For nearly twenty-five years, French ensemble HUBBUB have been creating captivating, textured spectral music. Using guitar, saxophones, piano and percussion, the quintet’s fluidity and focused intensity has earned them international renown. Hubbub occupies a unique position at the crossroads of improvised minimalism, ambient drone, noise, industrial, jazz and neo-classical soundworlds – defying expectation or easy description, they have consistently stunned and transfixed audiences across the globe.

“Imagine the opening fanfare of Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra slowed down so it takes a year to play.” – Daniel Spicer, The Wire

“Listening closely is an intense experience. It’s like following a pot of water closely as it comes to the boil […] each little bubble, tiny hiss, fluctuation in the water’s surface a joy.” – Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear

NO BRIDE is the alias of local electronic producer and singer/songwriter Hannah Pillinger. Sparkling away in recent times at shows across Boorloo’s underground pop scene, the project merges atmospheric crystalline vocals, spoken word and ambient keys, boasting a haunting and resolved sound hovering delicately in space.

As if that wasn’t enough, don’t miss RTR’s legendary “Friday Full Frequency” DJs – YIKES, NAFTA and ROK RILEY – ushering in the star-studded RTRFM Art Fundraiser.