Geordie Greep

Name: Geordie Greep — Aftershow: Horse Lords
Start: 2026-05-22T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-23T00:30:00+02:00
Location: De Vooruit

Aftershow: Horse Lords

VIERNULVIER

Fri 22.05

20:30 - 00:30

De Vooruit, Gent

Concertzaal

Tickets

Experimental rock from Baltimore. Galop towards the Balzaal for their lengthy, hypnotic, polyrhythmic pieces that draw from Krautrock, Afrobeat, and Appalachian folk traditions, utilizing modular synthesis, algorithmic composition, and microtonal harmonies.

Geordie Greep is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman and guitarist of the critically acclaimed band Black Midi. Greep embarked on a solo career in 2024 and released his debut album, ‘The New Sound’, on 4 October. The album is a fearless experiment, in which he combines intricate compositions with evocative narratives and genre-bending arrangements.

Geordie’s debut solo album boasts a brand of high quality, all-embracing alternative pop fun not heard in a very long time, walking the line between the ridiculous and brilliant with a teflon-coated aplomb.The spirit of Greep’s increasingly febrile and furtive soliloquies simultaneously calls to mind both Frank Zappa and Frank Sinatra, with a healthy dash of Scott Walker sprinkled throughout.

How the record came about is a thing to marvel at. Over thirty session musicians were involved in its making, on two continents. Greep says, “Half of the tracks were done in Brazil, with local musicians pulled together at the last minute. They’d never heard anything I’d done before, they were just interested in the demos I’d made. The tracking was all done in one, maybe two days.”

Tracks often oscillate from whispers to shouts, and start and end on a bang. The stories themselves act as a shopping list of the Active Male Imagination. A series of vignettes, where Geordie Greep plays the role of emcee and conductor. The listener is thrown into a world of cafes, bars, rented rooms, cabarets and strange museums. Here we see our heroes carry out a series of naughty assignments, military cosplay or socio-economic triumphs. The lines between parody and sermon are often blurred.

And live? “My plan is to have a different group of session musicians in a different place and lean into the fact that we’re not going to get it the same.” How can anything ever be ‘the same’ with Greep at the helm?

Timings:

20:30 - doors
21:30 - Geordie Greep
23:30 - Horse Lords

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“Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be anything you want. With recording The New Sound, it was the first time I have had no one to answer to. Being in a band (black midi), we often have this ‘we can do everything’ feeling, but you are also kind of limited in that approach, and sometimes it’s good to do something else, to let go of things.”

Geordie Greep

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As an instrumental unit, Horse Lords rely on a collective voice and focus to provide the band’s core strength: a process enriched by their disparate musical interests. The ingenious machinery of their music is humanized with exploration and passion.

Guitarist Owen Gardner and saxophonist/percussionist Andrew Bernstein met in the ‘00s, the former steeped in global folk musics and experimental music, the latter a budding composer. As members of the rich Baltimore music scene, they met bassist Max Eilbacher, who has subsequently blazed a path in electroacoustic music, and drummer Sam Haberman.

Since their self-titled 2012 debut album, on Baltimore’s Ehse Records, they’ve stayed true to their own artistic universe. Interventions (Northern Spy), from 2016, led off with a track called “Truthers” for a reason.

Comradely Objects, their latest from 2022, is assembled in a more leisurely fashion that nonetheless finds them sounding more focused and urgent. Now residing in Germany, the band released their live album As It Happened in 2024, and if anything it leaves its listeners wanting for the real deal. Luckily for you, you can experience it all live in our freshly renovated Balzaal in De Vooruit.