Spaceheads and now

Manchester music scene innovators Spaceheads are back after last years sold out gig at the Carlton Club . Spaceheads are pioneering a live electronic looping sound that is beat driven with fragmented melodic bursts and disjointed, cut up samples.


Their signature sound of electric trumpet loops from Andy Diagram ( James, Pere Ubu, Pale Fountains and beyond) collide with the skipping free-flowing beats of Richard Harrisons drums.

The almost psychic connection that Diagram and Harrison have built up between them over 40 years of playing together allows them to change their sound and take it into an entirely new direction, seemingly at a whim

Spaceheads have just released (on Nov 1st) a new 6 track EP called "Spaceheads Go Wild EP" featuring the live favourite "The Rich are a Luxury We Can't Afford" as the lead track. This follows up last years retrospective vinyl box set "Time and Spaceheads" which is three silver vinyl compilation taken from 1990s Spaceheads albums.

now was founded in 1998 by songwriter Justin Paton, who is as much in love with electronics, machines and synthesisers as guitars, percussion and acoustic instruments, to play a kind of alternative pop music.

They have performed electrically, electronically and acoustically in a variety of venues around the UK (and Norway & Japan) from outdoor festivals to gallery-based sound-art and live film-scores, as well as shared bills with such acts as Stereolab, Andrew Weatherall, Damo Suzuki, Faust, Charles Hayward, Roedelius, Plaid and Insides.

Live, now can move between structured pop-song arrangements, kosmische-motorik, house/techno grooves and free improvisation, depending on what that specific concert requires: No two now performances are ever the same.

Plan B magazine wrote, "pursuing their offbeat, off-kilter and occasionally off-the-wall mashup of lo-fidelity experimental pop music and uptempo kosmik grooves at the fringes of underground and overground success, now continue to demonstrate the tireless heart of their being is something close to an unsung national treasure."

Rucksack Cinema will light up the Carlton Club with projections around the walls and ceilings. It is a multi projection video light show created live using archive film footage and digital glitches