Season Finale! The Display Team, Perhaps Contraption and ROSH

SEASON FINALE!! The last in our series of Arts Council England funded livestream shows took place on Thursday 27th May at 7:30pm on YouTube Live

We’ve got to be honest, this final show was the hardest to bring together. We’d hoped it would be an in person show and then when we decided to move it online we got hit with Lockdown III (With A Vengeance) making the process of creating new films trickier than ever but NEVER FEAR! We still managed to put together another brilliant hour and a half featuring…

• TWO boxfresh new music video premieres from The Display Team, one of which has been produced by that there General Midi of a.P.A.t.T. Get in!!
• A sparkling new live session recorded just for YOU by the super talented Perhaps Contraption
• A wonderful live session from Sheffield artist Rosh, recorded outdoors in Sheffield’s glorious greenery

More details about our artists and guests below the video, and you can also check our Artists page for bonus interviews.

 

 

// THE DISPLAY TEAM //

The Display Team are a high-energy, high-concept, high-pitched band from London. Across many years, several releases and countless concerts, they have ploughed their own furrow, demonstrating a stubborn resistance to the obvious tropes of rock music while never denying the beauty of a well-crafted pop melody. Using what are now perhaps old-fashioned tools, they continue to search for new things, ideas that are thus far unsaid and tunes that are as yet unplayed, and deliver them to a public who are unready for them. 

In October 2019 the band released the EP ‘Spinner’, showcasing a further broadening of their musical scope, nodding to anthemic pop one moment and sneaking some jazz harmony in the next, before unleashing a riff that makes one headbang in three directions at once. 

As The Gods of COVID have deemed it unacceptable to bring them up to Sheffield for a gig (sob!) and making a live session video or even rehearsing has been impossible (due to shielding family members), they have bravely taken on the not-inconsiderable challenge of making two music videos of tracks from the Spinner EP, roping in General MIDI from a.P.A.t.T. on production duties on one of these.

Photo by Sam Wise

https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheDisplayTeam

https://twitter.com/TheDisplayTeam

https://www.instagram.com/thedisplayteam/ 

 

// PERHAPS CONTRAPTION //

Possibly the worlds only 9 piece art-punk marching band? And definitely the only ones who have created a jaw dropping piece of gig theatre about our place in the cosmos (Nearly Human)!

Perhaps Contraption is a multi-award winning, classically trained, 9-piece progressive brass band and theatrical music troupe from London. The band branched out into theatre to push the boundaries of live music performance, and find a totally new way to engage audiences in complex concepts whilst introducing them to new genres of performance art and music.

A band for 7 years, they have performed at Glastonbury Festival, The EFG London Jazz Festival, Bestival, London Roundhouse, Cross Linx Festival (Netherlands), Southbank Centre,

Latitude, Artisti in Piazza (Italy), Buskers Bern (Switzerland), and supporting Amanda Palmer throughout Europe to name a few.

Photo by Rah Petherbridge

https://perhapscontraption.co.uk/

https://listen.perhapscontraption.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/user/perhapscontraption

 

// ROSH //

 

ROSH is a fantastically talented folk musician based in Sheffield whose debut release, See Them Rise EP, came out in summer 2020. A suite of songs written over the course of a trip to visit his family in India, See Them Rise is an intimate and warm folk record which is also a compassionate portrait of fragile and fallible humanity. 

After being in bands since his early teens, including a fruitful stint as the bass player in cult jazz-rockers King Capisce (‘…it could easily have been them…on 2014’s Mercury prize shortlist‘ – The Guardian) and, more recently, bass duties for previous Buds & Spawn guests Captain Avery & the Cosmic Triceratops of Intergalactic Peace, ROSH has now stepped out on his own and we are so pleased that he has! His initial recordings were funded by a grant from the highly competitive PRS Open Fund for Music Creators, and he now has a new full album waiting in the wings for release in 2021.

Photo by Katie Everton

https://roshlalmusic.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/roshlalmusic 

www.twitter.com/roshlalmusic 

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Thursday 27th May 2021 7:30pm on YouTube Live

Thanks to all our Scene Champion ticket buyers, we were able to make a donation of £90 to Theatre Deli Sheffield (the original hosts for this gig)

This event was supported by funding from the Arts Council England Supporting Grassroots Live Music initiative and Launchpad Projects.