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Wed 7th The Luminaire presents THE LOW LOWS + The Parkbench Trio + Nic Dawson Kelly
Doors 7.30 "Moody and hauntingly poetic...divine." [Time Out] After the resignation of Lily Wolfe closed the books on critically acclaimed NYC dream-pop quartet Parker & Lily two years ago, the remaining members of the band reconfigured into the Georgia trio named (after Parker & Lily's third and final album) The Low Lows. 'Fire On The Bright Sky', their debut album, was released in October. “A fantastic audio experience…slow, menacing but with a strange magic” **** [Maverick Magazine] Stark Southern sweetness gives way unexpectedly to great storms of guitar noise, bright walls of country narcosis crumble into climactic, stomping feedback and distortion. Sheets of dissonance and Parker maverick Noon's arcing wail conjure Galaxie 500 or Electr-O-Pura era Yo La Tengo. Dark, brooding southern gothic sounds, the music veers from hushed sweetness to raucous reverb whilst never loosing its warmth or sensibility. “The kind of record seeped in such sadness that baffled writers usually declare it genius due to its sheer human extremity. Count me in.” [Is This Music?] The Low Lows' live show is a dishevelled but exhilarating beast, typically faster and much noisier than the albums, saturated with Daniel Rickard's rolling, distorted Farfisa and driven by Jeremy Wheatley's insistent drums. "Monstrously sad and brilliantly anachronistic... Three sparkling, slightly surreal rock icons that seem to have been constructed out of feedback and white noise. Like werewolves mutating, feedback drips from freshly exposed fangs... Then suddenly they return to us, playing pretty, remorseful songs about the carnage they caused." [Los Angeles Weekly] Main support are The Parkbench Trio, which features vocalist Martin Thomas Wissenberg from the The Chinamen, bottleneck blues maestro Tom Rodwell on electric guitars and electro jazz fiend Etmo on Saxes and Kaoss pad. The music is mellow, lyrically interesting and sublimely delivered with great feel and attention, bridging the divides between folk, Americana, jazz and blues. Live, The Parkbench Trio is steeped in psychedelia and improv, with a tendency to explode slowly. Think John Martyn and Nick Cave sipping cocktails on Tom Wait's front porch.
Opening the evening is Reading's Nic Dawson Kelly, sitting somewhere between Ryan Adams, Devendra Banhart and Anthony & The Johnsons is Reading via Brighton singer/songwriter Nic Dawson Kelly. Having already played with Jamie T and forged friendships and plans across the capital, 2007 is shaping up well for this 23-year-old troubadour. |
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