Ether 08

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ETHER08

Events

GOLDFRAPP


Friday 18 April, 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
£30 £25
BOOK NOW


Goldfrapp - Ooh La La full track
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine full track



Opening Ether 08, the preternaturally cool and much loved Goldfrapp unveil their new album - Seventh Tree live at Royal Festival Hall.

HARMONIA

Friday 18 April, 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall

£17.50 £15 BOOK NOW

Harmonia - Veterano full track

Harmonia - Sirba And Doina Alergata full track

Formed from members of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster (and some of the most important musicians in the 1970s German expermental music scene: Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius), Harmonia were once declared to be the world's most important rock band by Brian Eno.

LED BIB

Friday 18 April, 5.30pm
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall


Admission Free

Led Bib - Stinging Nettle full track

Led Bib -Shower full track

Jazz with a punk aesthetic, pulsating with raw energy and charisma, Led Bib's driving melodies are delivered at full throttle.

2008 INTERNATIONAL BEATBOX CONVENTION


Saturday 19 April – Sunday 20 April, 1pm-6pm
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Admission Free

The world’s leading beatboxers descend on Southbank Centre as Ether plays host to the fourth annual Human Beatbox Convention for two days of showcases, seminars, talks plus participatory workshops and open mic sessions for all.

SHLOMO VS MAD PROFESSOR


Saturday 19 April, 8pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall

£15 BOOK NOW

Shlomo -
Intro

full track

Mad Professor -
Mad Elaine

full track

MUSIC THROUGH UNCONVENTIONAL MEANS: As part of the weekend-long International Beatbox Convention, Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Shlomo presents a very special collaboration with the dub master Mad Professor.

INTERNATIONAL BEATBOX SHOWCASE

Sunday 20 April 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall

£15 BOOK NOW

An international line-up of beatboxers featured in the convention take to the stage for a closing showcase.

CURRENT 93 & BABY DEE

Monday 21 April, 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall

£20 £17.50 BOOK NOW

Current 93 - A Sadness Song

full track

Baby Dee - Morning Holds A Star

Current 93, David Tibet's visionary vehicle since 1982, have pursued their unique hallucinatory gnostic vision through records, books, concerts and paintings for the last 24 years. In this event they perform alongside performance artist Baby Dee.

RADIO SOULWAX PRESENTS…
Thursday 24 April, 8.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
£20
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Soulwax - Another Excuse (DFA remix)
full track



Soulwax - Miserable Girl

PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES FEATURING SOULWAX AND 2MANYDJS. Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele bring their live phenomenon Soulwax to Ether 08.

PERE UBU & THE BROTHERS QUAY

Thursday 24 & Friday 25 April, 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall

£22.50 £20 BOOK NOW





Pere Ubu - On the Surface
full track

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing full track

BBRING ME THE HEAD OF UBI ROI: The world’s only expressionist rock band, Pere Ubu, collaborate with enigmatic stop motion animators The Brothers Quay to present the musical theatre of Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1898 play from which the band is named.

PATAPHYSICS IN SOUND

Friday 25 April, 5.30pm

Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Admission Free

To celebrate the genius of Alfred Jarry, creator of Ubu Roi and literary madman, time-travelling, absinthe-drinking, cycling maniac, join us on a specially curated musical journey through 'pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions.

LONDON SINFONIETTA

Monday 28 April, 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall

£22 £17 £13 £8 BOOK NOW

London Sinfonietta - Three Piano Pieces...

full track

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses

full track

Thomas Ades is one of the UK's most exciting composers, and Southbank Centre has commissioned his first work with video. Steve Reich's landmark Music for 18 Musicians completes the programme.

UNKNOWN DEVICES

Monday 28 April, 9.30pm
The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall

Admission Free

The Laptop Orchestra, featuring members of the London Sinfonietta, students from Royal College of Music and London College of Communication, with visuals from VJ artist Pablo Fiasco, perform new music with films inspired by the music of Steve Reich.