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The Cornish Bank is a vibrant, not for profit, community music and arts space in the centre of Falmouth, Cornwall. Hosting gigs, events and food nearly every night of the week it’s a pretty exciting place to be a part of. We provide a stage for  music gigs, festivals, feasts and workshops ranging between local and international artists.  Please check out our listings and come and support local music, food and arts.

The Cornish Bank

<p>The Calder Valley has been well known as a bohemian enclave and epicentre of strange vibrations for decades now. It’s an area of West Yorkshire that extendsroughly between Manchester and Leeds across a landscape rugged in aspectand rich in allure. Todmorden, a town within in, has been home to so many UFO sightings that it’s been dubbed ‘The UK”s Roswell’. Sylvia Plath and Emily Brontë were galvanised by its raw beauty. And it’s where Gnod came together to create Hexen Valley. The formation of Hexen Valley began in summer 2021 when Gnod’s Paddy Shine moved to Hebden Bridge to join fellow protagonists Chris Haslam and Jesse Webbin a co-op house at the 200-year-old Nutclough Tavern. As has been the case since the formation of Gnod, the line-up of the collective shifted and morphed to fit circumstances - soon they were joined by fellow Nutclough resident Richard Chamberlain on guitar, and in the Hebden Bridge Underground rehearsal studio the four soon began intensive jamming in which certain distinct songs and themes began to emerge. These were eventually captured by Sam Greenwoodin the same studio, with the whole project taking place in both this physical location and its companion headspace. Inspiration struck not only from the chemistry of the four musicians in this confined room but all around -Shine cites the likes of shop noticeboard messages and pub conversations in Hebden as lyrical sparks; channeling by his reckoning the ‘valleyfever’that exists somewhere in the chasms and contrasts between the amazing light and vivacity of the valley summit and the comparative darkness of the towns below. Meanwhile, musical shapes were making themselves known seemingly of their own volition -Haslamshifting back to bass for this setup led to the colossal low-end groove which underpins the monstrous 12-minute album centrepiece‘Spotlight’.‘ Antidepressants’in turn sprang from a mantra chanted at Nutclough to a fully-fledged exercise in aural overload. ‘Still Runnin’’takes shape across a sonic hinterland between Daydream Nation-style kineticism and sludged-out aggression.Opener ‘Bad Apple’ was an entirely spontaneous piece of in-studio magic which evolved from   a spidery guitar line of Chamberlain into a piece of potent and angular post-punk intensity. And perhaps most surprisingly of all, Lou Reed’s tour-bus favourite‘Waves Of Fear’is jammed out with fearsome gusto into a piece of first-take catharsis and alchemy, fit to transcend all or any oppressive atmosphere sthat surround. The previous Gnodline-up - minus Chamberlain but including bassist Alex Macarte , drummer John Perry and soundman Raikes Parade- reunited for an over whelmingly positive and successful UK tour in late 2021, and the journey continuescontinues. YetHexenValleymarks another distinct chapter in this iconoclastic mission.Hexen Valleyis where a monolithic sonic force - charged by the energy of itssurroundings -makes contact with other realms. It’s the sound of a band whosefearsome intensity is only matched by their evolutionary</p>

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