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Pumice, Jennifer Reid & Admiral Drowsy - Friday 4 July 2025 - Doors 7.30pm

Regular price £8.00

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Since the early 1990's, Aotearoa / New Zealander, Stefan Neville has recorded and performed iconoclastic pieces of broken & repurposed pop song as Pumice. He delicately smears together droning NZ folk, jangly Pakeha blues, & scorched Pacific skiffle. Usually performed on multiple instruments at once, with a security blanket of grot & tape saturation through crumbling shitty speakers.

Stefan is an active participant in NZ underground music communities. He has collaborated with Kraus, frenzy, Chris Knox / Tall Dwarfs, Coolies, The Renderers, C.J.A, Ducklingmonster, Greg Malcolm, Hermione Johnson, Antony Milton, Campbell Kneale & Witcyst, as well as international contemporaries like Jandek, Ana Courts, Richard Youngs & Les Harrys. Stefans music has been released on Soft Abuse Records, Feeding Tube Records, Fordamning Arkiv, Planam, Horn Of Plenty, Root Don Lonie For Cash, Ultra Eczema & his own Stabbies Etc label.

He facilitates an experiential & spontaneous music making program for people with disabilities in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland called Mäpura Music. His visual art practice is just as rotten & playful as his music.

 https://pumicenz.bandcamp.com/album/phylis

 https://stabbiesetc.bandcamp.com/album/berrys-2025

 Jennifer performs Victorian and Georgian Lancashire dialect work song and broadside ballads sung on the streets of Manchester. These Ballards are sung with the intention of audiences reconnecting with their heritage. Think rousing songs and passionate oratory. Of recent Jennifer has been working with Bradford 2025, Kings College London, Stand Up Sisters, Eliza Carthy, Pete Townshend, Deborah Norris Ward and Tom Kitching. 

https://www.jenniferballads.com

https://jenniferreid.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballad-of-the-gatekeeper

 Admiral Drowsy is the musical veneer of Yorkshire born Luke Redfern Scott. Returning to Yorkshire after a lengthy period of absence from his adopted home of Aotearoa New Zealand and recently performing a string of diy shows in Japan and Korea Luke will be performing his ghost ballads and small town psychosis songs blended with abstract experimental soundscapes.

 https://admiraldrowsy1.bandcamp.com/album/industrial-consistency

 https://admiraldrowsy1.bandcamp.com/album/the-gutter-boy-spectates  

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