jb glazer + Ailie Ormston + Competition

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RESCHEDULED SHOW: new date of 9th September

jb glazer is a cross-functional producer, composer, and dancer. The music of jb glazer is uncomfortable and comforting, live and pre-packaged.Somewhere between concrete and computer music, jb glazer’s practice comes from forcing collaboration between the internet and irl. His upcoming record on 33-33, Ur K?, merges these ideas further, squishing phone recordings through anime soundtracks and bassline to create a kind of.

He has previously released on Them There Records, Curl and most recently February's Everything is Heavy Rain, on his own label, glint music. He has previously collaborated with Bianca Scout, Elena Isolini, and Violence Grass Band.

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Ailie Ormston is a music maker who makes acoustic and electronic music, sometimes together and sometimes separately. Ormston’s work is primarily constructed through improvisation and assemblage and has musical interests in motivic development and timbral abstraction as well as hifi and lofi sounds, repetition, microtonality and song. In 2022, Ormston released It Changes with Tim Fraser (bison) which ranked at no. 25 on boomkat’s best releases of 2022, and also wrote new music for Tectonics. In 2023, Ormston will release new solo music with support from Help Musicians.

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Competition is the music making moniker of Craig Pollard. Based in Newcastle (UK), Craig makes experimental pop music that plays with sparseness and vulnerability, pitched down samples and orchestral programming, crafting songs that build hooks from within their limited materials. He has performed across the UK with artists like Ana Roxanne, Julia Reidy, caroline, Rattle and Porridge Radio, and releases have came out via Slip, Oob and Bleak Spring. He publishes writing on music and art making, with a collection of writing on Glasgow’s Tgigitffy, and hosts a monthly radio show on Slack’s.