As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time. Three decades on the musician – now Glenn Copeland –…
Welcome to Shadow City, a hellhole of a city but a city nonetheless. Detective Jay Walker is dead. With no leads and a case colder than ice, it’s up to his ex partner Patrick Wolf to bust some heads and find out who killed him. Armed with just a chair, Lewis Doherty mimes every prop,…
Based on a popular series of strip tease classes Venus ran online during the lockdown, the classes will focus on body language and embodying physicalities of femininity, masculinity, dominance and submission. People can choose to remove as little or as few clothes as they feel comfortable with! Black Venus is a self defence practitioner and…
The Roundhouse Poetry Collective is a group of some of the most exciting young emerging poets in the country. Previous collective members include Jack Rooke, Caleb Femi, Cecilia Knapp and Bridget Minamore. The group meets weekly to create and experiment under guidance from lead tutor & Brainchild fav, Cecilia Knapp. The Poetry Collective perform a…
The LOL Word is an all women and non-binary queer comedy collective taking the UK by storm with their epically gay stand-up shows. They’ve hosted sell-out runs/ absolute ragers at The Edinburgh, Brighton and Cambridge Fringe Festivals, The Southbank Centre and VAULT Festival, where guests have included Fern Brady, Sarah Keyworth, Kemah Bob, Sophie Duker,…
Award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars visits Brainchild for the first time with a gloriously rude show that unearths the hot-as-hell letters that make sexts blush. Before sexts there were hand-written letters. And loads of them were proper filthy. With the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists, Rachel has unearthed missives dating back centuries.…
‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you…’- Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Be inspired by great love letters of old and learn to write your own x-rated versions in this playful workshop for today’s romantics. We live in strange and disconnected times… Say no to the…
It’s been exciting times for SE London via Brighton group Vels Trio (keys player Jack Stephenson Oliver, bassist Cameron Dawson and drummer Dougal Taylor) since meeting in 2014. Despite choosing to sidestep a release of their endeavours in the early years – it’d be somewhat surprising if you weren’t to know them already in name.…
Living together, nestled in the sun-drenched hills on the outskirts of Bristol, Cousin Kula have created their own musical universe of otherworldly pop serenity with distinct but cohesive elements: “the possibilities of jazz, the emphatic energy of club culture, and the sonic tapestries of psychedelia… to name but a few” CLASH remark. The latest band…
Daisy George has been active in the London jazz scene for many years, performing as a bassist for established artists such as Poppy Ajudha and Jas Kayser. Now, having developed her own solo project, she’s ready to self-release her debut EP in 2022. Featuring collaborations with Lady Sanity and Mohan, the unique sound combines aspects…