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New York’s Phenomenal Handclap Band are teaming up with London music and art collective, Noise of Art, to play their surround club experience, the Psychedelic Curiosity Show, at Village Underground, London, on 24 February.

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The London show marking the release of Phenomenal Handclap Band’s new LP (Form & Control), sees New York’s purveyors of psych, soul, and cosmic disco enter Noise of Art’s psychedelic steam punk world.

Phenomenal Handclap Band broke through with their US and European club hit ‘15 To 20’. Their sound has roots in New York, San Francisco, San Paulo and London. Imagine Curtis Mayfield and Deee-Lite throwing a Nu-Yorican party with Afro-beat, Cosmic Italo-disco, Turkish psych and ‘70s West Coast music spinning on the decks. Kaleidoscopic grooves doesn’t begin to describe their live sound.

On the 45th anniversary of the UK’s Psychedelic movement, Noise of Art’s new show is inspired by contemporary steam punk and the 19th Century imagery that inexplicably became prevalent in the late Sixties. It imagines that Sergeant Pepper, Pink Floyd and The Avengers were the result of two universes colliding in 1967; throwing people from a parallel steam punk world into swinging London.

The resulting psychedelic Victoriana features coal-fired flower power, contemporary dancers, curiosities of nature, magic lanterns of psychedelic imagery, steam-powered cosmic house, psyched-out-disco and coal-fired techno.

Press about Phenomenal Handclap Band
“Punchier, grander and more focused than their debut… NYC glam dance collective reach for the stars” Q ****
‘…encapsulates the nostalgic elements of ESG, ELO, Tom Tom Club, The Doors and Sly And The Family Stone, applies a gloss of New York cool and then re-packages it with the modern production of the LCD soundsystem, CSS and Beck variety. Forget the handclap, they’ll take a standing ovation.’ – NME

‘With guitars, keyboards, percussion, and two very chic female singers (who seriously know how to rock leather leggings and sleek jumpers)—the crew took its worldly, genre-spanning sound and turned it up about a thousand notches’ -Elle

‘The PHB are astronauts of progressive soul, moored at the stellar point where rock, funk and psychedelia bloom into cosmic-disco amazingness.’ The Guardian
‘Musically diverse, incredibly melodic and dance-floor ready.’ – New York Post

‘With their multitudinous influences, blending funk, soul, reggae, dance, hip-hop and Brazilian beat, as well as rock, disco and electro, they encapsulate the spirit of the Brooklyn underground.’ – The Sunday Times Culture UK

Noise of Art’s New Year’s Eve event at Sketch, with Ben Osborne, Luca Santucci, The People Pile, Overlap, Your Mum, Walkabout/ Prick Image, Kevin Pearce, Peter Hepworth, Fred’s House, The Medicine Shop, Louise Golbey and special guests to be announced.

New Year’s Eve at Sketch, London
31^st December 2011 – 1^st December 2012
Sketch, 9 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XG

The Noise of Art entry list for this event is now full. If we’re not seeing you on the 31st we hope to see you very soon at our next events in 2012.

Noise of Art returns to the stunning party space at Sketch for NYE 2012, with a new immersive club event featuring music, art, film, performance, dance, surround projections and occurrences of curiosity.

On the 45th anniversary of the UK’s Psychedelic movement, Noise of Art’s new show is inspired by the 19th Century imagery of the late Sixties (think Blake’s iconic cover art and inner sleeve cut out moustaches). The immersive club event imagines that Sergeant Pepper, Pink Floyd and The Avengers were the result of two universes colliding in 1967; throwing people from a parallel steam punk world into the Carnaby Street scene of swinging London (which happens to be two minutes walk from the venue).

The resulting psychedelic Victoriana features DJs, coal-fired flower power, contemporary dancers, and folk singers, curiosities of nature and, visiting the capital for the very first time, the drawing room disco that is a Benefit For Mr Kite, and 360 degree magic lanterns of psychedelic imagery.

Musical acts will begin with Sixties folktronics, and rise to steam-powered cosmic house, psyched-out-disco and coal-fired techno.

 

“When it comes to mega multimedia events, Ben Osborne and his collective, Noise of Art, are all over it.” Time Out“… plenty of great music and top visuals for your dollar.” CMU
“Unique venues… and quality electronica” iDJ
“The idea’s brilliant” FACT
“… bound to free the crowd from any… torpor.” The Guardian
“This gets a very big Londonist thumbs up.” The Londonist
“You’re unlikely to attend another event in London like this, so our advice is to get your ticket sharpish.” DJ Magazine

Noise of Art will be returning to the sleek and salubrious environs of London’s Sketch for New Years’ Eve.

