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Recently reignited after an 8-year hiatus, supergroup Extra Life brings their special brand of experimental post-punk and prog rock to London. Mesmerising singer and multi-instrumentalist Seaming To will support.£16.50 advance - https://link.dice.fm/E9bf048d2964
£20 on the door
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Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the main vehicle for New York-based guitarist/composer/vocalist, Charlie Looker. The band plays a fusion of aggressive math rock, dark dramatic pop, modern classical, and ancient liturgical music, bridging the worlds of abstract art music and DIY post-punk musical culture. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit Zs, frontman of industrial metal band Psalm Zero, and is a prolific collaborator across the experimental music scene, with credits including Xiu Xiu, Dirty Projectors, Lingua Ignota, Darius Jones, and John Zorn.
Between 2008 and 2012, Extra Life released four records, and toured the U.S. and Europe extensively, including appearances at Primavera Sound (Spain), Moers (DE), Villette Sonique (FR), and Bad Bonn (CH), and sharing bills with Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Deerhoof, Owen Pallett, Deerhunter, and Chelsea Wolfe. Looker put Extra Life on hiatus in 2013, to focus on his classical composition, improvisation, and his metal band Psalm Zero.
Looker reunited Extra Life in 2021, releasing Secular Works Vol. 2 (2022), to great acclaim, and The Sacred Vowel (2024), both on his own imprint, Last Things Records. International touring followed, including a slot at A Colossal Weekend Festival (DK). The current band line-up includes Toby Driver (Kayo Dot), violinist Timba Harris (Ultraphauna, Secret Chiefs 3), and drummer Cameron Wisch (Sheer Mag, Dust Star).
“Sublime miniatures that veer from moody gothic and folk arrangements... to dramatic progressive metal architectures” - The Wire
“One of the very best bands ever” - Marina Organ, The Organ
“[Looker is] an art-rock visionary.” – Hank Shteamer, Time Out New York
“Progressive, deeply poly-rhythmic, almost vaudevillian pieces ally Gregorian chant with Scandinavian chug metal and sheet music with a skeletal calm distinctly its own.” - Jack Mills, DAZED
Photo by Jessica Hallock
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ACCESSIBILITY
- New River Studios has a wheelchair ramp from the front bar area to the venue, as well as two wide steps with railings on each side
- The venue space is on the ground floor
- There is one accessible toilet
- There are two bathroom cubicles with one step to enter each, a separate space for urinals
- Please email ahead using our Contact page if you have any access needs, so that we can make sure that we and the venue are prepared and you have a comfortable night out
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New River Studios, Song's Kitchen, Eade Road, London, N4 1, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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