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FREAKENDER FESTIVAL IS BACK!!!!

We are celebrating 5 years of the festival this September 17th 2022, with a one day blowout! We’re condensing our annual 3-day fest into 12 hours of hot and spicy new music to loose your shit to!

It’s been two years since we did this, it should be our 7th Party, but hey, we’ve had to get through a lot to be here!

We’ll be back filling our beloved The Old Hairdressers, upstairs and down with all the same energy you have come to love from the Freakender crew!

Line up announcement next week!

£12 Early Bird tickets have SOLD OUT!

£17 advance tickets on sale NOW!

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. Alex has presented her art and music in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America including the Vancouver Art Gallery; BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, and Liveworks Festival, with Liquid Architecture, Sydney. She has released her music with labels Room40, Longform editions, More Mars (w. MP Hopkins) and Canti Magnetici, and has a forthcoming release with Mappa. (She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic)

Ailie Ormston is a Scottish musician who works mostly collaboratively. Ormston intends to confront the traditions of presenting, performing and digesting music in an attempt to articulate a form of a contemporary condition. They aim to construct a coherent visual language that corresponds to music writing, carrying its ethos into different forms and varying modes of communication. 2022 saw the release of It Changes, an album with Tim Fraser; they performed at Counterflows, a music festival in Glasgow in 2019. Ailie released an album with Finlay Clark, ‘Sunflowers Face The Sun’ in 2020 on 33-33, as well as a solo double EP, ‘The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo’ in 2018.

Han’s music is her attempt to make dance music without following any of dance music’s conventions, resulting in what must then be experimental electronic music. Her recent cassette release on GLARC was conceptualised around a fictional Institute of Ecoterrorism, and was featured in The Quietus’ New Weird Britain review. It has been broadcast on radio by the likes of NTS’ The Trilogy Tapes and Debonair, and BBC3’s Late Junction. She runs a monthly series of events in Glasgow called Events Research Programme  supporting weirdo/experimental/fun locals across performance and music. Han has released further records under the name BOOSTERHOOCH and published The Guts of It: a magazine for radical ideas on health care.

Yes Indeed are Laurie Tompkins & Otto Willberg. Live, they play keys, bouncy bass and sing over tactile, emotive samples. The music is fuggy and soaring, deliciously out of place. On 2021’s ‘Exorcise’ EP, they let ratty violin, syrupy bass and foolish voices congeal over a backbone of co(s)mic spinnet and pit percussion. Boomkat rightly dubbed it “proper mad scones”. ‘Rotten Luck’ – a sodden, diaristic epic and YI’s first album proper – is out in September 2022. Laurie is a composer, helps run the Slip label and has put out CDs on Entr’acte, 33-33 and Hyperdelia this year. Otto is a bassist, plays in groups with Ashley Paul & Charles Hayward and his great band Historically Fucked has an LP coming on Upset The Rhythm.

Having sold out their first headline in May, Vos Rough return to the stage at The Old Hairdresser’s promising nothing but fine art and noise

Jaeho Hwang is a London/South Korea-based producer and DJ. Hwang’s unique production style fuses traditional South Korean instrumentation with hard-hitting club sounds and abrasive samples, using the Buddhist ideology of the anatto or “non-self” as a guiding principle in his music making.

Neo Geodesia is the project of Saphy Vong (aka Lafidki). Through the work on this new project, Vong takes concepts from the polyphonic tradition of Cambodian Khmer music, refracting them through the lens of contemporary electronic music, and a DIY attitude learned from the local punk scene of Nancy in northeastern France, where he grew up.

Both Vong and Hwang are part of the multidisciplinary label/collective Chinabot, through which they have championed the avant-garde and experimental side of all kinds of contemporary Asian music.

Jaeho Hwang
Neo Geodesia
+ more TBA

Time for a bit of the old ultraviolence at the hands of the merciless mercenary, the unparalleled kicker of ass – Sonny Chiba in The Street Fighter!

Karate master and all-round badass Terry Tsurugi finds himself fighting the yakuza, the mafia and anyone else stupid enough to cross his path in this blisteringly brutal martial arts masterpiece. Released in the US with an X certificate for being too intensely awesome and still packing a powerful punch, Trash Cinema invites you to a ringside seat at this non-stop action spectacular.

Liv Fontaine will be performing as VIV INSANE. Concerned with the politics of sex she performs in the language of hysteria, trauma, pleasure and desperation. Some say she is violently vengeful whilst others say she is sickly sweet. For the first time ever she will be performing live with Dirt Brooks – a gentleman said to be the after-birth of an afterthought that should have never been thunk. 

George Burt and Clíona Cassidy are a partnership exploring the territory between songwriting, improvisation and performance. They began working together in the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and their shared interest in combining songwriting and improvisation made their collaboration inevitable. Their different backgrounds and approaches, from classical opera, folk and jazz make it unique. Rain Shadow is their first album (“A mixture of folk-inspired songs and operatic improvised dreamscapes…so brittle, so fine… it’s a beautiful album.” BBC Radio 3), made after a series of performances at Jazz NorthEast, GIOFest, and the Bitches Brew concert series promoting female-led groups and ensembles. The recording features a range of material from fully-composed songs to pieces developed through improvisation and text.

Hexakaidecagon are the ruby slippers, Grand Ole Opry, and The House on the Rock, whose interdisciplinary and highly personal work petitions for the intersections between parakeets, barbed wire, candles and seaweed. All the while illustrating a deep sense of ennui, an almost desperate yearning for bliss, a rich understanding of photogrammetry as well as a complete disregard for tides. They have collaborated extensively with the legendary likes of Jorge Luis Borges, and have received glowing reviews from clouds. They are thrilled to welcome a situation in which possibilities overpower intentions.