Blood Wizard (UK) - 21:00

With a fascination for dissonant chords and jolting rhythms, the music of Blood Wizard provides a space for Cai Burns to express a side to their writing unrestricted by the pressures of genre.Having grown up surrounding themselves with punk and metal, it was not until Burns began collaborating with others that they found themselves falling more and more in love with the world of folk. And this was a love cemented when he stumbled upon the works of Bert Jansch. “I’m not sure how I first stumbled upon Jansch, but I was blown away by him. I was never taught how to play guitar so my technique is pretty sketchy and hearing the liveliness and clunkiness of his playing really spoke to me. I saw him as my bridge into playing folk guitar.”And whilst Jansch acted as an entry point into the world of folk, it was the persona of Blood Wizard that proved to be the biggest gateway for Burns. Under the guise of the mystical cloaks and robes of the wizard, Burns had found a home for his experimentation. Floating between both the subcultures he was raised within and the ones he presently found himself wanting to explore, Blood Wizard sits between the worlds of art, punk and folk. Influenced by the likes of Cate Le Bon and Arthur Russel, Blood Wizard was born out of a fascination with folk-lore and a desire to challenge their creative limits as a writer.

Misty Coast (NO) - 20:00

Misty Coast is the dream pop child of Linn Frøkedal and Richard Myklebust, known from the Norwegian
noise rock act The Megaphonic Thrift. 

After ten years on the road with amplifiers turned to 11, tours
supporting indie heroes like Dinosaur Jr and Steven Malkmus, a Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) sitting on the shelf, mild tinnitus and odd jobs back home to add on the rock’n’roll salary, Frøkedal and Myklebust decided to adjust the recipe and cook up a new witch's brew.

Since Misty Coast's debut album in 2017, the band has
been on tour in Japan, the UK and Europe, played a
number of club concerts and festivals in Norway, been
nominated for the Norwegian Grammy and garnered
rave reviews at home and abroad.

Misty Coast is known for their strong guitar hooks, distinctive bass lines and catchy, dreamy vocal melodies, and parallels can be drawn to bands such as Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star and
Broadcast.

In 2021 Misty Coast released their third Album When I Fall from the Sky, produced by Emil Nikolaisen (Serena-Maneesh). They are now ready to show the world some new music, and have yet again teamed up with producer Matias Tellez (Young Dreams, girl in red). The single The End of the Beginning is out on Fysisk Format September 9, and is the second of a series of singles, leading up to a new album, due Fall 2023.