mono (japan) this saturday!! (1 Viewer)

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THIS CONCERT WILL END EARLY, TO FACILITATE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO GO SEE LFO IN THE MUSIC CENTRE. TICKETS FOR BOTH GIGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


U:MACK present
MONO (Japan)
The Boneyard Witch
SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER
THE HUB
DOORS 8pm (early gig)
TICKETS €16 from Road, City Discs, Sound Cellar and online at www.tickets.ie
Listen to Mono at www.myspace.com/monojapanrock



FORTHCOMING U:MACK EVENTS
10.17.06 sunno))). crawdaddy
10.20.06 red sparowes. castle inn
10.27.06 baroness + torche. crawdaddy
11.04.06 mono. the hub (early show)
11.04.06 LFO(live). temple bar music centre
11.11.06 acid mother temple. crawdaddy
12.06.06 bardo pond. whelans
12.11.06 Dinosaur Jr. temple bar music centre
12.12.06 propaghandi. temple bar music centre
12.16.06 melvins & Big Business. the village


MONO
Notorious for their incredible live performances, Japan's Mono make their Irish debut in the Hub on saturday november 4. Support on the night comes from new band Dublin The Boneyard Witch, featuring members of Oak and Serpants.


Throughout their six-year career, MONO has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim, with record sales and live show attendance corresponding. But still elusive to the Japanese quartet has been the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings. Despite their albums' masterful subtleties and majestic walls of noise, the consensus has remained that their transcendent live show is simply incomparable.

If there is any chance of breaking that spell, it lies in You Are There, without a doubt the prime contender to unite the live and recorded worlds of MONO. Once again captured to tape by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, IL, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (also recorded by Albini), while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More and You Die.

If Walking Cloud was a nuclear winter, then You Are There is the post-war rebirth; steeped in an ominous creation-via-destruction atmosphere not heard since Neurosis' landmark Enemy of the Sun defined the sound more than a decade ago.

You Are There disproves the myth that an increased focus on intricate song structures and string arrangements comes at the expense of youthful energy and inspired aggression. With You Are There, MONO's representation of tragedy comes with an inherent joy, delivered with the hope that in all dark there is equal parts light. They're not heavy like Black Sabbath - they're heavy like Beethoven.

Jeremy deVine /Temporary Residence Limited
 

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