Justin Robertson - Five Green Moons

Justin Robertson will be back in McChuills for a rare live performance.

The sweet hum from the vampire wood. Ritual incantations and Dubwise vibrations are fused with angular guitars and skittering basement electronics to form a new entity. Five Green Moons is a spell made manifest. A bass heavy exploration of sonic ritual music.

Justin Robertson’s Five Green Moons project- a series of albums and live happenings exploring his bracingly broad musical interests. This time we resonate dubwise, while channelling the twitchy angularity of post-punk and a disturbingly shimmering lysergic folk.

“The album drinks from the dub well”, says Justin. “It’s a sound which still feels futuristic to me. And not just in its origin form, but in radical translations like P.I.L or the outer limits of it in Flying Lizards’ Secret Dub Life.”
Robertson adds to the potion with a pinch of Coil, Current 93, Thorn Wych and Dead Can Dance. He nods also to contemporaries like Holy Tongue and Al Wooton, the cosmic Don Cherry’s is lurking there too. “And anything with chanting in it!”

“I see all art as an act of possession, so it’s me channelling the music I love into some new contorted shape. I don’t distinguish between painting, recording or writing, as to me they are all the same thing. Punk gave everyone permission to indulge their imaginations without worrying about if you were good enough. It made you realise that making things wasn’t, about qualifications or the permission of questionable authorities. With acid house, everyone was an explorer, an adventurer. All this informed my adventures is writing and painting too.”