Rising bands play Emerging Showcase gig on Saturday

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre and The Met are excited to announce a special gig by rising bands NGUVU and Britizen Kane on Saturday 20 January at 2pm.

Part of The Met’s Emerging Showcase programme, this gig will be performed in the current exhibition space Rooms to Live, created by artists Derek Tyman and Andy Webster at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre.

For Rooms to Live, Tyman and Webster have built ‘Trout House Replica’, which recreates the interior of the Los Angeles house where the renowned Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band wrote and rehearsed their seminal 1969 album ‘Trout Mask Replica’.

Combining jazz fusion, rock, funk, soul, and hip-hop, NGUVU and Britizen Kane will perform in the brightly coloured red space of the replica house. The bands will also feature new songs produced in response to the exhibition and, in a first-time collaboration, NGUVU and Britizen Kane will also perform some songs together.

As part of The Met’s Emerging Showcase series, this is a ticketed event: please visit: Emerging Showcase: NGUVU | The Met

Rooms to Live is an extensive 14-week exhibition featuring large sculptural installations, a programme of live performances by artists and musicians, workshops, screenings, talks/panel discussions and artists/musicians residencies from emerging bands in the North West.

For full details about the 14-week events programme, please visit & follow the @_rooms_to_live_ Instagram account

ENDS

Press release issued: 15 January 2024.

Picture: NGUVU.