High Places
By: Various Scribes
Touring this week:
Thu 13-Nov-08 London, Old Blue Last
Fri 14-Nov-08 London, The Lexington
Sat 15-Nov-08 Leeds, Nasty Fest
Sun 16-Nov-08 Newcastle, Head of Steam
Tour then continues:
Mon-17-Nov-08 London, The Dome
Wed 19-Nov-08 Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy
Thu 20-Nov-08 Belfast, Speakeasy
Fri 21-Nov-08 Dublin, Crawdaddy
Tickets: from £8.00 advance.
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: Seemingly, it only takes two - one guy, one girl - to create the wondrous spill of sounds that is High Places. A plethora of percussive noises both from around the globe and indeed, around the home; effortlessly embedded into syncopated electronics, and moving freely beneath refreshingly optimistic yet delicately dreamy vocals.
The duo consists of Brooklyn dwellers Rob Barber and Mary Pearson, who after only two years of knowing each other managed to write, record and produce their self-titled debut album (amongst many other seven inch and compilation releases). November 2008 now sees the beginning of their second European tour this year, the first accompanying American five-piece, Deerhunter.
The UK has just eight dates of their tour, including an appearance at Nasty Fest in Leeds' Faversham on the 15th (along with the likes of Future of the Left and Ipso Facto) and a highly anticipated show opening for Mt. Eerie and Parenthetical Girls on Monday 17th at The Dome in Tufnell Park - which will be covered by yours truely: Rockfeedback TV.
High Places are the perfect remedy for Winter blues: filling bleak November nights with their infectious dose of genuinely uplifting yet modestly gentle sunny Vegan electro-world-pop.
For more details and a full list of tour dates, direct yourselves to www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces.
For the now-not-so-secret Dome show, head here.