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"Sublimely narcotic glimmer-pop smeared with 60s/70s film soundtracks and space-age lounge muzack. Death and Vanilla’s melodic allure lingers long after the music stops. Like road trippin’ in dreams FFO: Stereolab, Broadcast, Pram, Panda Bear, Still Corners, School of Seven Bells."
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A gig held at The Cube on Thursday 20th April. The event starts at 20:00.
SET TIMES
8.20 SACRED ARP (GARETH J) * DUE TO COVID SACRED ARP WILL NOLONGER PERFORM.
9.00 GLOOM INDEX
10.00DEATH AND VANILA
Forming in Malmö, Sweden, Death And Vanilla gravitated towards vintage musical equipment; from vibraphone, organ and mellotron, to tremolo guitar and Moog synthesisers. Soaking up soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, listening to library music, kosmiche, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych, Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin were fashioned by the city’s austere industrial past and flat pack present, and all in the shadow of the Orsesund Bridge that links their dreamworld to mainland Europe and a darker
Death and Vanilla return with ‘Flicker’, presenting their unique pop music that defies categorisation. Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve; ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises notwithstanding, they return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after assimilating dub reggae, the motorik spirals of Can, the modal meander of Philip Glass and The Cure’s dreamier pop sounds; plus the twice removed symphonic ambience of Spiritualized and Talking Heads under heavy manners from Brian Eno. By osmosis their period of transition since 2019’s much darker ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ has hatched new eclectic electronica anthems riddled with melody lines, and layered for lush love.
2nd on tonights bill is GLOOM INDEX
Psychedelic goth duo, comprised of dark-folk artist
Rosie May and Bristol native Lewis Weyman.
'If goth was born in the hot swamps
of the Louisiana.'.
Entry requirements:
8.20 SACRED ARP (GARETH J) * DUE TO COVID SACRED ARP WILL NOLONGER PERFORM.
9.00 GLOOM INDEX
10.00DEATH AND VANILA
Forming in Malmö, Sweden, Death And Vanilla gravitated towards vintage musical equipment; from vibraphone, organ and mellotron, to tremolo guitar and Moog synthesisers. Soaking up soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, listening to library music, kosmiche, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych, Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin were fashioned by the city’s austere industrial past and flat pack present, and all in the shadow of the Orsesund Bridge that links their dreamworld to mainland Europe and a darker
Death and Vanilla return with ‘Flicker’, presenting their unique pop music that defies categorisation. Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve; ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises notwithstanding, they return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after assimilating dub reggae, the motorik spirals of Can, the modal meander of Philip Glass and The Cure’s dreamier pop sounds; plus the twice removed symphonic ambience of Spiritualized and Talking Heads under heavy manners from Brian Eno. By osmosis their period of transition since 2019’s much darker ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ has hatched new eclectic electronica anthems riddled with melody lines, and layered for lush love.
2nd on tonights bill is GLOOM INDEX
Psychedelic goth duo, comprised of dark-folk artist
Rosie May and Bristol native Lewis Weyman.
'If goth was born in the hot swamps
of the Louisiana.'.
Entry requirements:
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