Ever wondered what Secret Cinema-style music event could be like? Wonder no further, as this Bank Holiday Weekend the mysterious TRESPASS Weekender comes to town in front of an intimate audience.
The new immersive live music experience exclusively showcasing current celebrated artists, which will be held at a secret London location over four consecutive nights from Thursday 26th May until Sunday 29th May 2016.
Created by three forward thinking music industry veterans Ben Spetsiotis (IAM New Music), Lowri Gerrard (Universal Music) and Joshua Sanger (Barn On The Farm Festival) in partnership with London’s dynamic new music curators, Mahogany, TRESPASS will take over a unique London space and incorporate very personal, tailored elements of three key current artists' music and influences, allowing the audience to trespass into each artist's world.
The identity of these three special artists will remain unannounced to ticket holders until the start of each performance and will remain secret to the public until after the exclusive weekender.
TRESPASS will provide an unprecedented level of loving detail around each artist and their music in the space in which they are performing – resulting in a thought-provoking live music video style experience in which the audience can become fully submerged within the performance and become an active part of it. TRESPASS’ unique environment will allow for a more intimate level of engagement between artist and audience with only 100 exclusive tickets on sale per night.
The location will also remain a mystery, but the organisers will disclose that it’s a beautifully raw multi-level building in Spitalfields which has been stripped back to its bare structural bones. Following this event the venue is to be developed into offices and flats, so this will be one of the very last opportunities to experience this historic building in its current form. Upon purchasing tickets, the venue location will be revealed to ticket holders only.
Trespass - The Intimate, Immersive Live Music Weekender
Secret Spitalfields Location, to be revealed only to ticket holders
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This event ended on Sunday 29th of May 2016
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Secret Spitalfields Location, to be revealed only to ticket holders
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All In London Review
A music event like no other
With a crowd of just 100 on each of the four nights, guests were whisked from a Shoreditch meeting spot to a disused property by Brick Lane; about to be torn down for development, the exposed beams, naked lightbulbs and dust-strewn floor made it all the more moodily atmospheric. The idea of Trespass is intimacy and it didn’t disappoint. Each of the four acts – none of whom were revealed until they started playing - drew you into their world completely and utterly, with rooms decorated with their own inspirations, belongings and lyrics.
After breaking through a wall of paper, the first room – containing nothing but a tree, a light-filled bathtub, a piano and a smoke machine – treated its audience with the hauntingly melancholic tones of Amber Run, a five piece of such beautiful melodies it was impossible not to feel the emotion sung with every word. The sound of an accompanying on ‘I Found’, dotted amongst the audience so no one was any the wiser to their presence until their harmonies broke through, was something else. I for one downloaded their album the very next morning and haven’t stopped listening to it since.
The vibe upstairs for act two couldn’t be more different as indie boy Martin Luke Brown took to the keys for a brilliant run of tunes. Infectiously catchy, he swung effortlessly from being gritty and soulful one moment to charming the audience with his folky falsetto the next. Continuing the intimacy of the evening, Martin brought with him a room full of inspirations including old photos, records, books and childhood toys – an insight into the mind behind his music.
Third up was Lyra, upping the ante. Accompanied with drums and keys and set in a fairytale garden with a ceiling of white drapes, producing sounds to rival the big guns like Florence for contrasting beautiful lyrics with an ethereal vibe, some great beats and a powerful voice.
As the Trespassers headed down to the lyric-graffitied basement for the last act of the night, they were treated with Prose, one part hip hop, one part rap, one part Mancunian Britpop guitars, all parts brilliant. The perfect end, it felt as though one had been transported back to a nineties basement party with your mate’s band, messing around after dark with a six pack of ciders.
Coming from someone who’s seen over 150 bands at 200+ gigs in the last 15 years, to say Trespass was like no other music event I’ve encountered was an understatement. It was gobsmackingly brilliant. Next time they Trespass in your part of town get involved, you won’t be disappointed.
Reviewed by Laurel
Published on Jun 3, 2016
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