Gig For Japan
Featuring Smoke Fairies
+ James Broad (Silver Sun) + PixelH8
Wednesday 27 April : 8pm
Minimum donation £5.00 (please give as much as you can)
Plus Globo DJ set in the bar.
After a sell out show in January this year, the Smoke Fairies are back at NAC for this very special night in aid of the Pray For Japan appeal.
Smoke Fairies
At school in rural, restrained England during the mid-90s, best mates Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies prayed they’d one day escape their home town of Chichester, Sussex and dive headlong into the landscape and myth of America, the promised land of their dreams. And more crucially, they’d be making music rather than some conformist career choice.
Little did they know that by 2010, they’d have lived in New Orleans and Vancouver, recorded with 21st century Yankee icon Jack White and toured across continents. And now they’re releasing a debut album that fulfils the promise of their earlier singles. Smoke Fairies are an exquisitely shivery blend of English alternative folk-rock and a more humid, bluesy brand of Americana. In other words, equal parts home and away, reflecting who they are and what they’ve seen, and sounding both eerily ancient and thrillingly modern. It’s a perfectly balanced record; two friends who specialise in interlocking harmonies and guitar parts that shape their spectral melodies. ‘Instead of learning how to sing or play individually in a conventional way, we’ve learnt by bouncing off each other, and working out how to fit in with each other,’ says Katherine. ‘It’s a connection we wouldn’t have found anywhere else.’
James Broad
Lead vocalist and guitarist with Silver Sun, James Broad will be performing an acoustic set.
PixelH8
Internationally renowned chip tune musician Pixelh8 / Matthew C. Applegate makes his music from reprogramming some of the oldest and rarest vintage computer systems in the world.
His unique blend of Electronica has taken him across the globe, performing at Microdisco in Berlin, Apple iTunes in California, Assembly 2008 in Helsinki Finland, Game in The City Festival Holland, BBC Maida Vale Studios for Radio 1 in London, The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park and most recently Liverpool’s massive Abandon Normal Devices Festival for FACT.
Highly regarded in this emerging genre of music he has been featured on CNN, BBC Television, BBC Radio 1,2,3,4,5,6, World Service, as well several magazines and websites all over the world.
