Fleet Foxes (USA)
WELLINGTON
**VENUE CHANGED TO TOWN HALL**
January 13th 2012 - The Town Hall
Tickets from Ticketek:
www.ticketek.co.nz
AUCKLAND
January 14th 2012 - The Town Hall
Book at THE EDGE:
www.buytickets.co.nz / 09 3573355 or 0800 BUY TICKETS
The new album 'HELPLESSNESS BLUES' available now.
Tapping into a vein of lyrical and harmonic whimsy, this Seattle based 'baroque harmonic pop' collective's early releases; Sun Giant EP and self-titled debut LP were the surprise hits of 2008, brimming with inviting melodies, evocative lyrics, and open-armed harmonizing. The band became gloriously inescapable - gathering universal acclaim everywhere they travelled.
Their highly anticipated disarmingly beautiful 2011 release Helplessness Blues is a gorgeous record that draws influence and inspiration from popular music and folk rock of the mid '60s to the early '70s. It's a synthesis of folk rock, traditional folk, & psychedelic pop, with an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. Helplessness Blues is set to become one of the albums of the year for 2011 and is to be unleashed live on New Zealand audiences for the first time in 2012...
Explosions in the Sky (USA)
Wellington: Thursday December 15th, San Francisco Bath House
Auckland: Friday December 16th, Kings Arms Tavern
Tickets available from www.undertheradar.co.nz and Real Groovy (Auckland only) & Slow Boat Records (Wellington only)
In February 1999, three longtime friends from West Texas went to a pizza place in Austin, Texas, for a prearranged meeting with a young man from Illinois. The Illinoisan had just moved to Austin, and he had put up a flyer that caught the interest of the others. They ate pizza and discussed movies and arcana. They also decided to meet the next day with their various instruments (two guitars, bass, and drums). This happened, and over the coming months they picked a band name, then picked a better band name, then wrote and recorded an album.
That album, called How Strange, Innocence, was largely out of tune, but the band members didn't really notice at the time. They optimistically printed 300 copies, and gave most of them away. It turned out they really liked playing together, so they kept doing so. A friend of theirs sent a recording of one of their live shows to a record label in Baltimore, and that label offered to put out albums for the band. The band agreed. A year later they put out a second album (Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever).
They began to tour often, all over the world. In 2003 another album came (The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place), and in 2007 they put out All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. Their fifth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, will be released in April 2011.