bison presents: Cowboy Builder + Handle +

Ace line-up from bison, featuring Edinburgh's Cowboy Builder, Manchester three-piece, Handle, and <3 (Less Than Three) - aka Deas McMorrow, Lene Tassin and Harry Bix. Cowboy Builder: Cowboy Builder Cowboy Builder is a band of 4-pieces. Two drumkits, made up of junk and found percussion, are joined by prepared guitar, kitchen sink vocals and decayed church organ. With elements of storytelling and performance, moments of warmth and conventional harmony exist amongst hostile alien textures and interlocking polyrhythms. The songs take place in a small living room, with not much furniture, knocked into a battered out-of-placeness by reality speeding up around it. The new album COLD, released on CD via Bison on April 4th, contains threads of ideas that run throughout the band’s existence and was mostly written and recorded in makeshift rehearsal spaces across the central belt of Scotland at -1 degrees. Cowboy Builder released ORGANS EP in 2023, as well as their first album "The Name of the Demon is..." in 2021 via PX4M. Amongst touring the UK and Europe whenever possible, the band made appearances at Supernormal in 2025 and Murf/Murw, Tilburg in 2023. Cowboy Builder may have been secretly trading for longer under misleading handles and fake names. As members of Bamya and Dr. VZX Moist, previous releases include Bamya’s "Jolly Little Rococo Death March" in 2018 via Glasgow's GLARC, Dr. VZX Moist's "The Beautiful Ones in 2019, as well as Bamya & Dr. VZX Moist self-releasing "Split Tape" as a collaboration with with Horse Whisperer also in 2018. http://cowboybuilder.bandcamp.com/ Handle: Handle Dancing backwards into the future with frenetic, muffled songs built around anxious, tribalistic percussion. New album ‘ Collide’ out now on the bands own Absolute Fiction imprint. ‘Lo fi lynchian samba’ - the guardian https://absolutefiction.bandcamp.com/album/collide