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Future Islands + Hands on Heads + Internet Forever (Sun 1st March, Old Blue Last)
Can't find a thread for this already, so here's the info copied from the Upset The Rhythm site...
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FUTURE ISLANDS
HANDS ON HEADS
INTERNET FOREVER
Sunday 1 March
The Old Blue Last
39 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8:00 | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/44062
FUTURE ISLANDS are a new-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in the fertile "music capital of awesome", Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post-punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by ecstatic, electronic rhythms. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the band's sound however, takes the form of Sam Herring's guttural vocal, delivered as Glen Danzig if he ever found himself in a Shakespearean tragedy. At times on its knees at others belted out like it's the end of the world, Herring's vocal lends a raw emotional warmth to the group's resolute synth-punk bounce. New album 'Wave Like Home 'is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
www.myspace.com/futureislands
HANDS ON HEADS are a quartet from London, who, of late, have been ditching the shock-and-awe songwriting tactics of old in favour of something far more melodious. Finding inspiration in the experimentations of early 80s groups like XTC, as well as the no-nonsense approach of grunge, the result is a bolder set of songs that attempt to uncover the surprise and revolutionary potential in the medium of pop music. Their second LP 'Tough Fun' is set for release very shortly.
www.myspace.com/handsonheads
INTERNET FOREVER is the kind of band that you secretly wish never get well-known and you can put on mix tapes, so when people in your car ask "who is this?" you can be the smuggest indie kid ever. They're a London band who drink from the cup of noise-pop merchants like Times New Viking, only Internet Forever make something a whole lot sweeter - the cutest sounds you've heard since the height of The Moldy Peaches.
www.myspace.com/internetforever
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