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<description>A list of Eat Your Own Ears Events, showcase nights, live electronic events, live new music.</description>
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<title>Tue 21st May / Chet Faker &#8211; SOLD OUT</title>
<where>CARGO, 83 RIVINGTON STREET SHOREDITCH LONDON EC2A 3AY </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<tickets>£7.00</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/chet-faker/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Due to a demand for tickets for Chet Faker’s show on 21st May at Sebright Arms. The show has now been upgraded to Cargo on 21st May.
All tickets remain valid for the upgraded show. Please refer to your point of purchase for further assistance.
In 2011, Nicholas Murphy recorded a cover of No Diggity late one night just for his friends. Shared by a handful of people, the song spread like wildfire until reaching #1 on the indie blog charts Hype Machine, and so the Chet Faker identity was born - an ode to Chet Baker's singing style but incorporating the influence of a youth spent producing house and disco.

Before Chet Faker, Murphy spent his time in suburban Melbourne, Australia. Splitting his musical output between a penchant for soft and soulful singer-songwriter work and an appetite for electronic music production. But when he coupled his love of the analogue sounds of early dance music – only this time slowing the tempo - with his natural ability for RnB soaked vocals, something truly exciting happened.

A handful of Chet Faker originals on soundcloud saw A&amp;Rs from around the world knocking at his door, and he soon began recording his debut EP and creating the Chet Faker live show with 4-piece band backed by samples and an electronic soundscape.

An invite to SXSW quickly followed and by March 2012, he had played a stand-out performance at the festival's Filter Magazine Party and was touted as a 'must see' act by The Austin Chronicle.

Chet Faker is currently recording his debut album, set for release mid-2013. ]]></description>
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<title>Wed 22nd May / MT Warning</title>
<where>SHACKLEWELL ARMS, 71 SHACKLEWELL LANE, LONDON, E8 2EB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>Free entry with an e-ticket</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/mt-warning/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:05</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MT Warning has played one gig to date in Sydney which the Sydney Morning Herald described as “Impressive”. By the time they hit London this May to play their first London gig at The Shacklewell Arms on 22nd May, they would have played with The Temper Trap and The Rubens in Australia.

They have already been announced on Field Day alongside the likes of Bat For Lashes, Animal Collective, Django Django and many more and their first official single “Forward Miles” will be released on Rough Trade’s Field Day compilation along with a 7” single also through Rough Trade.

MT WARNING’s Mikey Bee, who hails from Australia, was playing a solo show last year when American filmmaker Taylor Steele happened to be in the audience, intrigued by the performance. The filmmaker approached the musician with a question, “how would a song sound from a man sinking into the ocean?” Together, a discovery of new music was explored. The outcome is an exchange of ideas – which became MT WARNING.

‘Burn Again’ is the first song to leak out – “Similar in style and structure to something by The National or Sigur Ros, ‘Burn Again’ grows and develops like a good novel that you just can’t stop reading” Fasterlouder.

The new single “Forward Miles’” was premiered in Australia on Sunday on National Broadcaster Triple J. “Forward Miles begins a journey, where dreams are so clear and tangible, there’s a need to put distance between yourself and the things you know, and to do it alone. It’s an innocent, selfish-romantic song”.

Support comes from DIANA, the hotly-tipped Toronto band play a rare UK date.

DOWNLOAD A FREE TICKET HERE  ]]></description>
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<title>Wed 22nd May / Mount Kimbie &#8211; Sold Out</title>
<where>BUSSEY BUILDING, 133 RYE LN LONDON, PECKHAM SE15 4ST </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£12.50 Advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/mount-kimbie-2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:53</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The long overdue return of Mount Kimbie, whose new album, ‘Cold Spring Fault Less Youth’, is due for release on May 27th 2013 on Warp Records. The follow-up to 2010's 'Crooks and Lovers' features two vocal appearances from teenage singer-songwriter King Krule. The new album sees the duo make the transition from a bedroom studio to a professional set-up, incorporating new instruments along the way. It ranges from their well known post dubstep sound to Tampe Impala psych pop to reverb drenched synth pop. It's a bold step away from the dancefloor into the unknown.

Support from Yola Fatoush and Bradley Zero Phillip DJ

Simultaneously elusive and earnest, Yola Fatoush's deconstructed electronic art-pop thrives off the duo's infatuation with implementing opposing textures and dynamics: loud/quiet, tense/soothing, male/female, major/minor, austerity/chaos, positive/negative, conflicted/resolved - embracing the elements at odds.

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<title>Thu 23rd May / FEATHERS</title>
<where>OLD BLUE LAST, 38 GREAT EASTERN ROAD, SHOREDITCH, LONDON, EC2A 3ES </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>Download a free ticket</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/feathers/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Noisey and Eat Your Own Ears present Feathers.

Hailing from Austin, Texas Feathers are an all-girl synth pop band with a sci-fi influenced twist. Their influences include everything from 'images from The Fifth Element and Bladerunner to an exploration of the Concept of Heaven and a documentary on How the Universe Works'.

DOWNLOAD A FREE TICKET HERE  ]]></description>
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<title>Sat 25th May / Field Day</title>
<where>LONDON VICTORIA PARK, GROVE ROAD, TOWER HAMLETS, LONDON E3 </where>
<time>11:00</time>
<tickets>http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/field-day-london-tickets/911919</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/field-day-2/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:08</pubDate>
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<extralink4>http://soundcloud.com/chvrches </extralink4>
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<extralink6>http://soundcloud.com/ohdaughter  - http://www.ohdaughter.com/ </extralink6>
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<extralink20>http://soundcloud.com/juliobashmoremusic </extralink20>
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<extralink25>http://soundcloud.com/tnght </extralink25>
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<description><![CDATA[Entering its seventh year, Field Day will be returning to the leafy green surroundings of Victoria Park with its unique formula of pioneering line-up coupled with village fete mentality, all in the heart of East London. Field Day will take place over the Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 25th May.

Hosted by forward-thinking promoters Eat Your Own Ears, Bugged Out!, BleeD/ Lanzarote and proudly partnering with The i Paper, The Quietus, FACT Magazine, Last FM, Resident Advisor, The Line of Best Fit and Stool Pigeon, Field Day is a festival that has become synonymous with imaginative and progressive bills hosting the likes of Franz Ferdinand, SBTRKT, Afrocubism, Grimes and Django Django last summer; 2013 is certainly shaping up to be no exception to this rule.

Promoter Tom Baker of Eat Your Own Ears says: "It's always a challenge trying to better the last Field Day line up.  But I think next year's is as thrilling, inspiring and diverse as anything we've ever done. I am personally honoured that Field Day will play host to the brilliant main stage double bill of ground breaking artists Animal Collective and Bat For Lashes. And alongside these, Zimbabwe's Thomas Mapfumo, seminal drummer Ginger Baker and Ethiopiques' legend Mulatu Astatke are true dream bookings for Field Day."

