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Bicep

August 2023

  • ‘Can you believe what my life turned into?’ … Billie Eilish performing at Leeds festival.

    Reading and Leeds festival review – Billie Eilish and the Killers thrill at bucket-hatted blowout

    The post-GCSE audience is suitably boisterous at a festival that is keeping its remit admirably broad, from Foals’ intense rock to Bicep’s beautiful techno

October 2022

  • Bicep.

    Listening diary
    Andy Ferguson of Bicep’s listening diary: ‘I tend to let the algorithm start me off down a little wormhole’

    One half of the electronic duo takes us through a weekend’s discoveries, from the Latin American music on Huey Morgan’s 6 Music show to the eclectic soundtracks of Adam Curtis films

June 2022

  • Kendrick Lamar headlines the Pyramid stage.

    Sunday at Glastonbury: Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross and Jack White – as it happened

    The US rap star headlined the main stage on the last night of the festival, while Pet Shop Boys, Charli XCX, Jarvis Cocker and a host more brought the festival to a close

September 2021

  • Soggy revellers at Parklife festival, Manchester.

    Club culture
    Parklife festival review – proof that Manchester is still mad fer it

    A young crowd – who could make even twentysomethings feel fossilised – gleefully accepted their city’s rave mantle, losing it to Megan Thee Stallion, Bicep and more

March 2021

  • Bicep’s Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson during their Live Global Stream II.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Bicep: Live Global Stream II review – 90 minutes of pure throwback pleasure

    The duo transmit a steady stream of rapturous, 21st-century rave nostalgia and retina-burning visuals into living rooms around the world

January 2021

  • Matthew McBriar (left) and Andrew Ferguson of Bicep

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Bicep: Isles review – dance duo create the ultimate living-room rave

    The Northern Irish producers kick over the dinner-party table with an album that matches the scope and ambition of 90s dance artists

July 2020

  • Glastonbury festival

    10 of the best ...
    From Glastonbury to Bluedot: 10 of the best festivals for summer 2021

    Though live music is cancelled for the coming months, next year is shaping up to be a bumper season

May 2020

  • Bicep

    Living-room disco: five of the best dance music mixes

    Laser-cut minimal techno, chirruping speed garage – here is how you can make the most of our dancefloor-free moment

September 2018

  • Sons of Kemet … ‘I don’t care if we’re called ‘token’ if we sell more records.

    The Mercury music prize has lost its way – here’s how to fix it

  • Belfast’s Bicep perform at US festival Coachella.

    Unfettered Irish dance to a brand new tune

August 2018

  • Unending eccentricity ... Grace Jones performing at Bestival.

    Bestival review – glitter, greatest hits and Instagram-friendly singalongs

    Grace Jones, MIA and Chaka Khan build up the crowd’s energy, but baffling scheduling threatens to dissipate it

July 2018

  • ‘Just overloaded with queerness’ ... Dancers at Hungama.

    The world's best parties
    Hungama: the UK club night taking queer culture to Bollywood

    With a name meaning a cheeky kind of chaos in Urdu, Hungama in east London mixes Indian pop with hip-hop – and adds drag queens and a stripper’s pole

April 2018

  • Bicep-Live-at-Roundhouse-Dan-Medhust-1440

    Bicep review – muscular, head-rushing tech house

    The Northern Irish dance duo showcase their skill for ping-ponging melody and beautifully tooled drum programming, paired with magnificent visuals

December 2017

  • Benjamin Damage

    Harangue the DJ
    Benjamin Damage: ‘I’d pester HMV employees for records John Peel played'

    The UK techno innovator empties the contents of his psychic record bag

November 2017

  • Rave on the runway … the Molly Goddard show at London fashion week spring/summer collections 2017.

    Come together! How rave returned to the cultural mix

    Twenty five years on, the spirit of rave is being seen everywhere from catwalk fashion and art to the collective political experience of Acid Corbynism

September 2017

  • Matt McBrian and Andy Ferguson of Bicep.

    Club culture
    'It sent us down all kinds of wormholes': Bicep's secret dancefloor weapons

    The Northern Irish duo have become one of the biggest acts in dance music – partly thanks to their DJ sets of ultra-obscure house and disco. They lift the lid of the darkest corners of their record collection

August 2017

  • Bicep.

    Bicep: Bicep review – analogue deep house duo flex muscles on fitfully riveting debut

August 2016

  • Bicep on stage

    Bicep: the bloggers who became house music heroes

    They made their name online unearthing musical oddities. Now the Belfast duo are bringing that crate-digging versatility to their live performances

March 2016

  • A sound of wonder, laced with a dram of self-hate: Thom Yorke at Bloc 2016.

    The last dance: 'genteel, unhinged' Bloc weekender bows out in style

    Dance music festival’s last hurrah showed why the peculiarly English delights of techno at a holiday park deserve to live on somehow

October 2014

  • Untold (grime artist)

    The playlist
    The playlist: electronic – Untold, Mr Mitch, Bicep & Hammer, Helena Hauff and more

    The best electronic releases of the month: fractured horns from Untold, leftfield grime from Mr Mitch, Bicep and Hammer’s restrained rave, underground techno from Helena Hauff and unnervingly calm classical minimalism from Bing & Ruth
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