This Wellington Fringe Festival features a 10+ piece galactic chamber orchestra of computers, keyboards, electric guitars, basses, strings, horns, laughing, whispering, crying, drumming and more.

Ascension Band's show 'Electric Symphony' combines an expanded symphonic structure with a wide electric sound palette drawing on post-punk, jazz, electronica and the avant-garde. From full distortion gazing to pindrop moments and back.
This Wellington Fringe Festival features a 10+ piece galactic chamber orchestra of computers, keyboards, electric guitars, basses, strings, horns, laughing, whispering, crying, drumming and more.

Ascension Band's show 'Electric Symphony' combines an expanded symphonic structure with a wide electric sound palette drawing on post-punk, jazz, electronica and the avant-garde. From full distortion gazing to pindrop moments and back.

Originally formed for the 2003 and 2004 Meatwaters Festivals at Happy, Ascension Band is a collaboration between leftfield writer/guitarist Dave Edwards who has been playing live and releasing independent albums since 1998 (see http://fiffdimension.tripod.com), organist Nigel Patterson from instrumental surf/punk/exotica trio The Chandeliers who conducts the band, and members of Hell Fucken Rumble, mr sterile Assembly, While You Were Sleeping and many more.

Too noisy for big-band jazz, too structured for free noise - they describe their sound as "waterfalls of sound, assaulting and serenading."

Ascension Band plays on Friday 25th of February, 10pm at Happy, and Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of March at Newtown Community Centre, 7.30pm. Admission $6 full price, $5 unwaged, $4 Fringe card holders.

The band also has a DVD available, 'Live 2004', of their performance at the Meatwaters Festival last September. For further information see the band website at http://ascension05.tripod.com