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Pierre Bastien

Pierre Bastien – Water Music from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

I was going to write an introduction to the wonderful Pierre Bastien but The Quietus, as ever, have summed it up perfectly:

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and inventor Pierre Bastien has been constructing unique musical machinery for over 30 years.

Bastien’s initial public performances were as a member of French collective bands Operation Rhino, Nu Creative Methods and Effectifs de Profil, as well as the Dominique Bagouet Dance Company. He has collaborated regularly with his friend Pascal Comelade, participating in Comelade’s Bel Canto Orquesta, and artists from many other fields including video (Pierrick Sorin), fashion (Issey Miyake) and the circus (Cirque Trottola). Other musical collaborators have included Robert Wyatt, Jaki Liebezeit and Jac Berrocal.

Bastein’s Mecanium is a self-built orchestra of musical automata, constructed largely from Meccano and powered by turntable motors, playing acoustic instruments including percussion, wind and string. Since the 1980s, the Mecanium has toured the world, with Bastien accompanying it live on pocket trumpet or other instrumentation.

(Pierre Bastien // 19th October // Bush Hall)

Kisses

Kisses release their debut album next Monday and today’s song of the day on Popjustice is their opening gambit, the eponymously titled ‘Kisses’, take a listen to it below and join us in getting excited for their debut London show.

(Kisses // 18th October // XOYO)

Steve Mason

Check out this beautiful dewy-eyed festival footage of Steve Mason playing ‘I Let Her In’. Our Filmographer starts outside the tent, in the rain, before being magnetised towards the stage. It adds a neat gravitas to an already great subtle song by Mason.

(Steve Mason // 21st October // XOYO)

Lindstrøm & Christabelle: "Lovesick (Four Tet Remix)"

Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet has given the treatment to Lindstrøm and Christabelle’s “Lovesick”. Check it out below

Lovesick (Four Tet remix) by TimeOutNewYork

Eat Your Own Ears at Laneway Festival, Australia

LANEWAY FESTIVAL

Friday 4 February 2011 – BRISBANE
Saturday 5 February 2011 – MELBOURNE
Sunday 6 February 2011 – SYDNEY
Friday 11 February 2011 – ADELAIDE
Saturday 12 February 2011 – PERTH

Tickets go on sale Wednesday 20th October at 9am here
or phone 11300 369 882

Eat Your Own Ears are very proud to announce that we have been invited to host a stage at Laneway Festival 2011 in Australia alongside the Windish Agency.

This amazing antipodean festival chose to join hands with us across the globe because of our shared commitment to presenting spectacularly fresh and wide-ranging music.

Since its inception in 2004, the St Jerome's Laneway Festival has become synonymous, with hot (southern hemisphere!) summer days, awesome locations and diverse, forward-thinking line-ups filled to overflowing with vital, surprising bands. Favouring cutting edge talent over mainstream success, Laneway has consistently delivered compelling, boundary-pushing acts to discerning punters and next year's event will continue that tradition.

In 2011, Laneway returns to the disparate yet uniformly gorgeous metropolitan settings of Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland. Whether the backdrop is an historic sandstone courtyard, a riverbed overlooking the city or a tree-lined laneway a stone's throw from the CBD, the festival guarantees a day of musical discovery and revelry that‘ll be as scenic as it will be memorable.

Our stage line up is to be announced soon from the list of amazing acts as follows:

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) –THE ANTLERS – ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – BEACH HOUSE – BEAR IN HEAVEN – BLONDE REDHEAD – CLOUD CONTROL – CUT COPY – DEERHUNTER – FOALS – GOTYE – THE HOLIDAYS – HOLY FUCK – JENNY & JOHNNY – LES SAVY FAV – LOCAL NATIVES – MENOMENA – PVT – RAT vs POSSUM (excluding Perth) – STORNOWAY – TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB – VIOLENT SOHO – WARPAINT – WORLD'S END PRESS – YEASAYER

Shows coming up next week:

KATE NASH + BRIGITTE APHRODITE – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – Mon 18th, October

KISSES + FIXERS + THISAINTNODISCO – XOYO – Monday 18th

SOAP&SKIN – Union Chapel – Monday 18th

DOSH + PATTEN – The Lexington – Tuesday 19th

PIERRE BASTIEN + MALE INSTRUMENTY – Bush Hall – Tuesday 19th

STEVE MASON – XOYO – Thursday 21st

In preparation for tonight – Glasser with Apply. Full show details here.