As with years gone by, Field Day will be providing ample entertainment for those looking for respite from the music in the Village Mentality area on The Village Green. Expect traditional side stalls inspired by country pastimes and weird and wonderful fete games, from classic tug of war, sack races and egg and spoon race to more unexpected and fantastic ones like tea bag tossing and the world famous winkle picking contest.

The excellent website Caught By The River, home to excellent writing by first class contributors on music, nature, ale and...fishing, has carved itself a unique place on the web since its beginnings in 2007 and will be hosting a fine area at Field Day 2013.

Among the first acts to be confirmed are Baltimore’s experimental psychedelic Animal Collective. Friends since childhood, they released their first album in 2000, and have since received consisted critical acclaim earning a reputation as one of the new millennium’s most influential, important and inventive musical acts. Eat Your Own Ears hosted their first ever UK show back in 2005 and 2013 will be the first time the collective take to the main Eat Your Own Ears stage at Field Day. 'Centipede Hz', the 10th Animal Collective album is the first since 'Strawberry Jam' (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. The album is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective's unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world...one we look forward to seeing at Field Day 2013.

Since releasing the universally acclaimed and a second Mercury nominated album ‘Two Suns’ in 2009, Bat For Lashes has toured with Radiohead and Coldplay, collaborated with Beck to write a song for the ‘Twilight' film, earned two Brit Award nominations and won an Ivor Novello songwriting award. Bat For Lashes returns stronger than ever with her most anticipated album yet, ‘The Haunted Man’. Featuring tracks ‘Laura’ and ‘All Your Gold’, the album is striking and enigmatic as well as stripped down of any excessive ornamentation. This is the most raw incarnation of Bat For Lashes yet. It’s a safe bet that her haunting performance will be one of the day’s most magical and most beautiful.

After a hugely successful year, 2012 Mercury Prize nominees Django Django will return to Field Day bringing their avant-pop combination of sci-fi synths, African tribal beats and hypnotic harmonies, creating mesmerising music that will make the whole field dance.

Celebrating their first entry into the UK top 40 with their single ‘Cough Cough’, Everything Everything play a set of new music from their highly anticipated second album ‘Arc’, released in January 2013, alongside classics from their 2011 Mercury nominated album ‘Man Alive’.

World music has always played a significant part in Field Day’s line ups and 2013 certainly looks to continue that trend with performances from Thomas Mapfumo. Having produced revolutionary and politically charged music for over three decades, Mapfumo, also known as ‘The Lion of Zimbabwe’, is considered a security threat by the oppressive government of his homeland but a national symbol for Zimbabweans. As the creator of Chimurenga (‘music of struggle’) and releasing nearly a record a year, Mapfumo’s reign as a folk hero keeps growing in and beyond his homeland: his album ‘Rise Up’ received an 8.0 from Pitchfork and he has been sampled by the fellow Field Day artist Dan Snaith aka Caribou for his project Daphni.

Mapfumo will be joined by the legendary Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopiques) who in many ways is considered the most crucial figure in Ethiopia’s musical history since the 1960s. Drawing plaudits from the likes of Elvis Costello, Robert Plant and Jim Jarmusch (who featured songs of Ethiopiques in his film ‘Broken Flowers’) and having played with Duke Ellington and hung out with John Coltrane, it is his radical approach to traditional Ethiopian melodies and songs and the creation of a new sound of modern Ethiopian pop - a taut funk, soul and jazz hybrid - that has seen him crowned as the ‘Father of Ethio-jazz’.

Legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker, renowned for his work with seminal bands Cream and Blind Faith, will deliver a mind bending set of progressive jazz originals and African rhythms. Both his friendship with Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti, as well as his work with other African musicians since his trip to Africa in 1971, paved the way for his later projects. As the world’s best drummer he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992) and his awards include a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award (2005).

Four Tet will return after a hugely successful year of supporting Radiohead, remixing the XX, DJing around the world and releasing his latest excellent album ‘Pink’. Expect the field to be transformed into clubbers' paradise by his eclectic, thoughtful and most certainly unique music, a proven recipe for long-lasting respect and success.

Currently collaborating with Kanye West, we are excited to welcome Hudson Mohawke back to Field Day after his impressive performance last summer to a packed and buzzing Bugged Out! Tent, joined by Canadian producer Lunice as the eclectic duo TNGHT. Known for their proven and tested skills in working a party to its peak and keeping it there, the duo will create a truly palpable sense of excitement with their exhilarating audio visual show. Expect an unforgettable blast of pure sonic adrenaline!

Delving into more dance driven pursuits, we will be welcoming the garage-house duo Disclosure. With their debut album yet to be released in 2013 but already having entered the UK Singles Charts with ‘Latch’ and toured with SBTRKT and Hot Chip earlier this year, the two young brothers from Surrey are here to create dance-floor filling hypnotizing melodies alongside heavy bass lines.

Few side projects of 2012 have generated as much anticipation and expectation as Daphni, the feminine, club friendly alias of Caribou’s Dan Snaith. ‘Jialong’ is the Canadian’s debut album under this particular moniker, driven by the energy and dark corners of the dancefloor and already considered as one of the best records of 2012, both in the dance community and beyond. Expect to be taken, in Daphni’s own words, to "a small world where dance music lives up to its potential to liberate, surprise and innovate."

Also representing the festival’s dance music contingent will be fellow experimental underground artist Julio Bashmore, who we welcome back after last year’s amazing set, and young Montreal producer Jacques Greene, who will be taking to the decks with his shiny and modern combination of house and 2step. Under the guise of Karenn, the perfectly matched duo formed by R&amp;S labelmates Pariah and Blawan will perform a mesmerising set fusing deep, bass-heavy sounds darting between techno and house. Meanwhile, the genre-crossing label Hessle Audio, a pioneering force in UK music, will be represented by its founding members Ben UFO, Pangaea and Pearson Sound, who will bring their mesmerizing and unique combination of UK Funky, Garage and deep house - a simple result of "three heads being better than one."

From this year’s most highly anticipated band to the next, the beat abstractionist and experimental R&amp;B artist Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well will bring his sleek, alabaster sound of his latest album ‘Total Loss’ that earned him ‘Best New Music’ acclaim on Pitchfork.

With their debut album still to be released but support growing stronger and stronger, London band Daughter will showcase their collection of dark, ethereal and beautiful songs, weaving the intimacy and honesty of timeless songwriting.

French four piece Francois and the Atlas Mountains have performed around the globe with the likes of Camera Obscura, Electrelane, Anna Calvi and King Creosote &amp; Jon Hopkins.  They match French lyrics to African rhythms and their distinctive songwriting is whimsically surreal with a joyous side of sheer, un-repressed fun. Latest release 'E Volo Love' is a beautiful collection of Gallic chamber-pop and chanson with rich piano chords, shimmering electric guitars and an all-female polyphonic vocal group creating a truly colourful sound.

Celebrating the 15th anniversary since the release of their first album in 1997, the Canadian Do Make Say Think will bring their highly original hybrids of psych, jazz, punk and electronica to Field Day, surpassing the all-too-familiar confines of generic post-rock.

