Music ranging from post-rock to laptop sound-mangling to no-wave noise to warped folk to po-mo pop to general weirdness. Art is visual, sonic, theatrical, theoretical, anythingandeverythingical all tied into a gigantic cavalcade of strange brilliance, you have never heard of us, and we will astound you.
Music
Movies
Television
Cross out television, put art.
(although...Lost, Strictly Dance Fever, Firefly, Twin Peaks and Spaced)
Books
reading words aloud to small audiences. Bedtime stories, polemics, poems, performances.
ZINES!
(click to read one)
Heroes
..Adam West, The Raincoats, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La La Band, Adem, Virginia Woolf, Jamie Lidell, Cornelius, Nina Simone, Aphex Twin, Gregor Schneider, Glastonbury Festival, Nag, Nag Nag, Deleuze and Guattari, Georg Buchner, The Knife, Kathy Acker, The Blow, Sonic Youth, All Tomorrow's Parties, William Basinski, Joss Whedon, Four Tet, The Dresden Dolls, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Slug, Janek Schaefer, Ian Williams, Everett True, Le Tigre, Acid Mothers Temple, Harold Pinter, Boredoms, Sappho, Jandek, Arthur Russell, Kurt Cobain, The Royal Art Lodge, Nan Goldin, Barry Scott, Oval, Kate Bush, George Monbiot, Matthew Herbert, Lydia Lunch, Jane Bowles, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Arto Lindsay, Leonard Cohen, Foucault, Arthur Rackham, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Scott Walker, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Joey Ramone, B-52's, Laurie Anderson, Chris Marker, Diamanda Galas, Siouxie Sioux, Poly Styrene, Hannah Höch, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tazra, Suicide, Slits, Angela Carter, Dame Darcy, Krazy Kat, Raymond Pettibon, Barbra Kruger, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Patti Smith, JD Salinger, Lester Bangs, The Vaselines, Bessie Smith, Sonic Youth, Sleater Kinney, Joseph Cornell, Tori Amos, John Cameron Mitchell...
Beatabet are a Brighton-based artist collective after our own hearts, emerging from a broad range of disciplines and coming together regularly to perform, create, compose and experiment. Their events are known for their unusual settings, their diverse line-ups and their refreshing balance between the experimental and the more accessible, managing to maintain a great sense of fun throughout.
We're presenting February's Escape night in conjunction with their finest artists and acts, in anticipation of a major collaboration that we have planned for March 2009.
AK/DK (Beatabet)
"2 humans, 2 drumkits, 2 synths, messynoiseynoise"
AK/DK: like to have fun : play completely improvised sets : come from brighton : make noise with two drum kits, an old casiotone and a korg synth : usually have a couple of friends join them for gigs : don't pretend to be cool : want to be your friend come to our party:
www.myspace.com/akdkgroup
The Beatabet Band (Beatabet)
Born out of the annual Beatafarm Residencies in France, The Beatabet Band are a 10 piece ensemble who perform selected works from the an extensive back catalogue penned by various memebers of the collective.
www.beatabet.net
The Capsized Smiles (WTCD)
The Capsized Smiles have travelled across sea, land and outer space, returning to present to you their cruel cabinet of curiosities: B-movie tales of horror, woe and wild wild joy.
myspace.com/capsizedsmiles
Ad Hoc (WTCD)
Ad Hoc is a reformed hacker and software engineer, who builds chaotic permutations of familiar and unfamiliar sounds using an array of self-built systems.
www.adhoc.fm
PLUS! 10, 20, 30, 40 present a post-obvious megamegamix spanning the golden decade of the 1990s...
As always,
-FREE ENTRY-
Escape Bar & Art,
214 – 216 Railton Road,
Herne Hill,
SE24 0JT
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Train: Herne Hill (opposite)
Bus: 196, 201, 3, 37, 322, 468, 68
Closest Tube: Brixton (then bus)
Who I'd like to meet: the raggle taggle gypsies, the pirates, the hackers, the dancing feet, the lovers, the haters, the all-night-talkers, the wandering, the savage, the desperate and the dangerous.
What They Could Do, They Did's Friend Space (Top 36)
last night i tried to steal a copy of the magazine but i think somebody must have stolen it back off me, serves me right really.... THANKS FOR HAVING US!!! x x t k
hellö everybody, i cut hair, i cut your hair cheap! if your interested drop me a message on my page or call my mobile o7948979876. what they could do thankyou. happy halloween.
thank you for having us! yes we'll definitely keep in touch and closer to the time, please do get back to us about that edinburgh fest thing, that'd be awesome!
oh helloh i like your new look myface, i am a snotty phlegm head but i am going to make it my mission to attend the escape bar finally this month. I say this more as a binding verbal agreement with myself than anything else, but there it is, hum. to thursday, ahoy! x Molly
"Turn the Car Around" is just a brilliant four and a half minute pop song that takes an impressive line in inventive self-production and an effortless and incredibly catchy songwriting style. A great, incredibly promising debut and highly recommended.
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