S.C.U.M

Thursday 21st May 2009
Doors 8pm
Bardens Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XJ (020) 7249 9557
Tickets £6

www.myspace.com/scum1968

S.C.U.M. are: Thomas Vain (vocal), Bradley Baker (machines),
Samuel Kilcoyne (moog), Melissa Rigby (drums) and Huw Webb (Bass).

After recording their debut single with Tomethy Furse of The Horrors, the band announce a series of exclusive digital download tracks, location specific works created and recorded in cities across Europe.
 
Taking studio time in each city they visit, S.C.U.M are recording new works
specific to each location. These new tracks will be released as digital downloads, SIGNALS from around the globe.  Each SIGNAL will be available for a limited time period. Building into a body of work documenting their sonic journey. Each SIGNAL will act as an audiovisual scrapbook of the bands travels and musical progression.
 

RRIICCEE (featuring Vincent Gallo)
 
12 June 2009
Doors 7:30pm
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7930 3647
Tickets £22

www.rriiccee.com

With RRIICCEE, Vincent Gallo continues the musical career which has included beautiful, well-crafted Warp album When and Gray, his band with Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Formed with Eric Erlandson, Nicolas Haas and Rebecca Casabian, the improvisational project promises to metamorphose into something unique for the ICA and it’s audience on the night.

THE DODOS
Plus special guests

Thursday 3 September 2009
Doors 7:30pm
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 7LJ 0208 222 6955
Tickets £10

www.dodosmusic.net
www.wichita-recordings.com

THE DODOS are a duo from San Francisco, who throw together a delightful mix of ephemeral psych-folk-pop. Singer and guitarist Meric Long’s fleeting, intricate and finely-tuned finger-picking is warm and focused, resonating under his refined lyrical hopscotch and drummer Logan Kroeber’s foot-stomping tom and-tambourine back beat. The propulsive results recall everything from John Fahey to the Akron/Family, and hones the callings of free-spirited, unhinged acts like Animal Collective.

You would be mistaken when listening to their recordings that The Dodos consist of many more members than they actually do. The San Franciscan duo create beautifully orchestrated music, ranging from soft chanting and wistful lyrics, to escalating primal screams and frantic strumming. Visiter, their pioneering debut with ethereal vocals, tribal drumming and urgent guitars, was undoubtedly influenced by Meric's studies in West African drumming and experimentation with percussion including the inventive 'tambourine foot' which involves having a tambourine strapped to your foot.

Tickets from
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0844 477 2000
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0870 264 3333

APES AND ANDROIDS
HEARTBREAK
ALEX METRIC
QUEENS OF NOIZE (DJ SET)
Plus guests
 
14 April 2009
Doors 7:30pm

ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7930 3647

Tickets £8 advance from:
http://www.ica.org.uk
020 7930 3647
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com  
0870 264 3333

www.myspace.com/apesandandroids
http://www.myspace.com/heartbreak1
http://www.myspace.com/alexmetric

Live, APES & ANDROIDS believe in the spectacle of rock n roll. The band deal in events rather than gigs. Luminous skulls, glitter cannons and fluorescent lights make each gig a work of art.

Apes & Androids are Brian Jacobs and David Tobias – two old school friends with a love of the flamboyant and musical adventure. Their music recalls the operatic, over the top nature of Queen, whilst rubbing shoulders with Ziggy-era Bowie. Whilst other tracks see a big Prince kick added to the equation, The Police and Talking Heads murk in the background too. Underpinning all these ideas and inspirations is a keen pop sensibility.
   
In New York, the Apes & Androids have been selling out venues for months. Prestigious venues such as Bowery Ballroom (2000 capacity) and Williamsburg Music Hall (1200) have both witnessed the carnival of sight and sound. Now it is the UK’s turn to see for the first time why Apes & Androids are generating such excitement.  
   
London-based electronic disco duo HEARTBREAK are Argentine singer Sebastian Muravchix and producer Ali Renault. Fusing the finer qualities of electro, Italo-disco and metal, Heartbreak's powerful synth-pop is how the 80s would sound today if the 90s hadn't gotten in the way. The fusion of Italo-disco with the dark metal energy of black sabbath has created the new genre of metallo.

