FKA Twigs, Jarvis Cocker, Munroe Bergdorf, Marcel Dettman, Annie Mac lead AVA London line-up

AVA Competition have introduced the primary fave of acts and audio system for his or her 2025 version. Take a look at extra info under.

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The three-day occasion is returning for its eighth 12 months and is ready to happen in venues throughout London, together with The British Library and The Commonplace, between March 20-22.

In the course of the daytime, there might be a sequence of lectures, talks and networking occasions, with appearances from FKA Twigs, Jarvis Cocker, Munroe Bergdorf, Marcel Dettman, Annie Mac, Jayda G, Tony Andrews, Nonotak and No Tags Podcast, with extra to be introduced.

Then, the evening programme will function membership reveals at HERE @ Outernet and EARTH Hackney, with performances from Erika de Casier, Kojaque and Mechatok.

You'll be able to see the complete line-up under, and signal as much as entry tickets here.

FKA Twigs will function in a stay recording of the Resident Advisor Change podcast on the British Library, whereas Jarvis Cocker is ready to ship a particular climate-themed lecture titled “Biophobia” in affiliation with EarthPercent.

AVA first ran in 2017 and has beforehand hosted the likes of Brian Eno, Charli xcx, Laurent Garnier, Bicep, Orbital, Pleasure Orbison and Irvine Welsh.

In different information, FKA Twigs is ready to launch ‘Eusexua’, the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s ‘Magdalene’ on January 24 2025 by way of Younger (accessible for pre-order here).

To date, she’s shared three tastes of the report. In September she dropped the album’s title observe, which got here alongside a Jordan Hemingway-directed music video, shortly adopted by ‘Good Strangers’, which featured cameos from Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Yves Tumor.

Most not too long ago, she launched the avant-garde single ‘Drums Of Loss of life’ that includes Koreless.

‘Eusexua’ got here in at 21 in NME‘s 50 Finest Songs of 2024 checklist, with the track heralded as “an astonishing, delicate tackle techno.”

Elsewhere, Cocker has been fuelling rumours about new materials from Pulp in current months, after he was not too long ago noticed in Walthamstow by a fan, and reportedly informed them that the band have been heading “again within the studio”.

That occurred simply days after Pulp carried out at Circulate Competition 2024 and used their set to debut a new track titled ‘A Sundown’, which was co-written by Richard Hawley.

Earlier than then, the vocalist spoke to NME and advised the track might be formally launched in some unspecified time in the future, in addition to confirming Pulp’s touring plans for 2025. The band will carry out their first dates of the 12 months in January at Japan’s Rockin’ On Sonic competition alongside Manic Avenue Preachers, Primal Scream, The Lemon Twigs and Wednesday, amongst others.

Pulp’s final full-length launch was 2001’s ‘We Love Life‘. In a three-star evaluation of the LP, NME described the report as “a grandiose, symphonic affair buoyed by succinct orchestration and white-light choral interludes”. It added: “At occasions, the music actually sparkles because it soars above Cocker’s bleakly-intoned spoken-word meditations.”