On Friday 21st June the Capstone Theatre will play host to the brand new album launch of the new group Bulbs. Hailing from Liverpool, the Bulbs are Joey Zeb (drums), Andy Maslivec (bass), Neil Campbell (guitar) and Marty Snape (electronics).
The Bulbs launches its eagerly awaited debut album with an hour long performance which will feature the projection of an entrancing new film specially created by artist Sonny Phillips to accompany the album. Over a year in the making Bulbs new album On is a 12 track tour-de-force of cyclical time signatures, electronic textures, dark conceptual speech samples and prog melodic-ism. The album will be performed in its entirety at the launch event.
Bulbs is both a musical concept and a real band which aims to marry adventurous music-making with information and sound samples chosen to challenge the audience to look around them at the world in which they are living. It aims to ‘switch on listeners like light bulbs’ to question conventional wisdom and corporate media propaganda.
As a virtuoso solo guitarist Neil Campbell expands the scope of his already densely textured compositions with various loops, delays and other electronic effects, making his classical guitar sound like a multi-timbral guitar orchestra. His various collaborations and his concept performance pieces such as Ghost Stories: A Night Opera, Frankenstein with The Neil Campbell Collective and Sense of Sound Singers and Inventioning, a new composition being developing with Jon Anderson (Yes), have earned him a reputation for musical ambitiousness and innovation.
More information can be found on www.bulbsmusic.com
Tickets for Bulbs can be purchased from the TicketQuarter on Queen Square, online at www.thecapstonetheatre.com* and by telephone on 0844 8000410* and the tickets are priced at £5.
*Subject to booking fee.