CATE LE BON / VERITY SUSMAN - SOLD OUT
Monday 23rd April, 2012
The Arch, Village Underground
54 Holywell Lane, London, EC2A 3PQ
7:30pm / £8
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A highly successful 2010 was spent touring her debut LP Me Oh My described by Word magazine “As cymbals clash and keyboards whirl, imagine P J Harvey’s rawness tangling with Super Furry Animals’ prog and a vocalist who forgoes folk soft asides for delicious black humor”. Cate then ended the year contemplating and conjuring up her sophomore release.
Cate entered the studio with the nucleus of a record existing in her head, lyrical ideas swam in ether as did fully formed arrangements, but it wasn’t until she began recording that these disparate ideas were drawn together and her circus tent of a record rose from the gravel ground.
Drawing on her experiences from that heady 12 months, Cate created a collection of pop nuggets that sounded like they'd fallen off the back of a broken carousel, imbued with the playfulness of Faust, Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes and stitched together with a foreboding silken lyrical thread.
Existential word play abounds and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a CAN as Cate muses on matters of the heart and the magnetic pull of the ocean.
Verity Susman is a saxophonist, keyboard player, singer and composer who makes experimental, psychedelic, improvisational music-noise-performance: like the captain of a ghost ship, playful and wild, suspended in an obscure hermit landscape of sound waves. She is a founding member of cult UK indie band Electrelane and has also spent some time as ageing songstress Vera November.
In addition Gruff Rhys will be manning the decks between the bands.
All tickets for this show are now completely SOLD OUT
