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YES BasementTickets £12.50 + booking fee (total £13.80) Advance / more on the door
Multi-disciplinarity is an integral part of the creative process of Annie-Claude Deschênes, who continues her perpetual personal quest of uniting music and performance art by bending thepre-established conventions of stage presence.
A key figure in the Montreal independent music scene for twenty years, she made her mark as a frontwoman, singer, musician, songwriter, performer, and visual artist with cult bands Duchess Says and PyPy—bands renowned for their electrifying performances as much as for their artistic sensibility. Annie-Claude’s exploratory approach to staging and sound design takes a new direction with the genesis of her solo project: the urgency and intensity that characterizes her work remains, but sheer aggression gives way to cool, dystopian disco vibes. Annie-Claude Deschênes explores and reinvents herself under her own name, driven by a constant need to create outside her comfort zone.
Inspired by minimal pop and the pioneers of electronic music, LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE, her first solo album released in 2024, is as danceable and melodic as it is disquieting—proposing to set the table differently by deconstructing the social codes of politeness imposed on us. In April 2025, she released “Main de Fer,” a single that showcases a new & unique direction in her artistic approach.
Listen:
https://annie-claudedeschenes.bandcamp.com/track/main-de-fer
The DSM IV
“Hardcore acid Scouse…McKnight still has the ability to summon demons and bewitch with his hoodoo” - Electronic Sound
“Somewhere between The Stooges primal garage punk and Suicide's screeching futurism...blistering dance-punk” - CLASH
“Challenging, odd and enigmatic...artful and twisted music that makes you think, dance, and let yourself go” - Morning Star
“A swirling sinister slice of goth pop…dance floor-filling Sisters/Mission dry ice shenanigans” - Louder Than War
“A cyclonic soundtrack fit for a world which is ever more dystopian and distorted” - Indie Is Not A Genre [4/5]
“A blend of The Fall, Suicide, Arthur Lee and acid house…dynamic and compelling” - The Quietus
Liverpool gothic alt-pop trio THE DSM IV is pleased to release their new single, , Juvenile Hero which is out now.
Following recent tours with Benefits( UK ) and Grammy Nominated, Humanist ( EU ) , 2026 kicks off with tour dates alongside Ladytron and Insecure Men and appearances at Louder Than War Festival (Manchester ) , Supersonic Block Party ( Paris ) as well as more festival and headline dates.
Formed in Liverpool by Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster frontman Guy McKnight, THE DSM IV crystallise the ultra real and the otherworldly, bringing a focused hyperrealism to the party. Their convention-defying live performances toy with audience expectations and stimulate questions of the narratives being sold to us as news—or entertainment—all to the beat of the drum machinist.
As if pontificating from a lectern, McKnight sings and gesticulates like his life depends on it, his lyrics enticing or lacerating depending on the mood. In an age of perversion of reality, THE DSM IV poetically reflect on our world’s hypocrisies and dilemmas, with danceability, intelligence, indignation, grace & style—refreshing purity for these polluted times.
Listen : https://soundcloud.com/thedsmiv/juvenile-hero
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YES, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB, United Kingdom
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