Eat Your Own Ears presents
ANDREW BIRD
Plus special guests

Monday 11 May 2009
Doors 7pm

Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8TT 020 8354 3300

Tickets £16.50 from
www.ticketweb.co.uk 08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com 0870 264 3333

http://www.andrewbird.net/
http://www.myspace.com/andrewbird

Following the release of the much-anticipated new album Noble Beast, Andrew Bird plays London's Shepherds Bush Empire this May. Delivering mesmerizing live sets of utterly riveting songs that work their magic on their own believable terms, without a hint of cloying nostalgia or riff-fueled seduction, Bird plays strings, glockenspiel, wurlitzer and tape loops…

"Bird could be the only performer who's lit up both Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo with a combination of vocals, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling… he uses centuries-old instrumentation to give depth and soul to folk rock."–ESQUIRE "The Masters Are Dead–Long Live The Masters," November 2008

"Andrew Bird is a true musical one-off. You really ought to see him." 5/5 The Guardian

"When musicologists of the future come to study singer-songwriters of the early 21st century, Andrew Bird will stand proudly apart… Just one more sensational record from one of the most important artists working today"
4/5 Independent On Sunday

"An album to take time with, but already sounding marvellous" 4/5 Sunday Times

"WithArmchair Apocrypha, Bird marks out his own airspace with polysyllabic style and musical blue-sky thinking that really takes wing"
4/5 Album of the Week, The Times

"Andrew Bird's his own man, mind, and this should be the album to make people sit up and notice"
4/5 Independent Information

"Andrew Bird's blend of loops, samples, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and various likeminded collaborators provide heart-soaring delights aplenty. Watch him fly!"
4/5 Daily Mirror

"Bird has the rare touch to make his sound as natural as breathing" 4/5 Q
"Armchair Apocrypha find Bird rushing ever upward… A record dotted with peaks" 4/5 Uncut

"Andrew Bird's songs are shot through with a beauty of terrible consequence… Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird's knack for the musical hat trick" 4/5 Mojo

"Armchair Apocrypha is smart, twitchy, odd, moving and funny. Nice bits of whistling too." Word

"Don't be too surprised if Bird streaks ahead of the alt-pop flock very soon" 4/6 Time Out

"A Unique talent" Music Week

"Just superb" Plan B

"Music needs more eccentric geniuses like this guy" 4/5 Daily Express

"Genius is a word bandied around far too often but in the case of Andrew Bird, you can't help coming back to it" The Sun

Plus special guests

Jamie Lidell's second album, Multiply caught people off-guard in 2005. Few expected the restless sonic scientist to make an uplifting soul record, but he did; and audiences and critics were captivated by the fusion of his influences with deeply felt song writing, meticulous production skills, and most of all, that flipping amazing voice. According to the reviews, Jamie was at various times, Little Richard, Jimi, Otis, Sly, Prince, Marvin, Stevie or some mashed-up combo of them all. Meanwhile, his live show has become an infamously exhilarating experience, with Jamie performing on the edges of control and chaos, turning music inside out.

The show at Koko follows the release of new album ‘Jim' on the 28th of April. Jim will switch you on in the morning, move you on the dance-floor and take you down in the small hours. It's a bold, promiscuously diverse album, mixing up gospel grooves, sweetly sung and fiercely passionate soul, delicately moving ballads, thumping early R & B, synthed-up disco, and even a touch of ‘hillbilly funk'. "I haven't tried to hide the influences," he says "This is the music I love." But, listen closely and you can hear Jamie moving in new directions, creating a sound and style that is entirely his own.

Brighton duo FUJIYA & MIYAGI remain situated somwhere between rock band and electronic dance act, and are perfecting a sound that is uniquely their own.

MICACHU is the moniker of major new talent, 21 year old songwriter and producer Mica Levi. She studies composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London . As well as writing more traditional pieces, she writes electronic pop songs, sometimes delivered acoustically. She has worked with a band of equally talented musicians ("The Cluster") made up of Miss Bienek, Taza, Yvette, Baker Trouble, Mayhem, Kit Downes, Ghostpoet and Kwes, but has recently unveiled her amazing new band ("the Shapes"), made up of Raisa Khan and Marc Pell.

