LINEUP
- HELICON
Supported by:
- FLORAL IMAGE
HELICON
Helicon was formed by brothers John-Paul and Gary Hughes in East Kilbride, Glasgow (hometown of fellow band brothers and Fuzz Club label mates The Jesus & Mary Chain). They signed to Fuzz Club in 2017, releasing 3 studio albums, 2 live albums, 2 EPs and 2 stand-alone singles to date. Over the last few years, the band has enjoyed repeated spot plays of all new releases on BBC Radio 6 Music and has been officially playlisted by Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer in the UK and USA. They’ve toured UK/Europe many times including major independent festival appearances at Liverpool Psych Fest, Fuzz Club Eindhoven, Cosmosis, Desertfest, Doonroosje, Stellar Swamp Fest, Reverence Valada, Edinburgh Psych Fest and more. Playing live shows with the likes of Wooden Shjips, The Black Angels, Dead Skeletons and Spiritualized. They have previously collaborated on recordings with Tony Doogan (Mogwai), Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spiritualized, Dead Skeletons), Mark Gardener (RIDE) and LA-based DJ/Producer AL LOVER.
FLORAL IMAGE
There is a mischief and daydream to the character of Floral Image, on full dynamic display across the record - a reflection of both the playful fraternity of band members Fergus Nolan (vocals, guitars), Jack Warner (vocals, keys), Matt Kennedy (bass guitar), Mitch Forsyth (drums, visuals), & Phil Whitton (guitars, visuals), and the ever-weaving textures they make together. It is an infrastructure that is unstructured; a body of work that bends and grows and shifts between light, dark, malaise, excitement. There are moments of head-down ferocity and, right there beside them, pools of pulsing wonderment. Fist and feather, hand in hand.