TV ON THE RADIO’s career has established them as one of the most exciting and genuinely innovative bands to have emerged from the American musical underground in years. Winners of the Shortlist prize – The US equivalent of the Mercury music prize – and a devoted global fanbase.
British electro-soul outfit HOT CHIP are set to play tracks from their new album, set for release in early 2008. ‘Made In The Dark’ is the amazing & ambidextrous follow up to the massively acclaimed, Mercury Music Prize nominated album ‘The Warning’ recorded and self-produced during the last six months from their home London studio base. Informed by two solid years of touring (many of the songs you may already know from their live shows) and charts their ever growing sonic ascendance into one of the UK’s most original and like/loveable bands.
The Week That Was’s self-titled debut album, written and recorded in late 2007 by Field Music’s Peter Brewis at the band’s 8 Studio in Sunderland, emerged from an imagined crime thriller dreamt up by Peter and inspired by Paul Auster’s labyrinthine storytelling. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Tin Drum-era Japan.
Tonight, for the first time, the band will play the album from start to finish backed with strings, marimba and visuals manipulated from the stage by the band themselves.
Midwestern band TILLY AND THE WALL consists of two dressed-down boys, two glamorous girls and one frenzied hoofer, the tutu-wearing Jamie Williams with pockets full of melodies sprang out of Nowheresville, USA, with a penchant for classic 60s pop, boy/girl harmonies and American folk records. They create jagged, elegant songs, and rejoice in tales of friendship, broken hearts, and youthful dreams and frustrations. Their sound is distinctive and classic at the same time.
Based on Eel Pie Island, the Bohemian stronghold in the middle of the Thames at Twickenham, the MYSTERY JETS embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous singles Zoo Time, You Cant Fool Me Dennis, On My Feet and Alas Agnes have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe. A universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einzurstende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexys can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present.
THE RESEARCH a three piece from Wakefield with a gift for sunshine melodies play a tight live set of art-rock-pop as they mix minimalist guitars, punchy bass lines, swelling keyboards and pounding rhythms… Marrying memorable choruses with fuzzy casio keyboard riffs they have created a distinctive woozy sound that works as an eminently recognisable backdrop to their tales of love, both lost and gained. Imagine the emotional witterings of David Gedge or Darren Hayman but sitting over rumbling basslines and shambolic electro rhythms and you get the tear stained picture. The trick though is that whilst the lyrics veer from the deliriously happy to, more often, lower lip wobblingly sad, the music is almost uniformly upbeat and positive.
PORT O BRIEN – Though raised in the small coastal town of Cambria, CA, Van Pierszalowski spent all of his summers on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where his father works as a commercial salmon fisherman. Every summer, Van would (and still does) go up North to work on his father’s boat, the Shawnee. The work is intense (20 hr. work days, weeks after weeks without touching land, no showers or toilets, stormy seas), but ultimately rewarding (beauty, inspiration, and money.)
Their songs soar and weave with energy and goodwill, daring anyone who hears them to walk away without a smile on their face. Listening to OF MONTREAL, you might think that singer Kevin Barnes is missing the angst gene. But the longer you listen, the more you start to realize that maybe missing the angst gene is a blessing. It allows Kevin to explore more fully his crazily creative ideas and to make wondrous music, drawing on influences from the Byrds or even the Mamas And The Papas; the group’s songs are all sweet pop ditties, as suitable for campfire-singing as stage performance.
This show has been rescheduled to the 14th of December.
After last year’s sell out with Foals headlining James Holden and Four Tet, Eat Your Own Ears returns to the now seminal Warehouse Project in October with an astonishing line up…
Excitement is building at Concrete and Glass HQ as with just a week to go until the first event, spread across two-days in Shoreditch’s cultural cauldron, the acclaimed Black Affair joins the bill and Concrete and Glass’s Online Scheduler goes live.
Full Line up: Artefacts for Space Travel / Casper C / David Devant’s Mr Solo / David Thomas Broughton / Euros Child / Fairmont Live / Flipron / Fujiya & Miyagi / Holy Ghost Revival / James Holden / James Yuill / John Kennedy DJ / Kid Harpoon / Kimmo Pohjonen / Kwaing Creasite & HMS Ginafore/ Let’s Wrestle / Liz Green / Luke Abbott / Lykke Li / Micachu / Oren Marshall / Pens /Pete and the Pirates / Port O’Brien / Production Unit / PUSH Club / Redshape / Rozi Plain (full band) / Screaming Tea Party / Selfish Cunt / Sexbeat DJs / Sky Larkin / SND / Sweet Baboo / Telepathe / The Pictish Trail (full band) / The Real Tuesday Weld / The Stool Pigeon DJs / Threatmantics / Truckers Of Husk / TV On The Radio / TVO /Vladislav Delay / Wesley Matsell / Wildbirds and Peacedrums / Zan Pan /
Excitement is building at Concrete and Glass HQ as with just a week to go until the first event, spread across two-days in Shoreditch’s cultural cauldron, the acclaimed Black Affair joins the bill and Concrete and Glass’s Online Scheduler goes live.
Full line up:
Aaron Thomas / Anni Rossi / Barringtone / Bloggers DJ Casper C / Bodies Of Water / Cats In Paris / D*I*R*T*Y Soundsystem / Dead Kids / Errors / Ezra Bang (Hot Machine) / Flashguns / Frightened Rabbit / GoodBooks / Grovesnor / Huw Stephens / Ludovico Einaud / Mathew Sawyer & The Ghost / Mechanical Bride / O’Death / One Little Plane / Owl Project / Alog / Ox.Eagle.Lion Man / Pilooski / Polly Scattergood / Primary 1 / Skream (Disco Set) / The Big Pink / The Oscillation / The Real Heat / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Twisted Wheel / Wave Machines / Younghearts