FORM have done us proud with the 2025 Mutations Festival line up which has dropped this week. Despite being pulled back to a two-day event, the line up is rich with treats.
The big headliners are both old Brighton favourites. Dry Cleaning will bring their dry, dead-pan lyrics and guitar pyrotechnics to Chalk on Friday night, while the battle-hardened local legends Lambrini Girls will be back from what seems like a permanent world tour to destroy Saturday night forever.
As ever though, it’s not just about the headliners; it’s about the reasons to spend the day running around town from venue to venue, laughing with mates and catching as much of the wider bill as possible.
Friday includes a deservedly big jump up the line up status for Leeds new ravers Adult DVD, Glaswegian devotees of the Blitz club VLURE, those dirty crazy beautiful noise merchants DITZ, impressive Jack White-approved shoegazers Hotline TNT, the hard sax skronky filth of Party Dozen, sleazy electro pop from Sick Man of Europe, Makeshift Art Bar whose Resident roof top show was a true ‘pinch me’ moment, Fat White affiliated Y and what will be team Source’s first chance to catch University who have produced one of our favourite albums of the year in ‘McArtney, It’ll Be Ok’.
Saturday includes our righteous and deeply loveable noise poets Benefits, that team of seven noisy Pigs from Newcastle, the good humoured sound of the Black Country that is Big Special, Lemonsucker who rocked the Great Escape, the lovely sounds of My Precious Bunny, the phenomenal The None and Jools who have attracted a lot of the right attention.
The prize for the most intriguing name you’ve never heard of is hearby awarded to The Man The Myth The Meatslab, who it turns out make a warm harmonious racket not unlike the best of Smog and ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ era Bon Iver, which will possibly make them a perfect Saturday hangover cure.
You are down to you last chances to get early bird tickets.
Tickets are available direct form Resident Records, via Dice or from the website.
Form Presents: Mutations Festival
Various Venues – 7th to 8th November
Tickets available: here
