cfb99 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 So how many synonyms do you know for excited? Well today I'm going for inspired. Children For Breakfast feel inspired by the sheer brilliance of Clues (bringing together ex members of Arcade Fire and The Unicorns as well as a host of Canada's hottest musicians) inspired enough to bring them over to the UK for you to feast your ears on! It's part of a short tour which takes in only a few UK dates, Sheffield being the only one you should take note of. Clues http://www.cclluueess.com/ Clues was founded by Alden Penner and Brendan Reed, both active for years in the Montreal music scene. Alden was one-half of Unicorns, a band that burned bright and fast at the beginning of the century, and Brendan has been a member of a number of groups, including the endless, Endless Forever. They began building Clues quietly and in near-secrecy during the summer of 2007, playing a series of unadvertised shows in small Montreal venues. Their early performances elicited passionate responses and made it clear that Alden had an awesome batch of new tunes in the works, a glorious voice to deliver them with, and a brilliant foil in Brendan as his co-conspirator. By 2008, friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner had been recruited from the Montreal art and music scenes; a few more exuberant shows went down, the sound building and strengthening every time. With the band’s foundations fully cemented, Clues began work on a debut record towards the end of the year. During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on an extensive array of instruments and create a twitchy, urgent, utterly original music that expands Montreal’s (already diverse) pop music lexicon. Clues incorporates multiple drummers, horns, a table of fried electronics (including a Commodore 64 and an OLPC), saw and pianette alongside their trusty electric guitars and basses. Through their founding and early work as a band, Clues has remained close to home, dedicated to collaborating with and supporting fellow independent artists. In 2008, Reed started VillaVillaNola, a digital music store featuring recordings by predominantly local artists who have flourished underground but who otherwise receive sparse attention. Strong ties to the independent music community, together with shared ideals, led Clues to collaborate with Montreal’s Constellation, who released the band’s debut record in May of 2009. What the critics say: “In many ways the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But, the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things… the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something… and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night I experienced something new, an extraordinary record from an singularly unexpected source. To say that both the record and its makers have challenged my preconceptions about music, is a gross understatement– they have rocked me to my core. In the past I have made no secret of my disdain for Clues Collective’s famous motto: “Anyone Can Play Guitar”. But I realize only now do I truly understand what they meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now recording at Constellation, who are, in this critic’s opinion, nothing less than the finest Clues in North America.” Pitchfork "This is a truly unmissable record standing out among a season of great albums. Montreal’s Clues have created a magnificent, off-kilter, decimated orchestral epic or a record…Each track on Clues presents something new and different, ever-shifting slightly in tone and style: bespoke and hand-wrought with emphatic care, yet each bearing the unmistakable loops and whorls of their gifted craftsmen" SUBBA-CULTCHA "The music is almost as good as the title, honest. It would be a suitable soundtrack to scene of a morbidly obese man plodding down the street to his untimely death, crushed by a stretch Hummer driven by a midget" Drowned In Sound (About 'Remember Severed Head' which you can get here http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst057/audio_files) "good tunes (sounding like) stripped-down Sparks... chaotic blues-funk of Captain Beefheart..and PJ Harvey using her voice" NME They're only going to bring Bristol's finest with them too MUNCH MUNCH http://www.myspace.com/munchmunchband Wowed everyone at the very same venue during Tramlines, back to wow you again. "the band’s quirkily hyper indie is akin to Friendly Fires...Munch Munch are a brilliantly awkward lot to describe" Drowned In Sound “creating something bolted together by a dyslexic Ikea enthusiast building a pop wardrobe. That or they’ve learned music from scribbled descriptions pushed under a cell door” Venue Magazine "prog synth rocking jazzists" Artrocker With local supports to be announced. The Harley 20th October Doors 7.30pm Price £5 Followed by Shizzle night club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogwai84 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 excited about this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb99 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Me too!! Tickets soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb99 Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 Look at the wonderful supports we've got lined-up Warren Myles - http://www.myspace.com/warrenjohnmyles He makes pop music. Some is on gameboy, some is using his voice and an acoustic guitar and a laptop. The most important thing is that he is making friends. He has a blog that he puts remixes and drawings and free songs on: theeeldance.blogspot.com I once covered every new number 1 or highest new entry for a year on gameboy which you can download here: allyourtop40arebelongtous.blogspot.com YOU CAN BUY HIS STUFF AT DEAR YOU RECORDS HERE: http://www.dearyourecords.com Miracle & The Soul Interpreter - http://www.myspace.com/miracleandthesoulinterpreter Both Miracle and the Soul Interpreter love strange varieties of music, but they share a love of stripped back RnB. No Diggidy, Try Again, Bucky Done Gun, One Thing, Gold Digger, Crazy In Love et al. The challenge is to make English these slick, romantic beats while touching as many kids as possible, the rascals. Still, boys will be boys. It's also only a week and a day away. Come down Tickets - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59758 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyLive Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 This is tomorrow. There is a competition if you buy your ticket in advance. Well we have a competition running with the show. All you have to do is buy and advance ticket from here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59758 and you'll be placed in to a draw to win the following. First prize: the Clues album (CD) + T-shirt + exclusive tour 7" (only 500 made, available only on this tour) Second prize: the Clues album (CD) Third prize: the Clues album (CD) All you have to do is buy a ticket to a show you were going to buy a ticket for anyway, we're good to you! xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfb99 Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 It's tonight, it'll be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 should be good. Apparently Munch Munch and Clues were brilliant in Manchester last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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