HOWIE REEVE (Glasgow)

Unconventionally structured songs on acoustic bass that plow their own furrow in order to try and navigate the world we live in - tender, explosive, running a gamut of emotions - vulnerable, oblique, generous, human.

Two reviews of the latest album Leaf in Fog:

“I remember on the first listens being struck by its angular post-punk explosions of noise, but when I came back to it, and still every time I've listened to it since (now countless times), it's the delicacy and beauty woven throughout that more and more shapes the album for me.”
— Soren Brothers, Ur Audio Visual

“this is a beautiful record, a fine set of songs, observations, drawings, not sketches, proper drawings, strong drawings, they sound like delicate drawings, they're not, these are strong drawings…like looking at the secrets in a good sketchbook…Some of it experimental, well unconventionally detailed rather than experimental…”
— Sean Worrall, Organ Thing

I have collaborated with Mike Watt (Minutemen/Iggy and the Stooges), Andy Kerr (NoMeansNo), GW Sok (The Ex) and many others.

"Unplugged-punk genius Howie Reeve is a linchpin in Glasgow's DIY community...a breathtaking bass player."
— Nicola Meighan, The Herald

"Life affirming...fragile, funny, oozing with empathy and above all fantastic songcraft."

"Howie Reeve is a unique and singular figure in the current British underground...delivering a fragmented and dexterous music that takes in post-punk and avant-folk. Increasingly turning to songwriting, he further engages audiences with cryptic, intimate and unsettling lyrics."
— Chris Joynes

"The DIY gigs in which Howie is involved do feel like acting out on more controllable, microcosmic stage ideals and on how the world should be rather than how it is presented."
— Andrew Neal, Louder Than War, 02/23/2015

Review of Double Rainbow:

"Howie Reeve's approach is essentially one divorced from the traditions of 'making a pop record'…part of a wider tradition of underground troubadours and gleemen, musical ranters and shakers, who hold audiences through their strength of character."
— Richard Foster, The Quietus, 02/22/2021

Lianne Hall

Lianne Hall is a Berlin based singer, writer and producer from the UK. Adventures along the way include touring the squats of Europe with UK feminist punk band Witchknot in the 90s and receiving an excellent grounding in DIY creativity and community. In 1999, while living in a bus in Bradford UK, she appeared on a TV show with legendary radio DJ John Peel who went on to champion her work in four Peel sessions and called her “one of the great English voices”.

In the 00s, in Brighton UK, she landed a cleaning job in the house of Orbital's Paul Hartnoll and soon traded the hoover for a microphone, writing electronic pop music with Paul and even singing a duet with The Cure's Robert Smith. Then, from Brighton to Berlin and making the 2017 album 'The Caretaker'. This work is celebrated by audiophiles around the globe, recorded live, direct to tape at Lowswing Tonstudio in Berlin.

She is currently releasing a new solo album, and producing the third installment of Lavender Hex; a queer, experimental, punk collaboration project of many voices.

“….Energy Flashback is a document of youth, from early teenage experience in the 80s through to should-know-better adulthood in the 00s. It is a confession of the rave generation. A snapshot of key moments of joy, anxiety, trouble, love, and beats. It sounds completely natural, but when you stop to consider what is really happening, the prospect of a Glen Campbell-type melody, propped up by wobbly polysynth being ravaged by stop-start Amen breaks is almost perverse (find this on 'They Wanna Fight We Wanna Dance'). Yet it's great.

There are crowd noise field recordings, dub delays, references to 909s and 303s, and particular sound systems. It's almost like reading a book, but the font is Hall's voice. The purest and most delicate English voice you could imagine. Her voice has an abundance of high frequency breath noise that envelopes the notes and somehow implies conspiratorial intimacy…”