Holy Braille
Unfortunately Holy Braille have been forced to pull out due to health reasons. Anyone who has seen them before, will know they put on a pretty physical performance, which is why recent events have forced them to take a break from live shows.
Everyone at Infest sends their best wishes, and we hope they can join us next year.
The DSM IV
Taking their place will be The DSM IV… Formed by Guy McKnight of critically acclaimed and cult favourite, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.
THE DSM IV has a dark sound with hard hitting lyrical content. They blend noise-rock, synth-pop and industrial, delivering a unique lo-fi, fuzzed-out and incredibly catchy musical experience.
Hailing from in Liverpool, THE DSM IV crystallise the ultra real and the otherworldly, bringing a focused hyperrealism to the party. Their convention-defying live performances toy with audience expectations and stimulate questions of the narratives being sold to us as news — or entertainment — all to the beat of the drum machinist.
As if pontificating from a lectern, McKnight sings and gesticulates like his life depends on it, his lyrics enticing or lacerating depending on the mood. In an age of perversion of reality, THE DSM IV poetically reflect on our world’s hypocrisies and dilemmas, with danceability, intelligence, indignation, grace & style …refreshing purity for these polluted times.
“Somewhere between The Stooges primal garage punk and Suicide’s screeching futurism…blistering dance-punk” – CLASH
“A swirling sinister slice of goth pop…dance floor-filling Sisters/Mission dry ice shenanigans” – Louder Than War
“A blend of The Fall, Suicide, Arthur Lee and acid house…dynamic and compelling” – The Quietus