ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - legendary prog/psych old-school Japanese rockers are back in Cambridge after their sold out shows in 2019, 2014, 2013 and 2011. Here is the joy of seeing a band in full mastery of their idiom, from two feet away, in an intimate concert space with a low riser for a stage. Music seldom feels more alive than this.
The very last UK show on their 2024 Holy Black Mountain Side Tour.
+ Support bands:
Freya Beer (London)
Psychic Lemon (Cambridge)
22. May, 2024
Portland Arms
129 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge CB4 3BA
Doors open: 7pm
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Kawabata Makoto: guitar (speed guru)
Higashi Hiroshi: synthesizer (fishin’ god)
Jyonson Tsu: voice, guitar (midnight whislter)
Sawano Shozo: bass (hex man)
Satoshima Nani: drums (another dimension)
"In a non-stop stream of thrilling noise, they segue from supercharged stomp-rock, through doomy choral chanting and frazzled go-go, to a thundering melee of atonal freakouts. Then on to a pulsating, echo-drenched disco-rock groove, which morphs into a motorik rhythm too rapid even for the autobahn, works itself into a squalling frenzy, breaks cover as a kind of galloping, syncopated, underworld-with-rabies affair, and flows into a long, chiming trance number climaxing in a collective instrumental howl."
~The Guardian ***** review
