Hello again!
The quiet before the storm - ha! Next week we have three terrific shows happening so we wanted to send out a general heads up. Next Wednesday at XOYO, we have the long-awaited return of NITE JEWEL to London hot on the heels of Ramona's impressive recent album of swooning synth spells. In support, pushing the dreamscape into hazier territories are Edinburgh's MAGIC EYE and the achingly soulful NICHOLAS KRGOVICH (who is also playing as a member of Nite Jewel too!). Next Thursday at Birthdays, we're very lucky to have a debut UK outing for Nate and Merrill from tUnE-yArDs new dance party project NAYTRONIX, in support we have spirit guides HALO HALO and afro-punk power duo SACRED PAWS too. If that wasn't enough the following Saturday (July 21st at 79 Endell St) we have an exceptionally special show for melancholic legends EYELESS IN GAZA, who will be spoiling us an atmospheric set dancing through their 30 year history, serious highlight of the year material. OK, here's the full blurbs for you all, enjoy...
\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
The quiet before the storm - ha! Next week we have three terrific shows happening so we wanted to send out a general heads up. Next Wednesday at XOYO, we have the long-awaited return of NITE JEWEL to London hot on the heels of Ramona's impressive recent album of swooning synth spells. In support, pushing the dreamscape into hazier territories are Edinburgh's MAGIC EYE and the achingly soulful NICHOLAS KRGOVICH (who is also playing as a member of Nite Jewel too!). Next Thursday at Birthdays, we're very lucky to have a debut UK outing for Nate and Merrill from tUnE-yArDs new dance party project NAYTRONIX, in support we have spirit guides HALO HALO and afro-punk power duo SACRED PAWS too. If that wasn't enough the following Saturday (July 21st at 79 Endell St) we have an exceptionally special show for melancholic legends EYELESS IN GAZA, who will be spoiling us an atmospheric set dancing through their 30 year history, serious highlight of the year material. OK, here's the full blurbs for you all, enjoy...
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NITE JEWEL
MAGIC EYE
NICHOLAS KRGOVICH (of NO KIDS and MT EERIE)
Wednesday 18 July
XOYO, 32 Cowper St, Shoreditch, EC2A 4AW
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
NITE JEWEL aka California native Ramona Gonzalez first began her transcendent minimalist dance-pop escapades in the privacy of her own home in Los Angeles with the aid of her multitrack cassette recorder. She very quickly developed her own unique sound, taking inspiration from European experimental electronic music and U.S. R&B pop, and began performing live in the L.A. area under the moniker Nite Jewel. Since the release of Nite Jewel's mesmerizing 2008 debut 'Good Evening', Ramona and her group have honed their lounge-pop-R&B craft across releases from Italians Do It Better, Mexican Summer and Human Ear, which collectively lead to a wealth of refinement and bold directness in both singing and songwriting. On new album 'One Second Of Love' you'll find a re-imagination of Golden-era R&B pop; future-classic sounds alongside vocal sultriness. If Nite Jewel's earlier work brought to mind the likes of Lisa Lisa or Debbie Deb on quaaludes, this new body of work may conjure up clearer images of Sade, Eurythmics-era Annie Lennox and Tracy Thorn. Produced with longtime collaborator Cole MGN (The Samps, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), the entire affair is pure, confident, singular-but-intricate and delightfully sophisticated. Nite Jewel's evolution of fidelity and nuance comes to a head with the release of One Second of Love, available now on Secretly Canadian.
http://www.nitejewel.com/
MAGIC EYE are a quartet from Edinburgh who create glistening interlocking guitar parts (guitar players Alex and Bek are in total synchronicity), taking their melodies to new heavenly heights and letting each line swim through the track. The shimmering guitar parts brilliantly compliment Roma's bewitching warm-summer-night vocal, reminiscent of Julee Cruise imploring you to "tell your heart that I'm the one..." while all the while Francis holds things in orbit with his sparse, smart, direct beats that echo crisply and cooly throughout Magic Eye's fresh sonic space. The band's 'Shreddin' on Heaven's Floor' cassette album is available now through Animal Images.
http://soundcloud.com/magic-eye-1
NICHOLAS KRGOVICH is a 29 year-old Vancouver-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with NO KIDS, GIGI, P:ANO and MOUNT EERIE. He has been releasing records under various monikers since P:ANO’s acclaimed chamber pop debut “When It’s Dark And It’s Summer” in 2002, which has led to his work with the girl group inspired GIGI, the icy displacement of the r’n’b informed NO KIDS and most recently to the singular pop dreams released under his full legal name NICHOLAS KRGOVICH. Even though the material is often wildly diverse there is a unmistakable sense of Krgovich’s deep commitment to exploring the endless possibilities of pop, a discerning ear for sonic detail and quite often an ambition that wilfully borders on the absurd. With songs that owe as much to the Great American Songbook as to perennial favourites like Sade, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile, Krgovich has been spinning rich compositions out of obsessions with Old Hollywood grandeur and Mullholland Drive-style mystery, which create a dreamland where palm trees cast impossibly long shadows, courtyard swimming pools glow at night, and washed-up movie stars haunt the streets looking for love. With a musical universe comprised of intricate vocal melodies, lush orchestrals, layers of analog synths, slinky funk guitars and tight rhythms of both the human and inhuman variety, Krgovich has been busy putting the finishing touches on his upcoming solo debut LP due later this year.
