7pm - 1am Friday, 3pm - 1am Saturday, 3pm - 12pm Sunday // £5 per day // NO advance tickets

After a veriable famine in the North East music 'scene' where the musically adventurous and artistically driven have been forsaken in favour of the safe, the tame and the bland, Distraction present three days of aural innovation, future players, and diverse sonic excursions that right those very wrongs.

The Distraction Weekender returns.

Accept no imitations.

Starring:

FRIDAY 8th AUGUST: (<=- click for more info)
10:45pm School of Language
David Brewis' most pressing musical concern; intelligent, challenging and stunning pop music where the traditional and the experimental are fused with incredible results.
9:45pm Milky Wimpshake
Pete Dale's influential outfit deliver you love songs bristling with social commentary, understated genius and cutting irony and wit.
9:00pm The Matinee Orchestra
New material from Andrew Hodson's 'laptop band'; a rich and sparkling listening experience with all the rewarding qualities of a classic novel.
8:15pm Pale Man Made
Punk in spirit, but not in content; lively, punchy and perfect tales of broken hearts, animals, hatred, jealousy, snooker players and natural history museums.
7:30pm St. James Infirmary
Straight outta Ashington, St James Infirmary combine the folksy charm and observations of a Jilted John or Alan Bennett with the acerbic wit and killing fields of a Pol Pot.
PLUS!
Cuckoo's Nest DJs
Louise Green and Caci (Visuals)

SATURDAY 9th AUGUST: (<=- click for more info)
10:45pm The Week That Was
Pete Brewis' most pressing musical concern; juxtaposing minimalistic stabs with folk-y warmth to the harmonies in a dark epic narrative replete with deliciously touching mundane lyrics.
9:45pm Moira Stewart
Quirky, jerky, bonkers and brilliant; upbeat, fun, shambolic electro/guitar pop is the order of the day. Moirageddeon, yes!!
9:00pm Wroooaar!
Hyperspeed bouncy chipcore techno joyousness from a girl sporting Nintendo trainers.
8:15pm Warm Digits
Ear-troubling krautrock rhythm 'n' noise, free improv drumming, no-wave guitar and BBC Radiophonic electronics with a disseminating Sturm und Drang.
7:30pm BluntWoundTrauma
Old school hardcore riffing intended to batter, bruise, deprave and violate; brutecore has never sounded so wanton, so adamantine, and yet so gratifying.
6:30pm B>E>A>K
trrk-errk, trrk-errk, Crrk-trrk-. errk-trrk, SQQQQUUUUAAAAAAARrRWWWKKKK!! SQUAWKKK! SQuuAwk! Errk-er-erk-crrk-SQQUUAAAARRWWWWKK! Trt-trt-crrk-EERKK!
5:30pm The Black Static Of Summer
Blistering streamroller rock dynamic, free-form post-hardcore with astute, risky, invested, lyrical bite.
4:30pm The Big Oaks
The sort of crippingly unfunny comedy music which could only be appreciated by the friends of the cretins involved, or Red Dwarf t-shirt wearing bell-ends who live with their mams.
3:45pm Nathalie Stern
Traditional, tender, evocative Swedish folk, looped, recut, and reused through loop pedals that threaten to tear apart the fabric of your emotions.
PLUS!
d_rradio (DJ)
DJ Search Warrant
Louise Green and Caci (Visuals)

SUNDAY 10th AUGUST: (<=- click for more info)
10:15pm Unicorn Love
Unicorn Love want to enrich your life. And they'll do this through a sermon of ragga-disco-noise with a smattering of hail, fire and brimstone. Praise be!
9:40pm Kylie Minoise
Kovorox Sound's whirling-dervish of chaos, discomfort and wanton noise; shortassaultive fists and cut-up junk through a beautiful cream of extended psychedelic tone.
9:05pm Seppuku
Seppuku take facehitting approach and very heavy sounds! Seppuku this day feature member of Snotnosed, and Marzuraan, expect loud noise fuku and big smash mayhem!
8:20pm Mutant Ape
A straight up racket-making machine hitting the listener full force, leaving his trembling, quivvering victims in the gutter without remorse.
7:45pm Goathanger
Undiluted, dark, tranced out, eerie rhythmic pieces; file under "RITUALISTIC DRONE OCCULTISM".
6:55pm Rough Sex Quartet
RSQ violate sound unemotionally, relentlessly torture their equipment with such an unstoppable torrent of noise that even the sturdiest of immovable objects would buckle under the weight of such harshness.
6:15pm BONG
BONG start, finish, and end in doomy dirge mode, playing live at high volume for maximum murk and grit and distortion; low-end, sludgey, heavy-as-hell doom-und-grind tones and groans.
5:40pm Eye Shaking Kingdom
Nackt Insecten | and Alistair Crosbie's heavenly fedback loops of decay and delay, grandscrape dynamic flows and life-affirming sanctimonious drones, straddling the line between the dense and the delicate.
5:15pm Domovoi
Massive psych free-rock krautrock-inspired drone; watch those monitor speakers; they gonna blow
4:45pm Mariposa
An heavenly wall of sound; Watching and listening to this duo building layers of noise is mesmerising and a privilege. Christ, is it moving.
4:00pm Michael Flatley Knifefight
Potent ugly-ass pummeling bone-breaking heavyness from the best bandname in the North East.
PLUS!
DJ Search Warrant
Jazzfinger Sound System

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