Join us at The Smokehouse for a night of spoken word, music, and film. With acts from BrainWaves Are Better Than Perms, Duvel Mortgage: The Bohman Brothers and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Rebecca Mahay, Russell Walker, John Bowers, Landfill: Jackie Montague and Chicken Chris.
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Time: 7.30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse
Tickets: £6+bf
Acts from: BrainWaves Are Better Than Perms, Duvel Mortgage, Bohman Brothers, Sophie Sleigh, Rebecca Mahay, Russell Walker, John Bowers, and Landfill.
Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 15s must be accompanied by an adult)Accessibility: There is step-free access into the venue and the bar / venue is all on one floor. There is a Changing Places toilet across the courtyard from the venue. Please be aware we are a small venue. For further information, please email info@brightenthecorners.co.uk so we can make your visit as comfortable as possible.
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ALL SHALL BE WELL
As you lay upon shifting sands staring into the gutter, we present a reassuring evening of surreal certainties.
Spoken words. Music. Film.
All will possibly remind you of dreams you had whilst drunk and those conversations you thought had been forgiven and forgotten.
Starring
Your Host : BrainWaves Are Better Than Perms
Duvel Mortgage: Pursuing a zig zag course with their own special brand of country music.
Bohman Brothers perform using unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings
Sophie Sleigh- Johnson makes work distributed across text, cassette, sonic environments, lino prints and local newspapers
Rebecca Mahay, born in Birmingham, UK of Indian-Punjabi descent, composes electronic sound abstraction both dark and comedic
Russell Walker, born in Hillingdon in 1980, wrote a novel in 2025 called “When New Towns Act Tough”
John Bowers is an independent artist-researcher and improvising musician based in Valhalla
Landfill : Bass and words. Conceived in a bin bag basement in Ipswich