Spaceheads are a duo that graft the sound of technology – a hotwired horn producing harmonised loops and breathy samples – onto the ancient sound machines of trumpet and drums.

Andy Diagram has been playing his trumpet through loopers and effects with various bands from the bright leftfield pop of Manchester’s indie heroes James, to the darker abstract sounds of Pere Ubu’s David Thomas. He has been taking the sound of the trumpet into the heart of alternative music.

He has recently integrated a mobile phone into his set up attached to the trumpet with a fish slice as he transforms a single horn into the full sound of widescreen cinematic brass, right in front of your very eyes. Along with drummer Richard Harrison, Spaceheads are pioneering a live electronic looping sound that is beat driven with fragmented melodic bursts and disjointed cut up samples.

Spaceheads were formed in 1990 and have developed a blend of electronics and sunshine fanfares over the course of eleven albums, 3 EPs and much touring across Europe and the USA. Andy and Richard have achieved an intuition of what each is about to do next which makes their semi-improvised gigs a joy to behold.

They return to the Glad Cafe after last years memorable night along with the unique Rucksack Cinema who projects and mixes video to the music, creating strange and wonderful atmospheres throughout the room. He has created innovative live video imagery for Spaceheads gigs and other events since 1998.

Spaceheads latest album "Laughing Water" was released in November 2016 and has featured regularly on radio 6 playlists and follows last years successful album "A Short Ride on the Arrow of Time". Both were released on their own label, Electric Brass Records.

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