Vivienne Griffin & Zach Toppin: Vivienne Griffin has built a new instrument; The New Note, a harp with a motorised structure attached to it, which plays itself. In this performance The New Note plays sound through a modular synthesiser, and Zach Toppin plays improvised drums.
Vivienne Griffin was born in Dublin, Ireland. Griffin studied fine art at Hunter City University New York supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. Moving between experimental sound and art, through the digital and the human voice, Griffin is an anti-disciplinary artist who uses video, sound and sculpture. As a form of anti capitalism Griffin aims to reclaim the emancipatory prompts that technology can offer us through vocal processing, live performance, video and installations.
Zach Toppin is an artist and drummer, currently playing with Mica Levi and Alpha Maid as Spresso
angelicaa will be performing a live set of unreleased music.
angelicaa is a musician, vocalist and songwriter from London, generating her sound with genre-fluidity, collaboration and chorus. Her style merges definitive pop, rock and alternative influences from the past with a contemporary mode. She has been releasing music as a solo artist since 2018 on independent record labels – Cherche Encore, Edited Arts and Bodymotion, working mostly with electronic producers and artists in London and Europe, and performing within London’s underground music scene and creating for radio.
Chanel Vegas will be reading a collection of poems from her most recent project Grief Ain't Brief which will hopefully become a little emo black book one day.
Chanel Vegas is a graduate from Goldsmiths University. She has lived in London her whole life, is a POC and a working class artist and she was the first ever graduate to receive the Artist Award from Goldsmiths. Her practice consists of manipulating surfaces through sound and destruction. She further explores the practice of painting by designing and making her own tools, 'weapons to paint with'. Her practice is a mockery of action painting by male artists. The performative aspects of her work explore the divide within ‘the self’, the other side, the darkness that takes over, using spoken word and poetry, which ties in with and activates her sculptural paintings.
Jeanie and The White Boys will be blessing the stage with some punk and blues, mixed with a little bit of Michael Clark.
Tom Rassmussen will be providing a high energy, sexy diva DJ set.
Musician, composer and writer Tom Rasmussen was born and raised in Lancaster. After moving to London in the early 2010s they fell into the drag scene. Since then they have authored two critically acclaimed books — Diary of a Drag Queen and First Comes Love — and they are now a sex and relationships columnist at American Vogue. Supporting Rina Sawayama, Self Esteem, the xx’s Romy on their tours, as well as headlining their own UK tours, Rasmussen’s music has resonated with queer and trans audiences across the nation.
Mander, MPR's producer, will be closing the night with some classic boogie and funky house.