Gun to Your Head by Simon Jaggers A DAKOTA COLLECTIVE production in association with HighTide Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England's wastelands. Gun to your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England's ghost hours. It's so beautiful it's actually ludicrous. - Simon Stephens, playwright You probably haven't heard of teenage runaways Dakota and Bede yet. But you will. They'll be all over the radio and splashed across newspapers - bigger than Thelma and Louise. That's the plan anyway. Gun to your head: what could possibly go wrong DAKOTA COLLECTIVE are a multi-award nominated theatre crew telling transcendent stories in unconventional spaces. For May 2025, they are bringing their sell-out hit GUN TO YOUR HEAD on tour in association with HighTide, East Anglia's foremost theatre companyfor new writing. GUN TO YOUR HEAD had a SOLD-OUT run at VAULT Festival 2023. One of The Independent's 13 Unmissable Gems The Stagedoor's Lyn Gardner's Pick of the Week Lou Review's Pick of the Week ★★★★ Theatre Weekly ★★★★ FringeBiscuit

The Hotel presents its first evening, in celebration of its first release. Bruce Gilbert, Henry Cyer and Jordan Deal will perform live at the Horse Hospital on the 17th of May to mark the official launch of the-hotel.org Roots of Empathy by Henry Cyer is released as TH01 in a luxurious vinyl edition on the 9th of May, with the record available for sale on the night.

We is Hare Sonic fictions, DIY sounds, word burgling and reading in darkness. Plastique Fantastique hares gather with other hares, with Cowboy Builder, a band with four members often using aliases, with Frankie Roberts who makes and with the Dark Reading Group. Plastique Fantastique will perform a Tek-Fok communique of Eurnikern's making and telling, a tale of a meme-troll under a dark moon, of Tom Hare who escapes the hunt to become Tooth Cruise, of the Dragonfly that leaves with and returns with the Dragon Elite, of a code red meme and the defeat of the Dragon Elite by Tom Hare. Cowboy Builder are a DIY outfit, a band, making instruments from junk and collecting found percussion instruments. They will play music with two drum kits and tell stories, adding sounds of prepared guitar, echo-strangled vocals and a mangled church organ as they build their set. Frankie Roberts is a word burglar, ex-owner of a cordless vacuum cleaner, hoover of a lonely heart. Frankie will bring all your favourite nightmares in a fox-shaped glovebox. The Dark Reading Group will turn off the lights, sit in a circle, pass a torch around the group in a clockwise direction around the group, illuminating texts and writing, which are read out loud.

Curbside Lambsear | GUE | Gospel Ship dx Limited tickets available for those who are unwaged or on low wages. Please be mindful when booking.

An evening of experimental songwriting and tape music. Featuring a new collaborative piece by Popular Music & Paul Cousins, alongside performances by Adam Christensen and Fondant. Tickets £6-10 sliding scale. No/Low Income tickets are limited: please be mindful when purchasing. Popular Music are a Melbourne-based duo of former Parenthetical Girls leader Zac Pennington and composer Prudence Rees-Lee. Born in Los Angeles, the shadow of the Hollywood sign still lingers over their sound: weird, hauntological pop built on lush string arrangements and analog electronics, where threads of grief, myth-making, and memory twist toward the tragic-comic. Paul Cousins is a sound artist & composer based in London. Using a collection of 1/4 reel-to-reel machines, tape echoes and other analog equipment, he creates music on the themes of repetition and imperfection. His compositions have featured in major installations at the Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery and in FACT magazine. In addition to releases with Decca Records, Castles in Space and BMG, in the studio he has worked on a diverse range of projects for major/indie labels and recorded Grammy winning artists. His recent sound installation Atomised Listening invited visitors to interact with obsolete music technology at Stone Nest in London's West End. Adam Christensen (UK, 1979) is a London-based artist who makes performance, video, fabric and text works, and performs with the music project Ectopia, which was Wysing Arts Centre's band-in-residence in 2016. He has previously performed and presented work at Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Baltic Triennial as well as Almanac, David Roberts Art Foundation, Southard Reid, London, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Hollybush Gardens in London.