The Manhattan Love Suicides - 20th April - Luminaire London

Lostmusic

Get ready for the gig of the year.....



Lost Music presents
THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES
+ The Gresham Flyers
+ Silver Springs

@ The Luminaire, Kilburn.


Doors 7.30
£6 via We Got Tickets
£8 door

Feedback, noise, melodies all dressed in black and fronted by a sassy female singer - The Manhattan Love Suicides are indie pop gold. If you don't automatically think of a $$$$ nightclub when you hear the word Creation, or a girls name when you hear Sarah, or a sandwich shop when someone says Subway, and you actually know what the $$$$ we're talking about here, then you need to see and hear The Manhattan Love Suicides.

Rough Trade Shops says; "For anyone who loves fuzzed up guitar assaults, feedback, female vocals, melodic pop, ear splitting minimalist noise...and hates a hell of a lot of other things - we give you The Manhattan Love Suicides' debut album. Not since Juniper Moon have we been this excited about an indie pop band. Think The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Shop Assistants, Galaxie 500, The Velvet Underground, The Rosehips, The Golden Dawn and Meat Whiplash. The album is full of fuzzed up noisy pop music with a pounding beat and heart breaking female vocals combined with slower, less raucous sounding tunes. Every song is a indie pop nugget."

Main support are The Gresham Flyers. Describing their sound as "Classy, energetic pop, boy/ girl singers, handclaps, and hooks you can hang your duffel coat on", the band pride themselves on their instrument-swapping diversity and ear for a good hook, based around the diverse influences of the band- from the indie storytelling of Pulp & Belle & Sebastian, to the electronic washes of New Order or Sparks, to the manic strum of The Wedding Present to the classy pop-rock of Roxy Music, 10cc and The Tubes.

Their debut 7 inch single 'Shiftwork' was released in 2006. Rough Trade have called it "a cracking little single that is sure to announce the band to the wider world". The band also contributed the standout track 'Blackpool' to the critically-acclaimed compilation 'The Kids At The Club' on How Does It Feel Records.

Opening the evening is the "amped-up country noisepop soundscapes" of Silver Springs

"Beautifully played avant-noise Americana with a Galaxie 500 influence." (Sean Price, Fortuna Pop)

"A classic-sounding indie jangle band in the vein of The Orchids and The Television Personalities." (Ian Watson, How Does It Feel To Be Loved?)

"Indie of the fiercely old school style, resplendent with sensitively shy, soft indie boy vocals and lyrics." (Fliss Collier, Metro Online)

“A spot on take on the melancholy beauty previously modelled by The Silver Jews and Palace.” (Crud Music Magazine)