Event

Astro Tan + Campion

Doors 730 Show 8 All Ages

Astro Tan bio to come

Alex Campion spent his childhood strung somewhere between London and a sometime rural upbringing in Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. Being packed off to boarding school at 11 meant he had to forge himself an inner world where his thoughts and feelings could flourish freely. The fertile combination of outward struggle and inner sanctuary is what sets Campion apart from the rest: each song is its own world. His completely live looped set is the natural progression of moving from frustrated attempts to realise these insular worlds with other people, to finally striking out on his own and coaxing them spontaneously right in front of his audience, with roots deep electronic beats and blooming canopies of synth and vocal exultation.
Campion caught the attention of the Everett Music Initiative who gave him a spot at the 2016 Fishermans Village Music Festival, where he shared the stage with local luminaries such as Fauna Shade, Tellers and I Will Keep Your Ghost.
His debut single, The Withering Oak, coming soon, and which opens his live set, deals with themes of unrequited love, frustrated desire and sexual shame, set to fizzing chords of sparse synth and Melotron choir, against a rolling, downtempo hip-hop inflected beat.