Moose Factory Presents: Sonver, Rocket Number Nine, Metamorphic and Juice

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Moose Factory Presents! The first music night in a series of genre-busting leftfield greatness! October 9, 2008 @ The Good Ship in Kilburn, London.

Moose Factory Presents!, the promoters who attempt to bring together the best in leftfield music for all to enjoy, will welcome SonVer, Rocket Number Nine, Metamorphic, and Juice onto the Good Ship stage on October 9, 2008 (289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR). Doors open at 7.00 and performances start at 8.00. Prices will be £7 or £5 concessions.
SonVer are an experimental/post-rock band from the UK, their sound ranges from minimal ambient to impassioned, layered post rock epics. Sometimes disturbing, sometimes touching but always beautifully constructed and uncommonly moving. Rocket Number Nine are an intense and gritty electronics and drums improv duo consisting of brothers Ben and Tom Page, also forming half of the renowned ambient rock outfit Rothko. Metamorphic is a relatively new jazz/folk sextet that focuses on haunting songs and asymmetric grooves. Led by pianist Laura Cole, Metamorphic specialise in transformative music that is both composed and improvised. Juice is an experimental vocal trio, specialising in jaw-dropping a cappella noise which embraces modern classical music, borrows from jazz, rubs up against folk and twists pop round our little finger. In addition to the main musical acts, the whole evening will be drawn together into a cohesive whole by acid-witted comedian/compere Mike O’Donovan. O’Donovan started off as a jazz bassist, and even has a masters in jazz performance from Middlesex university, but felt he needed a proper job, and has been on the comedy circuit ever since. The whole evening will end with a blurry flurry of eclecticism from the Moose Factory DJ vaults.
Never before have these artists, all already successful in their own arenas, ever performed on stage together. They are all from different genres and in this age of pigeon-holing, they are unlikely to perform in such a setting again. This is a shame, because all these varying artists create fantastic music that complements each other. Moose Factory goes to great lengths preparing a programme that is wildly varied yet musically and artistically coherent. It’s not often you get this kind of line-up in one night.