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HALLOWS is a Los Angeles-based dark electronic duo consisting of Vanee Dusoruth and Dom Rolando. The band’s seductive and melancholic sound explores themes of unease, longing, and sadness in their music inspired by 80s synth nostalgia, coupled with modern electronics, disco, and punk influences.

Support from PINK POUND. Andrew Milk (Shopping / Current Affairs) is known for playing in post-punk bands as well as performing in drag at queer clubs and festivals across the UK. Pink Pound’s music was best described by one fan as “The Yassification of New Order”.

She’s fast. She’s mean. She’s frightening.

But even the badass leader of a girl gang has a heart.

With a new gang muscling in on her turf and a new girl muscling in on her man, can Lace keep a cool head when there’s a steady stream of poison being poured in her ear? It’s Othello for the streets! Drama with extra knife fights, shootouts and a bad attitude.

Join Trash Cinema this July for a grindhouse classic from exploitation king Jack Hill – Switchblade Sisters!

Remember, you’re nobody if you ain’t in the gang.

Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm.

Free popcorn and sweeties for all!

Drainolith is Alexander Moskos, best known as first-chair guitar in the formalist rock group AIDS Wolf but also a member of Montreal’s forward thinking electronic music scene. For this show he’ll be joined by Gretchen (Guttersnipe) and Sydney from ace Welsh-language, goth-psych-rock group, Tristwch Y Fenywod to make a trio.

With Drainolith, Moskos is finally in the realm of song-form, albeit with a polyrhythmic undertow and woozy vocal style. All of Drainolith’s material is performed live, with no backing tapes, samplers sequencers or arpeggiators. Moskos plays foot triggered drum synths, keyboard or guitar and modified cross-patched disco mixers. New album; MACBETH

L are a disassociated non-music trio based around the writings of card
magician Jack Paton. Jack is joined by Laurie Pitt and Jack Mellin.
Listen to their album Marilyn Monroe – All of Us

Blue Kanues have been playing around Glasgow on and off over the last 4 years and are about to begin recording their debut album. The band features Mattie on drums, Hannah on bass guitar, Laura on lead guitar and vocals and Isobel on vocals and guitar. They play songs written by Isobel and show influences ranging from metal and hard rock to more dreamscape sounds and indie rock.

Since the early 1990’s, Aotearoa / New Zealander, Stefan Neville has recorded and performed iconoclastic pieces of broken & repurposed pop song as Pumice. He delicately smears together droning NZ folk, jangly Pakeha blues & scorched Pacific skiffle. Usually performed on multiple instruments at once, with a security blanket of grot & tape saturation through crumbling shitty speakers.

Stefan is an active participant in NZ underground music communities. He has collaborated with Kraus, Chris Knox / Tall Dwarfs, Coolies, Hermione Johnson, The Renderers, C.J.A, Ducklingmonster, Antony Milton, Campbell Kneale, Greg Malcolm, Gfrenzy & Witcyst, as well as international contemporaries like Jandek, Anla Courtis, Richard Youngs & Les Harrys. Stefans music has been released on Soft Abuse Records, Feeding Tube Records, Fordamning Arkiv, Planam, Horn Of Plenty, Root Don Lonie For Cash, Ultra Eczema & his own Stabbies Etc label. He facilitates an experiential & spontaneous music making program for people with disabilities in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland called Māpura Music. His visual art practice is just as rotten & playful as his music.

“Everything Pumice owns is broken. Virgin audience members at his shows might think he is fucking up till half-way through when it becomes clear they are witnessing a perfect solo ballet of mini-cassettes, modified guitar, foot-pedal drum-kit & short-circuiting spring reverb croon. Deep into a genius career, Pumice still surprises with his subtle mastery of broke-down sounds, slowed-down Magic Band rhythms, crumbling chord organ hymns & tragic ballads that reach deep into the very soul of Aotearoa / New Zealand anti-pop pop music.”– Glenn Donaldson

Born in Cambridge and raised in the Fens, Richard Youngs began making music at the start of the seventies. His early work centred on the family piano. When this was sold in the late seventies, however, the classical guitar and cassette recorder became his instruments of choice, along with anything at hand that made a sound. From then on he has played any number of roles with bands such as Astral Social Club, Concrete Hedge, No Deserts, Jandek and Future Pilot A.K.A. Recent collaborative work with Andrew Paine, Heatsick, Kawabata Makoto and John Clyde-Evans also show him as a highly social musician.  His catalogue of releases wanders into all kinds of zones over a vast array of albums on various labels including his No Fans imprint: they include accapella, guitars, pipes or electronics and come out of solitude and in partnership with atmospheres that range from fragmental folk to all-out fuzz.

“THE iconic figure of the modern UK underground … Richard Youngs evolves in the shadows where most won’t look, but those who do will forever be dazzled and amazed” – The Quietus

Christopher Thomas Failure is the nom de plume of Dancer guitarist Christopher Taylor.

Living outside of reality as much as is decent and humanly possible due to how consistently disappointing it is, Chris writes songs about waiting, dead parents, Dave Mustaine, and the artist’s fight with art while experiencing everything in its totality, among other concepts lifted from David Berman’s blog.

Backed up live by double bassist Ari Loughlin, whose ability and demure stage presence legitimise things a bit, the pair hope to provide the same light relief from life that they seek, through angular-meets-ragtime electric guitar, deep bass and baritone vocals.

Hailing from rural Donegal, alt-folk visionary George Houston is a genre-bending singer-songwriter known for his poetic lyricism, ethereal harmonies, and hauntingly intimate live performances. Since launching his career in 2020 after leaving school during Covid lockdowns, Houston has recorded four studio albums, been longlisted for the Glastonbury Song Contest, and received praise from BBC Radio One, RTÉ Radio One, Hot Press Magazine, and more.

Following his breakthrough single In Aeternum Vive, and a once-in-a-lifetime tour with Paul Weller across America, Houston continues to captivate audiences with music that is as tender as it is defiant with his new summer album ‘TODC’. With a TV debut on Later with Jools Holland in June, and a tour of UK & Ireland this autumn, George Houston is definitely one to watch in 2025.