Band of Holy Joy - a Resonance Fundraiser

A fundraising evening at the Horse Hospital in London, bringing together the Band of Holy Joy, the trio BAG, the storyteller collaboration STORYTELLER and the DJ Biba Kopf in support of Resonance FM.

The Band of Holy Joy is a UK musical group active since 1984, the year its first album, More Favourite Fairytales, was released. The band hosts Bad Punk on Resonance FM and, on this bill, is pursuing its 83/26 project, which reworks material from its original cassette releases and brings it into the present.

BAG is an experimental trio of spoken word and electronics made up of Jody DeSchutter, Dan Allison and Angèle David-Guillou. Their recent album, This House is a Body on Phantom Limb, places poetry alongside exploratory production, producing a dreamlike, off-kilter sound. STORYTELLER pairs spoken word with electro-acoustic work by Bruce McClure, whose family line runs back to the bush poet Banjo Paterson, and the sound artist Bjørn Hatleskog. DJ Biba Kopf represents Adventures in Music and Sound, the long-running programme on Resonance FM produced by The Wire magazine.

The evening raises money for Resonance, an independent station that gives airtime to adventurous music, art and ideas, including voices seldom heard on other radio stations. All proceeds go directly to the station. The night also leads into Resonance's Big Give Christmas Challenge, in which donations are doubled through match funding. The Horse Hospital is a London venue for concerts and shows.