SMOTE | THE CLUNY
Tyne And Queer brings you: SMOTE, WITH DEATH WVRM + LOUSE
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Everyone attending our events to please be respectful and mindful of one another, this helps keep our events welcoming and safer for all.
Venue Accessibility information Read Full info here
S+S is a well-known volunteer run co-op venue who we work closely with to support access needs for all wherever possible.
The Star and Shadow has sloping ramps instead of steps everywhere, fully accessible toilet, changing places' with straps and hoists for people with disabilities.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible, as a whole.
If you have any requirements, questions, or need adjustments to feel comfortable, please get in touch ahead of time — no request is too small! Just get in touch: Tyneandqueerinfo@gmail.com
This is a shared space for live sound, experimentation, and community.
Whether you’re deeply embedded in the strange and wonderful, or just curious, come and experience it with us.
Join us on 30th April . We’d love you to come down, show your support.
SMOTE (Newcastle, UK)
Psychedelic rock, drone, doom, and folk to create a heavy, atmospheric sounds
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In the world of Smote, going further out means going inward. Less a metaphysical journey into inner space, more a physical journey into the ground itself, converging with its roots and vibrations. What's more, a journey right to the heart of its principal architect's daily experience.
Daniel Foggin has spent the majority of his adult life working as a landscape gardener, frequently pursuing his trade in conditions of either baking heat or freezing cold and, as he puts it "more often covered in mud than not". Yet the primal, meditative aspects of this work, the act of communing with nature, its histories and its depths have fuelled his art on a profound level. As Daniel himself relates; "I think the music is a direct reflection of this feeling that I haven't quite managed to define yet, it is dirty and hard but there is an overwhelming comfort to it."
Smote's fifth release for Rocket Recordings, and their deepest, most fully realised to date, Songs From The Free House is testimony to this. Forged from repetition and mantric intensity and possessed of formidable psychic fortitude, this album prove that the only retro-chic Smote indulge in is liable to go back several centuries. The megalithic monomania of last year's A Grand Stream set a formidable precedent, and Smote's live shows in its wake have gradually built a reputation as visionary seers building audial monuments by cranked amplification and atmospheric intensity alike. Yet these five gnostic serenades offer portals and paradigms anew.