Also from Toronto are the Polaris Music Prize Winners Fucked Up, known for pushing musical and conceptual boundaries from the very beginning in 2001, when they formed ostensibly as a punk band and then swiftly took on hardcore, twisting it into their own version, with a psychedelic edge, unexpected instrumentation and songs stretched to perverse lengths.

Also on board is ex-Charlatan extraordinaire Tim Burgess, who has been extremely busy completing his autobiography ‘Telling Stories’, successfully launching the bold ‘O Genesis label’, living between Manchester, Los Angeles, London and Nashville, where he met Field Day favourite R Stevie Moore, and releasing his first solo album in nine years ‘Oh No I Love You’ – a sum of his life and musical loves.

James Yorkston, Scottish musician and integral member of the Fence Collective (King Creosote, Pictish Tail) will be bringing stirring folk and beautiful melodies, while Cleveland electronic trio Emeralds will bring their heart-wrenching sounds, setting loops against loops, with super-fast pinwheeling oscillations buzzing out of control and gathering incredible force as layers accrue…

Also on the bill are Glasgow electro-pop wonder Chvrches who are already causing a massive stir online, with their Gary Numan-style synths, slick sound collage and touching lyrics.

Regularly topping ‘Ones To Watch’ lists are ex Lovvers Virals with their soaring melodies and spangly guitars, and Londoners Charlie Boyer &amp; The Voyeurs. Perfectly channelling mid 70s NYC art punk, Charlie takes the sounds of one blank generation and blasts them out to another, neatly presented in their just released debut single ‘I Watch You’ produced by Orange Juice legend Edwyn Collins.

Meanwhile, London trio Vondelpark will bring their deliciously dolorous sounds, with a dreaminess that makes their music seem like slick R&amp;B put through an Ariel Pink filter, like Portishead with a pop appeal, like Sade remixed by the xx...expect the most sweetly twisted soul.
For more information go to:
www.fielddayfestivals.com
Tickets: 
Early Bird tickets (on sale for a very limited time) – £45
TICKETWEB - 08444 77 1000
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/field-day-london-tickets/911919
SEETICKETS – 0871 220 0260
http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/FIELD-DAY
http://www.eventim.co.uk/field-day

Jagwar Ma at Field Day has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. ]]></description>
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<title>Tue 28th May / Jagwar Ma &#8211; Date Change</title>
<where>XOYO 32-37 COWPER ST, ISLINGTON, GREATER LONDON EC2A 4AW </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£9</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/jagwar-ma/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jagwar Ma's performance at XOYO has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies on behalf of the band. 

A new date has been scheduled for WEDNESDAY 19th of JUNE. 

Original tickets remain valid, but if you can't make the new date please contact the ticket agency you purchased from for a refund.


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We are pleased to welcome one of 2013 most exciting new bands Jagwar Ma to XOYO this May.

Jagwar Ma is a musical project by Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield, their collaboration starting in 2010 at a performance by FLRL, the Sydney based kraut-experiment that was "a band without members‚ and a stage of revolving musicians”. Their musical history already well known to each other at the time, Jono from the band Lost Valentinos and Gabriel from Ghostwood - the pair instantly got working on new music.

Before long their single 'The Throw' was plastered about the internet, being named as Pitchforks single of the week and receiving significant major radio play.

'Gabriel Winterfield's vocals are entrancing, shamanistic nonsense that trigger real memories of Perry Farrell (or, what would have happened if the Music actually got it right), and adventurous musicians trying to merge guitar rock with club music is a regular occurrence by now'.

Tickets via We Got Tickets here ]]></description>
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<title>Wed 29th May / Tribes</title>
<where>ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM ROAD, LONDON, NW1 8EH </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<tickets>£15.00</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/tribes/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tribes returned to the stage in London with a triumphant sold out NME show at Electrowerkz last week. This rounded off a small run of shows (all sold out) across the country to showcase some of the new material on their forthcoming album ‘Wish To Scream’.

With the new album due May 20 and current single ‘How The Other Half Live’ preceding it on March 25, Tribes are already itching to get back out on the live stage – a place they utterly thrive.

Their next run of dates will come in two waves – kicking things off regionally from April 6-12, followed by a second run the week ‘Wish To Scream’ is released from May 21. All dates will culminate in the bands biggest London headline show to date at the 3,000 capacity Roundhouse in Camden on May 29. See full dates below.

‘Wish To Scream’ was produced by Kevin Augunas and recorded at the famed Sound City Studio in LA, where Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ were brought to life.

Plus support from Wolf Alice and Superfood.

Tickets Via See Tickets

tickets via the Roundhouse. ]]></description>
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<title>Wed 29th May / CLOUD BOAT</title>
<where>THE LEXINGTON 96-98 PENTONVILLE ROAD, LONDON, N1 9JB 020 7837 5371 </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<tickets>£5.50</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/cloud-boat-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:05</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Occupying the nocturnal space between the poignant maximalism of Tim Buckley and the codeine beats of Mount Kimbie, Cloud Boat – aka British duo Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke – deliver a gorgeously original and soulful new slant to electronica.

The first time we heard of Cloud Boat, of course, was with their R&amp;S single ‘Lions On The Beach’, an iridescent slice of folk-spliced electronica, shimmering and swooning in all the right places. The band were then personally selected to tour support both Mount Kimbie and James Blake, a stint which honed an already promising live show. Making the short hop over from R&amp;S to the reactivated sister label Apollo seems a natural progression, as their music continues the lineage of classic experimental records from the likes of Aphex Twin, Mark Van Hoen and Biosphere.

Support comes from the wonderful Nadine Shah, the singer-songwriter of Norwegian and Pakistani parentage from a small coastal village in the north-east of England, but she could just as easily be the result of a steamy union in the capital some time in the early-90s between Nick Cave and Polly Harvey. Shah cites her influences as everyone from Phillip Larkin and Frida Kahlo to Interpol and Arthur Russell (something in the tremulousness of her voice bears the latter out) as well as the religious Sufi songs that her father would play during car rides and the ghazals he sang in Urdu around the house. See her in support of Cloud Boat this May.

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<title>Wed 29th May / When Saints Go Machine &#8211; Album Launch</title>
<where>CONCRETE, 56 SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET, WHITECHAPEL, E1 6JJ </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£12.50 Advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/when-saints-go-machine-album-launch/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE play Concrete in support of their new album, INFINITY POOL, out May on K7 records.

When Saints Go Machine are a hard band to pin down, four young men doing things with electro pop that no one has done before.

