12XU + THE DARK EIGHTIES PRESENTS: TERROR BIRD + SILENT STAR : LIVE IN LIVERPOOL Dark synth pop + hypnagogic bedroom lofi pop pioneer Nikki Nevver of Terror Bird (Rough Trade / Felte / Adagio 830) plays live with a 4 piece all female live band playing synthesizers and bass. London’s Cold Wave groundbreakers, Silent Star is travelling up to Liverpool for this special show!   —TERROR BIRD— CANADA Dark synth pop + hypnagogic bedroom lo-fi pop pioneer Nikki Nevver of Terror Bird (Rough Trade / Felte / Adagio 830) sings live with a 4 piece all female live band playing synths and bass. Terror Bird has dazzled at festivals and shared the stage with TR/ST, The Human League, Cosmetics, Sally Dige, Patriarchy, M!R!M, Future Islands and Molly Nilsson. Their long awaited new album “Deathless, Wild and Free” + their single The Cold Now with Silent Star came out this year. Select synth versions from the song co- produced with Jason Corbett (Actors) will be performed live along with favourites from Secret Rituals, All This Time, and more cult favourites including the Odonis Odonis collaboration, Brilliant Things   —SILENT STAR— LONDON Silent Star are a coldwave/synthpop duo from London whose “sparkling, soaring synth waves” embody “the rhythm of concrete walls”. They amassed close to 200,000 plays on YouTube after being picked up by Young & Cold Records, who took the band under their wing on the back of the success of their self-released debut single Star Of The Sea. The label released Silent Star’s first 12″ EP, The Cross Of Stamford Hill, which was followed by another single, The Estuary Shore — the first fruit of their work with Y&C producer Daniel Hallhuber. This spring they release another, The Cold Now, a duet with the Terror Bird singer and Sally Dige collaborator Nikki Nevver, featuring mixes by Hallhuber and the Antipole associate Paris Alexander.The band have toured Europe twice, most recently with labelmates Videotraum and Terror Bird, and in London have headlined the legendary goth night Slimelight and have supported Xeno & Oaklander, the KVB and M!R!M. https://silentstarlondon.com/   Saturday August 31st