FINAL IMAGE night with O YUKI CONJUGATE

Final Image hosts a label night at Spanners on the 10th of July with a one-off preview of O Yuki Conjugate's new live set of reworked old material and revisited archival VHS & Super 8 films. This will be OYC's first gig in four years. Before and after the set, the label's very own Laura Not will be DJing.

• O YUKI CONJUGATE (OYC) were formed in Nottingham in 1982 on the wave of experimental music that emerged out of Post Punk. Quickly moving on from their early industrial and electronic influences, OYC began exploring the then-unfashionable ‘ambient’ genre, combining grit with beauty to produce mesmerising atmospheric soundscapes.

Their relaxed work attitude, wilful obscurity and general aversion to the music industry has maintained a secrecy around them but reissues have unearthed the hidden beauty of their music. Scene in Mirage (1984), Into Dark Water (1987), Peyote (1990) and Equator (1995) have all found retrospective praise and a new audience. Recent releases have been on World of Echo, Utter and Optimo as well as their own label FINAL IMAGE.

OYC are currently in their fourth incarnation - based around core members Andrew Hulme and Roger Horberry - and are coming out of a recent hibernation to play new shows. Spanners will be their first since the Watching Trees festival in 2022 and will present reinterpretations of older material for the first time.

The performance will also include film work by Hulme, who has simultaneously reinterpreted the band's 80s VHS and super 8 footage. The result will be a mesmerising exploration of the sonic territory OYC have christened “dirty ambient” – multi layered, hyper textural, distinctly gritty and magically unreal.

• LAURA NOT is an artist and DJ. Behind the decks, she has been collaging unusual music and curating radio programmes focusing on experimental sounds, like (x)=musik on Lyl Radio. Other than DJing, she co-runs the label Final Image and has released music on imprints such as Infant Tree and Kashual Plastik.
• FINAL IMAGE is a label of music, film and art which existed originally for a short time in the 80s (with releases by O Yuki Conjugate, Pump, John Avery amongst others) and has now been reactivated by Andrew Hulme and Laura Not to explore new sonic horizons as well as to reissue archive material.