The Danish four-piece formed in 2007 — Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild (vocals), Jonas Kenton (keyboards), Simon Muschinsky (keyboards) and Silas Moldenhawer (drums) — are a complicated mix of influences. There’s dance music in there, for sure, but also post punk, some experimental electronica in the Aphex Twin mould, and, crucially, a healthy dose of pop. You could describe the end result as a heady mix of Caribou, The Knife/Fever Ray and Arthur Russell. But, really, it doesn’t sound like anything else out there.
Tickets available here

One of the clichés about Scandinavian countries is that they are neat and tidy, well ordered, clean. The same could not be said of Copenhagen four-piece When Saints Go Machine’s second full-length album, ‘Infinity Pool’. The opposite, in fact. It’s a record born out of an atmosphere of chaos. Frontman Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild explains: “We tried to record this album in a summer house in the country, like we did with the last one, but it didn’t feel right. We also tried going into a big studio to record the sketches that we made, but that didn’t work either. In the end we figured out that doing things at home, separately, a more chaotic approach, was how we were supposed to record this music.”

Which is not to say that the result is disjointed. It’s harder, darker and more synthetic than its predecessors. It opens with ‘Love And Respect’, which features a guest vocal from Grammy award winning rap artist Killer Mike, who freewheels over chugging, synth-drenched beat. “I guess people will be surprised there’s a rapper on the album,” says Vonsild. “We just did a song that we felt needed a rap verse. In order to keep making music we have to surprise ourselves. If we stop doing that we’ll have to stop making music.” Elsewhere, ‘Dead Boy’ sees Vonsild’s tremulous falsetto digitized and then floated over a semi-ambient soundscape, while ‘Infinity Killer’ pitches skittering sound effects against a low-end drone.

It’s more unapologetically electronic than anything the band have done before. “On the previous album, ‘Konkylie’, we tried to make machines simulate nature,” says Vonsild. “With ‘Infinity Pool’ we were trying to capture a feeling of the absurdity of mankind trying to construct nature. Maybe it’s something to do with being in the city. You are always influenced by what’s going on around you.”

It’s also to do with the music that inspired them. “There are a lot of references to the early ’90s on the album,” says Vonsild. “It’s not a rave album, but there are a lot of elements of rave on there. ‘Degeneration’ sums up what we were trying to do. There are some tracks on the album that could almost have been rave songs under other circumstances. I think that it’s one of the songs that I don’t think anyone else would have made.”

Rather than go at these rave influences full tilt, they did the opposite of what might be expected: they stripped them down and twisted them into new shapes. “Yeah, especially on ‘Degeneration’, there are very few instruments and nothing happens really,” explains Vonsild. “We tried to pick away layers. But generally most of our productions consist of a lot of layers in each song. I think the initial difference between those two albums are, that with ‘Konkylie’ each of those layers almost fought to get the most attention. Whereas this time we tried to make a lot sound a lot immediate and simple. This album is slower and harder. There are a lot of tracks with no drums, but when there are drums they play an important part in the song. But it still has this longing feeling.”

It’s that “longing feeling” that’s the glue that holds the album together, the thing that lets you know it’s a When Saints Go Machine record. Vonsild pauses, reflectively: “I think that’s our trademark. Longing for something.”

He won’t say exactly what. As ever, Vonsild and the band are reluctant to talk about lyrical themes, preferring to let the listener work things out for themselves. However, he does talk obliquely about “stuff that’s hard to understand”. He continues: “It seems like people have to get killed for stuff to happen. A tragedy has to happen before people will address an issue. They won’t do it before it happens. I guess it’s nature. That kind of thing can make you mad.”

The dark undercurrent that coloured the band’s previous releases is intact, then. It’s something that makes the fact that When Saints Go Machine won a string of awards in their native Denmark last year all the more surprising. Vonsild is sanguine about that kind of music industry approval. “We won some of the biggest awards in Denmark last year which came as a surprise,” he shrugs, “but it doesn´t really change the way we approach making music or our artistic ideals.”

While it’s nice to be liked, Vonsild says it’s far more important to challenge people as well as yourself. He says they felt nervous about the direction they took on ‘Infinity Pool’, unease that they were operating outside their comfort zone. “But,” he adds, “that’s a good thing. Whenever you feel a bit scared about putting something out, that’s how you should feel as an artist.”

Who would argue with him? It’s certainly paid off here.

Support comes from William Arcane.

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<title>Thu 30th May / FUCKED UP / TITUS ANDRONICUS</title>
<where>ELECTRIC BALLROOM, 184 CAMDEN HIGH STREET, CAMDEN TOWN, LONDON NW1 8QP </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<tickets>£16.50</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/fucked-up-titus-andronicus/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:00</pubDate>
<extralink1>http://www.metzztem.com/</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[Eat your own ears &amp; Noisey to present a co headline show for Fucked Up and Titus Andronicus.

tickets via See Tickets

tickets via Ticket Web

tickets via Eventim

tickets via Gigantic

Fucked Up push musical and conceptual boundaries. Forming ostensibly as a punk band, they swiftly took on hardcore twisting it into their own cacophony of unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic leanings, and songs stretched to perverse lengths. Combine this with the legendary live reputation of frontman Abraham who stage dives nude with a blood-strewn face, and their lyrics that reflect situationist philosophy, means even in their loudest moments there is a deep intelligence to their music.

Titus Andronicus released their latest album ‘Local Business’ in October 2012. It is the first time the lineup touring the record is the same one that made it, which makes it a safe bet the tracks will sound great live! The tracks still bear many of the characteristics of classic Titus Andronicus songs, with rhythms to beat out on your steering wheel, triumphant classic rock guitars, and lead singer Stickles showing off his underrated sense of tunefulness.

Plus support from Metz

tickets via See Tickets

tickets via Ticket Web

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<title>Mon 3rd June / SWEET BABOO</title>
<where>ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH, PANCRAS ROAD, LONDON, NW1 1UL </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/sweet-baboo-3/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that Sweet Baboo will be playing a special solo show at the stunning St Pancras Old Church this June.

Influenced by the likes of The Beach Boys, Daniel Johnston and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Sweet Baboo’s fourth record ‘Ships’ is due out this Spring.

A concept album about the sea, ‘Ships’ was recorded with long time collaborator The Voluntary Butler Scheme earlier this year.

A native of the North Wales countryside, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black is a sinlge minded, idiosyncratic singer possessing an ear for sparkling melody and a gift for a deft lyrical turn – from darkly funny to piercingly tender, twinkling boastful to deliciously self-deprecating.

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<title>Mon 3rd June / Vessels</title>
<where>CARGO, 83 RIVINGTON ST, LONDON, EC2A 3AY </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£7 Advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/vessels-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This date is rescheduled from Tuesday 4th June. All tickets from the 4th remain valid for this event.

Vessels (Vessels, UK) are Martin Teff, Tim Mitchell, Tom Evans, Lee J. Malcolm and Pete Wright. 2011 sees the releases of the band's second album, Helioscope, the follow up to acclaimed debut White Fields and Open Devices(2008). The band draw influence from rock, electronica, techno, metal and ambient music and their explosive live show has attracted many fans over the five years since their inception.

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<title>Tue 4th June / ÓLÖF ARNALDS</title>
<where>ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, 200 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, E2 9PA </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£14 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/olof-arnalds-3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are really excited to announce that Ólöf Arnalds will be playing at the beautiful St Johns on Bethnal Green this June.

