Keyword results: Speak n Spell Records
What:
School of Seven Bells
Where:
The Zoo, 711 Ann St, Fortitude Valley
When:
Fri Apr 24, doors 8.00pm
How much:
$33.50 +BF from here
Win:
Thanks to Speak n Spell, we have 2 MORE dbl passes and 2 CDs to give away! (The ticket winners get the CDs too.) To enter, email win@fourthousand.com.au with the subject line 'Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak!'
Description:
New York's School of Seven Bells are a shaking musical embrace, and they're bringing us their dream-pop to promote their debut LP, Alpinisms. The trio is made up of sisters Claudia and Alejandra Deheza (ex-On!Air!Library!) and Benjamin Curtis (ex-Secret Machines). Wear some heavy shoes lest you get blown away.
Probing questions fell on tired ears as I interviewed Claudia from School of Seven Bells.The band was on a rock 'n' roll tour bus to Vienna, it was 1am and I was half-cut on gin and tonic, so naturally my mind raced with excitement, images of orgies and unkempt groupie hair from Almost Famous.
The Duke Spirit are defensibly the hardest working band in rock 'n' roll today. They tour ceaselessly, interview tirelessly and they all have second jobs at a cannery in Middlesex. I spoke to Toby, the hardest working member of the world's hardest working band, and he said it wasn't so bad, Snow Patrol work in a textiles factory where they get paid in corned beef, cholera and the lash.
Much like his previous band Sidewinder, Nick Craft uses wall-of-sound sonics, distorted guitars and more of that lovely stuff that made his former cult act Australia's answer to My Bloody Valentine. Craft's voice floats between that of Morrissey and McLennan while instrumentally the feedback and reverb hit at different points across the album, most strongly in 'Back In Your Arms' and glorious album closer 'Where Were You On The Weekend'.
This new record from one of New Zealand’s most riotous acts has a definite whiff of maturation about it. Once upon a time, you see, these Dunedin boys (that’s deep, deep south people – think Nom*D and Flying Nun Records) would fling brawling one and half-minute noise bombs in a relatively scattershot fashion.
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