BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:26739@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:TOTALLY WIRED in collaboration with ANTIPODE\, OCCII\, GIRLS TO THE FRONT and ZALZALA DTSTAMP:20260827T213209Z DTSTART:20261107T130000Z DESCRIPTION:LE GUESS WHO? & U? PRESENT: TOTALLY WIRED IN COLLABORATION WITH ANTIPODE\, OCCII\,\nGIRLS TO THE FRONT AND ZALZALA\n\n\nDIY LIVE MUSIC FE STIVAL\, ZINE LAUNCH\, SCREENING\, EXHIBITION\, MARKET & WORKSHOPS\n\nThis year\, Le Guess Who? and U? are teaming up to present totally wired. Buil t\non shared knowledge and collective energy\, this program celebrates DIY culture\,\nthe communities that shape it\, and the connections forged acr oss borders through\nlocal scenes\, diasporas and intersections.\n\nThe pr ogram features a collective zine launch\, workshop\, exhibition\, screenin gs\,\nmarket of local artists and distros\, and a line-up connecting diffe rent shades\nof punk and bringing exciting and loud voices together. total ly wired takes\nplace on Saturday\, 7 November\, at dB’s in Utrecht and is freely accessible.\n\ntotally wired is curated in collaboration with Anti pode\, a project that\ndocuments underground punk and DIY culture from SWA NA and beyond\; Girls to the\nFront\, an Utrecht based initiative focused on the Dutch based FLINTA\nrepresentation within the punk music industry\; OCCII\, an independent cultural\ncenter in Amsterdam that celebrates unde rground music\; and ZALZALA\, a DIY\ncollective that celebrates undergroun d hardcore and punk music from SWANA.\n\n>>> https://leguesswho.com/news/t otally-wired\n[https://leguesswho.com/news/totally-wired]\n\nThe lineup in cludes BeaBop\, an Amsterdam based project that brings together\nideas fro m noise\, jazz\, punk\, improvisation\, dissociation\, hunger and whimsy\; \nfour-piece terror squad BOMBSTRAP\, hailing from Manchester and Rotterda m\,\nbringing nihilistic hardcore rooted in black alchemy and ultra violen ce\; Gimic—a\nfour-piece band who live and breath DIY punk—which is urgent \, restless and\ndynamic\; rapper\, producer and multi-instrumentalist Emi rhan X\, who constantly\nexplores and pushes the boundaries of hip-hop\; B ristol based underground\nhardcore band Sarsourصرصور—the Arabic word for c ockroach—delivering raw\,\npolitically charged music self-described as “Ha bibi Hardcore”\; Snake\nEaterمارخور\, with the sound of the screw horns of war against colonialism\nworldwide\, blending hardcore punk\, grind core and metal into an unrelenting\nsonic maelstrom\; five-piece band Sublux\, driven by the marginalized identities\nand where they intersect\; all-fema le conceptual punk band The Earwurms\, who\nexplore how being women affect s their lives and how to deal with the confusion\nthat comes along with it \; The Woman\, who\, with a distinct mix of alternative and\nexperimental music\, gritty poetry and visual art\, creates an immersive\nperformance t hat is punk in attitude\, open in emotion and radical in honesty\;\nand Be rlin based ZANJEER زنجیر\, who set audiences ablaze with their blistering\ nhardcore assault\, through which they give voice to the frustration\, ang er and\nhatred stemming from systematic and ongoing oppression.\n\ndB’s oe fenstudio’s\, concertzaal & muziekcafé\nVlampijpstraat 63\n3534 AR Utrecht \nhttps://dbstudio.nl/ [https://dbstudio.nl/]\n\nARTIST BIOS:\n\nSnake Eat er مارخور\nWith grindy\, metal-tinged hardcore riffs\, a broken-up buzzsaw guitar tone from\ngear that survived a house fire\, relentless d-beat and raw punk energy\, Snake\nEater مارخور delivers furious\, abrasive sounds. Inspired by Pakistani-Punjabi\npoetry and musical traditions\, their lyri cs channel an uncompromising\nanti-imperialist message. Fierce and confron tational\, Snake Eater is the sound\nof the screws horns of war against co lonialism worldwide\, blending hardcore\npunk\, grind core and metal into an unrelenting sonic maelstrom.\n\nGimic\nUrgent\, restless and dynamic\, Gimic‘s music twists and turns at every corner\,\nresembling a band of fou r people who live and breathe DIY Punk. The rhythm\nsection is locked in a nd in perfect harmony whilst the guitar tone is clean and\nsharp\, but it’ s the blood-curdling vocals that give it that confrontational and\nemotion al edge. Imagine Minutemen’s hardcore era mixed with the angular\nprecisio n of math rock and the impeccable musicianship of No Means No.