Sun 11 Oct
|The Golden Lion
Dark Matter presents: Annie Claude Deschênes (CAN) / special guests
Time & Location
11 Oct 2026, 19:30 – 22:30
The Golden Lion, Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
Upstairs live room
Tickets £10 + booking fee Advance / more on the door
Multidisciplinarity is an integral part of the creative process of Annie-Claude Deschênes, who continues her perpetual personal quest of uniting music and performance art by bending thepre-established conventions of stage presence.
A key figure in the Montreal independent music scene for twenty years, she made her mark as a frontwoman, singer, musician, songwriter, performer, and visual artist with cult bands Duchess Says and PyPy—bands renowned for their electrifying performances as much as for their artistic sensibility. Annie-Claude’s exploratory approach to staging and sound design takes a new direction with the genesis of her solo project: the urgency and intensity that characterizes her work remains, but sheer aggression gives way to cool, dystopian disco vibes. Annie-Claude Deschênes explores and reinvents herself under her own name, driven by a constant need to create outside her comfort zone.