Oliver Coates and Joanne Robertson

A double headline show for these two extraordinary solo artists. Oliver Coates is a cellist, a composer for film and an electronic music producer. Oliver releases music on RVNG Intl, exploring improvisation, dark ambient music and intimate melodic cello with distortion and tape modulation. His most recent record for RVNG is Throb, shiver, arrow of time: a portal into somatic chiaroscuro. He writes and records music for film and TV, including the scores for The Stranger, Aftersun and Steve McQueen’s Occupied City. Oliver moves continuously between the roles of composer, performer, experimental musician and record producer. He performed a headline set at the 2019 Manchester International Festival curated by David Lynch, and has collaborated with Mica Levi, Arca, Dean Blunt, Jonny Greenwood and Malibu on live and recorded projects, including the lauded LP Remain Calm (Slip) with Levi. Joanne Robertson is a musician, painter and poet. Joanne collaborates regularly with her friends, most recently with Dean Blunt on ‘Black Metal 2’, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen on ‘Alien Baby’. She moved to Glasgow in 2018, after having lived in London. Her painting and music both form from improvisatory moments of expression. ‘Blue Car’, is a collection of songs from her archive of unreleased solo recordings, similar to ‘Painting Stupid Girls’, these tracks attempt to record the moment, and where she was at emotionally that day, similar to diary entries. The dates she wrote these songs is unknown, they span roughly a ten year period. Photo credit Nis Bysted