Simon Heartfield: Emotive techno/electro
Sheraws & Chris Essex: A musical marriage of bard, beats and beauty
Complaints Department: Experimental noise handles audience complaints
“Simon’s music and visuals are deep, emotive pieces, reminiscent of Chris & Cosey and Coil whilst still showing a crisp contemporary edge” PLEX
Simon Heartfield‘s musical history starts in the 1980s when he formed electronic post punk band Twelve 88 Cartel and was bass player in Psylons and later formed Seatman Separator with former Psylons bandmates Keith Seatman and Jack Packer featuring on both John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 and MTVs 120 Minutes Shows.
He has released on UK labels Werra Foxma, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Wolf Trap, MixTape, On Test, Deca Rhythm, Taro Records plus Domestica (Spain), Machine Records (New Zealand), Low Noise Productions (Canada) and Shady Ridge (US)
Simon has also released several albums and EPs on his own Limbic Production label – these releases covered a wide range of genres from ambient, techno, electro to post-punk and modern-classical receiving play from Deb Grant on BBC 6 Music.
Since making his club DJ debut at the legendary Geushky techno night in Portsmouth in 1995 he has since played alongside some of techno’s finest names including The Orb, System 7, Regis, Mark Broom, Oliver Ho, Truss, Ancient Methods, Darren Price, Billy Nasty, Umek, Actress, Luke Slater and many more and has performed live A/V shows for Plex and Colony at Corsica Studios in London.
He also formed techno live act Total State Machine with former Geushky resident DJ Chris Collins performing live at Icebreaker and Victorious Festivals.
Simon had a monthly show on Seance Radio and has featured guest mixes from The Gasman, DVNT, Stephanie Merchak, Lair, Halina Rice, TVO, Kritzkom, Hence Therefore, Inge K and Dot Product.
He also did a monthly show on Fnoob Techno Radio for two years which had guests including Billy Allen, Kamikaze Space Programme, Hiroaki Iizuka and Manni Dee.
He has also recorded guest mixes for Decoding The Void, Taro Records, Le Catalyste, Recovery Radio Show, A Darker Wave, Bleep43, Murge, Nothing Ventured Vinyl and Det Sync.
In the last two years Simon has been promoting Syncing Not Swimming
live electronic events with guests such Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Kayla Painter, Sulk Rooms, Bunkr and Kieran Mahon and playing live sets across the UK supporting Halina Rice at Oxford 02 Academy and dates in Glasgow, Brighton and Chelmsford.
Music | Simon Heartfield
Sheraws and Chris Essex: A London based duo of spoken word, electronics and live bass guitar. We saw them at Intox Extravaganza and thought they were great.
The Complaints Department will be sending an operative to the Spirit of Gravity event to receive your complaints. On arrival you will be given a complaint card to fill out. Have your complaint ready. Our operative will be entering these into the machine so the data can be processed. Be warned, this process involves some high volume and is not without complications.
The Complaints Department believes that by airing your grievances you can become a more productive human.
Live visuals by Meljoann
Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster
The Rossi Bar is a small grade II building, and they are restricted with how they can improve access for anyone with mobility issues. The live music venue is located in the basement, which can only be accessed by a short spiral staircase. More accessibility information and images of the venue are in this document:
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“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”
Thursday 6th August 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA