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Fri 18th Don't You Wonder Sometimes presents PERICO & THE PAPER CINEMA + Lautrec + Ayu
Doors 8.00
Welcome to the third instalment of audio-visual / band night 'Don't You Wonder Sometimes' at The Luminaire. It has taken three years for Perico to plunder their way through antique shops and musical styles to bring you the flamboyant display of moods, sounds and instruments you see today. While they most definitely hark from the UK, with ironic ballads of break-up suburban drudgery and drunken misadventure abounding, Perico at the same time offer and antidote to this world. And they have found a worthy soul-mate in the Paper Cinema - the brainchild of artist Nic Beard - a stange contraption of paper puppets that rattles to life before each gig, projecting its bizarre cast behind leaping silhouttes of Perico's musicians. Like Perico, The Paper Cinema is a world at odds with itself, trapped between ancient myth and modern day fable. "Radiohead meets Morricone. Love the instrumentation." [David Holmes, producer/film composer] "Utterly unique…a singer and his pocket-orchestra that swing between debauched cabaret and profound melancholy" [The Guardian] "It's hard to pin down, but Perico have hit upon quite a unique sound that echoes an unscripted cabaret. An animation show performed by the Paper Cinema, displayed on a big screen in unison, compliments the songs with romantic images of revellers caught up in a dark but sweet world of their own making." [Battersea Arts Centre, London] "Imagine a musical landscape full of romance, with flamenco-style acoustic guitars and trumpets; with sudden bursts of passion and slow interludes of implicit tragedy. The only other British indie band I can think of who likewise cultivate their fertile garden without a care for a world of fashionable facsimiles is The Tindersticks." [Neil Scott, The Mind's Construction] "Climatic finishes that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Tarantino movie." [Maxim Fernandez, Glasswerk]
The evening begins with a support set by video-art / electronica band Lautrec and Japanese alt.solo artist Ayu, both featuring visuals by Davide Maione. |
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