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Sun 21st

The Luminaire presents
METRONOMY
+ Cold War Kids
+ Lovers Electric

Doors 8.00
£6 via WeGotTickets

After the various bands he played for were slowly ripped apart by girls, Joseph Mount became Metronomy; a disillusioned rock ‘n’ roll drummer from the Devonshire hills. Using an out-dated computer sold to him by his father and embracing his own limitations, he now writes, performs and produces his own music. After perfecting his craft in the West Country (learning various instruments and life-lessons along the way) Metronomy swapped deepest, darkest Devon for shallowest, brightest Brighton. It is in Brighton that Metronomy now resides, steadily building up a die-hard fanbase and a reputation for charming live shows, sometimes solo, sometimes with his backing band ‘The Food Groups’.
Main supporters this evening are Cold War Kids who're just about to tour the US with Tapes 'n' Tapes.
From Fullerton, California they started with jangly guitar, hand claps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room and for the first practices, having instruments was not as important as heavy stomping and chanting. Clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls. Hollering into tape recorders. Slipping and swaying into alleyways and juke joints of yesteryear. Dreaming the American dust bowl and British maritime. Cold War Kids make songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. Using songs of Dylan, Billie Holiday, and the Velvet Underground as a road map, they strive to manipulate, structure, and style their music with honesty.
But to us they sound like French Kicks only better, which is an wonderful thing.
First on are one of our favourite bands around these parts; Lovers Electric - two strikingly good-looking Australians, now residing in less-sunny Hackney. Theirs is a fantastically engaging indie-pop affair, biting - but never vicious, sweet - but never saccharine.