Eat Your Own Ears presents
MEMORY TAPES
CLUB FIASCO
Plus special guests
Wednesday 20th January 2009
Doors 19.30
The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7JR 020 7372 7123
Tickets £5.50 from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08444 771000
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333
www.myspace.com/memorytapes
www.myspace.com/fitnessclubfiasco
The amazing MEMORY TAPES will play The Luminaire in January. He's been dropping bombs in the form of odd cassettes to huge underground acclaim over the past year. His sound is nostalgic both aesthetically and emotionally – so there is little surprise when comparisons drift to outfits such as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, New Order and Boards of Canada. More established pop references come through as well with echoes of classic Motown and girl groups. Ever prolific, MEMORY TAPES intends to make two albums a year, promising that the next one will a psychedelic girl group record.
HIGH PRAISE FROM THE PRESS
“It’s lovely and unsettling at the same time, like The Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger” sung by a choir of ghosts”. ROLLING STONE http://tiny.cc/2fZUq
“Sheer brilliance” – STOOL PIGEON
“Seek Magic is probably my favourite album of the year” DrownedInSound 9/10
“…like The Knife producing Neil Young” TheLineOfBestFit
“Bicycle’s spry New Orderisms will have you spinning blissfully around the room while simultaneously evoking an overwhelming melancholic nostalgia for summers lost” – NME 10 Tracks http://tiny.cc/GOUeS
“if i dream up the best combination of vocals and instrument i can muster in my tiny brain then its the sound of Memory Tapes that comes out' RoB DaBank Radio1
“the album of the year” BBC Music
“gliding synth funk resembling Talking Heads via New Order” The Independent
AND NEXT WEEK –
An Eat Your Own Ears and James Yorkston Christmas Special
with James Yorkston and Special Friends…
JAMES YORKSTON (SOLO)
With special guest
KATHRYN WILLIAMS
Sunday 20th December 2009
Doors 19.30
The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7JR 020 7372 7123
www.myspace.com/jamesyorkston
www.myspace.com/kathrynwilliams
www.dominorecordco.com
For the last 5 years JAMES YORKSTON has held Christmas specials at Kilburn's Luminaire and this tradition continues… This year he has already sold out December 21st and has decided to celebrate by adding another night of Christmas cheer – December 20th – and brings special guest KATHRYN WILLIAMS
Acclaimed creator of 8 studio albums, KATHRYN WILLIAMS delicate vocals and acoustic instrumentation come from a career influenced by Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground. Her songwriting has won her nominations for both Grammy and Mercury awards. "A Glittering Talent" – The Independent. "It is impossible to turn away for a second… emotional stealth-bombing at its most devastating”- Word magazine
PLUS THE HORRORS
THE HORRORS
HTRK
LUNG ROTTER SEVEN
Plus special guests
December 20 2009
Doors 7pm
The Forum 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
Tickets £14.50 from
www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444771000
www.seetickets.com 0870 264 3333
www.myspace.com/thehorrors
www.myspace.com/htrk
www.myspace.com/lungrotterandseven
Back with a new ethereal sound, THE HORRORS bring material from acclaimed Mercury Nominated second album Primary Colours (produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead) to a live setting. Bringing to mind My Bloody Valentine, The Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain and yet achieving a sound that is also contemporary and unique, their new album is sure to top the best-of lists for 2009. Faris and his impeccably dressed cohorts from Southend make their return in layer upon layer of distortion. As Drowned in Sound said recently, "All eyes are once again on The Horrors, and this time it's not just the usual hyperbole prone culprits salivating in anticipation. Even typically level-headed critics are getting into a frothy mess."
HTRK are a mysterious three-piece from Melbourne who reside in Berlin and London. That in itself should tell you enough, we are talking cosmopolitan here and with that comes ideas. Together they produce material that is reminiscent of David Lynch, The Birthday Party and Pita and is an exercise in sublime tension and beauty.
LUNG ROTTER SEVEN are erstwhile Two Lone Swordsmen collaborators and members of Tokyo Wind Bag, Lung and Chris Rotter have teamed up with Barry Seven, ex of Add N to (X), to forge what is hopefully a long-lasting partnership. Composed solely on the Korg DS-10 app for the Nintendo DS, first releases 'Coptum' and 'Dammer' should make anyone who's been using their handheld to muck about with GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra or care for their dinosaur pet to hang their heads in self-loathing: they could have been creating chipcore stadium anthems instead.