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Unsound Confirms Final 2019 Line-Up
Christian Eede , September 24th, 2019 16:35

DJ sets from Forest Swords and Low Jack, as well as a line-up of talks and workshops, feature amongst the festival's daytime programme

Unsound has confirmed the final additions to its 2019 line-up with a second performance of Hildur Gudnadóttir's Chernobyl score added as well as DJ sets from Forest Swords, Low Jack and more.

Gudnadóttir's performance of the hit TV series' score alongside Chris Watson and Sam Slater will take place for a second time at the festival in an industrial warehouse on October 13, while Forest Swords has been enlisted to play a warm-up DJ set at the festival's site Ballroom area.

Other newly confirmed DJ sets come from reggaeton DJ Rosa Pistola, Citizen Boy and DJ Plead who plays back-to-back with TSVI. object blue also joins the line-up playing a DJ set as part of a line-up curated with Berlin party Room 4 Resistance and Oakland label Club Chai, while Gooooose, a producer affiliated with the Shanghai-based label SVBKVLT is lined up for a live set. Another newly announced set will see saxophone players Tomasz Gadecki and Paulina Owczarek join Sly & The Family Drone for a late-night improvised performance.

Highlights of the talks and workshops programme include Mat Dryhurst discussing "interdependent music", author Nathalie Olah talking about how we can build a culture more representative of the majority, our own Luke Turner taking festivalgoers on a walk of Krakow's Wolski Forest, exploring a queering of the woodland landscape and, finally, our own John Doran leading a discussion on "Weird Times/Weird Culture".

Sunn O))), Holly Herndon, Objekt x Ezra Miller, Paula Temple and lots more were previously confirmed to play this year's festival. Unsound runs from October 6 - 13. For more information, and to get tickets, click here.