Dead Space Chamber Music / Futures We Lost / Eldermother

Join us for the first date of the Dead Space Chamber Music / Futures We Lost UK Spring Tour

Dead Space Chamber Music (DSCM) are a gothic / experimental / doom band from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shape-shifting them into new and varied contemporary works. Incorporating improvisation and use of 'found sounds', and with vocals spanning medieval Middle English, Latin and Welsh, they blend elements of dark ambient, post-industrial, avant-classical, sacred chant and dark-folk in their powerful and atmospheric music.

DSCM founded the award winning independent live event series Dark Alchemy in 2017, playing and hosting other artists in crypts and churches. They are earning increasing acclaim for their compelling and ceremonial live shows having to date shared bills with The Danse Society, Cold in Berlin, Nero Kane (IT), Maud the Moth, Hawthonn, Kariti (IT/RUS), Khost, Deep Cross (USA), Some Became Hollow Tubes (members of thisquietarmy & Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Kate Arnold, Bonnacons of Doom, Nocturnal Emissions and Rose McDowell amongst others. They have toured the UK with internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail, and with hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten & Danielle de Picciotto of Crime and the City Solution). They have also collaborated creatively with several of these artists. 

Personnel for this show: Tom Bush (guitar), Liz Muir (cello), Ekaterina Samarkina (drums / percussion) and Ellen Southern (voice, psaltery, percussion & found sounds).

Futures We Lost is the dark post-industrial, cinematic techno soundscape of electronic artist and producer Doug Gordon. Rising from the ashes of 2020’s grief and inspired by the artist’s ancestral roots under the crumbling mills and industrial scars of the northern English landscape; this self-titled upcoming debut album explores these post-industrial graveyards and dystopian future visions through the lens of our present day neo technological horrors. Sometimes a brutalist techno monolith to this mechanised slavery nightmare, sometimes a dark ambient soundtrack to the distortion and living death of our dreams. A sonic memorial to all those futures we lost… 

Futures We Lost sound is formed from live hardware synthesiser performances, alongside programmed drum machines and samplers. 

Eldermother is a new doom folk project by Clare Webster, harpist and vocalist of Edenfall. Rooted in melancholy and quiet intensity, this project strips music back to its bare essence. 

For this performance, Clare is joined by Edenfall’s co-founder and longtime collaborator Rob George on acoustic guitar. Together, they will perform stripped-back renditions of Edenfall’s songs alongside dark, atmospheric takes on well-known classics. A gathering for those who find beauty in the shadows - fans of Darkher, Dead Can Dance, Wolcensmen, and Agalloch will feel at home.