Live music listings: April 2006

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Sat 15th

The Luminaire presents
MY ARCHITECTS
+ Maupa
+ The Bleeding Hearts

Doors 7.30
£5 advance via We Got Tickets, or £6 on the door

"Based in Warrington and pulling threads of influence from the dog-eared overcoats of The Verve and Echo & The Bunnymen, My Architects' attration resides in their knack for penning dark, enchanting melodies as if for fun." [thedownloader.co.uk]
My Architects are five intense young men: Aid Burrows (vocals / acoustic guitar), Rich Robinson (electric guitar), Matt McWilliams (bass), Dave Cheetham (drums) and Mike 'Fibes' Phillips (keyboards / synths / samplers / backing vocals). They formed in 2004 and have been stealthily honing their sound in the North-West over the past year.
'Grand Designs' is the quintet's first release. It was recorded in Warrington and France in the company of James Sanger (U2, Keane) and then mixed by Ian Grimble (Manics, Travis). It is by any standards a lovingly crafted debut. On their seethingly busy MySpace site the band say that they sound like this: "contradictory thoughts and sensations. Like waking from a self-inflicted coma in a forest just a short walk away from the most beautiful sunrise. Everything moves fast at the same time as it moves slow..."
And they aren't wrong.
Main support, we're ENORMOUSLY pleased to say, are Maupa, one of our all-time favourite bands. And The Fly like them too: "... it?s an intricate emotional assault, as they drive songs around like an illegal minicab, cutting up The Zutons at the traffic lights, doing a handbrake turn into a chorus, and knocking down Phil Spector, to pull up leaving us dazed, thrilled and in tears."
First up are The Bleeding Hearts, who take the leftover bits of indie pop, wastefully discarded and forgotten about by everyone else, and make them into beautiful (and slightly weird) songs of their own. "Lovely, louche vocals and Postcard-influenced dreamy indiepop ... rather life affirming."