Dublin Docklands Development Authority in association with Note Productions presents ANALOG 18-20 July 2008
LIARS ADDED TO THE BILL ALONGSIDE TORTOISE AND EFTERKLANG AT ANALOG MAIN STAGE ON SATURDAY 19 JULY
Fresh from supporting Radiohead on their U.S. tour, LIARS, one of the most exciting live bands around, return to Dublin to play a truly special bill with anthemic Danish collective EFTERKLANG and post-rock giants TORTOISE on Grand Canal Square, Docklands for this year’s Analog.
Tickets 30 Euro including booking fee from www.ticketmaster.ie
Please note timings for this show:
Gates: 7.00pm - LIARS: 7.30pm - EFTERKLANG 8.30pm - TORTOISE 9.30pm
ANALOG MAIN STAGE WEEKEND TICKET: 60 Euro incl booking fee includes Hal Willner's Rogue's Gallery on Friday 18th - Tortoise / Efterklang / Liars on Saturday 19th - Taraf De Haidouks / Vinicius Cantuaria on Sunday 20th July.
LIARS
Liars have never been a band comfortable with staying in one place for very long. Geographically, personally and most of all musically, each successive album that they release comes with a new agenda, a new heritage, a new set of reference points and a new way of thinking about music.
So, after the multimedia multi-tasking of 2006's ‘Drum's Not Dead' – each track of which came accompanied with three exclusive short films - Liars have returned with their most stripped-back and direct album yet. Simply titled 'Liars', their fourth full-length (recorded in Berlin and LA and mixed in London by Erasure and Depeche Mode producer Gareth Jones) abandons the thirty minute sound collages called things like 'This Dust That Makes The Mud' of old in favour of a set of the band's most conventional and powerful songs yet – although as a band with a reputation forged on thirty minute sound collages called things like ‘This Dust That Makes The Mud’, Liars' recent career swerve is a delightfully surprising as ever.
Angus, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - who has played drums with the band since the departure of original rhythm section Pat Nature and Ron Albertson after the band’s first album, 2001's 'They Threw Us All In A Trench And Put A Monument On Top' - decided not to overanalyse the process of making their music. "We aimed to make songs that weren’t going to require a concept. We decided to work really quickly and not talk about what we were doing too much. Aaron and I wanted to write songs that spoke for themselves in a more visceral way – like when you’re a teenager and things really mean a lot for you in a song. We wanted to write songs that reminded us a little of what it was like to be a teenager – so pretty much the only preparation we did was going back and listening to the bands we liked when we were kids, stuff like OMD, The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees.”
Their quest to connect on a more visceral level has succeeded. Unlike, say, 2004’s ‘They Were Wrong, So We Drowned', which boasted a fractured narrative based on accounts of the Salem Witch Trials, ‘Liars' is a set of songs only connected by the fact that no other band around could make music like this. This is an album that manages to balance the old, experimentally minded Liars with an excitingly insidious new pop edge.
The experiment has been an unqualified success. By getting back to basics with 'Liars', the band is going back to the future.
More information at www.analogconcerts.ie
LIARS ADDED TO THE BILL ALONGSIDE TORTOISE AND EFTERKLANG AT ANALOG MAIN STAGE ON SATURDAY 19 JULY
Fresh from supporting Radiohead on their U.S. tour, LIARS, one of the most exciting live bands around, return to Dublin to play a truly special bill with anthemic Danish collective EFTERKLANG and post-rock giants TORTOISE on Grand Canal Square, Docklands for this year’s Analog.
Tickets 30 Euro including booking fee from www.ticketmaster.ie
Please note timings for this show:
Gates: 7.00pm - LIARS: 7.30pm - EFTERKLANG 8.30pm - TORTOISE 9.30pm
ANALOG MAIN STAGE WEEKEND TICKET: 60 Euro incl booking fee includes Hal Willner's Rogue's Gallery on Friday 18th - Tortoise / Efterklang / Liars on Saturday 19th - Taraf De Haidouks / Vinicius Cantuaria on Sunday 20th July.
LIARS
Liars have never been a band comfortable with staying in one place for very long. Geographically, personally and most of all musically, each successive album that they release comes with a new agenda, a new heritage, a new set of reference points and a new way of thinking about music.
So, after the multimedia multi-tasking of 2006's ‘Drum's Not Dead' – each track of which came accompanied with three exclusive short films - Liars have returned with their most stripped-back and direct album yet. Simply titled 'Liars', their fourth full-length (recorded in Berlin and LA and mixed in London by Erasure and Depeche Mode producer Gareth Jones) abandons the thirty minute sound collages called things like 'This Dust That Makes The Mud' of old in favour of a set of the band's most conventional and powerful songs yet – although as a band with a reputation forged on thirty minute sound collages called things like ‘This Dust That Makes The Mud’, Liars' recent career swerve is a delightfully surprising as ever.
Angus, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - who has played drums with the band since the departure of original rhythm section Pat Nature and Ron Albertson after the band’s first album, 2001's 'They Threw Us All In A Trench And Put A Monument On Top' - decided not to overanalyse the process of making their music. "We aimed to make songs that weren’t going to require a concept. We decided to work really quickly and not talk about what we were doing too much. Aaron and I wanted to write songs that spoke for themselves in a more visceral way – like when you’re a teenager and things really mean a lot for you in a song. We wanted to write songs that reminded us a little of what it was like to be a teenager – so pretty much the only preparation we did was going back and listening to the bands we liked when we were kids, stuff like OMD, The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees.”
Their quest to connect on a more visceral level has succeeded. Unlike, say, 2004’s ‘They Were Wrong, So We Drowned', which boasted a fractured narrative based on accounts of the Salem Witch Trials, ‘Liars' is a set of songs only connected by the fact that no other band around could make music like this. This is an album that manages to balance the old, experimentally minded Liars with an excitingly insidious new pop edge.
The experiment has been an unqualified success. By getting back to basics with 'Liars', the band is going back to the future.
More information at www.analogconcerts.ie
