Hive Mind presents the debut Brighton show of Galway-based six-piece Trá Pháidín. The group released their stunning second album, _Cloch 's Claí_('Stone & Wall'), on World of Echo early in October to universal acclaim. Built around the historical significance embedded in dry-stone walls, the record offers a satirical view of Éire's relationship with her native tongue and the Gaeltacht; ten tracks, each a stone in a metaphorical wall, the wall itself a vessel for tokenism, housing, gentry politics and ribbon development, scattered across the landscape and psyche of na Gaeltachtaí. The result is music of ambitious breadth spiked with an absurdist sense of humour: jazz, folk, krautrock, and hushed existentialism from the west of Ireland are all in the mix. Trá Pháidín's music transforms Connemara into a hallucinatory parallel version of itself. They are an enigmatic but unstoppable force in independent Irish music. This is your opportunity to see the group perform their dizzying live show – a web connecting absurd dadaist theatre, post-rock precision, rolling jazz-inspired instrumental passages powered by two awesome drummers and a brass section, and kaleidoscopic Irish folk.
Nothing I can say will really prepare you...
- support from: Eloise Duffy, who has been working in experimental and improvised music under the name Shit Creek, for close to a decade. Originally from West Yorkshire but now based in Brighton, their music covers a vast range of experimental sound, from soothing violin drone, through high velocity maximalist sample collage. Tonight Eloise will treat us to a radiant set of glittering harmonium drone.
