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Mon 20th The Luminaire presents DUFUS + Woog Riots + John et Jehn + Spinmaster Plantpot + One Imaginary Girl [DJ set]
Doors 7.30
“I fucking dare you not to love this band.” [Splendid] Dufus will be on tour in support of their new album 'The Last Classed Blast' throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America in 2006-2007 “Phenomenal live.” [NME] Dufus wears experimental song structures and their own handmade clothing, improvising often during live performance with a blend of different forms in often unexpected and pleasantly surprising ways while all the time maintaining an uplifting experience deliberately for the listener's benefit. The use of all forms of art seem to be included, musically/visually stimulating with a degree of performance art unknown to most audiences. “Listening to Dufus is like being thrust into a child’s drawing. It’s capable of changing the world.” [City Hub] Within the music resides a severe tension in constant jeopardy of hurtling out of control; aggressive and nurturing, chaotic yet structured, solitary and social, apolitical and revolutionary. It is complex genius, yet there is something innocent and pure, something so subconscious that one gets the feeling they are in a strange and new land unsure of what has changed. “For those who like Frank Zappa but wish he had been weirder, Dufus plays frantic fever-dream folk slashed through with rock stabs. The band has ties to the local anti-folk scene, but Dufus’ extrapolations are bigger and more ambitious". [The Onion] The live performance set up can vary from acoustic guitar with choir to full band and auxiliary instruments... up to 20 members but as few as 2. Seth Faergolzia, frontman for the band, also does touring as a solo artist visiting cities and forming impromptu bands with fans and members of friendly bands. Dufus continually adds new members to the band, seeking variety and collaboration. Each album is a journey in sound with musicians’ skills ranging from virtuosic to amateur; and somehow it all works. Hi-Fi meets Lo-Fi in an experiment historical.
“Dufus looks at a 3 year old child banging a saucepan with a wooden spoon and thinks: ‘You’ve got something there kid.’ Turns out they were right. They took that saucepan and spoon and wrote a textured and intense opera." Main support are Woog Riots who play lo-fi-pop. The core of the band consists of Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert from Italy & Germany. Mixed English male/female vocals, garage guitars and Casio tunes comprise the typical Woog Riots sound. The band line-up varies on different occasions, completed by friends on bass and drums. Their debut album 'Strangelove TV' (What’s So Funny About/Indigo) was released in Germany in March 2006. German press has compared the Woog Riots to New York’s Antifolk scene and to bands like the Moldy Peaches and the early Adam Green. But in contrast to the minimalism of that genre, the Woog Riots play the charm of pop and compellingly danceable beats in the spirit of punk with obscure instruments like the Omnichord, Stylophone and a musical saw.
Before that are our favourite French band right now; John et Jehn. Before that, the mighty Spinmaster Plantpot supports. Very, very pleased to welcome him back to the fold. Have a look and see what he does here. This was him on stage at Lumi's first birthday party. Click here for Nick White's fantastic gig poster. |
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