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No Bounds review – from clubs to chapels, this Sheffield fest is dizzyingly daring


It was always somewhere to let rip until dawn, but seven editions in, No Bounds lives up to its name by expanding across cathedrals, castles and more

Tara Clerkin Trio offer up an incredibly sparse, slightly woozy, yet quietly groove-locked set, with both acts thoughtfully leaning into the vast space, allowing silences and pauses to ring out. The range of daytime activities is impressive, from projected artwork responding in real time to the River Don, to sonic experiments with lucid dreaming and musical archive explorations spanning pirate radio and the miners’ strikes. Back at Hope Works in the evening, re:ni delivers a slick yet ever-shifting set of bass-heavy club hitters before Batu riotously runs the gamut from searing techno to R&B at a volume so intense you have to check your organs are still intact once it’s over.

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