http://nicholaskrgovich.tumblr.com/
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MAGIC EYE
NICHOLAS KRGOVICH (of NO KIDS and MT EERIE)
Wednesday 18 July
XOYO, 32 Cowper St, Shoreditch, EC2A 4AW
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
NITE JEWEL aka California native Ramona Gonzalez first began her transcendent minimalist dance-pop escapades in the privacy of her own home in Los Angeles with the aid of her multitrack cassette recorder. She very quickly developed her own unique sound, taking inspiration from European experimental electronic music and U.S. R&B pop, and began performing live in the L.A. area under the moniker Nite Jewel. Since the release of Nite Jewel's mesmerizing 2008 debut 'Good Evening', Ramona and her group have honed their lounge-pop-R&B craft across releases from Italians Do It Better, Mexican Summer and Human Ear, which collectively lead to a wealth of refinement and bold directness in both singing and songwriting. On new album 'One Second Of Love' you'll find a re-imagination of Golden-era R&B pop; future-classic sounds alongside vocal sultriness. If Nite Jewel's earlier work brought to mind the likes of Lisa Lisa or Debbie Deb on quaaludes, this new body of work may conjure up clearer images of Sade, Eurythmics-era Annie Lennox and Tracy Thorn. Produced with longtime collaborator Cole MGN (The Samps, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), the entire affair is pure, confident, singular-but-intricate and delightfully sophisticated. Nite Jewel's evolution of fidelity and nuance comes to a head with the release of One Second of Love, available now on Secretly Canadian.
http://www.nitejewel.com/
MAGIC EYE are a quartet from Edinburgh who create glistening interlocking guitar parts (guitar players Alex and Bek are in total synchronicity), taking their melodies to new heavenly heights and letting each line swim through the track. The shimmering guitar parts brilliantly compliment Roma's bewitching warm-summer-night vocal, reminiscent of Julee Cruise imploring you to "tell your heart that I'm the one..." while all the while Francis holds things in orbit with his sparse, smart, direct beats that echo crisply and cooly throughout Magic Eye's fresh sonic space. The band's 'Shreddin' on Heaven's Floor' cassette album is available now through Animal Images.
http://soundcloud.com/magic-eye-1
NICHOLAS KRGOVICH is a 29 year-old Vancouver-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with NO KIDS, GIGI, P:ANO and MOUNT EERIE. He has been releasing records under various monikers since P:ANO’s acclaimed chamber pop debut “When It’s Dark And It’s Summer” in 2002, which has led to his work with the girl group inspired GIGI, the icy displacement of the r’n’b informed NO KIDS and most recently to the singular pop dreams released under his full legal name NICHOLAS KRGOVICH. Even though the material is often wildly diverse there is a unmistakable sense of Krgovich’s deep commitment to exploring the endless possibilities of pop, a discerning ear for sonic detail and quite often an ambition that wilfully borders on the absurd. With songs that owe as much to the Great American Songbook as to perennial favourites like Sade, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile, Krgovich has been spinning rich compositions out of obsessions with Old Hollywood grandeur and Mullholland Drive-style mystery, which create a dreamland where palm trees cast impossibly long shadows, courtyard swimming pools glow at night, and washed-up movie stars haunt the streets looking for love. With a musical universe comprised of intricate vocal melodies, lush orchestrals, layers of analog synths, slinky funk guitars and tight rhythms of both the human and inhuman variety, Krgovich has been busy putting the finishing touches on his upcoming solo debut LP due later this year.
http://nicholaskrgovich.tumblr.com/
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NAYTRONIX
(Nate and Merrill of tUnE-yArDs)
HALO HALO
SACRED PAWS
Thursday 19 July
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
NAYTRONIX is an evil dance band cloned from the stem cells of multi-instrumentalist Nate Brenner. As the bassist for genre-bending institutions tUnE-yArDs (Merrill also plays in Naytronix) and Beep!, he is not a stranger to voyaging across his great many homelands and spinning platinum out of the resources he trades along the way. Nate's songwriting style is deeply rooted in the traditions of the future, which few alive today know anything about. And while the compositions are geared towards the sinister post-apocalyptic dance colonies that are on the verge of sprouting up around the world, an undeniably timeless funk is woven into the Naytronix hit machine. Fashionable grooves merge with found sounds and homemade instruments to unsettling yet familiar effect, as humans play side-by-side with robots, intertwining in a nefarious tango until you don’t know where veins ends and circuitry begins. Brenner has been called, “The Bootsy Collins of Oakland, California,” where he currently resides. He is a native of the synthetic desert cities of William Onyeabor, the vanguard estates of Charles Mingus, and the family manor of Sly Stone. Naytronix have a free EP available through Plug Research now.
