Live Sonic Ritual + DJ Set
19:00 - 23:30
Free Entry

Live from the vampire woods. Justin Robertson's Five Green Moons invite you to a live sonic ritual. Expect Dubwise invocations.

Five Green Moons is a "live sonic ritual" and musical project by DJ and producer Justin Robertson. Described as a fusion of dubwise invocations and post-punk echoes, the performance features live rituals in a dub style.

Voices echo around the vampire wood. Rhythms scuttle through the spindly branches and up into the star spattered sky. A moon has crashed to earth. The moon’s stunned pilot is ricocheting through the trees leaving a trail of ghostly ectoplasm in its wake. The pilot is whistling a tune.

Five Green Moons is a slinky dubwise entity with tentacles enveloping many influences, merging them into a single pulsating organism. Hints of P.I.L, On-U, elastic post punk, and angular, basement sounds intermingle with haunting vocal motifs that conjure up comparisons with Current 93 or some arcane invocation straight out of a classic folk horror film. Five Green Moons is a haunted ballroom full of memories. The sound of a dystopian disco. An object on a wonky orbit. Five Green Moons is a spectral visitation. And it is alive.Justin Robertson’s second outing as Five Green Moons is a fusion of influences. The presence of occult mystery can be felt in the chants and vocal motifs, there lurks a manifestation of elastic post punk in the zigzag echo further enhanced by the appearance of Brix Smith, former high priestess of the Fall on two tracks.  

One could draw comparisons with P.I.L, Holy Tongue, the hauntological sound of Current 93, the trippy off kilter hypnotism of Brown Rice era Don Cherry, and of course the solid foundations of Dub. The bass is heavy, the sound spacious. This is a new form of pastoral dub!