Bush Hall
Tuesday 6 October 2009
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FANFARLO
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Swedish bands FANFARLO and FIRST AID KIT play a special double headliner at London’s Bush Hall this Autumn.
Swedish bands FANFARLO and FIRST AID KIT play a special double headliner at London’s Bush Hall this Autumn.
The amazing Florence and the Machine will be playing a special headline show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.
The buzz surrounding 21-year-old Florence Welch and her mutable band mates (The Machine) has grown in the past few months, with the Critic’s Choice Brit Award tipping her for the top in 2009.
THE TEMPER TRAP’s atmospheric, captivating sound – created using grand guitars, pulsating rhythms and yearning vocals – achieved rapturous acclaim at South by Southwest in March 2009. Expect an energetic live experience from this four piece from Melbourne, who draw influence from early U2, sound at times like Coldplay, but also have a twist and creative drive similar to that of Tv On The Radio and Vampire Weekend.
Stornoway are a maritime pop quintet from Oxford. The band consists of 2 sets of brothers, and a monk from a local brotherhood. They have never been to Stornoway, but hope to visit their Hebridean namesake soon. They are “a living, breathing Mark Twain novel”. Think Guillemots, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, and early Belle and Sebastian, with soaring folk melodies and nifty arrangements. “This is perfect”, proclaimed Colin Murray of BBC Radio One.
MAX TUNDRA creates a masterpiece of micro-melodies and sound-bytes; a triumph of splicing, dicing and editing. His is an intricate mosaic of sounds and styles, some of which you might recognise from the last 30 years of pop, rock, prog, disco, funk, techno, rap, metal and soul, but many of which are completely new: either from a startling recombination of existing genres, or from Max inventing an original one himself.
Uber-producer Diplo brings Major Lazer to Hoxton Bar and Kitchen for their 1st ever headline show in London on Tuesday September 8th.
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.
BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting.
Unique Canadian electronic pop digital disco outfit JUNIOR BOYS promote their new album out now on Domino in early 2009 with a live set that sees them pay homage to kraftwerk, scritti politti, and ‘violator’-era depeche mode as they blend synth-pop with a melodic slice of electro and live drums.
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.)
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THE XX play their first ever headline show in a tiny venue, with no guest list!
The London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead guitar and bass guitar respectively), Baria Qureshi (keyboards and guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler).
These four nineteen and twenty year olds are childhood friends who formed while attending south west London’s Elliot School – the comp whose alumni also includes such acclaimed boundary-pushers as Burial, Four Tet and Hot Chip.
Bonding over a shared love of dark, emotive 80s guitar sounds and the high-end sheen of American R&B, The xx’s unique sound befits a band whose wide range of influences include everything from Aaliyaah to Cocorosie, Rhianna to The Cure, Missy Elliot to The Chromatics and Mariah Carey to The Pixies.
These influences combine via beautiful, hushed vocal duets and a brilliantly inventive use of samples and low-end frequencies to produce a stark, sweet melancholic pop.
The band’s debut album is due for release on the show day on XL Recordings imprint Young Turks.
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