O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Thursday 13 March 2008
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Wednesday 12 March 2008
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‘Kate Nash – Queen of the Summer’ NME
‘The pop success story of 2007′ Q
“Foundations proves she can write an indelible chorus and suggests there are plenty more fine melodies where that came from” Guardian
“More powerful than Listerine” OK Magazine
“Excellent new single Mouthwash shows an astute pop sensibility” Q Magazine
“Future Hit” Daily Star
“Mouthwash already sounds like a hit in waiting” The Times
‘Mouthwash’ is the second single to come from Kate Nash’s barnstorming #1 debut album ‘Made of Bricks’ and follow-up to the massive single ‘Foundations’
As minty fresh as the title implies, ‘Mouthwash’ is a classic example of Kate Nash’s prowess as a pop songwriter par excellence – proving that pop music doesn’t have to be written by jaded professionals for styled muppets.
Despite the seemingly ordinary nature of this song’s lyrics, Kate says it was written to underline the fact that despite an outwardly ordinary life people, especially young people, are individuals.
In typical Kate fashion, it is by focussing on the little things – bathroom sink dramas – that a bigger picture manifests itself.
“Mouthwash’ is,” says Kate, “A bit of a protest song that comes from the confusion of youth. I guess it’s about not quite being there yet. About not feeling totally sure where you are going but still feeling the need to defend all the things that make you into who you are. We all have routines and things in common, that still somehow manage to be totally unique and personal to you.”
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British electro-soul outfit HOT CHIP are set to play tracks from their new album, set for release in early 2008. ‘Made In The Dark’ is the amazing & ambidextrous follow up to the massively acclaimed, Mercury Music Prize nominated album ‘The Warning’ recorded and self-produced during the last six months from their home London studio base. Informed by two solid years of touring (many of the songs you may already know from their live shows) and charts their ever growing sonic ascendance into one of the UK’s most original and like/loveable bands.
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Based on Eel Pie Island, the Bohemian stronghold in the middle of the Thames at Twickenham, the Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous singles Zoo Time, You Cant Fool Me Dennis, On My Feet and Alas Agnes have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe. A universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einzurstende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexys can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present.
A music project conducted by Edward Larrikin, THE PAN I AM combine fluid spoken word, doom stomp beats, screeching guitars, spine shattering violins, and bowel destroying basslines. Expect brooding fairytales and Armageddon chants.
“…more than just music – its an epiphany….” – NME
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Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy will be curating the Maximum Black Festival in London, Berlin and Vienna in February/March 2008 supported, strangely, by the Vienna Public Utilities company.
Vienna Public Utilties approached Final Fantasy in the hope of using their track “This is the song of Win & Regine” for their ad campaign. When Pallet turned them down, the company approached another band and asked them to record a similar song that ended up as a nearly identical cover, which the company then used.
Pallet used the threat of legal action to twist the company’s arm into backing his festival, Maximum Black.
FINAL FANTASY is the solo project of Owen Pallett ex Hidden Cameras member, violist / arranger for The Arcade Fire and guitarist and vocalist from Torontos Les Mouches who has won fans including David Bowie and U2. Tonight he continues to promote his new album ‘He Poos Clouds’, out now on Tom Lab.
Performing solo with only his violin and looping pedal, Owen builds up complex, wonderful songs, with catchy hooks and euphoric lush melodies that recall Rufus Wainwright, Philip Glass and in places Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart…
With guest musicians Pallet creates gems of baroque pop music and is currently working with Arctic Monkey’s Alex Turner on another solo project.
“The world’s most popular gay postmodern harpsichord nerd.” New York Times
“I saw him live and I was mesmerised. I was amazed by his voice and the sound of the whole thing” Kele Okereke; Bloc Party
DIRTY PROJECTORS, the music is many things at once: sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggressive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please, a mixture between soul, punk, pop, noise and complex rock. Dirty Projectors’ new offering, Rise Above, is a reimagining of Black’s Flag seminal 1981 record Damaged. It resounds with a kind of elegant simplicity: beautiful interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and some great songwriting.
