Crate-digging, music-loving, Belfast-born house duo Bicep are the hottest property in dance music right now. Experimental yet energetic, their recent self-titled album is everything Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar stand for distilled down into fifty-so minutes: varied yet cohesive, it transmutes disparate elements of italo house, jungle and trance into something far greater than the sum of its parts. Bicep is the product of two encyclopaedic minds fully immersed in the sprawling world of electronic music, with all its permutations and sub-genre offshoots. From their blog-posting beginnings to their current status as seasoned headline act, Bicep have just about taken off into the stratosphere, and they’re sure to take the roof off the Rainbow Venues this December. Performing alongside Omar-S, Gerd Janson, Horse Meat Disco and more.
Sat 2 Dec, Rainbow, Lower Trinity Street, Birmingham, B9 4AG, 10pm-5am, £30.25, www.skiddle.com
Words: Greg Woodin
Published on: Wed 1 Nov 2017