skinny wolves
Well-Known Member
EFFI BRIEST
(NYC / USA, Loog Records)
& Special Guests
Party Weirdo
Followed by Skinny Wolves Club
w/ Skinny Wolves & guest DJs...
Friday 18th April
Transformer Venue, (new venue below Thomas Reads), Dame Street, Dublin
Doors 8.30 until late
Limted Tickets Available : 15e (only 90 tickets onsale) from tickets.ie, City Discs - Dublin & Plugd Records - Cork
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ABOUT EFFI BRIEST
If there's a reference point for the music of Brooklyn's EFFI BRIEST, it lies somewhere in a twilight zone between the exploratory abandon of early D.I.Y. and a sort of visionary macabre, like the sound of a ghost band at a seance.
Not to say that the sounds these six women make are strictly ethereal or morose; voices, guitars, accordion and an ocarina form a free-leaning haze over a backbone of shaker-garage. The communal aspect is key. You can see it's the convergence of seven distinct personalities, pulling from as many sources as are vital to them without standing in anyone's shadow. In a sense they're writing their own rules, and that comes across in the originals.
An EFFI BRIEST song may start out in one sonic terrain and wind up after a few scenic asides in another realm entirely, but there's an underlying unity that belies a certain acuity of creative purpose. This spirit, unity and creativity stretches back through a long lineage of influences including: Can, Lilliput, Kate Bush, Liquid Liquid, and Soft Machine
In the last year or so, you might have been lucky enough to catch them on tour in California supporting Sunburned Hand of the Man, at San Francisco's Mission Creek Festival or LA's Arthur Nights, or as the house band at an ********** for New York's Deitch Projects.
There's a full length in the cards, but in the meantime Loog Records is proud to present their debut single, 'MIRRORRIM' b/w 'Newlyweds Song'. The A side is an original written — with a nod to the literary experiments of the Oulipo — entirely in palindromes, and the reverse is a cover of Jim Pepper's little known classic.
Mirror Rim 7" ( Loog Records )
EFFIE BRIEST are seven enchanting, stylish and talented ladies that reside mostly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They mix African, psych, krautrock, and goth into something completely new and their own. There have been comparisons to early Siousxie, but it’s primitive animism is as evocative of late period Slits. With its dubby drum & bass, skinny reggae guitar, backwards acoustic counterpoint, accordion, syncopating percussion, chanting vocals, their debut 7" on Loog seems a fair indication of where the band is headed.
EFFI BRIEST:
Vocals, Auto Harp – Kelsey Barrett
Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Drums – Corinee Jones
Guitar – Sara Shaw
Accordion, Clarinet, Vocals – Rebecca Squires
Percussion – Jessica Stathos
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Special Guests are:
Dublin meets Berlin's own superfine all girl trio PARTY WEIRDO.
"Think The Slits, Riot Grrrl and The Fall and then start dancing."
Cara Holmes and Emily Aoibheann met as members of Dublin band Pinboy Skinny. Emily chanced on belfast emigree Therese McKenna at a mutual friends party in Cork and the weirdness began. The three played their first gig on June 25th 2006 on Cara's home turf, "The Spirit Store" in Dundalk, and since then they've been bouncing along busily, playing a rake of gigs across Ireland, England, Germany and Poland.
Party Weirdo's myspace page
Reviews:
"{Party Weirdo are} an enlightening amalgam of musical experimentation, toy instruments, feminist expressionism and performance art; how gleeful to behold something that goes so against the grain of the usual ‘four blokes, four chords’ production-line indie rubbish."
- Johnnie C. of soundsxp
"nice hard hitting no wave sounds meets a bit of the anger led riot grrrl sound with just a hint of guitar heavy punk funk thrown in, try to imagine a modern take on the no wave diy sounds of the early eighties meets the disjointed guitar heavy sounds of the likes of sleater kinney."
- Road Records