\n\nBOMBSTRA P\n“For fans of No Trend\, Total Abuse and dead healthcare CEO’s”\, four p iece terror\nsquad BOMBSTRAP plays nihilistic hardcore rooted in black alc hemy and\nultraviolence. Born in the anarchistic community of Poortgebouw in Rotterdam\,\nover the past couple of years they unleashed a tidal wave of shows through DIY\nstages in the Netherlands and beyond. Their debut al bum Big Enemy is a sonic\nbullet: caustic\, explosive hardcore drowned in nihilism and charged with\nanarchic alchemy aimed straight at the heart of a corrupt society.\n\nThe Woman\nWith a distinct mix of alternative and e xperimental music\, gritty poetry and\nvisual art\, The Woman creates an i mmersive performance that is punk in attitude\,\nopen in emotion and radic al in honesty. Led by Sheyda Abolfath\, the project\ntells the melodramati c story of the modern man in search of a soul\, while\nportraying the worl d as an ugly\, dirty and elusive place where beauty can be\nfound for thos e who listen.\n\nBeaBop\nEmerging from Amsterdam thriving improvised music scene\, BeaBop is a new quartet\nwhere noise\, jazz\, punk\, improvisatio n\, dissociation\, hunger and whimsy collide\nin exhilarating ways. Bringi ng together four adventurous musicians for the\nlocal-international scene – vocalist Beatrice Sberna\, bassist Omer Brandt\,\nguitarist Tina Czernik and drummer Aviv Maya – the project is rooted in a\ncommunity of artists constantly crossing paths through a wide range of bands and\ncollaboration s.\n\nEmirhan X\nKnown for his energetic live performances and distinctive sound\, Emirhan X\ncombines raw rap with influences from punk\, boom bap and a touch of experimental\nmusic. His lyrics balance confident bravado\, disarming vulnerability and\npolitically charged messages that challenge himself and his listeners to face\nreal emotions. With his unique vocal so und\, the rapper and producer effortlessly\nswitches between powerful raps and compelling vocal lines\, making his music both\nintense and accessibl e.\n\nSublux\nA hardcore punk band with a spooky anarcho twist\, Sublux mo ve between unhinged\nspeed\, ominous doom and heavy emotional depth with b ig riffs\, chaotic synths\, a\npummelling rhythm section and piercing bans hee vocals. Their line-up is\nprimarily women\, primarily Asian and two-th irds wheelchair users\; the band’s\nname itself refers to a symptom of the ir shared disability. Their lyrics explore\ngrief and rage towards a socie tal history of selfishness and cruelty whilst also\nstanding as a testamen t to the persistence of those that society deems\nundesirable: “No matter how much society tries to extinguish us\, we’re still\nhere.”\n\nThe Earwu rms\nConceptual punk band The Earwurms wiggle their way into your ears wit h savory\nwords and a shebang of sound. Born within the Montessori Lyceum of Amsterdam\,\nthey made their way into the Dutch DIY and activist stages \, while over the years\ntheir identity expanded beyond music to encompass stage outfits and various\nvisual elements. Drawing from no wave\, riot g irrrl\, punk\, math rock and art\nrock\, their music explores the joy and understanding found in the banal.\n\nZANJEER زنجیر\nHardcore punk band ZAN JEER (زنجیر\, Urdu for “chain”) channels the fury of global\ninjustice thr ough fast\, uncompromising hardcore\, crust and d-beat sung in Urdu.\nVoca list Dozakhi was a prominent figure of Lahore’s DIY underground\, spending \nyears organizing shows in basements and improvised spaces and fronting b ands in\na scene with few venues\, before relocating to Germany in 2019 in search of an\nalternative to the religious fundamentalism\, patriarchal n orms\, and sparse scene\nback home. In recent years\, the band sharpened i ts attack confronting the\ngenocide in Gaza head-on and the everyday racis m and Islamophobia in Europe\,\nfusing raw hardcore touchstones with rhyth mic ideas from SWANA music traditions.\n\nSarsour صرصور\nFast and angry ha rdcore punk band from Syria and Palestine. Founded this year in\nBristol\, Sarsour صرصور bring their Arabic anthems and abrasive sounds to totally\n wired. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/totally-wired-in-collaboration-with-ant ipode-occii-girls-to-the-front-and-zalzala GEO:52.354338;4.8553367 LOCATION:OCCII - Amstelveenseweg 134\, 1075 XL Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alternative,amsterdam-zuid,collaboration,colonialism,community,d iy punk,exhibition,experimental,festivals,flinta,hardcore,improv,jazz,live ,metal,music,noise bubble,performance,poetry,punk,rap,rock,schinkelbuurt,s oul,stories,workshop X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