The immersive club night will feature DJs, dancers, performers, film, live music and projections across four rooms.

The third Noise of Art NYE at Sketch will see Seventies sci-fi retro-futurism meet themes inspired by late Sixties Psychedelica. Steam-punk strands continue with a neo Victorian curiosity.

Full details to be made available on www.noiseofart.org soon.

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Friday 30 September
93 Feet east, 150 Brick Lane London E1 6QL
7pm – 1 am Free

Acid Washed (France)
Hyena Stomp aka Severino and Nico de Ceglia (Italia)
Dec Shoes (London)
Hentai Corporation (Prague)
Ben Osborne
The People Pile
Your Mum
Beef Warehouse
Cosmic Onion Field
Rupert The Brewer
Overlap
And more to be announced

Continuing Noise of Art’s cross London, pan-European celebration, which sees sister events taking place in Paris and Rome, Noise of Art steps into 93 Feet East for a Rome vs Paris, Prague and London four way dance off.

Signed to hot Parisian label Record Makers (home to acts as diverse as Sebastian Tellier and Kavinksy and originally set up by Air), Acid Washed are a live electronic duo who squelch a myriad influences into their post acid techno sound. Comprised of Richard d’Alpert and Andrew Claristidge, the duo takes Chicago house and Detroit techno, add some Giorgio Moroder and end-up somewhere in a late Sixties cyber world.

Italian partners in crime Severino and Nico de Ceglia, have made names for themselves on the London scene through their associations with Horse Meat Disco and Radio 1’s Essential Selection. Hyena Stomp, their joint Italo project, kicks out the finest house sets this side of Nineties Rimini.

New London act Dec Shoes have spent the summer playing everything from festival main stages to low ceilinged street bars this summer with their live vocal and vinyl sets. Their sound combines, house, techno and bass.

Hentai Corporation are what Led Zeppelin would have sounded like if they’d formed after drum n bass had been invented – and grown-up listening to traditional Czech music and Napalm Death. Prog rock done Prague style.

Holding it all together, Noise of Art founder and resident DJ Ben Osborne will be heading-up the mix down in the Pink Room with homeboy Rupert The Brewer kicking things off with a fine selection of his home made funky jams.

Reading and Leeds Festival favourites, Beef Warehouse, will be bring their stadium filling sound to the Red Rooms smaller ambience, mashing through the genres in their inimitable DJ style, while Cosmic Onion Field will be providing their warped brand of psycho-delic atmospherics

Visuals, dance and performance come courtesy of the awesomely creative project The People Pile, and the stunning projections of Your Mum and Overlap.

Time Out’ has made Noise of Art and Trees for Cities’ Metiss’age club night Critics Choice.

Time Out’s piece about the event is HERE

And tickets are on sale HERE … but hurry…

The Metiss’age Street Art Festival is taking place in Paris, Rome and London, and is supported by the Cultural Programme of The European Union. 

London’s Metiss’age Day takes place in London’s beautiful Battersea Park and runs from 10am until 3pm.

Designed as an art and music picnic, and taking place alongside the Tree-athalon, the 5k marathon that raises money to plant trees in inner cities, Metiss’age will feature an inter-active street painting, created by artist Miss Led and painted on-site by children and members of the public.

There will also be a stage with live bands and DJs playing on a solar powered mobile stage, street performers, contemporary dancers, family entertainment, food and refreshement, games and environmental information stalls and resources.

Acts appearing during the day include; 6 Day Riot, Tiny Dragons, Kevin Pearce, Rupert the Brewer, The People Pile, Artwork and two Sonicbids supported acts, Fred’s House and Dpplgngrs.

The Parisian edition of the Metiss’age Street Art festival is taking place today at Parc de la Villette. The event features music, performers, stalls and part one of a giant street painting, being painted by children and members of the public.

Part two of the Metiss’age events takes place in London on 17 September at Battersea Park during the day and Village Underground in Shoreditch during the night.

Early Bird tickets for the night have now gone, but we are offering special discounted tickets here – snap them up while you can…
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?285192

The event is being supported with funding from the Cultural Programme of the European Union.

Part of the programme is concerned with urban eco diversity and we are partnering with Trees For Cities, the London based charity that raises money to plant trees in inner cities, and their Tree-athalon event in Battersea Park.

