Friday 3 March 2006, 18.00–22.00

Martin Sexton presents 'New Gothic' which combines music and performance and features Truth Machine's 'Heraldic Unicorn Lion Grace System', described variously as 'the high-concept band to end all high-concept bands' and as a cult religious group by others. The varying members of this arts collective reportedly all work to a set of instructions cut from the text of books that vary from hermetic works, theological mediations to pulp fiction, erotica and maps. Steve Severin conducts and provides the sonic soundscape.

Ride up with the Magical Lock-down Dark Pegasus: a Harley-Davidson XL53 custom motorcycle resplendent with blue-black Scottish crow wings and 'pimped' with a DVD monitor as tail-plate, that echoes TE Lawrence's quote that ‘A motorcycle with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocations, to excess’.

Meanwhile, HMC create new visual experiences, as they unleash chthonic forces with their technological multimedia film noir Rattus Norvegicus.

Musical interference is provided by The @mbassadors, as they tune into a dark template of pop noir.

And finally, Bauhaus have composed and constructed With Gravity Comes a Broken Heart, a specially commissioned sound installation.

Tate Britain 
Free, no bookings taken

  

This event is related to the Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination exhibition