Magic & Medicine
presents
BLACKSTROBE
THURSDAY 14TH JUNE-CARGO-RIVINGTON STREET,LONDON 8PM.
w/ Skull Juice, Shakes and Ulterior
http://www.cargo-london.com
£10 advance tickets from
http://www.ents24.com/web/event/132...lackstrobe.html 
What connects Norwegian death metal, French club anthems and the same mood, the same mix of synths and guitars of the Klaxons and The Horrors and London super-producer Paul Epworth? It sounds like a particularly intractable example of the six degrees of separation game. However, these seemingly irreconcilable points on the musical compass are linked by French dance rock four-piece Black Strobe. A simple enough answer.
Blackstrobe are Arnaud Rebotini (vocals and programming), David ‘Siskid’ Shaw (guitars and keyboards), Bastien Burger (bass and keyboards) and Benjamin Beaulieu (drums) Burn Your Own Church is there debut album on Playlouder Records, a record ten years in the making. Happily, it’s worth the wait. Few bands manage to combine guitars and electronics as successfully as BlackStrobe do here.Catch them at Cargo for there first full live band performance after a handful of warm up clubshows and a east London warehouse gig.Support on the night comes from XXXX and Uterior with dj support from Skull Juice.
Originally, the band was a duo comprised of Arnaud Rebotini and French DJ Ivan Smagghe. They became friends in the mid-’80s after repeatedly bumping into each other in front the row at concerts they both went on to work in the dance section of the Rough Trade record shop in Paris.From there they decided to form a band releasing Paris Acid City in 1996 and Innerstrings in 1999 which referenced early ’80s synth pop a good two years before electroclash was cool.Their third single, Me And Madonna, became one of electroclash’s anthems. Not that Black Strobe were ever part of the scene they were always too spiky for that
As a result, Black Strobe have developed into a thrilling live act, with Arnaud an imposing, gravel-voiced front man – a thicker set Nick Cave, perhaps. However, Ivan was less comfortable with performing and decided to leave the band to concentrate on his DJ career. It was an amicable parting and his influence can still be heard on Burn Your Own Church – before he left he wrote most of the lyrics. Helping Black Strobe assemble these wide-ranging and hugely ambitious influences was producer Paul Epworth, best known for his work with Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads It was then mixed by Alan Moulder (U2, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson).
Let your darker leanings come to light and witness the Blackstrobe.
“Magic and Medicine” present the concert at Cargo a follow up to there successful events and concerts of the last two years for Modular Records and the recently presented worldwide exclusive DFA launch of “Sounds of Silver” LCD Soundsystem album tour concert.
FOR MORE INFO CALL GARETH HANSOME 07802 947253 or
INFO@MAGICANDMEDCINE.COM.
Blackstrobe LIVE @ Cargo London - THIS THURS! 
