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Winners of the prestigious Radar award at last week’s NME Awards, hotly-tipped electro drone-rock duo The Big Pink headline at Crawdaddy ahead of the release of their much anticipated debut album.
Their London-born sound is an intense swamp of droning feedback guitars mixed with crystalline melody, dreamy vocals, gritty beats, and dense reverb production, courtesy of former Alec Empire guitarist Robbie Furze, and Merok records boss Milo Cordell.
Their new single Velvet will be released with 4AD on April 20th. Check out the video .
Selected for the 15 top rising music stars to watch by the BBC Sound of 2009, The Big Pink will release their debut album later this year.
Support on April 18th will come from Dublins 8 BALL who are just about to release their second album
POD Concerts presents
THE BIG PINK
Support: The XX and A Grave With No Name
Saturday April 18th
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €12 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.musicfromthebigpink.com
www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink
Big Pink Biog
“London’s coolest new stars” - NME
The Big Pink are Londoners Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell. Two lifelong friends, whose home studio experiments have produced some of the most inspiring British music of 2008, started making music together in Robbie's flat in late 2006. It soon becam clear that the pair's mix of droney feedback and crystaline melody could be worked into an interesting, new and challenging sound.
Debut single, the double A sided 7'' ''Too Young To Love/Crystal Visions'', released in October 2008 by boutique London independent House Anxiety, was entirely characteristic of The Big Pink’s unique furrow. The hope-filled darkness of ''Too Young To Love'' points to both the digital hardcore and art-rock undergrounds, while Robbie’s trademark soaring vocal melodies and densely encompassing reverberation complete their entrancing formula. The stately drone and overdriven trebly crescendo of ''Crystal Visions'' nods to such sonic reference points as the shoe-gaze of My Bloody Valentine and brooding minimalism of Earth, but the track’s chiming chorus and tender melodic nuance allow it a fragile beauty of its very own.
While all song writing and creative control remains in Milo and Robbie’s able hands, The Big Pink’s rapidly growing reputation as an essential live act has been ensured by the onstage collaboration of peripheral members such as Daniel O’Sullivan from Guapo and Sunn0))), electronic artist Jo Apps from the Planet Mu label, drummer Akiko Matsuura of Pre and Comanechi, and Al O’Connell producer/engineer for the likes of The Rapture and Klaxons.
After succesful tours with Florence and The Machine and TV On The Radio The Big Pink are looking forward to touring in their own right and recording their debut album in 2009.
Their London-born sound is an intense swamp of droning feedback guitars mixed with crystalline melody, dreamy vocals, gritty beats, and dense reverb production, courtesy of former Alec Empire guitarist Robbie Furze, and Merok records boss Milo Cordell.
Their new single Velvet will be released with 4AD on April 20th. Check out the video .
Selected for the 15 top rising music stars to watch by the BBC Sound of 2009, The Big Pink will release their debut album later this year.
Support on April 18th will come from Dublins 8 BALL who are just about to release their second album
POD Concerts presents
THE BIG PINK
Support: The XX and A Grave With No Name
Saturday April 18th
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €12 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.musicfromthebigpink.com
www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink
Big Pink Biog
The Big Pink are Londoners Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell. Two lifelong friends, whose home studio experiments have produced some of the most inspiring British music of 2008, started making music together in Robbie's flat in late 2006. It soon becam clear that the pair's mix of droney feedback and crystaline melody could be worked into an interesting, new and challenging sound.
Debut single, the double A sided 7'' ''Too Young To Love/Crystal Visions'', released in October 2008 by boutique London independent House Anxiety, was entirely characteristic of The Big Pink’s unique furrow. The hope-filled darkness of ''Too Young To Love'' points to both the digital hardcore and art-rock undergrounds, while Robbie’s trademark soaring vocal melodies and densely encompassing reverberation complete their entrancing formula. The stately drone and overdriven trebly crescendo of ''Crystal Visions'' nods to such sonic reference points as the shoe-gaze of My Bloody Valentine and brooding minimalism of Earth, but the track’s chiming chorus and tender melodic nuance allow it a fragile beauty of its very own.
While all song writing and creative control remains in Milo and Robbie’s able hands, The Big Pink’s rapidly growing reputation as an essential live act has been ensured by the onstage collaboration of peripheral members such as Daniel O’Sullivan from Guapo and Sunn0))), electronic artist Jo Apps from the Planet Mu label, drummer Akiko Matsuura of Pre and Comanechi, and Al O’Connell producer/engineer for the likes of The Rapture and Klaxons.
After succesful tours with Florence and The Machine and TV On The Radio The Big Pink are looking forward to touring in their own right and recording their debut album in 2009.
