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Body Horror

Pop Mutations & Freakender present: Body Horror + Special Guests Wednesday 29th October The Old Hairdresser's 18+

7:30pm ‐ 10:30pm
The Old Hairdresser's
27 Renfield Lane, Glasgow, G2 6PH

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Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
Body Horror

  • Special Guests
    Wednesday 29th October
    The Old Hairdresser's
    18+

Body Horror met by chance when three members happened to move into the same Tottenham warehouse in 2016. Bonded by a passion for not sleeping and getting weird at techno parties, the post-punk songs they’d been writing gradually took more and more influence from raves.
Before long they’d picked up a drum machine and a couple of synths and were pairing industrial beats and sequenced synths with sharp guitars, demented themes and feral vocal hooks. Body Horror found themselves at a crossroad between The Prodigy and The Birthday Party, and having released a few singles we’ll soon see their first proper release with a self-titled EP in
2025.

As can be heard in their last single Goodboy, Gethyn Thomas’s vocal style has moved more towards a rapping style; the vocalist’s Welsh dialect coming out in the verses as the lyrics pop through with a much faster, more rhythmical flow. That’s an approach he aims to lean further into with the upcoming EP; Thomas saying “All the tracks are written by building the rhythm and beats first, front and centre. So it just felt natural for the vocals to move in that direction. I wasn’t consciously trying to rap, it just became similar to rapping because I was enjoying creating the flows so much”.

This melding of the aforementioned Post-Punk influences, with Techno-inspired beats and the rap-adjacent lyrical style hits hard and feels as fresh as anything else around right now, the band having formed a cult-following around London for their pumping live shows. They’ve had their praises sung on the radio waves too; legendary BBC Radio 6 presenter Steve Lamacq
describing them as "Dealing in a hard, electro based type of rhythmical post punk, a type of savage New Order soundtrack overlayed by an unrepentant snarl”.

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