In Reverence - Trencher
Very strangely, I first saw Trencher at a dance music festival. This was my first year at Glade. Most of the stages were psy-trance or generally down-tempo house music plus the known acts and bands on the main stage. Then there was the Overkill stage playing Wrong Music. This consisted of gabba, glitch, unhappy hardcore and even more odd things.
Trencher were billed as ‘the UK’s Lightning Bolt’, I thought it would be best to go along since I had already missed Lightning Bolt on several occasions.
Trencher’s set is drums, bass and tiny Casio keyboard - it’s like 6 inches long. But then they start playing grindcore and it starts to make sense that they are playing on the Wrong Music stage. In Reverence was a brilliant moment (or at least In Reverence is the equivalent moment on the album Lips). After playing a number of short, fast, angry, screamed songs they then unexpectedly go into one long drone - a complete change pace to settle everyone down before attacking us with the last few songs.
