ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER at The Castle & Falcon

Supersonic Festival are very excited to host a collaboration of underground legends, in the form of Orcutt Shelley Miller. This unique meeting of three boundary-pushing artists brings together decades of innovation across noise, experimental rock, free improv and beyond.

Bill Orcutt is renowned for his incendiary guitar work with the seminal 90s noise rock band Harry Pussy, and has since carved a niche in the experimental music scene with his raw, deconstructed guitar improvisations and recent quartet compositions. Steve Shelley, best known as the drummer for noise rock pioneers Sonic Youth, has been a driving force in the indie and experimental music scenes since the early 1980s, with a dynamic drumming style that has contributed to numerous acclaimed projects. Ethan Miller, a central figure in the psychedelic and outer-rock movements, has been at the bow of influential bands such as Comets on Fire and Howlin' Rain, with work characterised by high-energy performances and a fusion of classic rock influences with experimental sounds.

"Despite its rhythmic nods to the SoCal '60s, the overall vibe of Orcutt Shelley Miller is angular, atonal slash piled on a mid-'80s SST punk-fusionoid substrate, with Orcutt's bristling chords anchored by Miller's ebbing/ flowing bass. In the engine room, Shelley, the most beat-anchored of the trio, never quite abandons the two-and-four pocket but scrabbles around it, skitters over it, burrows under it, ultimately tapping a sort of Michael Hurley-gone-motorik vibe"

- Tom Carter/Charalambides