Classically educated on the violin, viola and self-taught on guitar and charango, Ólöf’s most distinctive asset is, nonetheless, her voice - instantly captivating and possessed of a magical, otherworldly quality. Favourably compared with the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Judee Sill and Kate Bush, Ólöf’s approach to making music remains highly individual: playful but intimate; accessible and uplifting, yet deeply personal and suffused with a timelessness that goes beyond the puckish inscrutability of her native tongue.

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<title>Wed 5th June / Fol Chen</title>
<where>SHACKLEWELL ARMS, 71 SHACKLEWELL LANE, LONDON, E8 2EB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£6 adv</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/fol-chen/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:42</pubDate>
<extralink1>http://www.folchen.com/</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[Fol Chen makes the soundtrack to a future that never was. To listen is to leave the comfort of nostalgia and land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. The False Alarms (Asthmatic Kitty, March 19) continues the band's electro-pop odyssey with a honed character and a distinct palette of sounds. Fol Chen has also traded its cloak of anonymity for defiant confidence featuring Sinosa Loa as its new front voice.

Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area collective has created their signature sound from field recordings and an electronic junk drawer, building compound beats and sending warped vocal transmissions. Led by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen's first two records, PART I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) and PART II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010), cemented the band's place as peddlers of dark pop in the alleys of independent music. Their live entity has a wide artistic reach with a propensity for interactive projects like the Tetrafol, a motion-based sound toy developed with musical interface pioneers Monome. Band events have been presented at sites such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Annenberg Space for Photography, and the Walker Art Center.

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<title>Thu 6th June / Woodpigeon</title>
<where>BUSH HALL, 310 UXBRIDGE RD, LONDON W12 7LJ </where>
<time>19:30</time>
<tickets>£11.50</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/woodpigeon-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Woodpigeon aka Mark Andrew Hamilton will play Bush Hall after his Sold out show at St Pancras Old Church.

His fifth full-length album, Thumbtacks and Glue, is out February 25 on Fierce Panda (26th on Boompa in Canada/US).  While this is Woodpigeon’s first proper full-length release since 2010 the past few years have been anything but quiet for Mark Andrew Hamilton with the release of the bonus full-length Balladeer later in 2010 and the tour-only full-length, Diamonds, this September coinciding with his North American tour supporting Patrick Wolf.  There have been multiple EPs and singles, a move from Calgary, Alberta to Vienna, Austria, tours of Europe with Junip and Andrew Bird, plus a slew of headlining and festival dates.  The Observer declared Woodpigeon a “Best New Discovery” in June of this year, while Canada’s Post City Magazine called Hamilton’s September Toronto performance “awe-inspiring”, and the Saatchi Gallery awarded Woodpigeon the “New Talent Award” at their inaugural “Glittering Prizes” that month.

Woodpigeon continues to refine and expand upon his sound with Thumbtacks and Glue, recorded in Calgary, Alberta with producer Arran Fisher and mastered by Ryan Morey.  Known for his stunning and heart-wrenching orchestral pop, Thumbtacks and Glue shows off Hamilton at his most diverse, from “Children Should Be Seen And Not Heard” crunching guitar and “As Read In The Pine Bluff Commercial” pure pop to the delicacy of “Little Wings” and the bitter sting of “Robin Song”.  This is the sound of a songwriter just hitting his stride.

Support comes from Collectress.

Tickets Via We Got Ticket

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<title>Wed 12th June / Gold Panda</title>
<where>ELECTRIC BRIXTON, TOWN HALL PARADE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1RJ </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<tickets>£12</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/gold-panda/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to welcome back Gold Panda to London, with support coming from highly regarded label-mates Luke Abbott and Dam Mantle.

The UK producer always manages to craft brilliant electronic music and his new Trust EP, which is out now digitally via Ghostly, is no exception. It's a short release, kicked off by a quick intro which spills over into the title track, a gentle cut better fit for lying down with your eyes closed than for dancing. At times it recalls the warped hip hop of Flying Lotus, and the rhythmic shifts of Four Tet at others, but it's by no means solely a product of its influences. The next track, "Burnt Out Car In A Forest," begins with a similar type of sun-rising crackles heard on Balam Acab's "Oh, Why," but quickly turns into an extended dance cut. And then everything's brought home with the swelling atmospheric bass of the final track, "Casyam_59#02." The four tracks are diverse yet consistent and they'll leave you looking forward to his second full length album, which should see the light of day at some point this year.

Until then, you can catch Gold Panda at Electric Brixton on the 12th June.

Tickets Via See Tickets
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<title>Wed 12th June / Fimber Bravo</title>
<where>THE WAITING ROOM, STOKE NEWINGTON </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£7.50 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/fimber-bravo/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:15</pubDate>
<extralink1>https://soundcloud.com/moshimoshimusic/fimber-bravo-life-after</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[Eat Your Own Ears are excited to present Fimber Bravo at The Waiting Room on the 12th of June.

Hailing from Trinidad, Bravo has made a name for himself as a steel-pan extraordinaire, playing with artists as diverse as Blur, Hot Chip and Morcheeba. With the prestigious Pan Am North Stars he has played at some of the worlds greatest venues, including the Carnegie Hall.

In addition to his playing, Fimber Bravo also became the musical director of Steel n ‘Skin, the first black group to be funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It has since been a catalyst for contemporary black arts groups throughout the UK.

Signed to Moshi Moshi, and with some high profile collaborations under his belt, Fimber Bravo is certainly sure to give a great performance at The Waiting Room. The man is a living- legend.

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<title>Fri 14th June / TELEMAN</title>
<where>THE LEXINGTON, 96-98 PENTONVILLE ROAD, LONDON, N1 9JB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£8 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/teleman-2/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After their brilliant show at the Roundhouse Handpicked event last Friday, we are pleased to announce that Teleman will play at the Lexington this June.

Teleman have emerged from the clatter and chaos of London to present their debut single 'Cristina', a gently propulsive song showcasing lead singer Tom Sanders' distinctive and bittersweet vocals that reveals Teleman's innate ability for songwriting. The band's simple, sonorous brew of guitar, drum and synths is not at all unusual, but with it they craft exquisite pop songs that instantly spark your musical curiosity.

With 'Cristina' already receiving radio plays from 6Music's Steve Lamacq, Tom Ravenscroft and Marc Riley, Teleman are proving themselves worthy of close attention.

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<title>Wed 19th June / These New Puritans</title>
<where>HEAVEN, THE ARCHES, VILLIERS STREET, LONDON, WC2N6NG </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/these-new-puritans-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Information on the record has been deliberately made sparse, but we know that the follow-up to 2010′s ambitious Hidden will be titled Field of Reeds and released on June 10. Whereas the last two albums were released through Angular / Domino, Field of Reeds sees the group shift to Infectious Music. 

Tickets will go on sale at 9:00am on Thursday 25th April.

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<title>Wed 19th June / Landshapes</title>
<where>CORSICA STUDIOS UNITS 4/5, ELEPHANT ROAD LONDON SE17 1LB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£8.50 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/landshapes/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:36</pubDate>
<extralink1>http://www.facebook.com/Landshapes</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[LANDSHAPES play Corsica Studios in support of their new album, Rambutan, out on Bella Union in June.

