Fri 25 Sept
|The Golden Lion
Dark Matter presents: Carlton Melton / The Cosmic Dead / Xeeland / Was Ist Das DJ / Sie Norfolk DJ
Time & Location
25 Sept 2026, 19:30 – 26 Sept 2026, 01:00
The Golden Lion, Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
Upstairs live room - £15 + bf via WeGotTickets
This is a special set of shows indeed. Friday is the first of 2 gigs (Saturday is a matinee).
Northern California psychedelic sorcerers Carlton Melton return to the Golden Lion. They were the first band to play on the upstairs live room stage brought there by Ned Netherwood who is DJing for us as Was Ist Das?
Carlton Melton are brain surfers, mind trippers, ... “psychlists,” if you prefer. The band will take your head for a ride, occasionally rushing at superluminal speeds through a wormhole or gliding softly on a gentle breeze in a leafy glade. Sometimes your brain needs to rage, and sometimes it needs to repose.
For a decade and a half, the band has yo-yo’ed, almost schizophrenically, between these two modes: walloping space jams with furious guitar solos in one hemisphere of the brain and ethereal,…