Room Tones
Conceived in the summer of 2009, Room Tones is an independent, non-profit organisation striving to bring a vast array of electronic, experimental and outsider music to the Greater Manchester area. Though only still a fledgling, Room Tones has already hosted artists from the USA, Canada, Holland and Norway, artists that we love and believe to have uniqueness, integrity & depth. At the same time we try to support home-grown talent, allowing a stage for them to reach a wider audience. Now almost into their second year, expansion is on the agenda, with a view to further broaden Manchester's exciting musical palette.
9.00 Alexander Tucker
8.00 The Boats / Danny Norbury
7.00 A Middle Sex
6.00 Dean McPhee
5.00 Seasons (Pre-Din)
4.15 Ithaca Trio
3.15 Operations / Appetites
DOORS: 3pm - 10pm
Alexander Tucker
Alexander Tucker is an English musician, hailing from Kent currently signed to ATP records. He has been linked to a number of other acts, having performed vocals for hardcore bands Suction and Unhome and synths for Detroit space-rockers Fuxa. He started experimenting with detuned guitars, loops, acoustic finger picking and spooked vocals, releasing a self-titled album on U-Sound Archives. This style was refined in subsequent performances and this led to interest and ultimately a deal with ATP Records who released Old Fog in 2005, followed by Furrowed Brow in 2006 and Portal in 2008. Alexander Tucker's music recalls John Fahey's inspired work twisted with doomy dronescapes and haunting vocal harmonies... "a meticulously disorienting, blissful environment"
www.atpfestival.com/recordings/artist/alexandertucker/view.php
www.myspace.com/alexanderdtucker
The Boats / Danny Norbury
Andrew Hargreaves and Craig Tattersall, aka the The Boats have known each other for eight years and have been making music together for six. They release music independently through their label Our Small Ideas, as well as through Moteer, Home Normal and Flau. They are joined by Manchester cellist Danny Norbury, who has released two albums, Dusk on Static Caravan and Jean Cocteau on Ono Records.
Dean M
cPhee
Dean McPhee is a solo electric guitarist who lives in West Yorkshire. He takes his inspiration from a broad range of influences - including Psychedelic and Post Rock, Mali Blues, Minimalism, Krautrock, British Folk, Bluegrass and Moroccan Trance. His highly percussive fingerstyle technique enables him to play bass notes and drones and to solo fluently at the same time. He has an experimental approach to his guitar sound, which incorporates decaying delay effects, shimmering tremelo and warm valve distortion and his guitar pieces often use unusual chords and tunings.
A Middle Sex 
A Middle Sex are a trio from Manchester. They weave together marathon syncopated drumming, choral singing with static drones and voices that float in through the cracks and join the party of stalactites above. Bookended by sunburned guitar and swirls of ecstatic vocals, you might just dream about the lions again.
Seasons(Pre-Din)
The enigmatic Seasons (Pre-Din) has already found himself burdened with quite a following with those in the know, having made his presence felt performing alongside the likes of Richard Skelton and Xela, and via an absolutely incredible archive of self-released albums and obscurities housing some of the most enthralling drone / field recordings we've heard in time.
Ithaca Trio
Ithaca Trio (aka. Ithaca) is an 'experimental' co
2010 will see a number of collaborations, a full length album, more live
shows, more software, and a number of special releases from the Ithaca
lab.
llective based in Leeds, UK. Founded in early 2009, Ithaca create 'organic-electronic' ambient-drone music using a variety of predominantly acoustic instruments and manipulations. 2009 saw Ithaca's birth, the recording of a number of free digital
download releases, as well as the 'Tesla Verses The Night' mini-album,
available on Under The Spire Recordings in early 2010.
http://ithacatrio.wordpress.com/
Operations / Appetites
Operations is Manchester based musician Chris Anderson, who created intricate drone music using various instruments, loopers and devices. He has released a number of E.Ps independently as well as having a full length; You & Atomic Warfare released on Dead Pilot Records.
Appetites is a guitar based improvisor also residing in Manchester.They will be performing together with various instruments creating dense, unpredictable soundscapes reflecting location and mood.