Plus special guests

Tickets £16 from:
www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk
www.ticketweb.co.uk
0844 477 2000
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333

Eat Your Own Ears special
GRUFF RHYS (SUPER FURRY ANIMALS / NEON NEON) – DJ SET, ERRORS (LIVE), MOGWAI DJS, DJ SKURGE (UR), TIM EXILE (LIVE), DOMINO RECORDS DJS, EYOE DJS PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

AKA: 'Bleep.com Does… New Labels' – Compilation Launch Party:
Hudson Mohawke, Marc Mac (4 Hero), Lone, 2Tall, Paul, Lone, Kelpe, White vs Bullion, Alex Chase, Bleep DJ Soundsystem

The End & AKA – Friday 12 December
18 West Central Street, London WC1A 1JJ 020 7419 9199
[email protected] www.endclub.com
Nearest tubes: Tottenham Court Road / Holborn

The End & AKA – £10
The End & AKA 2200 – 0600

Priority entry with advance tickets available from:
www.endclub.com
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Or call +44 (0)8700 600 100

Eat Your Own Ears is one of the lucky few to host a closing party at legendary club The End, which has been flying the flag for underground dance music in London for 12 years. Bringing in a range of exemplary, cutting-edge acts, EYOE do their utmost to see this London luminary out in high style.
www.eatyourownears.com

GRUFF RHYS (SUPER FURRY ANIMALS / NEON NEON) – DJ SET
Super Furry Animals and Neon Neon front man Gruff Rhys bestows upon The End a set of upbeat psych.

ERRORS (LIVE)
Early releases exemplified elements of new-wave and acid-house, with ERRORS progressing to a sound that so far has caused the band to be touted as natural successors to the mantle currently held by the likes of Battles, Hot Chip and LCD
Soundsystem.
www.myspace.com/weareerrors

MOGWAI DJS
Progenitors of fulsome guitars and pummeling drumbeats, veering from psych-rock to shoegaze, legends MOGWAI will select records that reflect the dense sonics of their career.
www.myspace.com/mogwai

DJ SKURGE (UR)
Hotly tipped Detroit bombast SKURGE comes fresh from the Model 500 project with Jeff Mills to bring us his ferocious beats, which find their home on his hometown’s Underground Resistance label.
www.myspace.com/djskurge

TIM EXILE (LIVE)
DJ, maker of hype drum and bass, tweaked-out music (2006’s Gabbaret Lounge) and machines for improvising tweaked-out music, Tim Exile could turn his hand to any electronic genre, and will surely bring unrivaled expertise to his live set tonight.
http://www.myspace.com/timexile

Plus DJS from seminal independent label DOMINO RECORDS and leftfield London promoters Eat Your Own Ears

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

“Bleep Loves… Labels” Launch Party @ AKA

Line Up: Hudson Mohawke / Marc Mac from 4 Hero / DJ 2 Tall / Lone / Kelpe / Paul White vs Bullion / Alex Chase / Bleep DJ Soundsystem PLUS NEWLY ADDED GUEST DJ – PREFUSE

Award winning music download store Bleep.com has put together a free compilation to download on their site. The compilation is a collection of tracks from some of the most under-rated labels currently putting out some of the most forward-thinking music at the moment. To launch the compilation, they have put together a line-up with some of the artists that have contributed tracks to the release.

Headlining the night will be new Warp signing, Hudson Mohawke. This young former Scottish ITF DJ Champion and the youngest ever Technics UK DMC Finalist, has obviously proved that he is quite able on the 1’s and 2’s already. However, what is most exciting is what strange noises and bleeps are coming out of his bedroom to a speaker near you very soon. 8-bit sounds, sub-heavy basslines and crunching drums makes this guy one of the most exciting producers in the UK, if not the world at the moment.

Not just a representation of new blood, Bleep pays homage to the legendary producers in the shape of Marc Mac from 4 Hero. His DJ set will be joining the dots from vintage soul to broken beat and jungle beats. This guy has been killing dancefloors for over a decade and tonight will definitely not be an exception to that rule.

Also being showcased on the night is some of the cream of UK-based beat makers in the shape of DJ 2Tall, former UK DMC DJ Champion (so you know there is going to be no shortage of quality and skill on the turntables this night). With electronic tinged orchestration, DJ 2 Tall has forthcoming material on the Terrorhytmn label (the brainchild of dubstep kingpin – Plastician).

