THE HOLIDAYS / GENUFLEX / CYMBALS
Thursday 19th May, 2011
The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm / £7
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2010 was a massive year for Sydney foursome The Holidays. Releasing their self produced, critically acclaimed debut album, Post Paradise, picking up The Age EG award for ‘Best Album’ and finishing off the year with a Triple J Feature Album. Following on from their debut single Broken Bones, which received international praise and 40,000+ views of it’s video clip in the first week, their newest single 6AM has seen the band attract even more international attention with it's feel good pop with tropical rhythms and lyrics conjuring images of summer, days off, late nights and living care free. Embracing the innovative universality of Prince, Remain In Light era Talking Heads to the considered funk and dance of Liquid Liquid, the band condense these influences into a forward-facing melding pot of radio-slaying sounds. Overall 2011 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for the band, having kicked it off with The Mystery Jets (a band with whom they share a vibrant intelligent songrwriting style) tour in their native Australia, they're set for a big SXSW and this sees their debut London appearance. From a mileu of really exciting music happenings in Australia at the moment, The Holidays are emerging as a strong force of exciting new guitar pop from a hotbead of really great new sounds from down under.
"Post Paradise is World Class…10 songs of consistent greatness” - Daily Telegraph Australia
“Perfectly paced and consistently good, Post Paradise is a winner” - Mess & Noise
www.myspace.com/theholidays
Former White Rose Movement frontman Finn Vine has left the coldly terrestrial behind for good, to wind up right where he belongs; in the stars. Introducing the heartbreaking Lynch tilted torch songs of Genuflex, who has been described as “Scott Walker singing through a Cocteau wash of Bowie era Berlin”, we'd suggest some Japan too is a good point of reference. While most bands are busying themselves creating sounds they think will shoe-horn them into the latest hipster run-off buzz genre, Genuflex are an electronic outfit quietly carving a niche that is proving a little harder to pigeonhole.
‘If you’ve ever obsessed over what a collaboration between Nine Inch Nails and Patrick Wolf would sound like, never fear, the answer is here…’ - NME
www.myspace.com/genuflex
CYMBALS
CYMBALS formed in London amidst the heat haze of summer 2010, directed by nothing but their excellent record collections and the vague intention to “not be boring”.While guitarist Jack and keyboardist Dan had played in bands before, drummer Sean hadn’t seriously picked up a stick since winging grade-one snare drum aged 13. Inspired by Sean’s intuitive naivety, the trio were keen to avoid the familiar routes ploughed by other bands and set forth a working manifesto that saw them reject predictable bass guitars, minor chord progressions, drum fills and programming Consciously playing against instinct, the band decided to ‘unlearn’ the ideas they’d explored in previous projects in an attempt to fulfil that initial vague intention, and the resulting sounds were fittingly scattershot and strangely artful. Check out a great video for "Totally Over" here
http://cymbalsmusic.tumblr.com/
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