LE GUESS WHO? & U? PRESENT: TOTALLY WI RED in collaboration with ANTIPODE, OCCII, GIRLS TO THE FRONT and ZALZALA< /h1>

DIY LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL, ZINE LAUNCH, SCREENING, EXHIBITION, MARK ET & WORKSHOPS

This year, Le Guess Who? and U? are teaming up to present totally w ired. Built on shared knowledge and collective energy, this program celebrates DIY culture, the communities t hat shape it, and the connections forged across borders through local scen es, diasporas and intersections.

The program features a collective zine launch, workshop, exhibition, scree nings, market of local artists and distros, and a line-up connecting diffe rent shades of punk and bringing exciting and loud voices together. totally wired takes place on Saturday, 7 November, at dB’s in Utrecht and is freely accessible.

totally wi red is curated in collaboration wit h Antipode, a project that documents underground punk and DIY culture from SWANA and beyond; Girls to the Front, an Utrecht based initiative focused on the Dutch based FLINTA representation within the punk music industry; OCCII, an independent cultural center in Amsterdam that celebrates undergr ound music; and ZALZALA, a DIY collective that celebrates underground hard core and punk music from SWANA.

>>> https://le guesswho.com/news/totally-wired

The lineup includes BeaBop, an Amsterdam based project that brings toge ther ideas from noise, jazz, punk, improvisation, dissociation, hunger and whimsy; four-piece terror squad BOMBSTRAP, hailing from Manchester and Rotterdam, bringing nihilistic hardcore ro oted in black alchemy and ultra violence; Gimic—a four-piece band who live and breath DIY punk—which is urgent, re stless and dynamic; rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist Emirhan X, who constantly explores and pushes the b oundaries of hip-hop; Bristol based underground hardcore band Sarsourصرصور—the Arabic word for co ckroach—delivering raw, politically charged music self-described as “Habib i Hardcore”; Snake Eaterمارخور, with the sound of the screw horns of war against colonialism worl dwide, blending hardcore punk, grind core and metal into an unrelenting so nic maelstrom; five-piece band Sublux, d riven by the marginalized identities and where they intersect; all-female conceptual punk band The Earwurms, who e xplore how being women affects their lives and how to deal with the confus ion that comes along with it; The Woman, who, with a distinct mix of alternative and experimental music, gritty po etry and visual art, creates an immersive performance that is punk in atti tude, open in emotion and radical in honesty; and Berlin based ZANJEER زنجیر, who set audiences ablaze with their blistering hardcore assault, through which they give voice to the frustrat ion, anger and hatred stemming from systematic and ongoing oppression.

dB’s oefenstudio’s, concertzaal & muziekcafé
Vlampijpstraat 63
3534 AR Utrecht
https://dbstudio.nl/

ARTIST BIOS :

Snake Eater مارخور
With grindy, metal-tinged hardcore riffs, a broken-up buzzsaw gu itar tone from gear that survived a house fire, relentless d-beat and raw punk energy, Snake Eater مارخور delivers furious, abrasive sounds. Inspired by Pakistani-Punjabi poetry and musica l traditions, their lyrics channel an uncompromising anti-imperialist mess age. Fierce and confrontational, Snake Eater is the sound of the screws ho rns of war against colonialism worldwide, blending hardcore punk, grind co re and metal into an unrelenting sonic maelstrom.

