SILVER JEWS
MARBLE VALLEY (the project of former Pavement drummer Steve West)
ABSENTEE
Saturday July 15th
Doors 6pm
Mean Fiddler, 165 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2 0EN
Tel: 020 7434 9592 www.meanfiddler.com
www.silverjews.net
www.dragcity.com
www.myspace.com/marblevalley
www.absenteemusic.co.uk
Tickets ?16 advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 08700 600 100 www.seetickets.com Tel: 0870 060 3777 and Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London Tel: 0207 240 0105
After selling out two dates at the Scala in April skewed rock idols
Silver Jews will play their 3rd ever London show at the Mean Fiddler on
Saturday July 15th.
Mainstay Berman, (who founded Silver Jews with Pavement’s Stephen
Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich in 1990), has promised a live extravaganza
in the wake of last year’s excellent Tanglewood Numbers album (the
band’s sixth ? it featured ‘honorary Jews’ Will Oldham, Lambchop’s Tony
Crow and ex-member Malkmus amongst others). As one might expect from
the self-proclaimed ‘dumbfounding psyche-theistic humanist
hawk-rockers’, this will be no everyday gig?
“The Scala show was… Utterly thrilling: a 17-song set that ranged
blissfully across the entire back catalogue, punctuated with engaging
banter from the frontman and, in honour of old times perhaps, a dirty
joke. It was practically a blueprint for live shows; anyone would have
thought Berman had been at this for years.” 4/5 The Guardian
MARBLE VALLEY is the project of former Pavement drummer Steve
West. Their third record was just released on Indikator Rekords
(Berlin).
“If you took a can of Kraftwerk, added a spoonfull of Can, throw in a sprinkle of the Pogues, brought it all
to a boil and tossed it on the Pavement you would have Marble Valleys new CD Wild Yams.
ABSENTEE play a live set that sees them mix poignant Smog like melodies
with Bonnie Prince Billy’s quirkyness with the gnarled drawl of
say Tom Waits. Absentee have songs better than either of their
mope-rock peers have written in years, being friends with The Magic
Numbers….
“these songs make each hair on the back of the neck shiver like leaves in the wind.” Five Stars NME
“fabulous songs, streaked through with dark humour and drunken
warmth…perhaps the best of the new London hopefuls”. Record Collector
“wonderful, sordidly warm alt rok” Rocksound