Electrelane + 8 Ball at Whelan's this Saturday

Deaglan

ELECTRELANE
+ 8 Ball
Saturday 8th May 2004. Doors open 8pm
at Whelans
Wexford Street
Dublin2
Tickets €13.50 From ROAD, Sound Cellar, City Discs, Freebird, Comet

Massively acclaimed indie rock/electro outfit Electrelane play come to Ireland for their Irish debut in Whelans on Saturday 8th May.

“Electrelane have the ability to rock harder than any hard**** punkrocker and the potential to be elegantly moving at the same time” Drowned in Sound, 2004

“Strange things are afoot with Brighton’s Electrelane. In the form of, variously, Siegfried Sassoon poetry, lines from Nietzsche

Formed in 1998, Electrelane are an all-girl rock quartet from the musically diverse Brighton, England. In an industry of male dominance, this all female band have taken the world by storm with music which little parallels anything that has happened elsewhere.

Formed in the dying days of the Britpop era and the aftermath of the Riot Grrrl movement, Electrelane had their own approach specialising in densely textured instrumentals with a sound of infinite urgency and acceleration. Driven by a pounding rhythm section, minimalist guitar and keyboards swelling the sound, the experience of this band is one of sustained sonic drama.

Electrelane released their debut single Film Music, in January 2000, on Skint's Indenial label. Sixth months later, Le Song followed on Fierce Panda, and in September they signed to distribution company 3MV, who released Electrelane on their own label, Let's Rock! Records.

Following such high profile performances as Sleater-Kinney, Death In Vegas, Broadcast, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Primal Scream, and Le Tigre, Electrelane landed a US deal with radical indie label, Mr Lady.
They recorded their second album, The Power Out, with legendary producer Steve Albini - a self professed fan. A band that refuses to be defined by its past, the speedy ambience remains in this album, but the structure has evolved – for one, both vocals and lyrics are present. In contrast to the many bands who develop an instrumental style later in their career, Electrelane have worked in the opposite way.

As they say, they had to develop as a band before they could find a balance between words and music that they liked. French, German and Spanish are used on the record, as well as English. The decision behind this was basically a musical one. For example Oh Sombra! [Oh Shadow] takes the fluidity of a melancholy Spanish lyric and injects a new urgency into it.

Collaboration has always been fundamental to the band's vision. Blue Straggler (one of the singles from Rock It) became a soundtrack to a short film made by artists Eric Lesdema and Stephanie Bolt; the band have worked with fine-artists Laura Mousavi-Zadeh and Francis Young; Verity has recently worked with Finnish video artist Anu Pennanen and the quartet have long-term plans to fund Let's Rock as a label promoting other musicians, artists and projects.
Electrelane wraps philosophy around raw powerful music.