Following in the footsteps of Jaques Lu Cont, Phones, Jagz Kooner and Unkle, ALEX METRIC is deadly on a mission to destroy dancefloors and expectations. The Vibe is hooky electronic music, with real songwriting.

ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7930 3647

Tuesday 30 June 2009
7:30pm

Former Arab Strap multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton will be playing a special show at the ICA. As part of the now-defunct Falkirk duo, he spent 11 years peddling seedy, sweaty tales of cheap booze, late nights and sexual perversion, and his burgeoning solo career seems to be running along the same thematic lines. Working with numerous luminaries from the Glasgow scene, it’s Malcolm and his songs, however, which are the stars here, confirming Middleton's status as one of the best songwriters of his generation.

www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton

Tickets £13.50
www.ica.org.uk
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com 
0870 264 3333

Eat Your Own Ears presents
BLK JKS
Wednesday 6 May 2009

Doors 8pm

Bardens Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XJ (020) 7249 9557

Tickets £7.50 advance (subject to booking fee) from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333

www.myspace.com/blkjks

The BLK JKS, South African afro avant noise rock band. Childhood friends Linda and Mpumi grew up on the same block in Johannesburg’s East Rand, where they taught themselves guitar after Linda’s sister received one as a prize in church choir. Forming a band in 2003, early BLK JKS shows and recordings we remarkable for their stacks of guitar drone and head nodding beats, but it was with the addition of bassist Molefi and drummer Tsepang—both of Soweto—that BLK JKS began work with a fresh approach and plunged into its current universe of sound.

http://www.myspace.com/soapandskin
http://www.myspace.com/ultre

Following a week of sold out shows in Berlin and on the continent , though only 18 years old, ingenue SOAP&SKIN is already drawing comparisons with Nico, Joanna Newsom and Bjork, unlikely as that seems for a pig farmer’s daughter from the remote Austrian village of Gnas.

Her debut album is startling in it’s precociousness; bleak yet beautiful, emotive and turbulent, with her ethereal vocals in counterpoint to the dramatic music.

Her dark sounds are hard to describe, using electronics, beats and piano. Nobody less than T.Raumschmiere and his Shitkatapult label initially discovered the singer-songwriter but her haunting songwriting also betrays a classical sensibility, making her (according to the Guardian) the amorphous “lovechild of a Sapphic union between Sinead and Björk, Enya on depressants or a Dead Can Dance for the digital age”

ULTRE has an intensely tactile and crafted approach to sound. With a penchant for esoteric sound sources (such as percussion made from hitting objects around his home, clapping, finger clicking, or beating his chest), the music is more structured and immediate than evident on early releases by 24 year old Finn McNicholas.
The music develops organically with an intrinsic sense of sheer wonderment and amazement driving many of the tracks.. The energy of the performance combined with his string, piano and electronic work conjures up a picture of busy modernism with contrasting nostalgic undertones. There is an absence of digital signal processing and effects within the music, with most of the sounds created live in the recording.

Thursday 2 April
Doors 7.30pm

Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 7LJ 0208 222 6955

Tickets £7.50 from
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100

Eat Your Own Ears presents
FANFARLO
Plus special guests

ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7930 3647

Tuesday 2 June 2009
7:30pm

Tickets £8.50
ICA
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com  
0870 264 3333

www.myspace.com/fanfarlo

Following hearty SXSW success FANFARLO play an early summer set, filling the ICA with lovely, lilting tones and shivering, hypnotic melody.

Fanfarlo were conceived by Simon (vocals, guitar, keys, mandolin, sax, glock) while he was taking shelter in a forest from a particularly heavy snowstorm in Sweden. Inspired to move to London to form the band, he quickly found allies in Justin (bass) and Leon (trumpet/keyboards) when playing small gigs around the city. Mark (electric guitar, keys, vocals, accordian, fanfarlophone) then joined, and Fanfarlo’s electronic backing track was ceremoniously destroyed when Amos (drums & percussion, vocals) was enlisted to complete the rhythm section.