Based in Bristol, UK, SCALER (fka SCALPING) are a four-piece band: Isaac Jones on drums, James Rushforth on bass guitar, Nick Berthoud on guitar and Alex Hill on electronics. For the last five years, SCALPING have been writing, recording and performing music together, trying to answer the question that guides their work
As one of the more niche festivals within heavy music, there is a special affection for ArcTanGent. Curating an expansive bill that spans the breadth and depth of forward-thinking music within our world, the August weekender at Fernhill Farm is just as much a festival as it is a community of like-minded individuals.
An element of what stops the purists widening their simultaneously broadchurch and elitist definitions of alternative music to at least have a gander at the club genre is the feeling that it lacks a ‘performed nature’; that it’s simply pressing buttons and occasionally fiddling with a low pass filter to create the illu
While far smaller in size, there are similarities between Bristol and Berlin. Both are fairly liberal, filled with culture and have music running through their cores.
