FROM THE LIPS TO THE MOON: BRIGHTON

Blending live electronics, performative poetry, and a unique line up of local musicians and poets. Expect riveting live music, twisted beats, absurd texts, and fierce poetry. It's dreamy, dancy, deep, shallow, dark, colourful, sub, bass, .........

An electrifying long-form improvisation of music and words by live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi. Each From the Lips to the Moon performance is a unique experience with a fresh line-up of guest musicians and poets weaving together live electronics, unearthly melodies, noise, twisted beats, fierce poetry, heavy subs, and non-stories told in goosebumps and half-familiar languages.

Having become London's most sought after music+poetry event, 'lipstomoon' shows have been on a sell out roll for two years. Their first Brighton performance at the Rose Hill will see Pouya and Tara joined by some of Brighton's finest musicians and poets. Full line up TBA.

From the Lips to the Moon creates an immersive space filled with fantasy, noise, experimentation, and thrown-togetherness. Since 2022, they have performed at the V&A, Southbank Centre, Cafe OTO, The Vinyl Factory, Reference Point, NTS, Soho Radio, Radio al-Hara, and internationally, and worked with over a hundred guest artists. Their debut book of poetry, music, runaway words, and echoes is called (2024) and they’re debut album is coming out in 2025. They're covering south of England: 24 May at Jamminaround (Dorset), 7 June at Grand Junction (London), 19 June at Turner Contemporary (Margate) and 27 June at The Rose Hill (Brighton). www.lipstomoon.com

TIME & PLACE

Fri 27 June 2024

7 - 11 PM

The Rose Hill (Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, BN1 4JL)

TICKETS

choose your price, no extra fees:

Low-income: £9

General: £13

Philanthropist: £17 (support our future events)

KEEP IN TOUCH

For updates on future events and opportunities to work with us or to hear all the cool things we will be sharing (but not so often to fill your inbox), . We're also on instagram as @lipstomoon.

To perform in our future events, click here to introduce your work to us.

ACCESS

The Rose Hill is a step free venue and the toilets are on the main floor - the only barrier is the width within the cubicle is only 140cm. Please direct access enquiries to the venue.

If you are not able to afford a ticket, we are reserving some free tickets for the unwaged. Contact us on bGlwc3RvbW9vbiB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t

Cover image: From the Lips to the Moon at Cafe OTO, photo by Jack Batchelor

Additional photos by: Holly Revell, Jemima Yong

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and National Lottery

* the event will be filmed and photographed, if you don't want to appear in the footage please speak to a staff member. *

BIOS

Pouya Ehsaei is a composer, live electronic musician, and sound designer, and winner of thr Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. He has released two solo albums, There (2014) & RocRast (2020), and two albums with his band Ariwo. His performances span Royal Albert Hall, Montreux Jazz Festival, Barbican, Womex, Womad, and more, with works featured at Venice Biennale, Contempo Fest, and international theatres, galleries, and cinemas. www.pouyaehsaei.com

Tara Fatehi is a performer, writer and multidisciplinary artist from Tehran based in London. She has sixteen different voices and writes apocalyptic facts, soul-crunching laughs, adult lullabies and theatrical treasures that forefront mistranslation, ambiguity, disjunction, playfulness and unfinishedness. Alongside numerous international performances, exhibitions and published works, her book Mishandled Archive is published by LADA (2020). www.tarafatehi.com

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