London 2011 Events 17 September – 14 October

Noise of Art’s forthcoming London programme will run from 17 September to 14 October, including the Metiss’age Street Art Festival, supported by the Cultural Programme of the European Union.

Following recent events at Latitude, Sketch, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Spot Festival Denmark, the month of London events will include club nights, street art painting, contemporary dance, costumes, performance art, street performers and circus acts, all set around Noise of Art’s core of electronic club music.

Noise of Art is also supporting Tree For Cities and the Treeathalon, to raise awareness and funds for its work planting trees in inner city environments.

Venues include:
Battersea Park, London SW11; Village Underground, London EC2, Big Chill House, London N1, 93 Feet East, London E1, National Maritime Museum, London SE 10

Artists include:
Peter Kruder, Si Begg, Ashley Beedle, Acid Washed, Dec Shoes, Ben Osborne, Serge Santiago, DJ Ritu, Miss Led, Your Mum, Severino and Nico de Cigelia, aka Hyena Stomp, Overlap, The People Pile, Portfolio, Jason Singh, 6 Day Riot, Beef Warehouse, David Jenkinson, Rupert the Brewer, Tiny Dragons, Peter Hepworth, Mark Scott Wood and more to be announced.

Highlights:

Saturday 17 September Day Event
Noise of Art presents
Metiss’age Junior Street Art Festival and Music Picnic
@ the Treeathalon, Battersea Park, London SW11
Free entry: 10am – 3pm
The Metiss’age street art festival and music picnic is an all ages family event celebrating life in the city and cultural and ecological diversity. Organised by Noise of Art, it will run alongside the Trees For Cities Treeathalon event in Battersea Park.

The centre piece of Metiss’age is an interactive street painting celebrating cultural and eco diversity in London and designed by London artist Miss Led. It will be painted by young people and members of the public. The day is part of two sister festivals being held in Rome and Paris. It will feature a barefoot 100 meter world record attempt, performance art, acrobats, jugglers, a solar powered mobile music stage, costumes, dance, music, cross platform art and trees.

The Metiss’age events are organised in partnership with Global Warming in Paris and Explora in Rome and are suppoted by and part of the European Union’s Cultural Programme. Acts to be announced soon.

To join the Treeathalon race go www.treesforcities.co.uk
More information at www.noiseofart.org

17 September Night Event
Noise of Art and Trees For Cities present:
Metiss’age Nite
At Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ
10pm – 4am
Tickets £10

Peter Kruder (Kruder and Dorfmiester/ G Stone), Si Begg (S I Futures/ Noodles), Ashley Beedle (Outhear Audio/ Dark Star/ Xpress 2), Ben Osborne (Noise of Art/ Slipped Disco), Dec Shoes, Portfolio (Mighty Rumble), Your Mum, Overlap, The People Pile, David Jenkins (C21), Rupert the Brewer, Mark Scott Wood and more to be announced.

Money raised at the event will go to Trees for Cities to plant Metiss’age trees in inner cities.

Saturday 24 September
Noise of Art Vs Slipped Disco
Big Chill House, 257-259 Pentonville Road King’s Cross London N1 9N. 7pm – 2 am. Free
Continuing Noise of Art’s cross London, pan European celebration of cultural diversity and street art, Noise of Art returns to King’s Cross’ Big Chill House for a night of live electronics, deep house and bumping techno music. Noise of Art founder, DJ Ben Osborne, is joined by Dec Shoes (live), Rupert The Brewer, The People Pile, Overlap, Your Mum and a further line-up of special guests, to be announced.

Friday 30 September
93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, EC2
Noise of Art presents: Paris, Rome and London
93 Feet east
150 Brick Lane London E1 6QL
7pm – 1 am Free

Acid Washed (France), Hyena Stomp aka Severino and Nico de Ceglia (Italia), Dec Shoes (London), Ben Osborne, The People Pile, Beef Warehouse, Cosmic Onion Field, Rupert The Brewer and more to be announced

Mirroring sister events in Paris and Rome, Noise of Art steps into 93 Feet East for a Rome vs Paris and London three way marathon.

Thursday 6 October
Noise of Art and National Maritime Museum presents:
Traders Unpacked
National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
Free, times and line up to be annunced.

To mark the opening of the new East India Gallery and wing at the former hub of Britain’s Navy, Noise of Art takes inspiration from the way Eastern sea routes have brought new cultures into London, and changed our art, music and film.

