After Dark Festival
Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan bring you highlights from the After Dark festival in Newcastle, featuring Iceboy Violet, Nyati Mayi, Yeah You and Vashti Bunyan.
Join the Late Junction team in Newcastle at the After Dark Festival, as Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan bring you a selection of highlights from our stage at the Star & Shadow in collaboration with Tusk.
The After Dark festival, from Â鶹Éç Radio 3 and Sage Gateshead, is a celebration of alternative music taking place over the weekend of the Spring Equinox and shining a light on creativity in the North East. We bring you highlights from Friday night at the Star & Shadow, a special line-up curated by Late Junction and Tusk Music featuring Iceboy Violet, Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters and Yeah You. Plus from Saturday night, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to the legendary folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan about her new memoir.
Iceboy Violet is a Manchester-based producer, vocalist and DJ. A key player in the experimental scene in Manchester, their sound combines dark brooding electronics with a powerfully raw vocal delivery. Inspired by the energy and resistance of Grime music, their lyrics are honest and vulnerable, warping the genre in a way that aims to challenge toxic masculinity and heteronormativity.
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters is the project of Belgo-Congolese multi-instrumentalist and singer Nyati Mayi, and Brussels DJ, producer and musician soFa elsewhere. Rooted in improvisation and free music, their sound is heavily percussive and vocal led, with influences including 90s hip-hop, folk, Congolese rhythms and dub.
Yeah You are Newcastle father-daughter duo of Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Inspired by everything from noise pop to black metal, the pair have been improvising and recording together since Brandhi was a teenager. Their work is almost entirely improvised and spontaneous, with Brandhi letting loose stream-of-consciousness vocals over distorted rhythms and warped electronics.
Produced by Katie Callin and Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for Â鶹Éç Radio 3.
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Music Played
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Yeah You
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
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Nyati Mayi
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
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Iceboy Violet
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
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Rakhi Singh
Khuda'i (Excavation)
- Quarry.
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Run Logan Run
It's About Ice Cream
- For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers.
- Worm Discs.
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Yeah You & Iceboy Violet
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
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Vashti Bunyan
Swallow Song
- Just Another Diamond Day.
- Philips.
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Nick Drake
Place To Be
- Pink Moon.
- Island Records.
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Devendra Banhart
Will I See You Tonight? (feat. Vashti Bunyan)
- Ma.
- Nonesuch Records.
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Vashti Bunyan
Wayward
- Lookaftering.
- Dicristina Stair Builders.
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Yeah You
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
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Nyati Mayi
Live at the After Dark Festival
- Performed at the Star and Shadow in association with Tusk Music.
Broadcasts
- Fri 25 Mar 2022 23:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3
- Fri 19 Aug 2022 23:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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