Concert: Ex-Easter Island Head

The amazing experimental musical collective return to Full of Noises in spring 2026 as part of a European tour.

Since they last appeared at Piel View House in October 2023 the band has been on a stratospheric trajectory.

The UK-based experimental musical collective compose and perform music for solid body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments.

The group plays multiple electric guitars augmented through mechanical preparations and extended techniques, creating hypnotic performances rich in repetition, shimmering drones and melodic invention through purposefully limited means.

Their records and live performances have received significant critical acclaim from the likes of The Wire, the Quietus and the New York Times. The groups' music has been praised for its mixture of hypnotic percussive drive, emotional warmth and playful experimentation.

They have performed worldwide in venues ranging from the tiny Scottish island of Iona to a 150-year-old brewery in Berlin, with major festival appearances including ATP, Supersonic Roadburn and Le Guess Who? Collaborators include the BBC Philharmonic, composer Arnold Dreyblatt and musicians Laura Cannell and Charles Hayward in the group Whistling Arrow.

Their library music releases Mechanical Landscapes 1 & 2 released by EMI/KPM have seen the group’s work used internationally for television and radio productions, whilst the groups’ own Large Electric Ensemble projects have seen the core quartet joining forces with forward-thinking musicians to make ambitious large scale performances across the UK and EU.

The group’s most recent album Norther (2024) was named album of the year by Europe’s leading independent culture website, The Quietus. An interview in the same year for The Guardian described their music as “amongst the boldest experiments in British music”. In early 2025 they were invited to perform four tracks in session on BBC R6 for Riley and Coe and subsequently invited by Robert Smith of The Cure to remix the song ‘Alone’ for their Mixes of a Lost World album, released June 2025.

Ex-Easter Island Head:

Benjamin D. Duvall, Benjamin Fair, Jonathan Hering, Andrew PM Hunt.

Photo:

Band pic - by Simon Gabriel