Also on the night will be Nottingham based producer, Lone. One half of the outfit – Kids in Tracksuits, Lone will be punching pads and twiddling knobs to showcase his sun-tinged synths and marked-up for the dancefloor. Also working wonders on the laptop will be the electronic wonder-kid from DC Recordings – Kelpe. Combine this with a showcase of One Handed Music (the label run by Stones Throw’s European Label manager) in the form of Paul White vs. Bullion, and the label boss himself – Alex Chase.

Soundtracking through the night will actually be the Bleep DJ Soundsystem outfit consisting of the staff members and a history of murdering turntables in various former guises and monikers over the years.

Please go to http://bleep.com for more information on what other acts are on the compilation, and to gain access to the free download of some of the best music around.

Andrew Bird has added a second date on Friday the 21st of November for all those who missed out on tickets for his SOLD OUT show on the 20th:

Eat Your Own Ears presents
ANDREW BIRD
plus special guests

Friday 21st November
Doors 7pm
 
St Giles Church
60 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG

Tickets £15.50 available from
www.ticketweb.co.uk
0844 477 2000
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333

www.andrewbird.net
www.myspace.com/andrewbird

After selling out one night at St Giles, ANDREW BIRD will perform a second night in the intimate surrounds of St Giles church, well in advance of his new album’s release in January.

Delivering mesmerizing live sets of utterly riveting songs that work their magic on their own believable terms, without a hint of cloying nostalgia or riff-fueled seduction, Bird plays strings, glockenspiel, wurlitzer and tape loops…

“Andrew Bird is a true musical one-off. You really ought to see him.”  5/5 The Guardian

 “When musicologists of the future come to study singer-songwriters of the early 21st century, Andrew Bird will stand proudly apart… Just one more sensational record from one of the most important artists working today”
4/5 Independent On Sunday

“An album to take time with, but already sounding marvellous” 4/5 Sunday Times

“WithArmchair Apocrypha, Bird marks out his own airspace with polysyllabic style and musical blue-sky thinking that really takes wing”
4/5 Album of the Week, The Times

“Andrew Bird’s his own man, mind, and this should be the album to make people sit up and notice”
4/5 Independent Information

“Andrew Bird’s blend of loops, samples, violin, guitar, glockenspiel and various likeminded collaborators provide heart-soaring delights aplenty.  Watch him fly!”
4/5 Daily Mirror

“Bird has the rare touch to make his sound as natural as breathing” 4/5 Q
“Armchair Apocrypha find Bird rushing ever upward… A record dotted with peaks” 4/5 Uncut

“Andrew Bird’s songs are shot through with a beauty of terrible consequence… Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird’s knack for the musical hat trick” 4/5 Mojo

“Armchair Apocrypha is smart, twitchy, odd, moving and funny. Nice bits of whistling too.” Word

“Don’t be too surprised if Bird streaks ahead of the alt-pop flock very soon” 4/6 Time Out

“A Unique talent” Music Week

“Just superb” Plan B

“Music needs more eccentric geniuses like this guy” 4/5 Daily Express

“Genius is a word bandied around far too often but in the case of Andrew Bird, you can’t help coming back to it” The Sun
plus special guests

THE LUMINAIRE 311 HIGH ROAD, KILBURN, LONDON NW6 7JR
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER

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.

"They haven't been playing out so much on account of their troubles but all that is about to make a ch ch ch ch change. Sarah is moving back to Wakefield and THE RESEARCH will be born again and they will bring joy to all the creatures again and they will be mortally uncomplicated again and they will have wings and they will take you under them and show you how to disappear and then set you almost free. They are the same as ever, and yet, somehow, terribly different. HERE GOES NOTHING."

Support from Cardiff's THREATMANTICS rising Cardiff three piece with mind-blowing violins and electric strings. Formed in Cardiff in 2005, the band features brothers Heddwyn and Huw Davies, and Ceri Mitchell. They released their debut single, 'Don't Care', in April, recorded for BBC Radio 1, then took a short break so Huw could finish his degree. now done, dusted and duly educated, the band hope to spread their deranged pop songs beyond Wales.

Plus guests

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