Artists
Please see below for details of the artists who performed at LSBU's inaugural Magnetic South festival in April 2016.
- Beattie Cobell
- Beattie Cobell are a live electronic duo from south east London. They've explored sound together for over eight years, and are developing into a symbiotic unit of rhythm and noise generation.
- Blood Sport
- Blood Sport's blistering guitar dynamics and pointed lyrics shudder and shimmer against rough-housed techno-gilded polyrhythms.
- Cooly G
- Cooly G, AKA Merrisa Campbell, is a South Londoner who produces, sings and DJs. She has released on Hyperdub Records for the last five years.
- Corey Mwamba
- Corey Mwamba is a Derby-based vibraphone player who is highly sought after for his original approach to the instrument. He is one half of Musson/Mwamba with Rachel Musson.
- Dorothy Lehane
- Dorothy Lehane's poetry examines questions concerning cultural encounters and embodied responses in the practice of disability poetry.
- Florence Peake
- Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making work since 1995. Site and audience, live and recorded text, wit and humour are key to her work. (Photograph by Christian Kipp.)
- Graham Dunning
- Graham Dunning is self-taught as an artist and musician having studied neither discipline academically. He has performed solo and in ensembles internationally.
- Gus Garside
- Gus has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. (Photograph by Agata Urbaniak.)
- Jennifer Lucy Allan
- Jennifer Lucy Allan runs the reissues label Arc Light Editions with James Ginzburg (Emptyset/Subtext). She is a writer and researcher currently working on a PhD.
- Jo Thomas
- Jo Thomas is an award-winning London-based composer who chooses to work through sculpting electronic sound into an aural tapestry of technological, biological and emotional states.
- Matthew Bourne
- Matthew Bourne is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, and is known for possessing an inventive and unique artistic approach.
- Matthew Simms
- Matthew collaborates with Yuki Tsujii. Together they are two of the London's most exciting and inventive guitarists, sharing an inquisitive approach to the instrument.
- Not Sorry
- Not Sorry are four slinky-synth, disco-punx from London, featuring members of Joey Fourr and Ravioli Me Away.
- Rachel Musson
- Rachel is a saxophonist, improviser and composer. She is involved with a variety of improvisation-based projects, and is one half of Musson/Mwamba with Corey Mwamba.
- Raime DJs
- Raime are Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, a London-based duo seeking to re-establish electronic composition as a physical and emotionally inquisitive force.
- Safiya Allaf
- Safiya Allaf is a Canterbury-based poet. She is currently working on a series that focuses on identity and Syrian culture.
- Soul Jazz Sound System
- The Soul Jazz Records Sound System are the people behind the legendary London-based Soul Jazz record label and Sounds of The Universe record shop.
- Yuki Tsujii
- Yuki collaborates with Matthew Simms. Together they are two of the London's most exciting and inventive guitarists, sharing an inquisitive approach to the instrument.