Full line-up to announced soon,

15 October
Noise of Art Vs Slipped Disco
Big Chill House 257-259 Pentonville Road King’s Cross London N1 9NL. 7pm – 2 am. Free

Serge Santiago Vs Ben Osborne and more to be announced

Noise of Art has announced its first call-out through the Sonicbids platform for an act to play forthcoming London events.

Noise of Art events will take be taking place this September and October in venues across London. Acts are invited to apply from a broad range of genres and anyone interested in applying should visit Sonicbids.com for further information.

Sonicbids is the leading matchmaking site for emerging bands and music promoters. It boasts a network of over 25,000 promoters and 300,000 bands/artists. In 2010, bands and artists using Sonicbids booked close to 80,000 gigs through the site. It includes artists of all shapes and sizes and is especially aimed at helping independent artists.

Check http://sonicbids.com/noiseofart for details.

In the run up to our headline slot in the Film and Music Arena at Latitude Festival tomorrow night, here’s a short vid of our rehearsals in our festival wellies.

Despite the odd downpour, this year’s festival has had the best vibe to it yet.

If you’re here or on your way, come and join us on Sunday at 9:15pm – 1 am at the Film and Music Arena, and then come and find us at our Hush Don’t Tell after party until 3am.

Noise of Art will launch its new show, Attack The Block – Party, at this year’s Latitude Frestival, 14-17 July 2011, with a mega line up of electronic music, including.

Xpress 2 // Si Begg //  Lighthouses // AutoKratz // Dec Shoes // Ben Osborne // Overlap // Prick Image // The People Pile // Mark Scott Wood // visuals// performance artists and more

Noise of Art will continue its evolving steam punk sci-fi journey, UFO, at Latitude with ‘Attack The Block – Party’, a new chapter loosley inspired by Joe Cornish’s recently released film and Suffolk’s UFO Rendlesham incident.

Connecting the Seventies, an era of classic sci-fi imagery and New York’s seminal disco Block Parties – with today’s club scene, ‘Attack The Block – Party’ features a disco-tech sound track from some of the most revered pioneers in electronic music, alongside some of the newest arrivals.

Visual contributions come from hot club and up-and-coming street and gallery artists, while a troupe of contemporary dancers and performances artists complete the sensory immersion.

X-Press 2 are best known for their 2002 hit UK single, ‘Lazy’. Comprising of DJs Rocky and Diesel (aka Problem Kids/ Ballistic Brothers). Their first single, “Say What,” peaked at number 32 in the U.K. chart in October 1993. Further club hits were followed in 2002 with the top 10 deep house hit single “Lazy”, featuring Talking Heads’ David Byrne. Their third album, featuring a number of yet to be announced cool collaborations, is due to be released on Skint later this summer.

Si Begg is a highly original producer and inspiration to both the dub step/ London bass and new disco scenes. He’s also recorded music for films, television and advertisements and sound design for television channels, including the BBC, Channel 4 and MTV.

Autokratz were first spotted by French label Kitsuné. Based in London, AutoKratz made their LP debut in 2009 with Animal. They regularly feature on the annual series of Kitsuné Maison compilations, starting with the inclusion of “Pardon Garçon” on the fifth volume in 2007. AutoKratz have also remixed tracks by artists such as Underworld, Fischerspooner and La Roux.

Lighthouses have been variously described as “Bloc Party meets Justice”, “Daft Punk crossed with Soulwax” “Death from Above versus Delphic”… The real lighthouse at Orford Ness, near the Latitude site, has frequently been used to explain away the strange radiation and flashing lights during the UFO sighting at Rendlesham in 1980. This has nothing to do with the Lighthouses playing our UFO event. But according to loads of predictions, they’re expected to fly.

Dec Shoes formed when the core duo collaborated to write and perform a soundtrack for Noise of Art’s show at Latitude last year. A couple of months after they were asked to play a gig at London’s Southbank Centre, followed by a serries of small club appearances. This has lead to their first festival appearances in Europe and being invited to play on top of BT Tower to celebrate the Olympics.

Surrounding the music, Noise of Art collaborators Mark Scott Wood and Friends, Prick Image, Overlap and The People Pile will immerse the audience in specially created sci fi imagery, interactive performance, solar landscapes, lunar missions, UFO landings and extraordinary creatures.

Meanwhile Noise of Art founder and DJ Ben Osborne will be joining the dots.