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/
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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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
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
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
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
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
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316346
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
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
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
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
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
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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