EMERGENCY CHILL CLINIC
Jimmy Cauty and Confidence Man, team up for a new immersive film screening
PERFORMANCE DATES 17TH-21ST APRIL
Kings Road, Chelsea
Aussie partystarters Confidence Man have teamed up with The KLF’s Jimmy Cauty and his TowerBlock1 studio for an immersive, audiovisual experience called the Emergency Chill Clinic (ECC).
The Emergency Chill Clinic (ECC) is a recovery experience for participants in need of decompression. Set in a hospital-inspired environment, the event incorporates film, sound, and sensory care to recalibrate overstimulated minds and bodies. The centrepiece of the experience is the Emergency Chill Clinic Film by TowerBlock1, a hyper-stimulating ambient visual journey paired with a reimagined soundtrack of Confidence Man’s 3AM (LA LA LA), also remixed by TowerBlock1. The film challenges conventional notions of "relaxation" by engaging participants' senses in a dynamic, controlled environment. Controlled Chaos for Cognitive Reset.
The ECC bridges the frenetic energy of a rave and the serenity of recovery through a unique sensory approach. The accompanying film, a cornerstone of the event, provides a controlled overstimulation experience to balance and ground attendees, offering a transition from the chaotic energy of the night to a meditative state of focus and renewal. Patients will be guided through their ECC experience by ‘Chill Clinicians’, going through health reports, relaxation techniques and diagnostic checks before being tucked into bed to experience the film.
Are you ready for recalibration? Sign up for tickets for ECC here: https://laylo.com/confidenceman/ECC_
ABOUT JIMMY CAUTY AND TOWERBLOCK1
Jimmy Cauty is an artist, musician, producer and cultural provocateur.
From number one hits as founding member of The KLF to sonic weapons, iconoclastic postage stamps, apocalyptic model villages, Smiley Riot Shields and building pyramids of dead people, Cauty’s work presents cultural subversion as art, music and highly engaging interactive experiences.
TowerBlock1 , based at mountaintop studio The Big Omaha, is the operating system and technical epicentre that all Cauty’s current projects emanate from.
Current activities include
The Peoples Pyramid: a monument to celebrate the living and remember the dead as a multi-generational building project with The Peoples Day of Death, Bricklaying Ceremony and After-Life Party held each year on 23rd November.
Music For Funerals and Bricklaying Ceremonies by TowerBlock1will be released on 12” vinyl, 23rd April 2025 at Rough Trade East
K2 Klobber, a hi-vis workwear range of clothing made in collaboration with radical fashun house Sports Banger will be also be launched with a book of photographs by Gareth McConnell on 23rd April at RTE and another venue tbc.
All profits fund The Peoples Pyramid.
https://www.thepeoplespyramid.org/
The Standing Stones: A band with Jem Finer (The Pogues). First release on L-13 Light Industrial Recordings was Twa Brothers last year. The follow up Twa Sisters coming in 2025.
https://thestandingstones.bandcamp.com/album/twa-brothers
Shunt Resistor: Solo recording project specialising in X-Stream Engine Noise and Advanced Acoustic Avisonics.
https://shuntresistor.bandcamp.com/album/apache-ah-64
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle and ESTATE: Apocalyptic model villages housed in 40ft shipping containers that tour the world. Currently on minimal duty on a croft in the Shetland Isles until further notice.
https://l-13.org/projects/jimmy-cauty/the-aftermath-dislocation-principle/
https://l-13.org/projects/jimmy-cauty/estate/
About Confidence Man
Since they high-kicked into view with their 2018 breakthrough album, Confidence Man have won hearts and lost minds around the world with their arch pop-dance confections and cute choreo – but, like, in a hot way. Following the huge acclaim of 2022’s TILT, Confidence Man entered a club-focused chapter with the release of 2023’s ‘On & On (Again)’, co-produced with Daniel Avery, as well as underground hits with DJ Seinfeld (‘Now U Do’) and DJ BORING (‘Forever 2 (Crush Mix)’. On their latest album 3AM (LA LA LA), Janet Planet, her floppy-haired foil Sugar Bones and instrumentalists Clarence McGuffie and Reggie Goodchild delved deeper into UK rave sounds of the 90s and 2000s, from trippy acid techno and trance to breakbeat and big beat. Last week was an action-filled return for Confidence Man as they headed to the BRIT Awards, where they were nominated for Best International Group. 2024 was a landmark year for the band - their global headline tour culminated in two raucous sold-out Brixton Academy shows, they won Best Live Act at the Rolling Stone UK Awards, won Best Breakthrough Act at the BBC Radio 1 Dance Awards and were also featured in this year’s BBC Sound Poll list.
Confidence Man have quickly attracted a hardcore fanbase of ravers, young and old, through their jaw-dropping, high octane performances. Renowned for their internet breaking appearances at Glastonbury, last year they played no less than 4 sets across the weekend, including stepping up to the Other Stage on Friday afternoon to one of the biggest crowds of the weekend, as well as hosting their revered club night, Active Scenes, that became a literal road block at the Greenpeace stage. Rave reviews across the weekend lauded them as "the greatest live act in the world (probably) at Glastonbury 2024". They have just returned from a string of sold-out shows across Europe and are currently on their biggest US tour to date. Remaining tickets and full tour dates are available here: https://www.confidenceman.com.au/tour/
Header image by Alice Backham