Drowned in Sound presents:
Shred Yr Face Tour 2008
Times New Viking, Los Campesinos!, No Age
Whelan’s, Oct 17
Tickets €15 from WAV, City Discs, Road Records, Ticketmaster, Tickets.ie
Prominent indie webzine Drowned in Sound bring their Shred Yr Face
tour to Whelan’s on October 17 with three of the most exciting young
bands in all of indie-land teaming up for the package tour of the year.
The line-up features indie party-pop animals Los Campesinos!, skillful
melodic noise architects No Age and blitzed lo-fi rockers Times New
Viking.
No Age
Spiritual heirs to both Thurston Moore’s wide-eyed experimentalism and
the all-encompassing, stark DIY art-is-life aesthetic of the Crass
collective, No Age is the kind of band that inspires its audience
without affectation, without cynicism. Dean Spunt (drummer/vocalist)
and Randy Randall’s (guitarist) live shows are an exploration of
possibilities: a guitar laid over a resonating drum head, effect loops
woven together like beautiful harmonies, pop songs as performance art,
a duo that sounds like the gale force of rock history delivered through
a wind tunnel:
“It's part of No Age's allure that Nouns is so difficult to figure out,
that it manages to be so big while coming from a place so small. All
you'll know for sure is that you want to listen longer. Maybe forever.”
– Pitchfork, 9.5
www.myspace.com/nonoage
Times New Viking
Ohio’s six-legged shitgaze-scene field-leaders bust their way onto the
bill with their senses-quaking pop-savvy noise. Responsible for this
year’s Rip It Off LP, released by Matador, they’re much loved for their
delightful dissonance, their enrapturing dramatics, and their killer
choruses that dig themselves in deep and plague the consciousness.
They’re like the itch you can’t quite reach to scratch: an immensely
pleasurable irritation, of sorts. They’ve an EP, Stay Awake, prepped
for October too
www.myspace.com/timesnewviking
Los Campesinos!
Already gearing up to release their second album in a single year – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is coming your way via Wichita on October 13, and is the follow-up to February’s Hold On Now, Youngster.
Seven-piece indie-pop phenomenon Los Campesinos! are at times
heart-breaking, at others hip-shaking, and always superbly entertaining
- the eloquent youths’ boisterous live reputation has seen them play
more festivals than you’ve had hot suppers, and their headlining role
on this tour is well deserved. Work yourselves out to the supports, but
ensure there’s tread on your dancing shoes for the night-climaxing
fireworks.
www.myspace.com/loscampesinos
www.drownedinsound.com
