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Sat 5th ATP Concerts presents COMETS ON FIRE + Guests
Doors 8.00 Acid kings of blistering sky-ripped pyschedelic rock and roll, Comets on Fire return to the UK for a rare one-off show on July 5th 2008 at London’s Luminaire. Ethan Miller (guitar/vocals) and Ben Flashman (bass) formed Comets on Fire just prior to the turn of the century in the drug-infested hippie town of Santa Cruz, California. Their original intent was to create a rock group free of commercial pretensions or genre trend; one that simply dealt in pure bombast, attack, overwhelming distortion and chaos, and yet possessing a shameless love for anthemic choruses, shattering hooks and riffs, and the smoke and magic of yesteryears’ rock and roll iconoclasts. They now number five members, and live and work in San Francisco and Oakland, but have retained their original directive. With a line up augmented by Noel Harmonson (savage analog electronicist and vocal echoplex player), Utrillo Belcher (drums) and Ben Chasny (otherwise known as Six Organs of Admittance - equal parts madman and genius folk hero) on second guitar the band have released a number of albums since their self titled debut in 2000 including Field Recordings From The Sun (Sweet Nothing) , Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop) and Avatar (Sub Pop) the band carved out the modern template of what can only be described as a sonic shitstorm - an unbreakable stone groove of telepathic rock improvisation. Following the release of their last and most recent album ‘Avatar’ (Sub Pop, 2006) the band took a hiatus from recording though have continued to dust down the cobwebs at various intervals to perform within the US. The band’s headline show at the Luminaire in July promises to be a rare and thrilling no-fi-blown-to-shit monster-mash of cosmic bliss after which they head off to Seattle to blow apart Sub Pop’s 20th Anniversary celebrations. |
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