I LIKE TRAINS + Lionel Solveigh

Thu 30th Apr 2009

The Luminaire and Dour Festival presents
A DOUR FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY with
I LIKE TRAINS
 + Lionel Solveigh


Doors 7.30
Lionel Solveigh 8.30
I Like Trains 9.30

£10 door

To celebrate the 21st birthday of Belgium's wonderful Dour Festival, we present two of Dour's 2009 acts; I Like Trains and a soon-to-be-announced Belgian band.

Belgium's Dour festival is a remedy against the credit crunch. 85 Euros for 4 days of music filled with 200 bands on 6 stages, 16-19 July. Beat that! If you're into electro beats and music to dance on you're in for a treat as Santigold, MSTRKRFT, Aphex Twin, Diplo, Crystal Castles, Andy C and many others will get your pulse racing at Dour this summer. Now maybe you're more into indie and experimental stuff.. okay... what about Mercury Rev, Deerhoof, Killing Joke, The Horrors and I'm from Barcelona? For the more urban minded amongst you there's a good dose of reggae and hip-hop at Dour: Roots Manuva, 5 Elements of Hip-Hop, Buju Banton, Israel Vibration, Anthony B and there you have it: good music (with another 180+ bands on top), good beer, great atmosphere and all that for just 85 Euros. Would you miss that?

Full line-up and ticket info: www.dourfestival.be | blog: www.doureuh.be

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"Intelligent, very dark humorists. This is grand and slightly unapproachable civic music, less to be listened to and more to be visited like a museum or war memorial, and all the more interesting because of it. Pop music is traditionally the sound of now. The genius of I Like Trains, rests in the fact that they're more interested in being the sound of then. A band whose sound is akin to Interpol sound tracking a state funeral." - The Guardian

 

I Like Trains have created their own singular world sitting in delightfully dark, cultish contrast to  the rest of the music scene. Their musical intentions are far removed from the traditional clichés of the media and yet through their spine tingling anthems they have earned a huge following of dedicated and passionate fans. With the release of their debut album last October, their reputation has extended far and wide, out of Leeds, into Europe and across to America.

"Frankly, genius is an understatement." - NME

Termed fittingly by The Times as 'Library Rock', their use of tragic historical characters and morose events to instill specific emotion to their epic music, is exquisitely English and has won them support from all areas. They have been covered widely in publications ranging from the NME to the Financial Times, The Sun and Daily Mail to Rail News; from Aesthetica, Bizarre and American Hustler to Broadsheet press. They have been quietly praised in all the music monthlies and were number 2 in Mojo listeners best songs. They have been on Radio One, Radio 2, Radio 4, 6Music and The BBC's Politics Programme, have been mentioned in the House of Commons and given talks at universities. With an ever increasing audience, they have performed at most major festivals; headlined to thousands in some European countries and have sold out London's Dingwalls and The Scala.

"Rock's unlikeliest cult group on the brink of chart success." - The Times

Though history may seem an unlikely 'rock' topic, I Like Trains succeed in bringing the past into present via incredible, rousing tales of courage and failure set against beautiful, often monstrous musical pieces. More plaudits for I Like Trains follow...

 

"I Like Trains are dour romantics compelled by a fading memory of Yorkshire's Industrial Sublime... the songs create a grandly sad, authentically odd world of their own." - Uncut

"With gigantic waves of grey rock sound, as fashioned by Americans Low with a Music Hall Goth feel, this Leeds outfit are a complete one-off. A striking debut." - The Mirror

"Bold and Impressive." - Mojo

"Unique, deep, soothing, trustworthy." - Plan B

"I Like Trains stand firmly and gloriously out of place in a country full of haircuts. More Heart, soul and dynamics than the whole of the indie top 40 put together." - Drowned In Sound

"The sound of Joy Division growing up and discovering hope. Special." - The Fly

"In terms of modern intellectual music making, it is an unequivocal masterpiece." - RoomThirteen

 

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