Vibracathedral Orchestra is an England-based drone ensemble that has been active since 1998. Biography The group were formed in Leeds in 1998 when Mick Flower, Neil Campbell and Julian Bradley, who had released a number of homemade cassettes together, joined with Bridget Hayden and Adam Davenport. Most of the group's earliest recordings, most made by recording live to 2-track, were self-released though many underground labels, including VHF Records, Giardia, Eclipse, U-Sound, Qbico, Textile and Freedom From, have also put out a number of Vibracathedral records. They have twice been featured in session on Resonance FM, given an hour-long slot each time. Although very much a fixed unit, the line-up has been occasionally augmented by the likes of Matthew Bower, John Godbert, Richard Youngs, John Clyde Evans (latterly known as Tirath Singh Nirmala), and Tom Greenwood (of Jackie-O Motherfucker). Julian Bradley left the group in 2004 with both Neil Campbell and Bridget Hayden following him in 2006. A new album, Wisdom Thunderbolt, featuring Chris Corsano and Matthew Bower as guests, was released on VHF in 2007. The group performed at the Colour Out of Space festival in Brighton in August 2008 with a line-up of Flower, Davenport and Bradley. According to John F Szwed's biography of Sun Ra, Space is the Place, the original Vibra-Cathedral Orchestra was a 1930s jazz band from Ra's home town of Birmingham, Alabama, which was previously called the Sax-O-Society Orchestra. Discography Mothing CD-R (1998), self-released Copse CD-R (1998), self-released Falling Free You and Me/Filling Sacks with Coloured Scraps 10-inch (1999), self-released The Vibracathedral String Quartet CD-R (1999), self-released Music for Red Breath CD-R (2000), self-released Vibracathedral String Band / Vibracathedral Drum Troupe 7-inch (2000), Freedom From Lino Hi CD (2000), Giardia Hollin CD-R (2000), self-released Versatile Arab Chord Chart CD (2001), VHF Long Live the Weeds CD-R (2001), self-released Their Spines Crumble for a Hug cassette (2001), self-released My Gate's Open, Tremble by My Side (2001), Roaratorio Hot Booty CD-R (2001), VHF Live in Newcastle and Leeds 1999 cassette (2001), Matching Head Tapes The One You Call the Ghost Train 7-inch (2001), Tonschact Dabbling with Gravity and Who You Are (2002), VHF Wearing Clothes of Ash / Baptism Bar Blues split with Jackie-O Motherfucker (2002), Textile split with Low (2002), Misplaced Music MMICD CD-R (2003), self-released Girls with Rocks in Their Hands 7-inch (2003), Great Pop Supplement Rain Gutter Teasing Rusty Cat Sneezing split 7-inch with