This is a late gig you delicate flowers, but you will be rewarded for staying up on a school night. A gig brought to you by the excellent people at Loose by any other name, the top two billings here serve up big mouthfulls of rich, baroque, overwrought-in-a-good-way, expansive indieness. Pretty sumptious and dang tasty, that’s what we’re saying, and worth some heavy lids the day after.
10 Feet Tall presents:
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
FORMER GHOSTS
(feat. Jamie Stewart Xiu Xiu)
KITA AKITA
PAGAN WANDERER LU
Monday 17th May
8pm-3am
£6 adv from WeGotTickets / £7 doors
*Please note this is a late show – supports start 8.30pm, Former Ghosts will be performing at 10.30pm, Parenthetical Girls 11.30pm.
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS are based in Portland, Oregon and are known for combining saccharine pop with experimental elements, often compared with Brian Eno, Dirty Projectors, Philip Glass, Xiu Xiu and Phil Spector.. with smidges of Wild Beasts / Rufus Wainwright too!
“..a love note to the excesses of the past, penned in the same platinum ink as forebears like Bacharach and Scott Walker.. Penningston’s oblique and winning compositions and his bandmates’ imaginative execution manage to try at the idea of perfectly normal baroque pop becoming, just for over half an hour, just a little abnormal”.