http://www.plugresearch.com/naytronix/
HALO HALO take their name from a very tasty, multicoloured desert from the Philippines. They are Jack on drums, singing and Harmonica and Rachel on Banjo, singing and Gill on keyboards and bass. Halo Halo make music that careens, drawing on Appalachian folk rambles as well as the hyper melodic clattering Sinawi vibes of Korea's shamanic past. Check out their debut 7" single 'Manananggal' on Savoury Days and M'Ladys now, as well as their recent split CDR with Colin Min Sai, featuring a live set in Tel Aviv no less!
http://halohalomixmix.blogspot.com/
SACRED PAWS is a meeting of minds. Featuring Rachel Aggs (of Trash Kit, Cover Girl) on guitar and Eilidh Rodgers (of Golden Grrrls) on drums, the duo kick out a spirited mix of afro-pop and sprawling hypno-rock. The sway of the dance party certainly reigns strongly too with songs building to immersive highs whilst both Rachel and Eilidh's vocals tumble in cycles through each other. Sacred Paws have some demos available to hear now on their website below.
http://sacredpaws.bandcamp.com/
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(Nate and Merrill of tUnE-yArDs)
HALO HALO
SACRED PAWS
Thursday 19 July
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
NAYTRONIX is an evil dance band cloned from the stem cells of multi-instrumentalist Nate Brenner. As the bassist for genre-bending institutions tUnE-yArDs (Merrill also plays in Naytronix) and Beep!, he is not a stranger to voyaging across his great many homelands and spinning platinum out of the resources he trades along the way. Nate's songwriting style is deeply rooted in the traditions of the future, which few alive today know anything about. And while the compositions are geared towards the sinister post-apocalyptic dance colonies that are on the verge of sprouting up around the world, an undeniably timeless funk is woven into the Naytronix hit machine. Fashionable grooves merge with found sounds and homemade instruments to unsettling yet familiar effect, as humans play side-by-side with robots, intertwining in a nefarious tango until you don’t know where veins ends and circuitry begins. Brenner has been called, “The Bootsy Collins of Oakland, California,” where he currently resides. He is a native of the synthetic desert cities of William Onyeabor, the vanguard estates of Charles Mingus, and the family manor of Sly Stone. Naytronix have a free EP available through Plug Research now.
http://www.plugresearch.com/naytronix/
HALO HALO take their name from a very tasty, multicoloured desert from the Philippines. They are Jack on drums, singing and Harmonica and Rachel on Banjo, singing and Gill on keyboards and bass. Halo Halo make music that careens, drawing on Appalachian folk rambles as well as the hyper melodic clattering Sinawi vibes of Korea's shamanic past. Check out their debut 7" single 'Manananggal' on Savoury Days and M'Ladys now, as well as their recent split CDR with Colin Min Sai, featuring a live set in Tel Aviv no less!
http://halohalomixmix.blogspot.com/
SACRED PAWS is a meeting of minds. Featuring Rachel Aggs (of Trash Kit, Cover Girl) on guitar and Eilidh Rodgers (of Golden Grrrls) on drums, the duo kick out a spirited mix of afro-pop and sprawling hypno-rock. The sway of the dance party certainly reigns strongly too with songs building to immersive highs whilst both Rachel and Eilidh's vocals tumble in cycles through each other. Sacred Paws have some demos available to hear now on their website below.
http://sacredpaws.bandcamp.com/
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EYELESS IN GAZA
Saturday 21 July
79 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9 DY
8pm | £11.00 | TICKETS
EYELESS IN GAZA formed in 1980 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire and have become over the course of their career one of the UK's most brilliant and idiosyncratic bands. With their self-released debut 7", 'Kodak Ghosts Run Amok', EIG immediately staked their own space in the post punk scheme of things. Boasting a Wasp synth never sounding so triumphant, the single was as much a primal scream of expression as any punk onslaught. Signing to the Cherry Red label the band then released six albums plus an array of singles. From the jagged, spiky soundbites of the first two albums, through to the fully formed 'Back From The Rains', the duo's overall sound blossomed. Their on-stage 'face-off' set-up - Pete Becker juggling live keyboards, bass, drums and backing vocals, positioned directly opposite Martyn Bates' guitars, keyboards and mesmeric, emotive vocal - only compounded to set them apart from, well... everybody.
