tB, in collaboration with Sgarab tapes, are thrilled to announce that French quintet Bégayer will headline a night of celebrations as part of TB25: Fist Inside the Velvet Glove. 24th May from 7pm at Chapter Arts Centre.

Tickets £5 - £12

One of the most extraordinary live acts in Europe today, Bégayer are a perfect distillation of the daring, interdisciplinary work which tB have always sought to bring to Wales. Waves of primordial rolling rhythms serve as bedrock for Bégayer’s alien landscapes, where the air is thick with strangled cries and rustic musics, employing lutes, lyres, bagpipes, and a mesmerising mix of 16mm visuals and frenetic lo-fi lighting. A band working tirelessly in the name of those without tradition, their raucous live shows are an ecstatic rejection of a culture of scarcity. 2024’s Évohé Bègue locates the group somewhere between such sonic landmarks as Morton Feldman, Nigerian ogene music, the post-punk pleas of New York no-wave and the laughing insolence of northern Italian folk songs. Absolutely real gear

Celyn of Gwent’s turbulent, operatic electronica could be a contemporary soundtrack for Wales’s thin places, fusing worlds, cultures and timelines separated only by that most made-up of concepts: a border. A bard for the Anthropocene, their recent run of shows has established them as a leading queer voice in the South Wales underground, and their debut album ‘Dying and Rising’ is due for release in Summer 2026 @konstantinevable

No Birds (Beth Greenhalgh and Xavier Boucherat) make monolith music via wavetable synth drones, crushed-up tape transmissions, indeterminable voices through the walls of your flat, the bells, the bells: a cold cruise through the post-industrial malaise, in loose pursuit of the giant head in the sky! FFO Sarah Davarchi, Drew McDowall, Kevin Drumm, their debut EP is forthcoming on Cardiff’s Sgarab Tapes

Supported by Arts Council Wales @celfcymruarts