Tickets Via We got tickets

Tickets Via See Tickets.

In a fickle, hyper-speed age of quick and easy consumption, taking one’s time to evolve seems a luxury. But Landshapes did just that. “We needed time to work things out…we’ve been brewing I suppose…” explains Luisa.

As their previous incarnation Lulu and the Lampshades, they’re probably best known for the viral cup song You’re Gonna Miss Me – over 3 million hits on Youtube and counting – but in the ensuing period they’ve undergone a considerable musical metamorphosis.

They have learnt and grown together, four distinctive personalities jostling and pulling, each with their own set of influences and sensibilities – an unlikely alchemy which comes together and makes sense. Broad brushstrokes, big sounds and mournful melodies forged a new soundscape, so that when a typo accidentally billed them as ‘Landshapes’ it seemed an appropriate description for an altogether new sound, and an altogether new band.

Landshapes is the sound of four people in a dingy practice room, building on accidents, listening over and reworking obsessively until every band member is satisfied. An unconventional and serendipitous a process it might be, but it’s crucial to Landshapes overall sound.

Their debut album Rambutan – the name chosen “not so much after the fruit but for the sound the word makes” and produced by Ash Workman is a distillation of songs old and new, re-worked and fine tuned with a deft precision.

In Limbo, with its stunning video, proves a triumphant opening salvo. “It’s always felt like a fighting song both musically and lyrically” says Luisa Gerstein. With images of Bolivia’s Cholita female wrestlers proving a major stimulus whilst recording, Luisa sought them out, traveling to La Paz and teaming up with director Ian Pons Jewell. The resulting film is a dignified response to a “Latin American society where being both indigenous and a woman is a double sub-class” – a celebration of these extraordinary women both in and out of the wrestling ring.

Their unorthodox approach to songwriting is writ large across the ten tracks. Impasse “the oldest song on the record was a “tinkery ukulele thing” that became something “bigger and better with the band”;Threads “a lot of ideas that came together in the practice room, has the feel of different parts interjecting like a conversation” and Racehorses “a truculent song” that was to become one of their favourites after Heloise and Jemma developed a new bass and guitar part. Demons acts as a marker of their evolution – “recorded as Lulu And The Lampshades, it felt closer to the sound we were developing and tracks that change in the way it sounds and how we worked together as a band.”

Forthcoming single Insomniacs Club “is cursed” according to the band. “Anyone who gets involved with it gets insomnia. The guy making the video hasn’t slept for days, true story.”

Landshapes take on another dimension in a live setting. With drummer Dan the only constant, multi instrumentalists Luisa, Heloise and Jemma shift seamlessly from one song to the next swapping instruments and vocals with a fluid dexterity. This synchronicity – and their evolution as a band – was helped by some intensive touring under their previous moniker. Weeks spent in each others’ company, experiencing each others’ music and film selections, means – explains Dan – that “you start to absorb what you like and dislike, individually and collectively. Figuring out which direction you’re heading in via shared experience and foggy disparate influences. I think we’re still fine tuning that direction – and that’s good.”

Rambutan is released on Bella Union on June 17th.
Support comes from Eyes &amp; No Eyes.
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Tickets Via We got tickets

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<title>Wed 19th June / Jagwar Ma &#8211; new date</title>
<where>XOYO, 32-37 COWPER STREET, EC2A 4AP </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£9 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/jagwar-ma-new-date/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 10:45</pubDate>
<extralink1>https://soundcloud.com/jagwar-ma</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to welcome one of 2013 most exciting new bands Jagwar Ma to XOYO.
Jagwar Ma is a musical project by Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield, their collaboration starting in 2010 at a performance by FLRL, the Sydney based kraut-experiment that was "a band without members‚ and a stage of revolving musicians”. Their musical history already well known to each other at the time, Jono from the band Lost Valentinos and Gabriel from Ghostwood - the pair instantly got working on new music.

Before long their single 'The Throw' was plastered about the internet, being named as Pitchforks single of the week and receiving significant major radio play.

'Gabriel Winterfield's vocals are entrancing, shamanistic nonsense that trigger real memories of Perry Farrell (or, what would have happened if the Music actually got it right), and adventurous musicians trying to merge guitar rock with club music is a regular occurrence by now'.

Tickets via We Got Tickets here
Please note, original tickets for the 28th of May remain valid, but if you can't make the new date please contact the ticket agency you purchased from for a refund. ]]></description>
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<title>Sat 22nd June / The xx &#8211; Night and Day</title>
<where>HATFIELD HOUSE, GREAT NORTH RD, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL9 5NQ </where>
<time>12:00</time>
<tickets>£48.50</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/the-xx-night-and-day/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:56</pubDate>
<extralink1>http://www.thexx.info/nightandday</extralink1>
<extralink2>http://theyoungturks.co.uk/</extralink2>
<description><![CDATA[NIGHT + DAY
The xx and their favourite artists in some of the world’s most unique locations
LONDON EVENT VENUE AND DATE CHANGE FROM OSTERLEY PARK TO HATFIELD HOUSE ON SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 2013
NIGHT + DAY
Saturday 22nd June 2013
Hatfield House
Great North Rd, Hertfordshire, AL9 5NQ
12pm-11pm
£48.50
SOLANGE (LIVE), JAMIE XX (DJ), BENJI B (DJ) AND SAMPHA (DJ) ADDED TO LINE UP
Night + Day is a series of global events, curated by The xx, who searched high and low for beautiful locations to stage special, one-off events, and handpicked the artists they most respect and admire to join them.
The xx will be joined for the London event by Poliça, Solange, Kindness and Mount Kimbie, who will all be performing live, along side DJ sets from Jamie xx, Benji B and Sampha.
Solange
We welcome Solange to the Night + Day line-up after a hectic 12 months, which has seen her release her highly anticipated seven-track EP ‘True’ to critical acclaim. Headed by ‘Losing You’, it is released via Terrible, the label co-owned by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and entirely co-written and produced by Solange and Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange. We welcome her infectious, mid-tempo break-up anthems evocative of early 80’s R&amp;B to Night + Day this June. Check out when Solange joined The xx on stage at Coachella here. 
Poliça
"I went from hearing their music in passing, to looking them up, to buying their album, to seeing them play live, all in a week. The gig was so incredible and the whole experience reminded me what I loved about discovering new music" Romy
Kindness
"We've had the pleasure of playing with Kindness in the past and found them to be one of the most energetic and entertaining bands we've seen. We both share a love of Disco and R&amp;B and their song "House" was one of our favourites of last year" Oliver
Mount Kimbie
"There is a beautiful use of space and melancholy, combined with a uniquely British sensibility to their music. We became fans and friends with them whilst touring our first album." Jamie
Tickets for Night + Day are on sale now via the following outlets:
Big Green Coach

Ticket Web

Ticket Master

See Tickets

We Got Tickets

Eventim

TicketLine  ]]></description>
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<title>Mon 24th June / An Escape Plan</title>
<where>SHACKLEWELL ARMS, 71 SHACKLEWELL LANE, LONDON, E8 2EB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>DOWNLOAD A FREE TICKET</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/an-escape-plan/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:49</pubDate>
<extralink1>https://www.facebook.com/aepmusic</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[Arge formed AEP a decade ago after naming his new music project after the attic conversion he undertook to escape to and create music. Arge was previously a member of Medium 21 and later Mercury Music Prize nominated, Maps.The rest of AEP also partake in other projects such as Tanaou, Das Pluto Gang and the Applecore fanzine.

