Articles - Details
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Sat 13 December |
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Stereolab |
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Tripod
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Cult band Stereolab return with their 11th studio
album 'Chemical Chords' next month and a UK and Ireland tour in
December. Considered as one of the first post-rock outfits, their sound
encompasses krautrock, Brazilian tropicalia, 50s lounge, French pop,
free jazz and art rock in a manner that is utterly fresh and uniquely
their own.
*Tickets on sale this Thursday 31st July at 9am*
MAXIMUM JOY in association with POD Concerts presents
STEREOLAB
+ SUPPORT tba
TRIPOD, HARCOURT STREET
13th DECEMBER
7:30pm til late
Adm: €25
Tickets €25 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
www.ticketmaster.ie
www.tickets.ie
www.stereolab.co.uk
www.myspace.com/stereolab
www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub
In an admiring review of their 2004 album Margarine
Eclipse, Spin magazine hailed Stereolab as one of pop's 50 most
influential ensembles. "No one can do beautiful, energising crossover
pop like Stereolab," concurred The Independent, while a US writer, one
Eric Greenwood, echoed the sentiments of thousands of 'Lab devotees
when describing the band's enduring appeal thus: "The formula has never
been broken; it's only tweaked slightly with each new album, and I
never want it to end."
Indeed, over fifteen prolific years of qualitatively consistent output,
Stereolab have accrued a vast, peerless cache of work, hallmarked by a
unique, carefully evolving but instantly recognizable sonic signature.
In addition to over a dozen glittering LPs, their back catalogue is
littered with fan-pleasing gems: limited editions, one-off
collaborations, split singles et al. In the process they've galvanised
an extensive, staunchly loyal international fanbase; become a byword
for playful, stylish excellence; struck a blow for the feminisation of
rock and booked a permanent seat at experimental pop's high table.
Theirs is a rich, overflowing palette, readily able to blur the gulf
between Os Mutantes and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra; merge Krzysztof
Komeda with the Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy with Neu! and Burt
Bacharach with Esquivel. A super-deluxe blend, in other words, with
ingredients plucked assiduously from pop's coolest outposts: 50's
lounge pop, Rive Gauche chanson, Brazilian tropicalia, North American
art rock, East European film music, Krautrock. hi-fi test recordings,
library music and more. Somehow they distil these apparently
incongruent components into an ageless exotica that is all their own.
Sessions for 'Chemical Chords' began in the spring of 2007 as "a series
of about seventy tiny drum loops" on top of which Tim Gane would dub
improvised chord sequences using piano and vibraphone, "building them
up from there – later slowing the tracks down or speeding them up - a
totally new way of doing songs for us…" With typically prolificacy, the
band laboured over the summer at Instant 0, helping transform these
blueprints into 32 luminous new songs, with keyboardist/technician Joe
Watson manning the mixing desk. Half the new repertoire was selected
for the forthcoming Chemical Chords opus (Gane is currently mixing the
remainder for future releases) – an album which, for all the breathless
spontaneity of its invention, is arguably the band's tautest, most
highly focused work this century. Being released by Duophonic UHF Disks
/ 4AD, it's a collection of "purposefully short, dense, fast pop
songs," according to Gane, brimming with Motown-like drums, Sean
O'Hagan's finest baroque-pop brass and string arrangements and etched
with some of Laetitia Sadier's most eloquent, mellifluous vocal
performances to date, it is, nonetheless, classic Stereolab; like all
their best work, a perfect equipoise between an implausibly cool past
and a shamelessly exotic future.
David Sheppard (April 2008)
MAXIMUM JOY PRODUCTIONS
For more information contact
darren(at)maximumjoyclub.com
MySpace : www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub
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Tripod |
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http://www.pod.ie/about_tripod.php
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Harcourt Street |
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Dublin |
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IE |
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The idea behind Tripod was simple - to create a multi-functional club
and live music venue within an original shell structure that was
forward thinking. Something that wasn't to a prescribed formula,
something unique and inspiring, fusing architectural styles and live
and electronic music.
The whole space is pierced with a central architectural core around
which the building functions. Off this are three venue spaces that can
be used for live performances, DJ shows, circulation space and also
includes a VIP bar within the core. With versatility a prime objective
Tripod caters for standing shows or fully seated shows, running in
conjunction with the club space or independently.
The aesthetic is one that plays on the fusion idea and the notion of
'industrial chic', with the shell being a celebration of the original
building and the new architectural insertions juxtaposed with this.
Two and a half years in the planning, the live music venue boasts a
perfect line of sight from every point in the venue including - most
importantly - the bar! It's size is idyllic, it packs a vast crowd yet
due to its layout retains a very intimate atmosphere.
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