UNFEST in THE FORUM BASEMENT (at The Sussex Arms) presents

BIG TRUCK

Big Truck is the new musical offering by Tunbridge Wells alumni Don Bird (Ladybird), Laurie Vincent (Soft Play) and completing the trio is the mystic Asa Thallon. Don and Laurie have a friendship spanning 15 plus years and this is the first time they collaborate on a musical project. Spiralling guitar and bass melodies are underpinned by heavy drum chops and vocals flitting from poetic spoken word right up to guttural shrieks. Set to record their debut LP in August this year, Big truck are stepping out onto the live circuit to cut their teeth. Influences span from Fugazi, Breeders, Graham Coxon, The Cribs, George Harrison to Yuck. Big Truck live are a spiralling, hypnotic, frenetic meditation to raise the collective consciousness.@bigtruckshow

NIGHT MUSCLE

An evening of eclectic and exciting electronica curated by Dale Frost featuring:

Ensemble 1

A force of sonic extremity without relying on heaviness, Ensemble 1 crafts futuristic, crystalline soundscapes polished to a blinding sheen. Their music evokes immaculate architectures and militaristic precision, like quantum computers executing terrifying beauty. At once seductive and lethal, they are clinical, controlled chaos in audio form.

The Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Playful, unpredictable instrumentals using guitar, laptop, and an assortment of controllers and effects. Chiming loops give way to glitchy detours, pop hooks collide with amen breaks. Beats get twisted, songs shift form mid-flow, and guitar lines trigger chaos with surgical precision. Think Cornelius meets a DIY live-coding set—clever, curious, and brimming with imagination.

Sophie Sirota

Classically trained violist, singer, and composer Sophie Sirota blends emotive string work with modern electronics to craft deeply immersive soundscapes. Known for her looping pedal wizardry and textural depth, Sophie has worked with artists from Kim Deal to Paul Weller, and her recent contribution to Coastal Electronauts Vol. 1 was praised by Electronic Sound as "an elegant requiem for looped strings that swells like the incoming tide," A regular on the electronic scene, her performances are moving, expansive, and always innovative.

FROST

Dale Frost AKA FROST’s work explores the intersection between live drumming and experimental electronic music. Using an interconnected setup of drum kit, sampler, and delay/looping devices, his live set explores fractured polyrhythms, displaced beats, and glitched loops. Drawing inspiration equally from electronica, post-rock, and jazz, the focus is on expanding a unique rhythmic vocabulary, blending the synthetic with the organic, and pushing the boundaries of live electronic performance from behind a drum kit.

Full Unfest line ups and times:

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