‘My Desire’ will be staged in July. The seventeenth edition of the SEI Festival is dedicated to our desires and yours: passionate, cherished, expressed, unfulfilled, whispered, unspeakable. Would you like to express yours?
Here is the full LINE-UP
Thursday 27 July | 10.00 pm | admission €23
Advance tickets available on Dice and TicketOne
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SHAME
The South London post-punk quintet returns to the stage with “Food For Worms”, their new album released on 24 February via Dead Oceans. Charlie Steen, the band’s frontman, has described their latest work as “the Lamborghini of Shame albums”. The album is an ode to friendship and a record of the dynamic that only five people who have grown up together – and grown so close, against all odds – can share.
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LEATHERETTE
An Italian post-punk quintet to support an English post-punk quintet: Andrea, Francesco, Jacopo, Marco and Michele will be the support act for Shame. The Bologna-based band will bring a electrifying live set to the SEI Festival stage: a medley of punk outbursts, jazz atmospheres and hints of no wave that create a rich and multifaceted sound, at times warm and enveloping, at times harsh, biting and unpredictable.
DON’T GO GENTLE – A FILM ABOUT IDLES
Don’t Go Gentle captures IDLES’ 10-year journey through struggles, pain and a moving determination. By exploring their vulnerabilities through their experiences, lyrics and sound, we discover why these five individuals have connected with legions of people around the world. At a time when the ground is shifting beneath our feet, we journey alongside frontman Joe Talbot and the band as they take to the stage, break down stereotypes and empower fans to talk about mental health and other issues that are not usually addressed. IDLES are a British rock band formed in Bristol in 2009. The band consists of vocalist Joe Talbot, guitarists Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan, bassist Adam Devonshire and drummer Jon Beavis. For the first five years, the band released just two EPs to an uninterested music industry, but they then self-released their debut album *Brutalism* in 2017, which was well received and introduced them to an ever-wider audience.
8.30 pm.
Friday 28 July | 10.00 pm | admission €18
Advance tickets available on Dice and TicketOne
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CALIBRO 35
“Nouvelle aventures” is the new album from this supergroup of musicians. On the album, the band makes full use of the skills they have cultivated, refined and enriched over the years to return to making “Calibro’s music”; that instrumental blend of funk, progressive rock, alternative jazz and wide-ranging cinematic music with which audiences have come to know them over the course of their fifteen-year career.
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FEDERICO DRAGOGNA
“Dove Nascere” is the singer-songwriter’s first solo album. After sharing twenty years of songs with Ministri, Dragogna, now aged forty, felt the urge and the need to take direct control of what he wanted to express and to put his name to the songs he had been keeping to himself for some time – visions of a fleeting moment, then developed with a slow, old-fashioned care, like Polaroids left for years in the dark in a drawer to find their own colours.
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BAM BAM’S BOOGLIE
After meeting in Berlin, they’ve been inseparable ever since: Kiko King (Washington DC), producer and musician Jacopo Aluzzi (Italy) and drummer Giotto Beattz (Ireland) will have you moving from the very first note. “Seance”, their debut EP, is packed with driving basslines, floating guitars, stories, soul and funk. In a nutshell: carefree joy – and, above all, danceable.
SEEYOUSOUND’S CINEMA
A DOG CALLED MONEY
Irish director and photographer Seamus Murphy takes us, through the words and music of PJ Harvey, into the singer-songwriter’s view of the world, documenting the creative process behind her latest album “The Hope
Six Demolition Project". An artistic experiment lasting five weeks, set within a glass-walled recording studio, under the watchful eye of the public. The film is a fusion of PJ Harvey’s words and music with Murphy’s imagery.
A journey that, starting in Kabul, takes us through Kosovo, Syria, the ghetto neighbourhood of Washington DC and the border between Greece and Macedonia.
THE DIRECTOR
Seamus Murphy, a photographer and filmmaker from the Landes region, has won multiple awards at the World Press Photo for his powerful work in Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Peru, Sierra Leone and Trianda. He has made films for Channel 4 Television in the
United Kingdom and *The New Yorker* in the United States.
8.30 pm.
Saturday 29 July | 10.00 pm | admission €12
Advance tickets available on Dice and TicketOne
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CLAP! CLAP!
Born in Florence, Cristiano Crisci – alias Clap! Clap! – has a distinctly cosmopolitan outlook. Regarded by many ethnomusicologists as a pioneer of the ‘ethno-electronic’ musical genre, he has produced works and collaborated with world-class artists. Together with illustrator Giulia Dall’ara, he presents an audio-visual show with a unique and unmistakable style.
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BLUEM
Chiara Floris, a young Sardinian singer-songwriter and producer, will present ‘nou’, her new album released on 12 May via Peermusic Italy. ‘nou’, meaning ‘new’ in the Sardinian language, is an introspective and experimental project – evocative and powerful – featuring electronic and ancestral textures.
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OKGIORGIO
Musician and producer born in 1996. Born in Bergamo, he is a member of the band ISIDE and has produced for Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Loredana Bertè, Carl Brave, Tancredi, and many others. His solo career – a blend of sophisticated and powerful electronic sounds, held together by an unconventional use of vocals – began in 2022 with the track “okokok” and a highly attended debut live performance at the APE event in Milan. His music is also well-received abroad.
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TONY SCORPIONI
An artist born and bred amidst diverse artistic influences spanning the worlds of fashion, visual art and, of course, music. His musical projects are based on nostalgic melodies, enveloping atmospheres, a classy vintage feel, and lyrics that speak of love, the sea, and evocative contrasts created through captivating harmonies. All held together by a highly personal romantic vision that bridges the contemporary and the style of bygone eras. The effect is tremendously effective.
The SEI, conceived, produced and promoted by Coolclub, is organised with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Puglia Region, under the patronage of the Municipalities of Lecce, Corigliano d’Otranto, Castro, Castrignano de’ Greci and Melpignano, and the Puglia Creativa Production District, with the support of Vini Garofano and in collaboration with Dice.fm and other public and private organisations.
Info: seifestival.it
