THE RESEARCH + Threatmantics

Wed 22nd Oct 2008

Eat Your Own Ears presents
THE RESEARCH
+ Threatmantics

Doors 7.30
£7.50 via SeeTickets / 0870 264 3333
and TicketWeb / 08700 600 100

The Research - a three piece from Wakefield with a gift for sunshine melodies - play a tight live set of art-rock-pop as they mix minimalist guitars, punchy bass lines, swelling keyboards and pounding rhythms.

Marrying memorable choruses with fuzzy casio keyboard riffs they have created a distinctive woozy sound that works as an eminently recognisable backdrop to their tales of love, both lost and gained. Imagine the emotional witterings of David Gedge or Darren Hayman but sitting over rumbling basslines and shambolic electro rhythms and you get the tear stained picture. The trick though is that whilst the lyrics veer from the deliriously happy to, more often, lower lip wobblingly sad, the music is almost uniformly upbeat and positive.

“They haven’t been playing out so much on account of their troubles but all that is about to make a ch ch ch ch change. Sarah is moving back to Wakefield and The Research will be born again and they will bring joy to all the creatures again and they will be mortally uncomplicated again and they will have wings and they will take you under them and show you how to disappear and then set you almost free. They are the same as ever, and yet, somehow, terribly different. Here goes nothing...”

Threatmantics support.

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