Xiu Xiu show confirmed (2 Viewers)

[FOREVERpresents]

FOREVER Presents

Xiu Xiu
plus guests
May 22nd, 2008
Whelans, Wexford St, Dublin 2
Tickets: €14.00 inc booking fee.
Onsale from tomorrow from WAV and www.tickets.ie

www.myspace.com/xiuxiuforlife

 

[La La]

brilliant.

buying ticket tomorrow, so!

 

[Unicron]

Arrrgh. Springsteen night.

 

[muffin]

Sweet!

 

[hermie]

excellent. May'll be a busy month

 

[Lili Marlene]

why don't I just kill myself now?





































HAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[thisgreg]

why don't I just kill myself now?





































HAHAHAHAHAHA

...well you could just start writing explicitly about gay experiences either


This is going to be a deadly gig can't wait for it.|..|

 

[ronan]

Chris Garneau (Absolutely Kosher) supporting apparently

http://www.myspace.com/chrisgarneau

i'll be at The Boss either way!

 

[hermie]

really looking forward to this.any idea of stage times though?

 

[FOREVERpresents]

Chris Garneau: 8.45pm
Xiu Xiu: 9.30pm

cheers

 

[Urchin PR]

Musical Rooms piece by Xiu Xiu here:

http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/05/15/musical-rooms-part-26-xiu-xiu/

 

[La La]

ah fucks sake i cant go to this now EITHER.

this great year for gigs is turning out to be a shit year for me!

 

[oh shit]

i was offered a ticket to go see them tonight - turned it down

 

[hermie]

i was offered a ticket to go see them tonight - turned it down

you're cool

 

[oh shit]

i'm a bit annoyed about it actually
but thanks

 

[hermie]

no sweat

 

[Urchin PR]

FOREVER presents

XIU XIU

Whelan’s, Thursday May 22

Plus special guest: Chris Garneau (Absolutely Kosher)
Tickets €14 from WAV, Road, City Discs, tickets.ie


“Jamie Stewart is an extremely talented singer and songwriter.” - Pitchfork

“It takes a true songwriter like Stewart to make such brutality meaningful…Xiu Xiu are one of the few indie bands that's still challenging their audience.” – Under the Radar

“Extremely imaginative.” – New York Times

“Hauntingly entrancing.” - Spin

“A dazzling showcase of an incredible group.” – Plan B

“Purveyors of uber-complex post-punk” – The New Yorker


Xiu Xiu is an experimental indie band originally from and currently based in San José, California. The band is the sonic brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has also been its only constant member since its inception. His current band-mates are his cousin, Caralee McElroy, and experimental musician Ches Smith (Good for Cows).

Xiu Xiu has long been infamous amongst music bloggers as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with their brand new sixth studio album, Women as Lovers (Kill Rock Stars), each song so different from the next and so fully realized, their creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions.

Jamie Stewart has a novelist's eye for juicy details, and a poet's ability to wring impossible emotions out of the English language, finding black humor where there is usually horror, finding horror where there is usually apathy. And Stewart's history-spanning visions of birth and death have never come across more clearly.

Amongst Xiu Xiu’s already extensive catalogue of released music, remixes, collaborations and unusual artifacts are aplenty including picture discs, split seven inches with artists such as Devendra Banhart and The Paper Chase and the Remixed and Covered album featuring contributions from Banhart, Sunset Rubdown, Marissa Nadler, Kid606 amongst others. Previously Xiu Xiu released an EP in 2006 called Tu Mi Piaci [Italian for I like you] featuring a bizarre array of covers from Bauhaus to Alex Chilton to Pussycat Dolls!

In November 2007 Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The Book was released. As tour manager and official chronicler of the band David Horvitz devised the idea to document the band’s tours by encouraging fans to bring Polaroid film to shows. Photographs of life on the road – from towering truck stop beacons reaching out into huge blue sky to motel room antics – were shot and returned to the fans, but not before Horvitz scanned them and meticulously compiled a visual tour diary that goes well beyond the music. He captures the bare-naked zen of touring life: parties, sex, soulful meditation, art, back roads, Americana. These images echo the band’s esoteric lyrical styles and the merging of seemingly disparate genres such as punk, classical and electronic that end up saying more about the varied American landscape than the band, though it is through the band that these images are filtered.
The book was bundled with a bonus CD entitled Soundtrack for a Polaroid of Two Trees in Indiana featuring contributions from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Parenthetical Girls and Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier.

www.xiuxiu.org

 

[rampz]

that was pretty amazing. jamie stewart is deadly altogether.

 

[Unclealo]

This was cool, not sure what to make of Jamies Stewart's vocals. Great band though

 

[hermie]

Absolutely savage. Unfortunately had to miss the first half of it but. Thought Jamie Stewarts vocals were amazing; sounded exactly like he does on record, very powerful. And the band they have these days are superb, super tight. Great to hear Apistat Commander off A Promise and the rendition of I Do What I Want, When I Want was 10 times as good as on the album. It's great to see a band as uncompromising live as they are on tape, they took the show really seriously.