Bifröst is back and it's bigger and better than ever. Bringing you dexterous dancers, marvellous magicians, commendable comedians, delightful DJs, peerless poets and a congenial compère. Join us for our community cabaret and disco, you won't regret it.
Alice Nicholls
Alice Nicholls is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Leeds. Defying definition and refusing to be put into a box, she confuddles and delights her audiences by cramming as many genres of music as possible into her acoustic set-up. Fusing elements from folk, rock, swing, classical and punk and combining them with her own powerful lyrics, her songs range from the political to the personal, the problematic and the downright weird. Alice creates a musical and lyrical world that is entirely her own which will leave you spellbound long after the first listen.
Mike Brooks
Mike is the internationally-published author of space opera novels Dark Run and Dark Sky. He also helped set up and run Magenta: The Darker Side Of Pink, Nottingham's first gay/bi/straight-friendly clubnight dedicated to playing alternative music, for which he was one of the resident DJs. He's had guest DJ slots at various Midlands nights such as Armageddon, Symbiosis and the Nottingham Trent University's Rock Society clubnight, Assault.
Mike also plays guitar and sings in punk band Interplanetary Trash Talk, and sometimes does acoustic sets with a focus on slightly sillier, geekier material.
Jackson Griffiths aka MC Luke Skywalker
In his younger years, rapping helped Luke Skywalker cope with his harsh life on a moisture farm. From rapping out a few lines in the oppressive heat of Tatooine, Luke became a force to be reckoned with. Soon he was rap battling Mos Eisley's finest in grubby cantinas throughout the spaceport. His rise to the Jedi Order put a stop to further rapping ambitions for a time. Now, through a recently signed deal with Mini Darth Productions, MC Luke Skywalker is back...with his mic-sabre.
Jackson Griffiths grew a beard to look like Luke Skywalker and is the caretaker of Mini Darth. He loves music in all its forms and is a Star Wars fan. Jackson Griffiths's geek life was transformed positively on finding the Science Fiction social group The League of the Non-Aligned (LOTNA). Over the past few years he has rapped at their parties.
Twitter: @mini_darth @BrubeckerIIIJnr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MiniDarthHello/
Clair Le Couteur
Clair Le Couteur (*1982) is a trans researcher, artist and composer currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in sculpture – “Mislabelling and the Fictive Museum” – at the Royal College of Art in London. Combining writing, making, and performance, Clair’s work explores grey areas between fact and fiction, research and creation, and tradition and contemporaneity. Recent projects include: co-editing Why Would I Lie? (2015), a publication accompanying the inaugural RCA Research Biennial; Put You Through (2015), a photo installation for London Pride with the Switchboard charity archive; an essay on gender and species in selkie folktales for Gender Forum #55; and Transportation Blues (2016), a solo song-cycle performance at the Horse Hospital gallery.
This is the second announcement. For more acts see our first announcement!