Tickets £15 + bf / more on the door
One of the UK's most vital bands Gnod return to Todmorden.
Since their inception, Gnod’s musical trajectory has been one of constant fluctuation borne out of an incessant need to discover new sonic worlds. Beginning life as a shamanic drone ensemble, at times fitting up to 15 members on stage, these early rituals informed the core ideals that have come to define the group in their years of activity; community and trance-inducing repetition. Throughout a discography that has amassed dozens of CD-R’s, cassettes and vinyls for labels like Rocket Recordings, Trensmat, Krokodilo (Blackest Ever Black) and their own Tesla Tapes imprint, a restless yet organic need mutate their music into new realms has had critics clawing for comparative touch stones. Acts as far ranging as Hawkwind, Popul Vuh, Pan Sonic, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Pharaoh Sanders have all been referenced in attempt to pinpoint their output, one that has historically never aped any genre but with each record furthered their own unique place in truly independent music. It is the exact same dedication to the live arena that has seen Gnod become one of the most celebrated live bands in the UK and secured them multiple tours and festival appearances throughout Europe. In these times of c@sh in hand ‘glory days’ reunions and bands simply rehashing their recorded material pitch perfect live, Gnod are a stark and welcome anomaly. Already moving on from the barley released and universally acclaimed epic ‘Infinity Machines’, the current live incarnation of the band is characterised by a crushing, cataclysmic new protest music whose call to arms gravitas offers a meaningful defiance to Cameron’s Austerity Britain. Gnod have taken their very namesake and charged it with bludgeoning new edge that is as euphoric as it is nihilistic. It is one that stridently attests to the group’s spiritual center, one of community that is inclusive and respectful of its audience yet will never placate to their expectations. Instead, Gnod offer a gateway to an aural black hole and along with firm guiding hand, the chance to dive head and body first into a powerfully new psychedelic maelstrom full of possibilities.
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"Blindingly brilliant. That sense of being enclosed in sound – and
vision – offered both a sense of release and incarceration”
- The Quietus
“Perpetually builds on a lysergic blueprint, surrounded by its own
sonic barbed wire Gnod continue to take no prisoners”
- The Skinny
“A shot of dense energy I find it hard to describe as anything less
than utterly magnificent, Gnod’s most unpredictable and clearest
statement to date”
- Drowned In Sound
With support from Portuguese drummer, percussionist and cymbal maker Joao Pais Filipe and DJ Red Tin Dave.
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