G imic
Urgent, restless and dynamic, G imic‘s music twists and turns at every corner, resemblin g a band of four people who live and breathe DIY Punk. The rhythm section is locked in and in perfect harmony whilst the guitar tone is clean and sh arp, but it’s the blood-curdling vocals that give it that confrontational and emotional edge. Imagine Minutemen’s hardcore era mixed with the angula r precision of math rock and the impeccable musicianship of No Mea ns No.

BOMBSTRAP
“Fo r fans of No Trend, Total Abuse and dead healthcare CEO’s”, four piece terror squad BOMBSTRAP plays nihilistic hardcore rooted in black alchemy and ultrav iolence. Born in the anarchistic community of Poortgebouw in Rotterdam, ov er the past couple of years they unleashed a tidal wave of shows through D IY stages in the Netherlands and beyond. Their debut album Big Ene my is a sonic bullet: caustic, explosive hardcore drowned in nih ilism and charged with anarchic alchemy aimed straight at the heart of a c orrupt society.

The Woman
Wit h a distinct mix of alternative and experimental music, gritty poetry and visual art, The Woman creates an immersi ve performance that is punk in attitude, open in emotion and radical in ho nesty. Led by Sheyda Abolfath, the project tells the melo dramatic story of the modern man in search of a soul, while portraying the world as an ugly, dirty and elusive place where beauty can be found for t hose who listen.

BeaBop
Emerg ing from Amsterdam thriving improvised music scene, BeaBop is a new quartet where noise, jazz, punk, improvisation , dissociation, hunger and whimsy collide in exhilarating ways. Bringing t ogether four adventurous musicians for the local-international scene – voc alist Beatrice Sberna, bassist Omer Brandt, guitarist Tina Czernik and dru mmer Aviv Maya – the project is rooted in a community of artists constantl y crossing paths through a wide range of bands and collaborations.

Emirhan X
Known for his energetic li ve performances and distinctive sound, Emirhan X< /strong> combines raw rap with influences from punk, boom bap and a touch of experimental music. His lyrics balance confident bravado, disarming vul nerability and politically charged messages that challenge himself and his listeners to face real emotions. With his unique vocal sound, the rapper and producer effortlessly switches between powerful raps and compelling vo cal lines, making his music both intense and accessible.

Sublux
A hardcore punk band with a spooky anar cho twist, Sublux move between unhinged speed, ominous doom and heavy emotional depth with big riffs, chaotic synt hs, a pummelling rhythm section and piercing banshee vocals. Their line-up is primarily women, primarily Asian and two-thirds wheelchair users; the band’s name itself refers to a symptom of their shared disability. Their l yrics explore grief and rage towards a societal history of selfishness and cruelty whilst also standing as a testament to the persistence of those t hat society deems undesirable: “No matter how much society tries to exting uish us, we’re still here.”

The Earwurms
Conceptual punk band The Earwurms wiggle their way into your e ars with savory words and a shebang of sound. Born within the Montessori L yceum of Amsterdam, they made their way into the Dutch DIY and activist st ages, while over the years their identity expanded beyond music to encompa ss stage outfits and various visual elements. Drawing from no wave, riot g irrrl, punk, math rock and art rock, their music explores the joy and unde rstanding found in the banal.

ZANJEER زنجیر
Hardcore punk band ZANJEER (زنجیر, Urdu for “chain”) channels the fury of global injustice through fast, uncompromising hardcore, crust and d-beat sung in Urdu. Vocalist Doz akhi was a prominent figure of Lahore’s DIY underground, spending years or ganizing shows in basements and improvised spaces and fronting bands in a scene with few venues, before relocating to Germany in 2019 in search of a n alternative to the religious fundamentalism, patriarchal norms, and spar se scene back home. In recent years, the band sharpened its attack confron ting the genocide in Gaza head-on and the everyday racism and Islamophobia in Europe, fusing raw hardcore touchstones with rhythmic ideas from SWANA music traditions.

Sarsour صرصور< br> Fast and angry hardcore punk band from Syria and Palestine. Founded th is year in Bristol, Sarsour صرصور bring their Arabic anthems and abrasive sounds to totally wired.

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