Another year, another great Shack. Calling all talented Design, Architecture and Engineering students or recent graduates to submit an expression of interest to design The Shack DJ stage at Brainchild Festival 2019. Art Installation Open Call – We’re also inviting visual artists, makers, set-designers, architects, engineers, sculptors, designers and craftspeople to propose an art installation…
Artists, creators, activists, musicians, poets, performance artists, speakers, DJs – and all other makers imaginable – Brainchild is looking for you! If you wanna play, perform, make an installation or do something totally different, then check out our application forms below. Brainchild Festival 2019 takes place from 12-14 July in East Sussex. The Shack Commission – We’re…
Hatch is back for 2019! Oh how we’ve missed steamy, funny nights at Platform together. For anyone who doesn’t know – Hatch is our platform for creators to share new ideas and works in progress with a friendly audience. And we’re getting going programming the next one, so if you have new ideas to try…
What’s going on with Brainchild? People have been asking us this question a lot over the past few months, and after much figuring out, we are finally in a place to tell you about it. This year was in many ways our most wonderful festival, but it was also the toughest on all of us…
Following a tour of festivals around the globe and ahead of a second album launch, Afro/Cuban music collective Ariwo will be landing at Brainchild Festival this summer! Writer Olivia Atkins went to find out more about their experimental and improvised sets.
London-based band Sorority are constantly surprising. Their music is a blend of rich vocals, poetic, humorous lyrics and organic, percussive melodies which are both nostalgic and beautifully fresh. The band of three – brothers Elliot and Max plus friend Joe – are close friends and housemates.Their surreal perspective on life and their love of each…
Written by Haseeb Iqbal, a poet from London. 📸 Jerome Toole “Still earning respect but it don’t pay off your bills or your debts bruv.” – Debtford, Bunker Club/Khole Comprised of punk poet / rapper Cecil B, and producer K3MP, Debtford possess a powerful sound built on a combination of “spoken-word and drawn-out…
Following their take on Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works at The Jazz Cafe, four of our favourite musicians in the world, Ben Hayes, Maxwell Owin, Jake Long and Jack Stephenson-Oliver are starting a brand new project together: Asoma. With one foot in techno, the other in the jazz that they’re all so involved in creating…
Interview by Jenna Mahale, a writer from London. Photos by Abigail Holsborough, a photographer from London. On an overcast Sunday morning, radio host, DJ and producer Zakia Sewell begins her latest NTS Radio show with a sentiment of comfort. “If you’re feeling a bit shady”, she says softly, “I hope by one o’clock you’ll be…
It’s not always easy for Australian bands to gain a cult following in Europe, but Melbourne-based collective 30/70 are starting to do just that. Their languid, vibrant brand of neo-soul mixed with jazz and hip-hop elements has won fans in Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum, as well as Bradley Zero, who released their lush LP…