The 5 have met nearly every Tuesday for several years and the result is the very special (we hope you’ll agree) ‘Songs of Scarecrows’.

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<title>Thu 27th June / Temple Songs</title>
<where>SHACKLEWELL ARMS, 71 SHACKLEWELL LANE, LONDON, E8 2EB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>DOWNLOAD A FREE TICKET</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/temple-songs/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Temple Songs are a 4 piece outfit from Manchester smashing out brilliantly crafted psychedelic pop tunes.

Prolific songwriter and front man Jolan Lewis has created the kind of band that you might stumble across on a carefully selected LA Nuggets compilation and wonder how they are of the now. Blending sounds of The Beatles and The Beach Boys with the likes of Pavement and Deerhunter; Temple Songs carve songs that have a unique way of getting into your head and brightening up your life.

Having supported the likes of Temples, Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs, Milk Maid, Sex Hands, Vision Fortune, METZ, Shinies, Novella, Egyptian Hip Hop, Palma Violets and Childhood, we're excited to bring this band back to London.

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<title>Thu 4th July / About Group</title>
<where>THE DALSTON VICTORIA, 451 QUEENSBRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, E8 3AS </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£8.50 advance</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/about-group-2/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:31</pubDate>
<extralink1>http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/about-group/</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that About Group are back with a new album and show at the Dalston Vic.

About Group, the quartet of John Coxon, Charles Hayward, Alexis Taylor and Pat Thomas, will release new album 'Between the Walls' through Domino on July 1st.

Between The Walls captures the sound of a band 'playing' together, in both senses of the word - experimenting and trying things, being playful, as much as being a group performing as a unit together. Between The Walls is the sound of people pushing towards and pulling against one another simultaneously. It is the sound of buzzing amplifiers, sudden musical non-sequiturs, loud blasts of straight synth lines cutting through melody and structure. And it is also the sound of beautiful and odd electronic textures and brilliantly defined and deliberate drums, underpinning fragile but deliberate performances of sad songs and country ballads. ‘The balance between songwriting and free playing, and a lack of clarity about which mode we will be in for any given amount of time, is the key to About Group’ - Alexis Taylor.

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<title>Mon 8th July / Tunng &#8211; SOLD OUT</title>
<where>THE LEXINGTON, 96-98 PENTONVILLE ROAD, LONDON, N1 9JB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£13</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/tunng-second-date-added/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:48</pubDate>
<extralink1>https://www.facebook.com/thisistunng</extralink1>
<description><![CDATA[Due to incredible demand, Tunng are adding a second special show at the Lexington London, on Monday 8th July.
Capacity is limited so get your tickets while you can here
Thanks for your wonderful support!
Love tunng x ]]></description>
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<title>Tue 9th July / Tunng &#8211; SOLD OUT</title>
<where>THE LEXINGTON, 96-98 PENTONVILLE ROAD, LONDON, N1 9JB </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£13</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/tunng-4/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tunng are back in 2013 with a very special re-introductory show at the Lexington in London on Tuesday 9th July.
Tickets are on sale from 10am Thursday and capacity is extremely limited so get yours quickly! Watch out for more news from Tunng very soon…

Tickets now sold out, second date now on sale here ]]></description>
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<title>Sat 20th July / CocoRosie and Youth Lagoon</title>
<where>BARBICAN HALL, BARBICAN CENTRE, SILK STREET, LONDON EC2Y 8DS </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<tickets>Tickets on sale Friday £15 - £22.50</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/cocorosie-and-youth-lagoon/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 11:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A lush, lyrical and otherworldly double-bill.

American duo CocoRosie returns with a powerfully poetic blend of organic and electronic in their fifth studio album, Tales Of A GrassWidow (City Slang), produced in association withValgeir Sigurðsson (Bjork, Nico Muhly).

Expanding on the woozy psychedelia of his 2010 debut The Year of Hibernation, Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon presents Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum) – an album which stems from an increasing fascination with 'where the spiritual meets the physical world.’

'If you feel like the dark center of the universe or simply need a little space, Wondrous Bughouse obliges' 8.7/10Pitchfork

Produced by the Barbican in association with Eat Your Own Ears

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<title>Tue 10th September / Unknown</title>
<where>ROVINJ, CROATIA. </where>
<time>12:00</time>
<tickets>www.unknowncroatia.com</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/unknown/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[10-14th September
Live: New Additions

The Horrors / Factory Floor / Lulu James / Jagwar Ma / Clean Bandit / East India Youth

DJ: New Additions

Richie Hawtin / Tiga / Nina Kraviz / Tale Of Us / Craig Richards / Waze &amp; Odyssey / Justin Robertson / Trevor / Jackson / Renato Ratier / Eskimo Twins / Joe Hart / Lock Tavern DJs / Mike Jones / Shacklewell Arms DJs / Tom Grainger

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Live: Actress / Disclosure / Django Django / Four Tet / Henrik Schwarz / Jessie Ware / Lindstrom / Moderat / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

DJ: Ame / Cyril Hahn / Damian Lazarus / Daniel Avery / Daniel Baldelli / Dixon / DJ Koze / Erol Alkan / Floating Points / Francesca Lombardo / Geddes / Giles Smith / James Holden / James Priestley / Jamie XX / Joy Orbison / Julio Bashmore / Kerri Chandler / Michael Mayer / Optimo / Prins Thomas / Richy Ahmed / Scuba / SBTRKT / Subb-an / Tim Sweeney / Todd Terje

Festival Partners: Mono Cult / Bugged Out / Secret Sundaze / Jukebox / Unit 44 / Crosstown Rebels / Phantasy / Kompakt / Innervisions

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Unknown Festival Camping:

Set in and amongst a lush, shaded forest the Unknown site is quite simply a campers haven. With an abundance of toilets / showers, the most stunning views, 3 swimming pools &amp; the beach only a hop, skip and jump away, this really is kitted out for a delightfully cool (and peaceful!) nights sleep under the stars.

Although hardtop accom is available on site, it is extremely limited so we would encourage you to get those tents out the loft and rediscover your primitive side. To give you a bit of a head start, we have put some festival tickets on sale with 5 nights camping included for £159.

BUY TICKETS HERE

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<title>Wed 18th September / Junip</title>
<where>O2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE SHEPHERDS BUSH GREEN W12 8TT </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<tickets>£16.00 adv</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/junip-2/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When he’s not making gorgeous, spare folk-pop on his own, José González leads the pastoral folk-pop trio Junip, and they’ll follow up 2010′s Fields this spring with a self-titled sophomore album and a second London date at the O2 Shepards Bush Empire.

