The New Colossus Festival Presents: THE HEAVEN, GILAH, NETTLE
About This Event
A New Colossus Festival bill pairs The Heaven, Gilah and Nettle at Sleepwalk. Gilah works in the shoegaze orbit, favoring density and drift with guitars and voice treated as interlocking textures; Nettle pursues free-music approaches that privilege process and real-time structural shifts; The Heaven reframes pop and religious reference as conceptual material rather than spectacle.
About the Artists
The Heaven
The Heaven is a group that turns reference into material, taking its name from DJ Sammy’s 2002 album *Heaven* and placing it in a live setting. In New York City, they’ve appeared at Sleepwalk as part of The New Colossus Festival, sharing the bill with Gilah and Nettle.
Gilah
Gilah is a group working in the shoegaze orbit, tagged “Free” in listings and followed by a small but trackable audience online. In New York City, they have appeared at Sleepwalk, including a New Colossus Festival bill alongside The Heaven and Nettle.
Nettle
Nettle is a group working in the free-music lane, appearing in New York City rooms that prize close listening, including Sleepwalk. Their recent billings place them alongside The Heaven and Gilah, most notably on a New Colossus Festival–presented night that framed three distinct approaches to sound in one set.