A night of music from Belgium and Glasgow…
Sergeant makes music like editing an erratic film: cutting, splicing, and reassembling sounds into a whirlwind of unexpected turns. The trio – filmmaker/composer Benjamin Cools, search-singing actor Ferre Marnef, and sonic surfer Geraldine Vanspauwen – strike a delicate balance between post-punk’s jagged edges, krautrock’s relentless drive, and an unpredictable pop energy that keeps your heart racing.
Their sound is a plunderphonic mess of fractured rhythms and clashing textures: always on the move, never in balance. It’s like The Avalanches throwing a party with pagan whistles, distorted bells, and dubby basslines. Flutes squawk as if they’re trying to outrun the beat, and melodies splinter into chaotic joyrides. Imagine Micachu & The Shapes playing hopscotch with Robert Wyatt, or Sonic Youth dissolving in a glass of sparkling water and vodka: fizzy, intoxicating, yet brutally honest at the end. Live, Sergeant stretch their music to experimental heights, pushing songs into a fever pitch, scrambling them into something even more untamed. The room fills with foolish critique, a controlled stumble, a sound that keeps running even when it’s lost track of where it’s headed.
Gichard are Chas Lalli and Lisa Jones, a Glaswegian duo writing surrealistic, post-punk-inflected vignettes laden with hooks and with a foot in the underground. Previously collaborating in the band Dragged Up. Gichard’s debut recording Chins For Lefty is the band’s first musical statement. Recorded mostly at home in 2025, the recording was picked up by Night School Records before the group had even played live. The band presents a skewed universe populated by lyricist Lisa Jones’ outsider characters and moral dilemmas, shot through with an achingly funny and absurdist deadpan delivery redolent of the west of Scotland. Musically, Chas Lalli’s music direction channels the vision into lo fi, catchy chunks of cosmic, post-punk. “Gichard”summarises the group’s ethos – a made up name that sounds familiar but isn’t.
Daisy Ray’s (BE) music hovers between whimsical EDM, witty art-pop, and nursery rhyme-like storytelling. Once in a while described as cartoonish yet cerebral, her work channels a surreal, tongue-in-cheek spirit.
