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White Heat every Tuesday at Madame Jojo's
* Tickets: Usually sell out quickly. Click me to buy (Tickets holders get reserved and priority
entry)
Tuesday, February 16: Freelance Whales + Gyratory System + New Islands + THINK ABOUT LIFE LATENIGHT!
Think About Life Latenight party set
www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife
Freelance Whales have been supporting our old friends Fanfarlo around the US and they're coming over here to play for us. They've got a single coming out in February too:
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=322078
"Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs."
"It's awash with gentle, naive bliss, and if you're the type that likes to observe hooks blossoming with the pace of an actual flower opening, then you might have just found a new favourite band." - NME
www.myspace.com/freelancewhales
We're entering into that dangerous territory where the word 'eclectic' might be used for or against us here. Gyratory System are pretty special though. They were even asked to Support Soulwax at their recent Brixton Academy shows!
"Gyratory System is a live/electronica project started by producer Andrew Blick. It takes conventional musical sounds, shatters them into small pieces, processes and reassembles them, to create the sound of a distorted marching band stopping off to pick up a rhythm section at Lagos en route to a rave in Dusseldorf."
“Like a score written by Kraftwerk and Looney Tunes…slightly maddening and totally compelling…this lurchy, lovely…thing’– NME, 8/10 album review
“an amazing album...mind bogglingly brilliant bonkers electronica” – Huw Stephens, 1FM
“not only is this a superb album but you won't hear another one like it all year” – John Doran, BBC Music
“Ridiculously awesome…This is the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra captured by a SETI cluster, processed through a myriad of deluded wobbly synthesisers and spat in your grimacing face” – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
www.myspace.com/gyratorysystem
Opening are NewIslands from (slightly) up north:
http://www.myspace.com/newislands
Latenight, for dancing purposes we've got Think About Life all the way from Montreal!
http://www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife
Tuesday, February 23: Wild Palms + Hot Horizons + Filthy Boy
We've finally got Wild Palms along for a White Heat headline. They're one of the best new bands in the country at the moment (in my opinion obviously) and heading up up up. Catch 'em before they get there.
www.myspace.com/wearewildpalms
www.myspace.com/hothorizons
www.myspace.com/filthyboyswithfilthytoys
Tuesday 2nd March: Dum Dum Girls + Veronica Falls + Yuck
Dum Dum Girls are signed to Sub Pop and make the kind of lo-fi fuzz pop that's "neither lo-fi nor too polished ... a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the '60s girl groups and early punk rockers" according to Rough Trade. They say they're making ‘blissed-out buzz saw’ and that's about right too. It's very, very good.
www.myspace.com/dumdumgirls
Veronica Falls
London-based four piece (two girls, two boys) born in and around the Glasgow School of Art. Sublime, with a strong Velvets feeling. Strong contenders for 2010.
www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard
Yuck
“These north London newbies are not yuck at all, they're pretty good, sounding like a shoegazey Sonic Youth” – Paul Lester, The Guardian.
http://www.myspace.com/yuckband
Tuesday 9th March: Wolf Gang + Darwin Deez + Children Collide
“Wolf Gang is really Max McElligott, who ... turned down lucrative employment with the Foreign Office to swing-dance with A-list actresses in the capital, host parties and masked balls, and make music influenced by the cerebral likes of David Byrne, Brian Eno and David Bowie … You can tell the (whiz) kid's in love with late-70s Berlin-era Bowie/Eno and the (Eno-enhanced) brainiac funk of Byrne and his Talking Heads … it's somewhere between the sweet sass of Orange Juice, Remain in Light-era Talking Heads and Bryan Ferry, by way of the multilayered pop of Grizzly Bear. It's AMAZING." From review by Paul Lester, The Guardian, July 2009.
www.myspace.com/thisiswolfgang
Darwin Deez
Isro-haired, dancing New Yorker Darwin describes his music as "happy music for sad people, white music for black people," "indie rock with a side of calisthenics", and it works.
“It's brittle, plaintive, warm and breezy indie-pop recorded probably on some beaten up old dictaphone he's had since he was a kid but somehow ends up sounded totally f*****g awesome” – NME.
www.myspace.com/darwindeez
Children Collide
With their first album just out, this Melbourne three-piece have already picked up a reputation for imposing live performances, with high voltage numbers described as “just waiting to explode amongst an intimately sized sweaty moshpit” (AccessAllAreas).
www.myspace.com/childrencollide
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