory and shocking impact from these veterans will be a joy and a wonder.

 

[ http://www.rsj-noise.co.uk/ ]

 

We Are Knuckle Dragger will bring GNAW's night of distorsion & electro-magnetic veneration to a suitable climax. Fresh from recording with the legendary Steve Albini, Dragger's tangled & propulsive guitar lines and mighty splintered grooves will blow minds and agitate bodies.

 

[ http://www.weareknuckledragger.com/ ]

 

As if these five acts weren't enough, throughout GNAW DJs Callan & Nick Bennett will be spinning outer-limit sides to entrance & amaze. Dropping Pärt when it does the most good & digging out Fugazi side-projects when least expected, they promise deep interstitial joys & obscure freak-outs 'til late.

 

GREAT NORTHERN AMPLIFIER WORSHIP / STAR & SHADOW / 17th December 2011 / £4