Beat:Cancer & Church of Madness are back at The Face Bar, Reading on the Sat 12th Dec 2026. Featuring a host of bands & afterparty DJs.19:00 – 02:00
Sat 12 December
The Face Bar, Reading
iVardensphere – UK Exclusive band show
Statiqbloom – Beat:Cancer Debut
MATT HART – Band show from the moustachioed man himself
DeathBoy – 10 years since they last played for B:C
De:feat – 10 years since they last played for B:C
Beine Squared – World Exclusive
Naked Aggression (DJ)
VISRA (DJ)
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iVardensphere – UK Exclusive band show
Experimental Tribal Electronic Music from Canada.
iVardensphere is a unique quantity in the world of modern electronic music. Hailing from the unlikely locale of Edmonton Alberta, the project originally emerged from mastermind Scott Fox’s desire to explore both the heavy electronics he cut his teeth spinning in local industrial club nights, and his love of percussion from around the world.
🎶 https://ivardensphere.bandcamp.com/
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Statiqbloom – Beat:Cancer Debut
Statiqbloom has been creating a fusion of rhythm and noise with haunting dynamics since 2014 combining elements of techno with the experimentation of industrial music.
Currently based in Berlin, he uses a combination of hardware and software to create noisy modular engineered techno. Building his live sets by meshing heavy hard industrialized rhythms with unfolding blackened atmospheres and disorienting vocals.
🎶 https://statiqbloom.bandcamp.com/
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MATT HART – Band show
MATT HART is an industrial artist both musician and DJ, from London, UK and has been involved and creating music for as long as he can remember, starting with the violin at age 6, moving to the deeper viola a couple years later…. jump ahead a chunk of time and he found himself writing and releasing his own music under the same name, MATT HART.
Within his music soundscape, expect to hear beats of Industrial, Electronic/EBM, and Metal blended together – all under a concept of Wastelands 3808 (a post-apocalyptic world) where it is Man VS Machine.
🎶 https://matthart.bandcamp.com/
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DeathBoy – 10 years since they last played for B:C
DeathBoy – the musical project of Scott Lamb and Adam Gelman – was born in the late 90s from a background of club culture: breakbeats, basslines and gritty lyrical narratives.
Originally hitting the London alternative scene with their nascent industrial sensibilities, the band changed and reconfigured over time, steadily evolving to cover the gamut of electronic genres. From seething, abrasive self-reproach to dance-floor friendly bangers with unashamed sojourns into trip-hop and thoughtfully melodious numbers, this is not a band beholden to one single aesthetic.
With their first record deal (with Wasp Factory Records), DeathBoy the solo project morphed into a full band with real live humans performing what had previously been sequenced in the studio. Adam joined on bass and remains the only other original member of DeathBoy to have not fled the country or to have been detained in a maximum security containment field buried deep below Camden’s rainy streets.
Music To Crash Cars To was released on Wasp Factory and followed by End of an Error on Line Out Records as the band gained momentum and recognition in the UK and abroad.
Eventually, life got in the way and the band largely dispersed (or were apprehended for their crimes). Scott, however, had not learned when to stop and, to his delight, Adam had not yet become sick of him. A stripped-back version of DeathBoy, occasionally augmented by friends, continued to gig around the UK, while Scott seethed and spat over a hot sequencer in the dark as he always had.
DeathBoy has crawled back out into the dim London sunlight again, to lurch around on stages, put basslines on breakbeats and let the universe know exactly what they think of it.
The sound has evolved but the energy remains, and in a world increasingly turning to shit, there is still a whole lot for DeathBoy to swear about
🎶 https://deathboy.bandcamp.com/
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De:feat – 10 years since they last played for B:C
Defeat are Dark Electro / EBM duo Anthony Matthews (Voice) and Gary Walker (Synthetics).
‘Atmosphere, Angst and< Rhythm’ is how they describe their sound – an unholy hybrid of Nitzer Ebb, NIN, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Fad Gadget, et al.
🎶 https://defeatmusic.bandcamp.com/
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Beine Squared – World Exclusive
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Naked Aggression (DJ)
Naked Aggression creates a journey through techno and noise, her sets are often filled with tension as she brings the dark, deep, gritty and industrial sounds
🎶 https://www.facebook.com/NakedAggressionDJ
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VISRA (DJ)
Visra is an alternative club promoter and resident DJ based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, who specialises in dark underground music genres including Goth, Industrial, Darkwave, and Drum and Bass.
VISRA runs Nightbreed and INSURGENCE, working alongside his wife Angel Vampire as host.
VISRA has DJed at Resistanz Festival (Sheffield), Bunker 13 (Leeds), Infest Afterparty (Strange Events, Manchester), Shadow Factory (Whitby), The Gothic Gathering (Whitby), Dominion Club (Glasgow), Beat:Cancer and many more over the past 7 years.
VISRA is an enthusiastic venturer of new goth music, bringing a variety of old and newer styles of Goth Rock, Post-Punk, Cold/Darkwave, EBM and beyond to Dark Souls.
🎶 https://www.facebook.com/DJVisra
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The Face Bar Reading / Disabled access
The Face Bar is located at Ambrose Pl, Reading RG1 7JE, United Kingdom.
All public areas of The Face Bar are accessible on the ground floor.
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Tickets
We charge no booking fees on our website. Tickets are 100% virtual and your name will be on the door on the day. Please have you ticket on your phone or printed for ease.
All payments are securely taken by Stripe and Beat:Cancer do not store your card details on our server.
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About Beat:Cancer
Beat:Cancer is a charity formed to help fight cancer through funding research, treatment, screening and care using electronic music: We release music, run club nights, host gigs and organise festivals to raise money, which we then grant to worthy institutions such as hospices, research centres and treatment wards.
We are a registered UK Charity (number 1169212) run entirely by unpaid volunteers who are passionate about using great music to save lives.
Beat:Cancer are also running a second event on the Fri 11th Dec with Schism featuring Metal, Rock, Alt & Drum & Bass.
Event venue
The Facebar, Get-Licensed, Ambrose Place, Reading, RG1 7, United Kingdom
Tickets
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