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE is the product of Ben Chasny and various recording and live collaborations, including work with drum legend Chris Corsano. Since 1997, Six Organs of Admittance has released on a variety of labels, and in 2005 Ben found a home at Drag City, releasing the landmark School of the Flower. The resultant perfect blend of melody, out-folk, minimalism and noise, earned critical applause and a place on best-of-the-year lists by magazines such as Mojo, Wire, and Magnet. 2006’s The Sun Awakens features some of the most feedback-drenched, dark, cult-chanting, completely beautiful music ever released by the band. Chasny has also played in the touring band of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and plays guitar in the bands Current 93, Badgerlore, and Comets on Fire.
FROG EYES Carey Mercer’s voice channels a distorted Roxy Music, Neil Young and Thurston Moore over incredibly intuitive and connected music. The band assembled by Mercer both counterpoints and supplants in places, Melanie Campbell has developed a drumming style that challenges her husband’s voice as the primary mover and shaker. Michael Rak’s bass playing is steady and precise and it’s certain he’s studied the great Peter Hook. Spencer Krug’s keyboards are an unholy marvel, at once the flock of baroque birds chirping, and at other points the boom and groan of piano earthquake. Mccloud Zicmuse compliments Mercer’s guitar, looping melodic blips and squiggles over the cyclone thrash. Frightening and maybe a little frightened, defiantly soulful and impossibly bleak, a hundred thousand years old, a hundred thousand hailstorms, a hundred thousand old photographs, a hundred thousandth of a second from epiphany.
STEPHEN O’MALLEY & ALEXANDER TUCKER DUO
In an exclusive live collaboration, nomadic Sunn O))) guitarist and
avant-metal icon Stephen O’Malley will team up with London psychedelic folk
artist Alexander Tucker. The duo have previously worked together as part of
Stephen’s side project ‘Ginnungagap’, however this will be the first time
they have shared a stage. Expect transcendental instrumentation, sonic
euphoria and VOLUME.
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Renowned for their attention to detail and their warm analogue sounds, Berlin’s To Rococo Rot jumped into new territory last year with abc123. This mini LP, made for Helvetica’s 50th birthday, superimposed the typeface, in alphabetical order, on to digitised musical wave forms. It’s just the sort of idea to get ICA ears pricked up, but it’s not just a clever-clogs concept – the music sounds brilliant. Come hear for yourself, and find out what they might come up with next.
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An alt.folk star in the ascendant whose striking melodies and wise-beyond-her-years vocals could melt even the iciest of hearts, LAURA MARLING muddles the strength of Regina Spektor with the intelligence of Carole King and the acoustic lushness of Joni Mitchell. She began playing the guitar at the age of three, first being taught the blues by her father in front of the family fire, and has been in thrall to the songs and lyrics of the likes of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, James Taylor and John Mayall ever since.
Now 18 and of legal age to play the Revue Bar, her previous show at this venue saw last-minute eviction from the management and spontaneous busking on the streets of Soho.
LAURA MARLING BARRED FROM OWN GIG FOR BEING TOO YOUNG
Singer busks on street after being asked to leave
Laura Marling was not allowed into her own gig last night (October 1) because she was too young.
The singer, who was due to play the Soho Revenue Bar in London, was asked to leave the venue because she is 17 and no one under 18 is allowed on the premises.
Instead, Marling busked outside the venue before finding another place to play – The Exchange in Gerrard Street – later on in the night.
However, the support bands Noah And The Whale and King Charles – all over 18 – played Soho Revenue Bar.
” such a magical set…The show went on and it was better than it would have been inside”
NME.com 2/10/07
Young, but not your usual angst ridden teens, Charles and Rebecca are SLOW CLUB. Like a one man band with two people. Rockabilly, folk and country all find some kind of place in their very long list of influences.
Slow Club live is emphatically awesome rhythm section; Charles plays guitar and joins Rebecca on vocals, Rebecca also plays drums with her feet and sometimes her hands all whilst standing up, playing water-filled bottles, spoons, tambourine, chair and anything else you can hit with a stick.
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Findlay Brown and his band will be performing new songs from his forthcoming
sophomore album at his January 2008 residency at the Gladstone Arms.
Emotionally-driven, psychedelic, spiked with wit, blessed with a cidery traditionalism and foiled with subtle, yet noticeably modern, production from Simian’s Simon Lord, Findlay’s work is truly ‘alternative folk’, but he says he’s “more influenced by sixties music in turn influenced by folk”. Understated, nylon-stringed acoustica with a timeless and haunting edge.
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