Bégayer (FR) + Fuzzy Lights + 23 Hanging Trees

Thursday, 21 May 2026 at 19:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

The Quietus / Rockfort “Bégayer is one of the best live acts in France – no two shows are the same but they’re always a thrilling demonstration of the group’s raucous power and ritualistic intensity.” – David McKenna French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices, « Bégayer » (the french word for « stutter ») pursues a gesture for those without a folklore, for this culture of void, structured by the gloaming of popular habitus as well as glitches from noise music, influenced by the public squares as well as the swarming of numerical flows, for a original kind of wog-rapsodists. This culture of void has to be seen as a cruel joy, the occasion for a conjunction beetween strange interpretations of ancient signs, popular forms and contemporaneous attempts. It is the construction of singular variations and overflows. For Jean Rouch, a horizon for modern anthropol…