A-Bound Festival brings weekend of experimental music to Manchester

Manchester's Islington Mill is hosting a very special Easter weekend of events as the A-Bound Festival brings five days of unorthodox and interactive music and art to the iconic red-brick venue. 

Masterminded by local promoter Fat Out Till You Pass Out, the festival kicks off with an opening (free, sold out) show with Manchester’s Now Wave who are presenting Dutch Uncles’ special brew of math-rock.

It's then the turn of Bristol’s Cacophanus Sarcophagus, whose showcase on Thursday includes drum-centric improvisational collective WERK and curator/interpreter of ethnic minority music from South East Asia Kink Gong.

A-Bound springs into Easter weekend with an epic 28-hour bounce of party events featuring legendary electronic Glaswegian record label Optimo Music n action below), homegrown talents Islington Mill Pot Luck Film Night (IMPLFN), Tech Noir, and Mother May I, for a chilled break of movies, cartoons, gaming, food, and cocktails before an international 12-hour rave selected by discerning London/Manchester programmers and rapidly rising stars High Hoops capped off with a special 4 hour set of soulful, raw and uplifting music Antal, respected co-founder of global electronic music institute Rush Hour Records.

Easter Sunday sees Oxford-based Supernormal bringing a diverse music line up of five acts including controversial noise anarchists Consumer Electronics, female trio Bas Ja, psychedelic duo Gum Takes Tooth, experimeters Circuit Breaker and FIFTH. Organisers have also told punters to prepare to become part of a colony of human-bat performers. Standard.

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