
An afternoon and evening of unusual music and images in the small but perfectly formed Priory Visitor Centre in historic Coventry. At a rate of £1.43 per hour, it represents unprecedented value for money. There follows a brief description of the acts: from sunny Sheffield, Lovely Honkey will surprise you with his legerdemain – and possibly his sleight of hand; from the Angel Islington, that veritable Institution of Rot – Richard Crow, spreading the goth pall truth. Closer to everything, Coventarian Cristina Ilie casts her magic euphonies; £ a Bowl aka Kevin Logan and vice-versa, singular field recordings and filmic provocations; Dissolved Retina purvey noise at its noisiest, it has to be said they are in the premier league; Midlands renaissance man Leon Trimble will astonish you with his next-level synthesis – and that is no hyperbole; alas, bringing us crashing back to the mundane, from the ugly south come The Bohman Brothers, inside traders and derivative ones at that, this time in an unholy tag team with their fellow skullduggerer Lepke B. Thank goodness then for the soothing sounds of Revbjelde which will precede and antecede them – and indeed every other turn.


