MANCHESTERMUSIC.Co.Uk
& VManEvents presents :: THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS #26 ::
Academy 3,
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65 DAYS OF STATIC
STRANGER SON OF WB
YENA VELDT
LAST CHANCE TO DANCE
+ Live electronica and visual delights!
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The Electric Circus continues it’s eclectic run
with a mind meld of visiting and local acts, this time framed within the
impressive stage of the Academy 3.
Stranger Son of WB - Feature Gareth Smith (ex-Virus House) and Tim and Chris (ex-Sonar
Yen) Stranger Son WB should be taken for more than the sum of their former
outfits. Danceable, baggy rhythms, noise-core guitar and Smith's own inimitable
bark of a fucked dalek definitely ones to keep a eye on.
Yena Veldt wear post rock crowns at
jaunty angles – they “succeed where so many Albini-loving thrashers fail, by knowing that loud
discordant guitars only work when wielded with genuine spirit and just enough
of a tune to hook you. On “I Died of a Broken Leg” the
fractured Sonic Youth spiked instrumental assault ends in wordless, atonal
vocal exclamations, made all the more intense by an understated and almost
static stage presence”
65 Days Of Static Info :
Two short months after headlining at the Music Box,
65 DaysOfStatic return with their biggest
Released
last September on Monotreme Records, 'The Fall of
Math' became one of the most acclaimed debuts of last year. Topping many critics lists and gaining a sizeable and rapidly-growing set
of devotees, it received praise across the board from the likes of Radio 1 and
NME to Kerrang and Rock Sound. As well as being Radio
1 single of the week in November for Zane Lowe's Evening Session (for 'Retreat!
Retreat!'), the band were also a favorite of the late
John Peel, belatedly recording a session for his show towards the end of last
year.
A mix of live bands, DJs and mindbending computer
projections, 65DaysOfStatic redefine the rules of a conventional gig, blurring
the lines between a gig and club night. The 65Days’ sound is certainly
difficult to categorize; indeed, few bands can claim adoration from such a wide
range of sources. It's a sound where guitars as ear-meltingly loud as they are
soothing stand alongside a percussive force of live and computerized D n' B-esque beats. A sound encompassing every instrument from
strings to glockenspiels to electronic samples; a marriage of post-rock and electronica that is ambitious and unique but never
pretentious or inaccessible. It's seen the band compared to acts as disparate
as Mogwai, Kraftwerk, Radiohead and Aphex Twin, all
revered artists at opposite poles of the music spectrum.
In a musical climate obsessed with the past, here's a band that look more
toward a future of infinite possibilities. 65DaysOfStatic don't want to be the
sound of now or 30 years ago, they're too excited about what's ahead to think
about staying still, 65hardcorerules.
"65DaysOfStatic, however, genuinely seem intent on gatecrashing
a genre and redefining its boundaries. Their knack of infusing levitating Mogwai-esque ambience with sk ittish breakbeats is truly without precedent. 'The Fall of Math'
is a cold, compelling, carefully crafted nightmare of a record that has the
potential to turn your blood to vodka if you listen to it on a bad day" Kerrang KKKK
"It took Radiohead three albums to become this
adventurous. Instead of
sounding like some scrappy, mix-genre soundclash,
65DaysOfStatic take your preconceptions and smash them into a million pieces.
Go home, take your safe indie-punk records and burn
them. 65DaysOfStatic have their heads in 2007 and everyone else is thirty years
behind... Magnificent. It's clear that 'The Fall of
Math' was created to worship the beauty of music." Simon Smerdon- Playlouder
" 65DaysOfStatic have won tonight's 'Fresh Meat'
with a phenomenal
response!!... truly deserved. This band are gonna be massive and we're proud to be there along side
them." Zane Lowe, Radio One Evening Session
"A big, brooding piece of work..." Steve Lamacq-
Radio One L amacq Live
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