Bantam’s Drift: GOMID & m3UNTITLED Deconstruct the Sound and Aesthetic of Bradford’s Club Underground

For those who tracked the murky, off-grid pulses of GOMID’s last output, there’s something thrillingly inevitable about their latest move. But Bantam’s Drift isn’t just another experimental commission—it’s a visceral AV collaboration that rips into the mythos of Bradford’s South Asian youth culture with both tenderness and teeth.

Premiering at this year’s New Music Biennial—first in Bradford (6–8 June) and then at London’s Southbank Centre (4–6 July)—Bantam’s Drift is a dissonant love letter to a version of Bradford few outsiders see. It’s the raw one: part souped-up cars, part off-license dogs, part DIY dubplate rattle. Created by GOMID (Iyunoluwanimi Yemi-Shodimu and Samuel Scott) and the elusive local artist m3UNTITLED, the piece explores the sonic and visual language of post-industrial Northern nightlife filtered through a South Asian lens.

The result? Something unclassifiable. Part speculative myth, part social document, the commission plays like an excavation of a city’s undercommons. Its eerie bassline refrains and fractured visuals offer not just critique, but reclamation—this is a Bradford unpolished, unapologetic, and spiritually exact.

With immersive tech, spatial sound design, and custom visuals, it’s as much installation as it is performance. And while it draws from UK bass and Yorkshire’s club lineage, Bantam’s Drift isn't here to appease genre heads—it’s here to remind you that music can also be place, memory, community, and protest.

The project is commissioned by Brighter Sound, supported by Opera North, and forms part of PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial 2025—a free celebration of bold sonic experimentation presented in partnership with Bradford 2025 and BBC Radio 3.

You’ll want to be underground for this one—literally. The premiere takes place at The Underground, Bradford on June 6.

Friday 6 - Sunday 8 June, Bradford 

Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July, Southbank Centre 

Free tickets are now available via each organisation’s website.