Silversun Pickups Promo Night

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Silversun Pickups LogoOn Saturday the 8th Of September we shall be havign a promo night for Silversun Pickups. You may have heard the single 'Future Foe Scenarios' being played over the past few months, it is indeed a lovely song.

The night will have giveaways and all the usual promo materials we get sent :) It will, of course, Be free entry before 11 too.

Silversun Pickups; rather than being another fiercely determined young band willing to claw and scrap their way to the top of the rock heap, genuinely appear to be far more like a gang of real, true friends who happened, quite fortuitously, to meet as a result of their mutual love of music, and who seem to enjoy each other’s company as much as they like playing their own brand of ravishing rock noise. 

Guitarist-singer Brian Aubert, bass player Nikki Monninger, drummer Christopher Guanlao and keyboardist Joe Lester are bona fide pals who’d played together or in mutual friends’ bands when they finally settled on a Silversun lineup and began playing shows at local clubs. The band lived to play, and play they did, at numerous dates at many of the most important L.A. clubs, which found their stage sets growing more confidently not cocky but in greater command of their playing prowess. 

Dangerbird Records were quick to pick up on the Pickups for an EP, called Pikul.The songs from this EP sealed in the love among Silversun Pickups’ L.A. fans and critics, and their subsequent mounting acclaim led the band to undertake an increasingly heavy touring schedule, which found them playing alongside Brendan Benson, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dead Meadow and Two Gallants, and they returned home to record, Carnavas, their full-length debut for Dangerbird.

Produced by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, Rolling Blackouts), engineered by Tom Biller (Sean Lennon, Jon Brion) and mixed by Tony Hoffer (Beck, The Kooks, Belle and Sebastian), the album reveals the Pickups in a full flowering of their considerable melodic, textural and rhythmic gifts, with 11 dark/light songs about "Melatonin,” “Little Lover’s So Polite,” “Future Foe Scenarios” and “Well Thought Out Twinkles,” among other provocatively ambiguous themes. The album rages with a kind of mixed emotion well matched to those themes, a vibrating compound of feral cries amid tender harmony, resonating powerfully with heavily filtered guitar squawk, hovering keyboard clouds, and bass & drums that often seem to lurch their way into divinely propulsive beats. 

The proof’s in the pudding, and now all you need to do is listen. And all Silversun Pickups need to do is figure out how to transfer the album’s splendorous riot of beauty onto the concert stage — and deal with the acclaim that’ll inevitably follow. But that shouldn’t prove difficult for these dedicated friends, who’re happy to have found each other and make magnificent music together. 

 

Set Lists

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    2. With guest Dj Jp
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  3. Mosh - 21st Nov 2007

    4. The Sonic Recreation Of The End Of The World.
  4. Mosh - 7th March 2007 - Top Floor

    5. Dj Ron
  5. Soundhaus - 24th March 2007

    6. with Guest Dj Andy

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