Somewhere, on an obscure EP by an obscure band, there’s a song called “More Action! Less Tears!”. A woman shouts the title in an echoing room, and the band kick in, guitars slowly but stridently burning, strings creeping up behind them. It’s sad, hopeful, defiant and great. They might play it at this here gig or they might not, but either way Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra will bring the crashingly beautiful instrumental wreckage, and the ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor members, for you to gawp at, and maybe feel a little less hopeless as well. Yes, we’re a happy bunch at the Joy Collective.
THEE SILVER MT ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA
Tues 16th March
Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra is a post-rock band formed in 1999, in Montreal, Canada, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar. According to an interview with VPRO Radio in The Netherlands, originally the project was for Efrim to learn how to score music, but the idea was soon abandoned as Efrim decided that he preferred music not to be defined by rules, preferring simply what sounds best. Despite this, he continued the project out of a desire to experiment with ideas that would not work within the context of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Support from
GRAVENHURST
£12.50adv
Open 8pm – Close 11pm
