Re-Textured festival: Line-up, tickets and everything you need to know

Brutal: The festival will marry electronic music, lighting and architecture
George Rex
Jochan Embley5 March 2019

At the end of this month, a brand new festival is landing in London.

Re-Textured will run from March 28-31, spread across some of the city’s most famous brutalist and modernist buildings. It aims to marry electronic music, lighting and architecture in a way rarely seen in the capital.

“The first thing we wanted to do was to curate a line-up that was really interesting, varied and different to all the other line-ups you tend to see,” says Danny Clancy, one half of Krankbrother, the DJ/promoter duo behind the festival. “That was, first and foremost, what we wanted to do, musically — something that we felt was really underrepresented in the UK.”

The visual element of the festival will feature as prominently as the sound, in an attempt to redress a sometimes unfair balance. “With DJ culture now, all the attention is concentrated on the DJ, even though at most events between 10 and 100 people have worked on it to make it happen, particularly the visuals,” Clancy explains. “We wanted to focus more closely on [the visual artists] and put them centre stage, as much as the music.”

There was also a real effort to find unorthodox locations for the events — something Krankbrother has become renowned for. “We wanted to make sure we used different spaces that don’t get used that often,” Clancy says, “particularly either industrial or brutalist buildings, as we felt the spaces would really benefit the music policy we’ve gone for, as well as the visuals.”

Ahead of the inaugural edition of Re-Textured, here's everything you need to know.

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Which venues are involved?

There are six venues in total. Village Underground and E1 London, in Shoreditch and Wapping respectively, are two of London’s leading clubs and regularly host dance music events. Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Southbank Centre’s beautiful concert space, will hold a number of live gigs, while Walthamstow Assembly Hall, with its striking art deco facade, will be the location of two club nights.

The final two venues, the Silver Building and 180 The Strand, are the most interesting on the line-up. Neither are established nightlife spots — in fact, only the Silver Building has ever hosted a club event before, back in 2017.

Both are huge, brutalist structures, with various rooms taken over by the festival. 180 The Strand will feature an “enormous” projection area, Clancy says, to be used by visual artists, while the Silver Building will house exhibitions from local artists across two rooms.

Walthamstow Assembly Hall
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Who’s on the line-up?

The musical programme features a mix of established DJs and emerging names. Nina Kraviz, Shackleton, Ben Sims, James Ruskin and Andy Stott are among the best known artists set to take to the decks, with rising stars such as Object Blue and Deena Abdelwahed also on the bill.

Clancy picks out Caterina Barbieri, who plays at the Silver Building on March 31, as a particular highlight: “She’s one of the most exciting ambient artists at the moment,” he says. Elsewhere, German artist Alva Noto brings his sound explorations to Walthamstow Assembly Hall on March 30. “I haven’t seen him play outside of the Barbican in a long time, so it will be nice to see him in more of a club context.”

On the visual art front, Clancy highlights the work of Akiko Nakayama. “She’s going to be doing a live painting to ambient music,” he says. “It’s quite hard to explain, but she moves paint around and projects it onto large surfaces — it almost makes you feel like you’re sitting inside a lava lamp.” Nakayama will be at E1 London from March 30-31.

The full line-up is below:

Thursday March 28

  • Cabaret Voltaire (live), Trevor Jacskon — Village Underground
  • Demdike Stare (Live A/V) with Michael England, Lee Gamble (live), Puce Mary (live) — 180 The Strand

Friday March 29

  • Aurora Halal (live), DJ Nobu, Dr. Rubinstein, Karen Gwyer (live), Kassem Mosse (live), Krankbrother, Lena Willikens, Objekt — E1 London
  • Batu, Deena Abdelwahed (Khonnar live), Giant Swan Machine Woman (Live), Simo Cell — Village Undeground
  • Blue Veil, Nina Kraviz (extended set) — Walthamstow Assembly Hall
  • Aisha Devi (live), Fatima Al Qadiri (live), Kasra V — Queen Elizabeth Hall

Saturday March 30

  • Ben Sims B2B James Ruskin, Blawan, B Traits, Regis, Surgeon (live), Volvox — E1 London
  • The Orb (live) — Queen Elizabeth Hall
  • Jan Jelinek (live), Lucrecia Dalt (live) — Village Underground
  • Anastasia Kristensen, Elena Colombi, Object Blue (Live), Veronica Vasicka — Village Underground
  • Carla dal Forno (Live), Gesloten Cirkel (Live), Phase Fatale, Sync 24 — The Silver Building
  • Alva Noto UNIEQAV, Andy Stott (Live), JASSS presents Steam (live A/V), Krankbrother, Moritz von Oswald — Walthamstow Assembly Hall

Sunday March 31

  • Caterina Barbieri and Ruben Spini (Live A/V), Shackleton (Live), Silvia Kastel — The Silver Building

How can I get tickets?

Tickets are sold separately for each event and can be bought here.

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