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New Music Biennial: Bantam's Drift

A music and multimedia collaboration between Bradford multimedia artist m3UNTITLED and Manchester experimental duo GOMID.

m3UNTITLED and GOMID stood in front of a brick building.
Date
19 February 2025
Category
News

PRS Foundation, Southbank Centre and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture have revealed the pieces of new music to be performed at the critically acclaimed free festival, New Music Biennial. We're thrilled to be supporting two artists as part of this to create Bantam's Drift.

Bantam's Drift

Bantam’s Drift is a music and multimedia collaboration between Bradford multimedia artist m3UNTITLED and Manchester experimental duo GOMID.

Visceral, immersive and speculative, the work will deconstruct Yorkshire club music through soundscapes and visual experimentation, using haunting refrains of Bassline and images of dogs and cars to mythologise Bradford’s South Asian working class youth culture.

Free tickets on sale now for Bantam's Drift on:

  • Friday 6 June, Bradford
  • Saturday 5 July, Southbank Centre

New Music Biennial

Presented in partnership with BBC Radio 3, and NMC Recordings, with support from Arts Council England, New Music Biennial 2025 will feature 20 pieces of brand new works selected through an open call, alongside pre-existing new pieces that were premiered within the last four years.

The 20 pieces will make up two festival weekends of exceptional music taking place both in Bradford in various venues including new arts space Loading Bay, The Underground and St George’s Hall as part of the UK City of Culture celebrations and at venues and performance spaces in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre on:

  • Friday 6 - Sunday 8 June, Bradford
  • Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, Southbank Centre

Bradford, brims with energy, creativity, and a deep sense of community - making it the perfect destination for this year’s festival, alongside New Music Biennial’s spiritual home, Southbank Centre in the nation’s capital, London.

About the Artists

Credits

Bantam's Drift is part of PRS Foundation and Southbank Centre’s New Music Biennial which is in partnership with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, BBC Radio 3, NMC Recordings and generously supported by Arts Council England.

Commissioned by Brighter Sound and supported by Opera North.

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