Calla :tour Dates (2 Viewers)

[simon]

Import Promotions Presents and The Triskel Arts Centre Presents


CALLA
+ The Coldspoon Conspiracy
Tuesday 29th April 03
The Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson Street
Dublin 2
Tel: 00 353 (1) 6787188
Doors 8.30
Tickets €11

Wednesday 30th April
The Triskel Arts Centre
Tobin Street,
Cork
Tel: 00 353 (0) 214272022
Doors 9.00
Tickets €12


Import Promotions and The Triskel Arts Centre is very proud to present the imminent debut performances in Ireland, by acclaimed New York based band, CALLA.

Occupying both the garage and the temple, Calla are at once dissonant and pristine, harmonious and rhythmic. They cling to the dirty residues of NYC with an attention always affixed upward to cosmopolitan refinement. A fact perhaps explained by the group's roots in Texas and their emigration to Brooklyn.

Unlike most of their contemporaries, Aurelio Valle (guitar/vocals), Wayne Magruder (drums/programming/percussion) and Sean Donovan (keyboard/bass/programming) understand the way in which the dirtiness of rock intersects the world of high art.

From their 1999 self-titled debut (Sub Rosa) to 2001's SCAVENGERS (Young God), Calla drew upon this understanding. Not wishing to rest on their existing answers, their third release and first for the Arena Rock Recording Co and Ryko, TELEVISE pushes harshly against complacency with stunning sophistication. The music allows avant gestures to collapse into supple pop while catapulting their dark breathless aggression into a furious
swelling of feedback. This is the moment when the curtains are
opened and light floods the room.

Calla's shows are some of the most anticipated in New York. It is
impossible to watch them perform without becoming transfixed on the intensity of its presentation. Angular guitars bend across thick bass lines; weightless electronics become pulled into the harsh simplicity of minimalist percussion; Aurelio's fragile voice rises boldly against the torrents of expressive noise. It is for this reason that artists like Nick Cave, godspeed you black emperor! and Sigur Ros have been eager to perform with them.


Picked by Alternative Press as "the number one band to watch", lauded by the New York Times, remixed by the brightest electronic experimentalists on 2002's CUSTOM: THE REMIX PROJECT, Calla are unquestionably a band whose work will be dissected and revaluated long after their beautiful static
energy burns away.

www.callamusic.com


Tickets for Dublin show priced €11 (inc. handling fee) are available from Road Records, 16 B Fade Street, Dublin 2. [email protected]

 

[sparse]

hup me daddy

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Gwan the Calla

Does anyone else think these promtional blurbs are irritating and condescending? Not just this one by the way, pretty much all of them are full of the same overblown rubbish. They get to the same irritation string in my neck that gets twanged when I watch those "because you're worth it" ads.

No offence intended here Simon, I've been to loads of Import gigs and loved all of them, and I think Calla are great. I know you have to get the word out somehow, but if I didn't already know who Calla were, the promo stuff would make me not want to go. Maybe it's just the shitty morning.

I am really looking forward to the gig by the way. Anybody got their stuff/like them? I'd avoid Custom, but the other three albums are really worth having. Scavengers is the best.
B

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

Re: Gwan the Calla

Originally posted by Burgerbarbaby
Does anyone else think these promtional blurbs are irritating and condescending? Not just this one by the way, pretty much all of them are full of the same overblown rubbish. They get to the same irritation string in my neck that gets twanged when I watch those "because you're worth it" ads.

No offence intended here Simon, I've been to loads of Import gigs and loved all of them, and I think Calla are great. I know you have to get the word out somehow, but if I didn't already know who Calla were, the promo stuff would make me not want to go. Maybe it's just the shitty morning.

I am really looking forward to the gig by the way. Anybody got their stuff/like them? I'd avoid Custom, but the other three albums are really worth having. Scavengers is the best.
B

i think this is the most retarded thing i have ever read:

Occupying both the garage and the temple, Calla are at once dissonant and pristine, harmonious and rhythmic. They cling to the dirty residues of NYC with an attention always affixed upward to cosmopolitan refinement. A fact perhaps explained by the group's roots in Texas and their emigration to Brooklyn.

whoever wrote that shit should have their fingers cut off. press releases are for total benders anyway. 100%.

peace

andy

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Re: Re: Gwan the Calla

Originally posted by RAD-ALARM
i think this is the most retarded thing i have ever read:

whoever wrote that shit should have their fingers cut off. press releases are for total benders anyway. 100%.

peace

andy

Ha ha! You put it so much more eloquently than I ever could.

 

[Simon J]

AMENDED CALLA PRESS RELEASE

Calla play music and are great. Go and see them.

 

[Latex lizzie]

..thats better. No flowery wordys for us simple folk here at thumped.

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Never Satisfied!

Interesting. Tell me more.




Do you know if they're bringing over Crumbles Recovery and TenEcke stuff with them? I have MP3's but they're short, and I'd like to hear more. Especially Crumbles Recovery

Edit: By the way, I wasn't just having a go at your press releases Simon, pretty much all press releases have this effect on me.

 

[Simon J]

CALLA MERCH:

Can check it out.

 

[Simon J]

Calla Press Release

No I understand. Just for the record, its the official press release for the new album, so its not me with literary genius aspirations / pretensions.

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Re: CALLA MERCH:

Originally posted by Simon J
Can check it out.

Brilliant. Cheers.

 

[madouva]

"TELEVISE" is great. I'll be there with bells on.

 

[sparse]

Originally posted by madouva
"TELEVISE" is great. I'll be there with bells on.

It is, and so will I



but then again I don't have much choice in that one..|..|

 

[ronan]

yeah, i'm lookin forward to this.

i find the production on 'Televise' to be a little offputting, a bit too bombastic for my taste, but i'd say they'll be much better live.
i've never heard 'Scavengers'.

anyone else going to this?

 

[sparse]

No Champions League tonight = no excuse

Be there!

oh and HUP!

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Awake and Under

What a night to fall off the wagon. I'm still drunk, and I just hope that my boss doesn't want those reports on her desk ASAP or whatever before I sober up. Holy crap.

Sparse: Cool gig, I thought you guys did really well.

What a tiny tiny crowd.

Oh well.

 

[sparse]

Thanks boss, it was a cool gig even if it was a wee bit messy. I really enjoyed Calla and the Sugar Club is superb with the bar up the back, such a nice venue.

Thanks to Simon for having us and thanks to those that came, it was a good crowd even though it wasn't a big crowd

 

[the pope]

wo. small crowd. expensive drinks. decent gig.