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Is Bliss
What a year its been for Is Bliss. Theyre only now approaching their 1st birthday and already they have created a stir through word-of-mouth and incendiary live shows. Debut EP Velvet Dreams, received rave press reviews and entered the Official Vinyl Singles Chart at number 30. Other highlights have been radio play on BBC 6Music (Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft and Radcliffe & Maconie shows), BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio, as well as opening for Wolf Alice, Telescopes, Nine Black Alps, Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie, and have recently been hand picked by The Jesus And Mary Chain to support them on one of their shows on their upcoming tour!
Is Bliss plans for 2017 include recording new tracks for a second EP followed by their debut album, and many more live dates and festivals across the UK and in Europe.
Ocean Blue from Velvet Dreams EP: https://soundcloud.com/club-ac30/is-bliss-ocean-blue
Monster Movie
Christian Savill and Sean Hewson have been in bands together since the late '80s. In 1989, one of these bands, Eternal, released a single on Sarah Records called Breathe that featured the dreamy, fuzzed out guitars soaring over pop melodies that Christian brings to any project he is a part of. Sean was missing for that but returned for a shambolic gig supporting Slowdive and Chapterhouse in Reading. Shortly afterwards, and with some justification, Christian left to join Slowdive.
Ten years later, Christian and Sean formed Monster Movie in a failed attempt to go Krautrock. In 2001, they released their first EP on Clairecords which contained a few seconds of Krautrock but was mainly dreamy, fuzzed out guitars soaring over pop melodies. In the years spanning 2002-2010 Monster Movie put out four full length albums, a mini album, and a few EPs, the majority of which were released on Graveface Records.
Since 2014 Christian has also been involved with Slowdive's reunion and subsequent touring. The band have just released Star Roving, their first single in 22 years. Slowdive's reappearance has also had a positive effect on Monster Movie with Sean and Christian realising that they needed to move away from being a studio project and become a proper band. For their latest and strongest album, Keep The Voices Distant, they were joined by James Harrison from Air Formation on drums and Nick Chaplin (Slowdive) on bass with Christian and Sean contributing guitar, bass, keyboards and vocals. Since September 2015 Monster Movie have been Kev Wells (guitar/vocals/everything), Sean Hewson (bass/vocals/everything), Christian Savill (guitar/vocals/everything) and James Harrison (drums/vocals/everything).
Keep The Voices Distant is Monster Movie's fifth album and their first record since 2010's Everyone Is a Ghost. It was recorded with Martin Nichols at White House Recording Studios in Weston-super-Mare and produced by Ryan Graveface. As with all Monster Movie releases it is a combination of Christian and Sean's song-writing, playing, arrangements, general grumpiness and chaotic, personal lives. This time, however, with James, Nick and Ryan in the studio with them, the songs have really been allowed to really take off.
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James, Alex & Laurence are three brothers born and raised in Crawley, West Sussex.
Forming the band in the Autumn of 2014, the guys have been busy refining their sounds and doing gigs whenever they can.
They released their debut EP 'what i choose to forget' in April 2016 to wide reaching praise.
Impressive sounds are generated by this trio with their huge, noisy, bass-driven ambience married with delicate soaring guitars and glued with solid drums.
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LocationSebright Arms (View)
31-35 Coate Street
London E2 9AG
United Kingdom
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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