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Mon 4th Metropolis Music presents BLANCHE + Mr David Viner
Doors 7.30
"Blanche inhabit a stylised, old-time world of snake-oil peddlers and starched collard wilted by sin." [Observer] "If our debut album was about life throwing you in a dich and thinking about why these horribly sad things happen I guess this is about pulling yourself out of that ditch", says Dan John Miller of the 'What This Town Needs' EP and forthcoming album 'Little Amber Bottles' (due out Feb 2007). Featuring the title track, a heartbreaking funeral march version of the Rolling Stones' "Child of the Moon", and also three EP exclusive songs: 'Scar Beneath The Skin', the previously unreleased 'Never Again', a furious live version the show-ending 'Someday', recorded at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands plus a live video of 'So Long Cruel World' from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago - a New Year's Eve 2003 show they played with The White Stripes and Flaming Lips. "The Handsome Family should be vigilant: there's a challenge to their supremacy as the frightening first couple of American gothic." [Mojo] With glints of grit and strychnine-laced grandeur from the birthplace of Motown, Blanche weave eerily beautiful tales, inspired by Depression-era blues, early country music, and stripped down rock and roll all delivered in the style of an electrified 1920's gospel quintet. Their latest EP 'What This Town Needs' is the follow up to 2004's debut 'If We Can't Trust The Doctors' - an eerie collection of tales of the unexpected that dealt with faith, no hope and very little charity. Featuring contributions from Jack White and Brendan Benson it was an album that led critics to draw comparisons with the black romance of Nick Cave and the back-porch charm of The Carter Family. On tour with The White Stripes in the UK Blanche proved they could deliver the goods live and when they formed the back-bone to Loretta Lynn's backing band on her Grammy award winning Van Lear Rose they provided the perfect foil to White's electric dreams and the grand dame of country's legendary voice. At the center of all this stunning, haunting and inviting music are the married couple Dan John (who recently played Luther Perkins in Cash bio-pic Walk The Line) and Tracee Mae Miller. Surrounding their starkly poignant vocals, Blanche is a vision of steel-pedal coached ache and exuberance courtesy of pedal steel player Feeny, Little Jack Lawrence (of The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs) on banjo and mandolin and primal drumming provided by Lisa Jannon. |
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