W/ Walrus: Nicholas Allbrook & Friends

Dry Cleaning need little to no introduction. Their latest record Secret Love (produced by fellow ARRIVAL artist Cate Le Bon) cements the London four-pieces place in rock’s avant-garde catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s,delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins. The follow-up to 2021’s New Long Leg and 2022’s Stumpwork started life in Peckham rehearsal spaces, all four members writing, playing and responding to each other in the room: in Dry Cleaning, music and lyrics form an inseparable, generative whole. We are thrilled to have them close the second edition of ARRIVAL.

Joined by enigmatic POND frontman Nicholas Allbrook’s new project Walrus

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Licensed Venue, Strictly 18+ (Patrons Under 18 Not Permitted), Wheelchair Accessible, Standing

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$1 from every ticket sale will go towards Good Trouble Projects who make magnetic, disruptive creative work about issues that matter. Their first 3 actions will pressure the government to reject the Aluminium Company of America's application to mine an additional 11,000 hectares of the Northern Jarrah Forest by raising awareness and driving the government to fund an alternative future.

We acknowledge that this event is held on the stolen lands of the Whadjuk People. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present & emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.