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Tue 20 May |
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Forever Presents: No Age |
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Upstairs At Whelans
- Dublin |
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Gigs |
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FOREVER presents
NO AGE
Whelan’s, Upstairs, May 20th
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“No Age are one of the most deserving and joyful guitar bands that ever looked to steal away your hearing.” –Drowned in Sound
“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
Best Album Cover Designer, Brian Roettinger, for NOUNS (No Age) – Rolling Stone
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.
The pair’s powerful force, both as a band and individuals has reached such great heights as to inspire The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times to examine No Age’s position in the underground scene surrounding the Los Angeles all-ages club The Smell (where for the past several years they have each volunteered in various capacities, including booking shows and running the soundboard).
“The music is an invitation and rallying call for individuals to get involved in a community which celebrates art and experimentation,” Randy explains. “It’s DIY on a different scale, an attempt to reacquaint people with the notion that art is a crucial part of everyday life. No Age is more than a band to us. It is an umbrella.” And, under this umbrella, Dean and Randy have curated art shows, designed shirts, hats, bandanas, etc., made videos and ‘zines.
Fittingly, No Age’s Sub Pop debut, Nouns, is equally all-encompassing; from the faux-simplicity of the title to the beautiful distortion of its sound, to the packaging that includes a 68-page full-color book packed with photos and art pieces.
No Age issued a slew of singles on a variety of indie labels in 2007, resulting in the cohesive compendium, Weirdo Rippers on Fat Cat Records later that year. That widely heralded release set the stage for Nouns.
Recorded by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound in LA, Harvey Birrell at Southern Studios in London, and at home by No Age, Nouns opens with a symphony of noise and creeps and smashes through a sonic headlock befitting Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, Kiwi pop, power pop, My Bloody Valentine, and experimental noise.
“No Age is a band,” says Dean. “Bands should be fun and exciting and they should push all the buttons at the same time. They should make you feel like you are going to explode and make you utterly confused and inspired at the same time. At least they should.”
www.myspace.com/nonoage
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