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Wed 10 Jun
7:45 pm - 11:00 pm
Strongroom Bar
120-124 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3SQ, UK
**Dope Purple (TWN):** Dope Purple are a psychedelic/noise rock band formed in Taipei in 2016, who channel influences from hard rock, noise & psychedelia with a particular emphasis on sounds from the Japanese underground, into a cosmic guitar explosion. Dope Purple champion Taiwan's psych rock culture & hosts the Taipei Psychedelic Rock Music Festival, inviting musicians like Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mother Temple) & Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen). Dope Purple has also been actively touring worldwide to critical acclaim. In 2025, WV Sorcerer Productions (FR) & Riot Season Records (UK) jointly released new album 'Children in the Darkness'. https://www.instagram.com/dope_purple_band/ https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/children-in-the-darkness https://www.youtube.com/@DopePurple666 **Black Tempest:** Black Tempest is Surrey-based multi-instrumentalist Stephen Bradbury. Known for his deeply psychedelic synth epics, he has released 3 albums on the Weird Beard label - Psyberspace, Psyborg & Astral Pastoral. He also collaborated with Manchester's Dead Sea Apes & has appeared at the Supernormal Festival, the Glastonbury Psych Fest, & supported Gnod on the main London date of their European tour in 2024. https://blacktempest.bandcamp.com/music **Deviant Amps:** Deviant Amps were formed in the UK in 1983. They produce full on psychedelic freak out songs which are influenced by 60’s and 70’s psych & 70’s spacerock, with nods to modern psych bands. https://linktr.ee/deviantamps