BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5b39a009-7dcc-4d92-8c40-01a91985335f@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260815T160835 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T190000 SUMMARY:My New Band Believe LOCATION:York The Crescent Community Venue DESCRIPTION:- My New Band Believe’s debut album began as a fever dream. Delirious in a Chinese hotel room\, Cameron Picton was battling through th e worst of a sudden illness when he was overcome by flashes of weird image ry and loose ribbons of scrambled text. The musician would later salvage a nd shape some of these fragments into songs\, but the one that lodged most clearly in his mind was the odd phrase\, “My New Band Believe.” When it came time to christen his solo project there was no decision to be made \; this unwieldy assemblage of words had to be his signature.Picton would be the first to admit that he sometimes cringes over the name\, sometimes finding it cheesy and earnest\, questionably self-aware\, not even fully g rammatically correct. But in other respects\, he’s never doubted its odd brilliance. My New Band Believe works as a reintroduction and a fresh sta rt\, both hyping up its author while acknowledging the collective effort t hat went into its making. It also serves as an open invitation\, a subtle nod that if a listener is willing to meet the music on its own terms\, the y’ll be rewarded for taking a flying leap into the dark.As the bassist a nd sometime frontman of black midi\, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building\, weaving complex story-telling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it q uits in 2023\, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo rec ord or jumping back into another band. Loose plans to be a rotating collab orator with various London groups à la Jim O’Rourke\, including carolin e were discussed\, even rehearsed\, but never fully materialised. It was f rom this position of a not-quite team player\, not-quite bandleader that P icton entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually be gan to emerge.The group’s debut is a massive and hallucinatory record. I t is a collection of music that swerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers\, all the while unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is an unreliable but charismatic narrator\, and together with a cast of all-star players including Kiran Leonard\, Ca ius Williams\, Steve Noble\, Andrew Cheetham\, and indeed\, members of car oline\, he guides the listener through a rapidly unfolding multi-verse of their own making. With My New Band Believe\, he not only comes into his ow n as a leader but arranges conflicting\, fragmentary\, and hysterical idea s until they form a brilliant kind of sense.My New Band Believe is as epic and ritzy as Picton’s previous work in black midi but its sound is flee t-footed rather than scorching. The record is almost entirely acoustic\, u sing the barest amount of reverb and electronic effects possible. It would be a mistake however to assume these light touches mean that their music is any less maximal. The crispness of the sound only helps to emphasize it s dynamism. Taking flight off the back of a string quartet layered over th emselves countless times\, Picton leads his band so that each track forms\ , scatters and re-groups\, so that the uplift of one song crashes head-lon g into the rush of another. Inspired by Bert Jansch’s hypnotic\, hard-dr iving guitar-playing and Judee Sill’s panoramic pop\, My New Band Believ e is both all-encompassing and constantly in flux. The build-up of these s ongs is essential to dramatizing their frenzied emotions. A song like “A ctress” weighs a friend’s capacity to self-destruct against the vastne ss of their dreams\, which Picton accompanies with music that lies low unt il it suddenly soars. “Opposite Teacher” rages against the fate of bec oming just like your parents but as the track progressively rises to a fev er pitch\, it ultimately can’t resist falling back to its cyclical (and familiar) guitar line.Although the band’s sound is thrillingly self-assu red\, Picton’s songwriting thrives off of a deep ambiguity. The musician adopts a constantly shifting perspective\, giving shape to his narrators ’ vivid inner lives. Picton’s characters are searchers who urgently pu rsue the object of their desire through the twisting alleys and overgrown mazes of his music. “Target Practice” finds him face to face with his mark. The track flips bloody-minded vigilantism into a sing-along anthem\, less a murder ballad than Luigi Mangione at the cabaret. It’s a hollow revenge fantasy\, where in holding another more powerful person’s life i n the cross hairs\, his character can feel as if he’s taken back agency of his own.Even when the path is murky and the object that Picton is trail ing is more shadowy\, Picton bravely pushes forward. The influence of figu res like Jansch and John Renbourn are most apparent on “Heart of Darknes s” which channels a history of transatlantic interpretation and experime ntation to situate his protagonist’s quest in a musical time warp.“One Night” is beautifully\, almost painfully open: a Dennis Cooper novel in miniature\, where Picton puts his body on the line for connection\, hungr y for a kind of intimacy he can’t fully articulate.“You are not the ma n I took you for” he sings with a suppressed sigh\, cycling through viol ent hook-ups and transient moments of sweetness\, holding out for a flicke r of intimacy and recognition.Picton has a talent for capturing ambient an xiety and a rare gift for distilling it into pop. There’s tremendous tru th to the way he paints with overwhelming\, mixed emotions. “Love Story ” is one of the album’s stand-out tracks. The song captures Picton in his element: staying in\, cooking a meal\, feeling sexy for his partner\, until in a flash it’s suddenly gone. In a moment the song’s uncomplica ted sweetness is suddenly thrown into relief by the specter of loss. It wo uld be one thing if My New Band Believe stalled out on present-day terror\ , but across their debut Picton proves how capable he is at capturing its flipside\; people breaking past their fear into something bigger than them selves. With this record\, Picton offers a project that you can believe in .\n\nBoletos: https://wegottickets.com/event/702500 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/5b39a009-7dcc-4d92-8c40-01a9198533 5f END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR