YEAH YOU, RENZNIRO, COMFORT

To you YEAH YOU are to you a father daughter duo who let music invade the family context. Who let music dismantle the family car, using construct absurdity to redeem resented weekly Tesco shops and traffic jams. YEAH YOU are not who you said we are, but we are that inverted, and battery op. The content shifts depending on how many supermarket discounts we found. Known for their sneak-up picnic public invasions, perform mostly when uninvited but will always jump on chance to berate a strobe-cut stage, brawling electronic dirt pop, words and feet exert integral (instagram) distrust: you won’t hear what you see.

YEAH YOU – Skin (I Have Only Lived Once) from YEAH YOU on Vimeo.

 

RenzNiro is an artist/producer from Manchester, England. Traversing hope, betrayal, belief, deceit. RenzNiro delivers razor sharp aphorisms, facing the world head on with a confidence and clarity over subversive, electric instrumentals adjacent to grime. Since releasing his first full length project, “See Me, See Trouble” in 2022, RenzNiro has gone from strength to strength. Performing across the UK in highly reputable venues including the Barbican, The White Hotel & SOUP. The artist had a prolific 2023, releasing M2TA, a 5-song EP in June and “KWE!”, a self-produced 10-song LP in September. In addition to this he was also featured on the critically acclaimed Space Afrika & Rainy Miller album, ‘A Grisaille Wedding’ and made his debut at The White Hotel, supporting Slauson Malone 1.

Comfort: Sibling duo Natalie and Sean have a shared passion for music and political activism, sending each other track ideas online as they lived in separate places. They moved to Glasgow with the intention of forming the band, and there they found a supportive music scene despite sounding different to everything else there. Comfort’s simple set up of Sean on drums and Nat as magnetic frontwoman, backed with industrial soundscapes and off-kilter electronic sub beats is anything but conventional, and they have a genuine desire to inspire other people in Glasgow to express themselves confidently. The songwriting process begins with the electronics, then drums and vocals are added last. Nat has always written and read poetry and these as well as personal experiences inspire her lyric writing. With a largely instinctual working relationship and family bond, they do not discuss writing beforehand and the progressions occur organically during a practice, requiring no words or pre-planning. Their debut album, Not Passing, was released in 2019 and ever since they have been working on new music. Citing hip-hop, politics and dance music as their main influences, Comfort are something entirely idiosyncratic. Their sheer live power leaves audiences excited and wild-eyed, and their energy is infectious, as is the rawness of their messages. They create with a unique formal approach, rejecting concepts of how music is supposed to be written and produced.