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Damnably is incredibly proud to present Julie Doiron, Construction and Destruction, Former Utopia plus guests @ The Luminaire on September 30th, 7.30pm. Tickets £8.00 Advance or £10.00 on the door 311 Kilburn High Road London NW6 7JR (Jubilee/Silverlink /Bakerloo Tube Lines)
Julie Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in seminal art grunge act Eric’s Trip at age eighteen in 1990, then, shortly before the band’s break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl. Now, nine solo albums later, Julie has proved herself to be one of Canada’s most impressive recording artists, blessed with an iconic voice, guitar and songwriting style all her own. She has also collaborated with The Tragically Hip, Wooden Stars, Herman Düne, Okkervil River, and Phil Elverum AKA Mount Eerie, but to be honest she is much much more interesting and better than all these put together. Julie Dorion is also pure DIY and started her own label ‘Sappy Records‘ back in 1990 and then her very own annual Sappy Festival in 2006. Her new album I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar) has garnered radio play on both BBC Radio 2 and 6 and is one of the albums of the year so far. Julie will be playing as a 2 piece with Dick Morello on drums-possibly swopping around for a few of the songs they also play together as Calm down it’s monday “Doiron, once of Eric’s Trip, has produced an album of boundless optimism for the post-Bush age” Uncut “she enunciates with a child’s relish, tonguing vowels as though they’re glazed in jam. her voice apple blossom rich, the melody capacious” Plan B “Yet it’s a blissful record from a contented soul.” Subba-Culture “tender and utterly unaffected singing that chimes with the deceptively direct lyrics. Short sour-sweet and a near perfect album for spring” Tourdates.co.uk Lazarus Clamp (Bearos/Little Red Rabbitt Collective)
Formed back in 1993, this UK alt. folk/post-punk institution have played with Giant Sand, Chris Brokaw, The New Year, Laura Cantrell, Richard Buckner, David Grubbs, Herman Dune, and at SXSW in 2001. Lazarus Clamp are magically inventive, and capable of producing muscular post-punk as heavy as Silkworm or Shellac, intricately textured post-rockers, and deceptively purty pop songs in the tradition of the Go-Betweens or Palace. The band will be touring their fifth album: ‘Against Entitlement‘. “Lazarus Clamp are one of the minor, undiscovered, rough-cut gems of British independent music” Drowned In Sound “Rather wonderful” The Big Issue “Lazarus Clamp post-rock triumphantly” NME “Delicate and subtle dynamic” The Guardian
Partners Colleen Collins and David Trenaman, live in, work out of an old house by the sea in the rural wilds of Port Greville, Nova Scotia, where they record most of their work in a studio they call, affectionately, The Quarantine. Here, spurred by the creative breeding ground they inhabit at the feet of the ancient Cobequid Mountains and the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean’s highest tides, the ragged and open northern geography elicits musical explorations of inner geographies. Construction & Destruction are equally at home tearing it up as erecting it slowly. DIY purests, they write, record, produce, and disseminate their material themselves with their third album, video et taceo, due for release in September 2009. Construction & Destruction have played the Pop Montreal, the Halifax Pop Explosion, and Sappyfest and with Julie Doiron, Dog Day, and Eric’s Trip. “power tools after dark” Sappyfest “sparse, unkempt and challenging” Wolves, Hawks and Kites “lo-fi gold that can be grouped with the greats” The Coast
Former Utopia “like (smog) on holiday in shellac” Drowned in Sound Damnably just released a 3 track split 7’ featuring Former Utopia, Michael L. Clamp & The Philanthropists ( plus 2 bonus tracks on a CD) available below. |
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