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Moin are a three-piece based in London featuring Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews of the electronic outfit Raime and percussionist visionary Valentina Magaletti.

Their music re-contextualises a range of guitar-based genres from grunge, shoegaze and post-rock in an enigmatic re-configuring of the traditional band, using both conventional and unique compositional techniques alongside a visceral immediacy which translates in full effect during their live performances.

Moin walk the line between what’s reassuringly familiar and what’s unsettling and inquisitive. Their debut headline show for the Barbican will include music from their new album You Never End (AD 93, 2024), guest features and a range of classics from their back catalogue.

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EXTRA PERFORMANCE ADDED - Thursday 27 March, 7:30pm.

Celebrated space rock band Spiritualized perform their seminal second album, 1995’s Pure Phase (Fat Possum Records, 1995) in full, for a very special one-off performance at the Barbican.

The album was performed by the band’s then-core trio of Jason Pierce, Kate Radley and Sean Cook, with the Balanescu Quartet adding string arrangements. It was made by running two mixes together concurrently on tape recorders, a process which frontman Jason Pierce describes as creating “this kind of Hawkwind effect (phase), which gets deeper as they drift away from being ‘locked’ ... we had to keep re-locking on a bass drum every eight or ten bars and it took forever.”

“Pure Phase,” he goes on to say, “was Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and John Adams, rock ‘n’ roll and gospel music, and it sounds like driving as fast as you can in torrential rain.” The album went on to receive widespread critical acclaim, with Louder Than War describing it as "probably the most groundbreaking drone album made in size and scope.”

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