Wednesday 29 April 2015

Moon Duo in London tomorrow and Martin Newell this September!

 
Morning everyone!
Just a quick reminder that our MOON DUO show takes place tomorrow at Village Underground. Tickets have almost gone for this one, so buying in advance is advised. PINKSHINYULTRABLAST will be making their UK debut in support too, it’s going to ascend like a heavy planet over London, we’ll feel the tide in our pulse. All you need to know can be found below.


Also this week, we’ve announced a glorious September afternoon of autumnal dazzle spent in the company of the inestimable MARTIN NEWELL (of Cleaners From Venus, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Plod). ‘The Golden Afternoon’ will feature two sets of music on guitar and piano, poetry, tales about Denmark Street (where Martin lived for some time in the 80s when working in Tin Pan Alley), as well as ample tea vs cake provisions. This is an extremely rare occurrence as ‘The Golden Afternoon’ has never visited London before and Martin’s musical performances here over the last few decades can be counted on one hand. Come see the ‘Wild Man of Wivenhoe’ wade through the waking memories of the West End, this will prove very special indeed! Details for this event are included in the listings section at the end of this missive, thank you for reading!



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MOON DUO
PINKSHINYULTRABLAST
Thursday 30 April
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ

MOON DUO formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada. Their first two critically acclaimed EPs fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock. This set the template for their debut album ‘Mazes’, which evolved into a far broader, lighter, sound. That’s most clear on the dreamy organ and skipping riff of the title track, which recalls the Velvet Underground, or the handclaps and swinging organ bloops over the potent shredding and guttural riff delivered by Johnson in ‘When You Cut’. 2013, saw Moon Duo release ‘Circles’, their second full-length LP. The groundwork for the album was laid at the band’s home in Blue River, Colorado in the early months of 2012, where all songs were written, and the preliminary tracks recorded. Inspiration for many of the songs themes, as well as the title ‘Circles’, came from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay by the same name, on the symbol and nature of “the flying Perfect.” Moon Duo’s brand new album was released last month also by Sacred Bones and is entitled ‘Shadow of the Sun’. Exploring the record, you’ll hear the song "Night Beat," with its off-kilter dance rhythm, as an attempt by the band to find deeper meaning across the shifting ground of their constant experimentalism, whilst tracks like “Wilding" deliver that at once familiar Moon Duo sound, taking refuge in a repetitive, grinding riff-scape. It’s not so much a psychedelic album as it is a psychedelic trip and their live shows can attest to that!
http://moonduo.org

PINKSHINYULTRABLAST are a five piece from Russia’s St Petersburg whose artistic desire was to create something radically different from the “totally boring” local indie scene that surrounded them at home. If you carry any dreary, grey-stained stereotypes of what Russian rock is, prepare to have your imagination cremated by the euphoric and latitudinous shoegaze blend of their debut album, ‘Everything Else Matters’, which anchors itself somewhere between Cocteau Twins-ian atmosphere and the melodic glitter of a Polica record. Inspired by a classic Astrobrite album that “researched spaces between ambient, heavy guitar and pop music”, the band preach their mantra via the juxtaposition of lead singer Lyubov’s tender female vocals against pure and epic waves of lush instrumentation. However, the real pay off comes from band member Rustam, whose contribution - labelled as “synths and electronics" - gives the entire thing the kind of kaleidoscopic melancholy that comes across like Andrew Weatherall mulling life over on a summer afternoon. New release, ‘Ravestar Supreme’ evokes elegiac, widescreen visions of scenery passing by your speeding window in a shimmering minor key and is available now through Club AC30.
http://pinkshinyultrablast.bandcamp.com/



Looking forward to tomorrow, hope to see you there!
Have a terrific bank holiday otherwise,
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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MOON DUO
PINKSHINYULTRABLAST
Thursday 30 April
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ

RICHARD DAWSON
POWERDOVE
LONDON SACRED HARP
Wednesday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

SIR RICHARD BISHOP
MARKERS
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7.30pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250

MONOTONY // 7” Launch //
THE WORMS
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST
Monday 25 May (Bank Holiday Matinee)
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE

THE JULIE RUIN
Tuesday 26 May
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | 12 | SOLD OUT

ROSE MCDOWALL
THE WHARVES
Thursday 28 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL

PROLAPSE
ART TRIP AND THE STATIC SOUND
Friday 29 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

PROLAPSE
THE WOLFHOUNDS
Saturday 30 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10 | SOLD OUT

MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL

SAUNA YOUTH // Album launch //
PRIMETIME
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH

NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9 June
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

AUSMUTEANTS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB

LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11 June
Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ

DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16 June
Oval Space, 29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT

ARIEL PINK
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT

REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22 June
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL

VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1 July
Montague Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA

DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096

MARTIN NEWELL - ‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG

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