Posts Tagged ‘uk’
Friday, February 6th, 2009
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The New York based-band have announced dates for a short tour of the UK and Ireland. They will be performing a six date tour starting in Dublin on March 31. Their album was remastered and released in the UK last time that they toured the UK and Ireland. Before the tour of the UK and Ireland they will be playing at a couple of Universities in the US and at Coachella afterwards. You can see the tour dates below.
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The third video from A Place to Bury Strangers’ self-titled debut. “My Weakness” features shots of the band playing live with warm tones of the California desert splicing in between. The video looks like it was pulled straight out of the 1990s alternative rock vault. But then again, this trio wears its influences on their sleeves, pants and shoes.
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A Place To Bury Strangers have announced details of a string of new UK and Irish live dates for March and April.
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
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The images on the screen at the back of the stage switch between scenes of the open road and flowers, but they do little to soften the blows of aggressive anthem To Fix The Gash In Your Head which is blowing chunks out of the crowd’s heads as Oliver’s guitar (one of many played tonight) roars aggressively to the back of the room while Jay Space drums beats as heavy as thunder. As the trio tear through a monstrous set, there’s little interaction between band and crowd, and it’s not needed as it’s clear everyone’s immersed in the music, even a stage invader goes unnoticed by Oliver!
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This juxtaposition is beautifully realised by A Place To Bury Strangers’ visual backdrop. A series of pleasant scenes - rolling countryside, the beauty of flowers in spring - are subverted though a series of briefly flashing subliminal images depicting scenes of outright stark terror and discomfort before giving way to the void of black suns and black holes. Plugging into an electric mainline, this head-on collision of sound and vision makes for a thrillingly visceral experience from a band that has the sheer balls to pick up the baton that’s been passed on by forebears My Bloody Valentine and run with it at full pelt not just at a brick wall but right through it.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
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These guys really know how to put on a show. For the majority of the gig, the room is barely lit except for fairy lights and the bar, and so much smoke is pumped into the room to the point that the band is barely visable (and made it hell to get any decent photos) but for the final song, we’re faced with 10 minutes of strobe lights, just as our eyes have adjusted to the dark. Guitarist Oliver Ackerman picks up his guitar and swings it by the strings and leads, and the whole front row step back to avoid being skewered.
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“I personally love them,” says Oliver Ackermann of New York noise-rock outfit A Place to Bury Strangers, which recently issued a volley of seven-inches on Important Records. “When you create a seven-inch, it’s an opportunity to do something unique that doesn’t fit for an album. The tracks are also immediate; there is no filler. A single is a glimpse of a moment and an experience and an idea.”
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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Throughout this album, the notion of chaos recorded rears its head time and time again. When you learn Ackmann founded an effects pedal company used by bands such as U2 and Wilco, this begins to make more sense. Every single element, every sound made and contained within this album is done so by extraordinarily talented musicians. A Place to Bury Strangers are the sound of chaos that is only just kept in line by the bands ability with their instruments. The precision with which the songs are driven forward, of every minute change in key, of every additional drum loop or guitar line added means this is a record to savour. This is an album that needs to be repeatedly listened to.
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Best Live Shows of 2008
A Place To Bury Strangers + Sian Alice Group @ The Waiting Room
Black Lips + Quintron & Miss Pussycat @ The Waiting Room
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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APTBS raid the Factory Records effects-box archives and the MBV and Jesus and Mary Chain back catalogues, emerging with a 10-song set that simultaneously kicks you in the face and makes you feel you’re slipping into a coma. Annihilation, indeed. Good stuff.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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After witnessing the My Bloody Valentine reunion at ATP NY last month, I can’t watch a band like A Place to Bury Strangers the same way ever again. Through no fault of their own, nothing that they do could possibly live up to the gale force of MBV
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So you know when Keane are talking up their new 80s-inspired direction and the economy is starting, wearingly, to resemble that of twenty years ago, it’s probably time to find a new buzzword. But here, with one last, distorted, noise-drenched salute to the past, are A Place To Bury Strangers and their debut LP, finally being released in Britain after first receiving limited release in the U.S. over a year ago.
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it.
A Place to Bury Stangers
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Trent Reznor has decided to give a little promotional boost to the bands that will be opening for him on his summer tour, including A Place to Bury Strangers, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Crystal Castles, and Deerhunter. Via the NIN website:
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I truly believe A Place to Bury Strangers deserves the great amount of recognition that appearing on this EP will hopefully garner them. They’re already gaining ground everywhere, so this will merely accelerate a process that the same result otherwise.
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PS: A tribute to guitarist, adept at districarsi in the maze of effects, despite being the only guitar proves to be an impeccable sound bomb
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A Place To Bury Strangers – they may be ear-bleedingly loud but beneath the distorted chaos they’ve also got the tunes. The next New Yorkers to keep your eye on.
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this debut UK EP from the band is something really special,
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I know I said there wasn’t much happening in NYC but I lied–sort of. A Place to Bury Strangers are from Brooklyn. I haven’t heard this kind of fuzz-guitar noise since the Jesus and Mary Chain came through.
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A Place to Bury Strangers’ self-titled album has an undeniable underground retro post-punk feel of late-’70s Manchester. It’s a movement that dates back to when Joy Division and This Heat pioneered the cold, droning sounds that defined a genre.
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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if you get the idea they might be somewhat up your street, even remotely, go and see these guys if they come near you, because if you don’t, sooner or later you’ll kick yourself about it otherwise - plain and simple, that’s how good they are.
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culminating in a show-stealing performance at this year’s South By Southwest music convention. Since then, it seems everyone wants a piece of the band who’ve already been dubbed “the loudest band in New York” and DiS is no exception…
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Whether they are the loudest or not, does not make a flute. . A Place To Bury Strangers is quite one of the most exciting bands coming from the Big Apple. Meeting on Wednesday, May 28 in the Botanique. Nevertheless but ensure that those earbuds in place
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