Junip makes music that glows. Their springy guitar riffs flicker around the mix like light on water, while an oozing old Moog synthesizer adds undulations of its own. Meanwhile, soft drums keep the rhythm fleet.

It's a sweet, sensual and inward-looking sound that Junip makes — one not totally divorced from the style of their best-known member, José Gonzalez. In 2003, Gonzalez became world famous for his debut solo CD, "Veneer," on which he matched his hallowed voice to acoustic guitar chords, as dark, heavenly and richly arpeggioed as those of the late, great Nick Drake.

Together, Junip’s second offering is just as rich as ‘Fields’ in its illustrious textures and acoustic layers, but it somehow seems more channeled and more polished. This no doubt is a sign that the three friends are maturing both in their relationships, their music and almost certainly, gearing up for something special when taking the record on the road.

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<title>Wed 25th September / Duologue</title>
<where>XOYO 32-37 COWPER ST, ISLINGTON, GREATER LONDON EC2A 4AW </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£8</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/duologue-4/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Duologue release their new double A-side single, ‘Cut & Run/Machine Stop’ on the 20th May 2013 through Killing Moon Records. It is taken from the band’s critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Song & Dance’.

Following a storming series of performances at this year’s SXSW, and their own sold-out UK shows, the London five-piece release two more powerful examples of why  ‘Song & Dance’ received such strong, widespread praise.

The matching of rock and electronica has been approached before, but the verve and energy at which Duologue attack both genres, aided by vocalist Tim Digby-Bell’s harrowing falsetto, sounds cutting, immediate, and orbits a world entirely of its own. ‘Cut & Run’ harnesses an explosive, distorted guitar riff that intertwines with Toby Leeming’s glitch-ridden synths and beats. 

‘Cut & Run’ is backed by ‘Machine Stop’, the album’s opening track. It’s a dark, ghostly tune that builds and soars; showcasing all the fundamental nuances of what makes Duologue such an exciting British proposition.

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<title>Tue 8th October / Tunng</title>
<where>HEAVEN, THE ARCHES, VILLIERS STREET, LONDON, WC2N6NG </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/tunng-5/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tunng are back in after selling out two shows at the Lexington in London in July.
Tickets are on sale from 9am Friday 19th! Watch out for more news from Tunng very soon…

Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom. The band is often associated with the folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work.

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<title>Thu 17th October / Local Natives</title>
<where>02 ACADEMY BRIXTON 211 STOCKWELL ROAD LONDON SW9 </where>
<time>19:00</time>
<tickets>General on sale will be Friday 15th at 9am.</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/local-natives-3/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After seeing the brilliant Valentine's Day show at the Scala last night, we are really happy to announce that Local Natives will be back later this year.

Local Natives today announce a full European tour for spring 2013, following the release of their eagerly anticipated second album Hummingbird via Infectious Music on 28 January 2013 (29 January via Frenchkiss Records in the US).

The first song to be lifted from the record, a hazy dose of pop splendor called Breakers, is available to stream now via YouTube, and will be released on 7-inch vinyl on 3 December. The band play a short run of small European shows to mark its release, including a show at Hoxton Bar &amp; Kitchen that sold out within minutes, and culminating in a performance at ATP curated by the National on 8 Dec.

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<title>Thu 24th October / TAMIKREST</title>
<where>XOYO 32-37 COWPER ST, ISLINGTON, GREATER LONDON EC2A 4AW </where>
<time>20:00</time>
<tickets>£13.50 + BF</tickets><link>http://www.eatyourownears.com/events/tamikrest/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 12:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eat Your Own Ears and Junction 2 Music present:

The Quietus "It is Tamikrest who have emerged from the Sahara with the most interesting material ... It's a super sound, with an effortless, yet focused groove."

Tickets available through ticket web

Tamikrest formed in 2006 and are from Kidal, a remote desert town in the northwest of the Sahara, some 2,000 kilometres north of the capital Bamako. The band members are all Tuareg, a group of people that are spread all over North and some of West Africa, i.e. Niger, Mali, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Libya. Between 1990 and 1995 a fight evolved into a bloody civil war. After the war many of the rebel fighters traded their Kalashnikovs and hand grenades for guitars and microphones. When new riots broke out in 2006, Ousmane Ag Mossa and his friend Cheick Ag Tiglia decided not to fight with weapons, but to call attention to the Tuareg’s cause with musical means.

Tamikrest are often called Tinariwen’s little brothers and there definitely are parallels to draw between these two Saharan bands, but when Tamikrest stepped onto the scene the stakes were raised. Tamikrest take the traditional Tuareg sound and throw their own sound influenced by the likes of Pink Floyd and Dire Straits into the mix. They take generators deep into the desert in search of the perfect synthesis of their traditional ritual drumming and the music of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. Other bands have stepped onto the scene following the success of Tinariwen on the world stage, but it is Tamikrest who hold up the torch and lead the way. Tamikrest's leader Ousmane Ag Mossa is quick to admit his influences: “When I was young I listened to a lot of traditional Tuareg music as well as Tinariwen. There was no other music..it was only in 2000 that I had access to cassettes of Bob Marley and Dire Straits. That changed my musical vision … Music is just music, no matter where it comes from… My goal is to broaden my horizon step by step.”

Tamikrest are on a trip into the infinite world of music. When the band was founded they had a hard time getting exposure in their homeland as it proved to be difficult for music with ancient traditions in a country that is flooded with Western-influenced hip-hop and pop. Things changed abruptly when they played the Festival Au Desert in 2008 and met with the American/Australian band Dirtmusic made up of Chris Eckman (Walkabouts), Chris Brokaw (Come) and Hugo Race (Hugo Race &amp; True Spirit).

Their first album ‘Adagh’ was realised in 2010 on Glitterhouse Records and won them much praise with MOJO saying that "Tamikrest are a 21st century rock group who just happen to live in the middle of the desert. Adagh is the sound of a second generation of Tuareg musicians preparing to go global."

With their second album "Toumastin" the young Tuareg rebels create their own universe using even brighter colours. The enchanted ancient mystique of the songs captures the ear immediately, but as the music carries on the band bridges the gap between the African Blues and hypnotic dub, psychedelic funk and an almost supernatural kind of desert garage. The guitars are more offensive, the groove deepens and the Tamaschek chants are merging with the meandering guitar riffs like a caravan voyage through ancient times. "A solid follow-up to consolidate the band's place at the peak of the rockiest end of the desert blues outcrop." fRoots. Tamikrest are ready to embrace the future while proudly maintaining the rich tradition of their folk.

Keep your ears to the ground and listen out for their third album which is fast approaching us and set to be released at the end of this Summer. If the last two albums are anything to go by we are in for another spectacular experience of saharan rock and blues "Tamikrest are a relentless, unstoppable force." MusicOMH

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