The strain from pushing, unsuccessfully, to secure a hit single and more crucially, the major label support they were after, pretty much fuelled EIG's break up in 1987. After their split, Bates, in almost defiant fashion, became even more prolific. He released five classy solo albums in as many years before the duo reconvened in 1992. Since then, with Bates' solo outings interspersed, EIG have increasingly stretched their boundaries. The five releases that moved them through the nineties times showcased their seemingly effortless, ability to write truly sublime melodies as well as travel music's hard shoulder. From collaborations on/contributions to projects involving Genesis P. Orridge, Lol Coxhill, poets Anne Clark and Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce's Chamber Music poems, Scorn/Painkiller mainstay M.J. Harris, and Bill Laswell, EIG and Martyn Bates' more 'experimental' side has, pretty much, also spanned their whole musical careers. Their descriptive feel has lent itself to involvement in film as well, from Derek Jarman's 'The Garden and The Last of England' through to 2002's art house hit, 'Intimacy', the soundtrack to which also featured The Clash, The Stooges, David Bowie and Nick Cave. Most recently, Bates has also completed the music for 'The Resurrection Apprentice', a short, directed by filmmaker (Larry Fassenden/Jim Jarmusch collaborator) Glenn McQuaid.
Last year saw the release of EIG's most recent album 'Everyone Feels Like A Stranger' an album described by Uncut Magazine as ”high on English folk/psychedelic textures... a collection of windswept, romantic songs, prickly as holly and sad as old Polaroids... a real career peak.” And this month, sister record "Butterfly Attitude' was released on Downwards to acclaim. Eyeless In Gaza are a truly poetic band and their music, often sepia-toned and camouflaged, still displays all the warm melancholia and fluttering beauty that it ever has. This is going to be a very special show!
http://www.eyelessingaza.com/
Thanks as always for your ongoing support!
We've just announced HELM and DESIGN A WAVE as the special guests playing with EXCEPTER at the end of July too.
Have a brilliant weekend.
UPSET
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EXCEPTER
HELM
DESIGN A WAVE
Tuesday 24 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
N.B. Tickets for this show also guarantee free entry to John Fell Ryan's experimental simulcast soundtracking to 'The Shining' on July 25th (venue TBA) and a synth improv set at Rough Trade East on July 26th using their in-house Schneiders Buro test station. You will also receive a free ultra-limited CD of rare and unreleased Excepter tracks too.
TY SEGALL
SHARM EL SHAKES
SOFT ARROWS
Thursday 2 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
Upset The Rhythm's
SUMMER SHOP WINDOW featuring…
JOHN MAUS
PEEPHOLES
THE PHEROMOANS
TRASH KIT vs DESIGN A WAVE DJs
Tuesday 14 August
Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS "Album Launch Party"
ELA ORLEANS
LIBEREZ
ADAM BOHMAN / ADRIAN NORTHOVER
ACOLYTES DJ SET
Friday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
DIVORCE "Album Launch Party"
BITCHES
ASSS
Thursday 13 September
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
MV & EE with the Home Comfort Sound System
WHOLE VOYALD INFINITE LIGHT
Tuesday 18 September
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEEP TIME
YE LAMPREYS
CHAPTER 24
Friday 21 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DAN DEACON
DENT MAY
SUPER PATTERN
Wednesday 26 September
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
BLACK DICE
DAN FRIEL (of PARTS & LABOR)
TWILIT GROTTO
Thursday 4 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
ELA ORLEANS
APOSTILLE
Thursday 11 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DOOMSDAY STUDENT
(Members of Arab On Radar)
Wednesday 17 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
DOPE BODY
Thursday 25 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
CHAIN & THE GANG
Friday 30 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
PEEPHOLES
THE PHEROMOANS
TRASH KIT vs DESIGN A WAVE DJs
Tuesday 14 August
Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS "Album Launch Party"
ELA ORLEANS
LIBEREZ
ADAM BOHMAN / ADRIAN NORTHOVER
ACOLYTES DJ SET
Friday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
DIVORCE "Album Launch Party"
BITCHES
ASSS
Thursday 13 September
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
MV & EE with the Home Comfort Sound System
WHOLE VOYALD INFINITE LIGHT
Tuesday 18 September
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEEP TIME
YE LAMPREYS
CHAPTER 24
Friday 21 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DAN DEACON
DENT MAY
SUPER PATTERN
Wednesday 26 September
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
BLACK DICE
DAN FRIEL (of PARTS & LABOR)
TWILIT GROTTO
Thursday 4 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
ELA ORLEANS
APOSTILLE
Thursday 11 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DOOMSDAY STUDENT
(Members of Arab On Radar)
Wednesday 17 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
DOPE BODY
Thursday 25 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
CHAIN & THE GANG
Friday 30 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
