Rattle

In 2011, Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley met quite by chance in the Nottingham music scene, where they were playing in various local bands. The idea of exchanging their guitar and drum skills unexpectedly led to a collaborative project when they discovered they had more fun with a double drum kit. In 2012, they began developing the sound that has characterized them as a duo ever since, experimenting with percussive, swirling rhythms and time signatures, as well as a unique meter that is sometimes reminiscent of the quirky female post-punk rhythms of The Slits. The foundation had been found; all that was missing was a band name, and it had to sound as onomatopoeic as possible. This great English word is best translated into German as "lautmalerisch" (sound-painting), and the two quickly agreed on it. Rattle.

In 2016 they released their debut album on the label "I Own You Records/Upset The Rhythm", which was highly praised by critics for its hypnotic minimalism that was also danceable. Live, Rattle refined their sound as support acts for "Animal Collective" and "The Julie Ruin", and at their last show in Berlin they played as support for Sleaford Mods. In 2018 they released the EP Sequence, followed by the EP Encircle in February 2025 (Upset The Rhythm). They continue to operate within a sonically narrow framework, which they expand with their musical imagination to create new songs from the simplest possible ingredients. On stage they have now developed a dramatic interplay that gives their performances a theatrical element.

Heloise

Back then, or: those colors! The small plastic organ. The great surprise, it has scratches from No Wave and residue from post-gaffer tape. Héloïse represents this punk derivative without worn guitars, sounds like 1983, maybe—but not as if nothing had happened for 40 years. The Zurich musician Sabina Leone is behind this trick; her name is Héloïse. Héloïse sits at her drums and sews percussive patterns with scraps of fabric from offstage. Send me a techrider, but that doesn't explain the magic. Sabina Leone doesn't need to explain anything: on the go since 1993, everything has happened for 30 years, and there's always music in her head—in Italian with Sorelle Leone, in crossover and corruption with Wemean, back when they still called it a female band. Now completely Héloïse.