Make Much Wenlock Weird presents Haress and Hawthonn

Make Much Wenlock Weird presents Haress and Hawthonn

Bringing some much needed warm in the depth of winter Make Much Wenlock Weird's third event presents esoteric music from co-headliners Hawthonn and Haress.

Hawthonn is the musical and magical collaboration of Layla and Phil Legard. Born from the underground music scene of Leeds, UK, the duo began in 2014 with a project to encounter the spirit of the musician Jhonn Balance, of the industrial band Coil. This self-titled release was followed by Red Goddess (of the men shall know nothing) (2018) and Earth Mirror (2021), both on the Brooklyn-based label Ba Da Bing. Their dark electronic music draws upon esoteric practices, using improvisation, scrying, dreaming, divination and site-specific working to gain insight and creative inspiration.

Haress are based in the Shropshire Hills, their music is rooted in the feel and tradition of British folk but expands out of any genre boundaries through the use of improvisation, texture and amplification. They intertwine dark and repetitive electric guitar figures to create a hypnotic, mantra-like state, the playing working on a kind of unspoken telepathy until it's impossible for the onlooker to work out which player is responsible for which sound amid the warm, enveloping hum of valve amps.