Will you get left in the dust?

Continuing Independent Venue Week (IVW) in Northampton, SBD Promotions presents Pavilion (Feb 1).

The ShoeTown/North London indie-rock players haven’t been on the Black Prince stage for quite some time, so this will be a keenly observed return, and one that will also feature live sets from Century City and The Moonstones.

SBD Promoter Phil Moore will have delivered nine dates under the IVW banner in 2025. It’s a lot of work, but more than that, he told Pulse it is, “…about having a week-long celebration of what we do, with a few surprises thrown in.

“Some touring acts and some local stunners with as much diversity on display as we can conjure,” he said, and he definitely delivered on that score.

“We get a lot of publicity off the back of the initiative and I know folk often want to be a part of it, so choose their favourite artist or two and make the effort to come along. It also challenges us to imagine a world in which we could offer music every night of the week.

“Obviously, that’s impossible to achieve even for big city venues, but nevertheless it’s nice to have a week-long festival of great talent on display within our walls that we can shout about,” he added, “The staff at The Black Prince also love being able to show off what we can do.”
IVW reaches its 2025 Black Prince climax on a Sunday night (Feb 2) in the company of Caoilfhionn Rose.

‘Caoilfhionn has found a voice at once ancient and modern, intrepidly exploring contemporary technology to transform traditional songcraft for the mid-2020’s.

‘Her music is rooted in a knowledge of folk, jazz and all the twentieth century’s classic tunesmiths, and seems to create a magical, otherworldly space of her own imagining, blending Caoilfhionn’s core piano with synths, and pitting a live rhythm section and saxophone embellishments against ambient samples and future-facing production techniques,’ is the official blurb, and we can’t improve on that.
If you are intrigued by what you’ve read, go listen in before the show – the third elpee by the Manchester lady is out now – have a search for Constellation.

Up early at this date, Harrison Hood and Quincey May Brown.
There is still one more IVW treat for you courtesy of SBD though – the inimitable Lydia Lunch will be live over at The Lab, with Marc Hurtado and support from ’fampton faves Venus Fly Trap. Turn the page for our chat with Lydia.

The Strange Doors will light your fire when they step to the stage with the tribute to Jim Morrison & Co.
The band invites its audience members to immerse themselves in the vibe, ‘to move to the hypnotic beat and to break on through to the other side,’ and their two hour show will be visually stimulating too, with psychedelic projection as standard.

The ceremony will begin sometime after 7.30pm on February 8, following support sets by Bold As Love, who celebrate the sounds of Hendrix.

Japanese Television (Feb 21) beams their sounds straight from a black-lit UFO parked somewhere between 1968 and the heat-death of the universe. Or so they say.

Their press bumf declares they are, ‘Cool because they don’t give a damn about cool, Japanese Television thrives on being the band that doesn’t follow trends—they vaporise them with laser beams.’

The question is, will you step into their orbit, or get left in the dust?
Preceding their set, kaleidoscopic electronic sounds and deluxe analog psychedelia will fill the room when ex-Thee Telepaths members Tvål hold court.

Tappety tap to sbdpromotions.com for tickets for any of the aforementioned.