Looks like Eat Skull are playing again at The Old Blue Last this Thursday.
I'm assuming that's them. Free gig too.
Thursday
18 November
VICE ISSUE LAUNCH
Porcelian Raft
Live
Eat Skull
Live
Sensation
Live
Vice Djs
Plus Special Guests
Downstairs Hosted by: Lolita
Porcelain Raft
If you’re a fan of Beach House, and you really should be a fan of Beach House, then you can be pretty much certain that Porcelain Raft’s similarly dreamy and blissed-out pop songs are going to be right up your street. That’s not to say that Mauro Remiddi, the man behind the moniker, is merely replicating a near-perfect formula, there’s a personality behind his bleary post-glitch beats that has positioned Porcelain Raft as one of our favourite dream pop wonders of 2010. Working with guitars, samplers, loops and keyboards, Remiddi produces each of his songs under a strict 24 hour time limit, a technique that has stopped him from overthinking or overproducing and has helped to maintain the haunting simplicity that is so irresistible within his songs. Although having only begun making music less than a year ago, Porcelain Raft already has three EP’s available for download and as if that wasn’t keeping him busy enough he also makes his own videos; so far these have featured footage including children speaking in sign language, extroverted 80’s hair metallers and a Shiva dancer doing her thing, he’s also made a video for Yuck, cool.
“his bleary, blessed-out songs will have fans of dreamy pop clinging to him” – The Guardian
‘Fans and critics alike should be fawning over Porcelain Raft in droves’ – The Line of Best Fit
‘his luscious dream-pop noises manage to transport you to a whole other plane’ – RockFeedback
http://www.myspace.com/porcelainraft
Sensation
Sensation are so new on the scene that you can’t find anything about them on the internet, or maybe they’ve just picked one of those band names that is impossible to Google, like ‘!!!’ or ‘Final Fantasy’. I guess unless you are willing to name your band ‘Thee Silver Mt Zion’ or ‘…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead’ then you’re always going to run into this problem. Anyway, Sensation are good, very good. They make pop songs that work both on a dancefloor and on a pumping stereo. Influenced by the sounds and images of synthwave, Italo and electro they will take you on a hypnotic journey through space, shadows and light. Come check them out.
http://www.myspace.com/sensationwave