At Happy tomor­row night you can hear three of New Zeal­and’s rising stars of min­im­al­ist elec­tron­ic music:

  • Sam Hamilton
  • Angeline Chirn­side aka Jane Aus­ten
  • Nigel Wright

These artists are described in the media release as “won­der­ful and amaz­ing; think the mag­ni­fi­cent beauty of Rosy Par­lane, Min­it, and Rachel Shear­er­’s Lovely Mid­get pro­ject. Hell, think of the inter­na­tion­ally reknowned Fen­nesz, Tim Heck­er or Keith Fuller­ton Whit­man, if you like.”

In sup­port of the above will be appear­ing Mr Ant­ony Milton, in his Neth­er Dawn guise. Ant­ony has just returned from a hugely suc­cess­ful tour of the entire god­dam world. The Neth­er Dawn is Milton’s “ghost blues / sound scult­pure” pro­ject. Of his recent CD “Whis­key Mute-Down” (released on US label Last Vis­ible Dog) one writer enthused “There’s a tan­gible sense of calm and won­der in every second […] a glid­ing shim­mer of reverb, amp­buzz, wind and rain that blos­soms to the most ecstat­ic heights of sed­ated fuzz tran­scend­ence; it sounds like it was recor­ded on a wind swept beach some­where with sounds of surf rush­ing and reced­ing in the back­ground, and sug­gests early Fly­ing Sau­cer Attack at their con­cep­tu­al best.”

From that descrip­tion, I guess Happy will also be a good refuge from Sev­ens mania.