Beak> Confirm Intimate London Show with 2 Supports, On Sale Now
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"geoff barrow
billy fuller
matt williams
are BEAK> and this is the second album BEAK>>
Hot on the heels of his Quakers hip hop project, and the Judge Dredd inspired / Drokk soundtrack collaboration, Geoff Barrow unveils the second Beak> album, the krautrock inspired band formed with Billy Fuller and Matt Williams.
Available on CD & a 2 LP set the initial version of the LP is pressed on heavy vinyl and comes in a foil embossed sleeve. There is an accepted music industry strategy, mainly from the mouths of experienced music managers and A&R men, that for a band to get ready to present themselves to the world they should go on tour. In most cases this advice works; the band hone their craft on the road so by the time they get on to ‘Later with Jools Holland’ they can amaze with their slick, tight rock performance.
However, this doesn’t always work. BEAK> formed by Geoff Barrow - Matt Williams - Billy Fuller in 2009 recorded their self-titled debut album in Bristol, created out of 12 days of improv sessions and then edited into song form. Shorty after releasing it on INVADA records UK and Ipecac records U.S., the band went on a successful tour, playing various festival dates across Europe and the U.S. Buzzing from the tour, Beak> then returned to the studio to start work on ALBUM 2 only to find that the time on the road had taken its toll on the band’s delicately sensitive and creative nature. And, by consequence, had turned them into a truly awful-sounding pub prog-rock band. The magic had gone. It seemed that the band were thoroughly moribund. Until... One rainy afternoon in Bristol after many tortured, truly terrible recording sessions something changed. It may have been the diesel fumes from the bands tour splitter bus had worn off, others say that the band simply turned their amplifiers down.
We will possibly never know the true events of that afternoon but the band began to play and, once again as before, their bleak, wobbly anti-blue note sound had returned, but this time with added synthesizers. And so... recorded in one room live (with very few overdubs)"
ATP are proud to present a special intimate London show from Beak> this November at The Lexington. They will be joined by handpicked supports Heavy Bunny and Scarlet Rascal & The TrainWreck. Tickets are on sale now, here are the details...
ARTIST: Beak>
SUPPORT ACTS: Heavy Bunny + Scarlet Rascal & The TrainWreck + DJ Nik Void (Factory Floor)
VENUE: The Lexington
DATE: Wednesday 21st November 2012
ADVANCED TICKET PRICE: £13 stbf
VENUE ADDRESS: 96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB
VENUE TELEPHONE: 020 7837 5371
AGE RESTRICTION: 18+ only
DOORS: 8pm-11pm
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