this saturday (dec 17) pelican headline u:mack xmas party

u:mack

U:MACK XMAS PARTY
Featuring
PELICAN
OAK
TEN PAST SEVEN
SAT DEC 17
WHELANS OF WEXFORD STREET
TICKETS €16.50 FROM ROAD, SOUND CELLAR, RED INK BOOKS, CITY DICSCS & WAV BOX OFFICE
1890 2000 78.

LISTEN TO PELICAN AT http://www.hydrahead.org/hh/thefire/


u:mack's xmas party takes place on saturday dec 17 in whelans. this is the last u:mack gig of the year, so far we've had Isis, Jesu, Venitian Snares, mu-ziq, Mike Watt, Hot Snakes, Billy Childish, Fantomas, Wolf Eyes, Caribou, Immortal Lee County Killers, Mudhoney, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Melvins, Dirty Three, Khanate and CocoRosie.
We'll be announcing some shows for next year in the next few weeks.

Come early on saturday, all the bands are awesome. Tickets will be available on the door



PELICAN
triumph - n 1: a successful ending of a struggle or contest; "the general always gets credit for his army's victory"; "the agreement was a triumph for common sense" [syn: victory] [ant: defeat] 2: the exultation of victory v 1: prove superior; "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight" [syn: prevail] 2: be ecstatic with joy [syn: wallow, rejoice] 3: dwell on with satisfaction [syn: gloat, crow] 4: to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?" [syn: exult, rejoice, jubilate]

"We're a ****ing triumphant band."
- Pelican guitarist Laurent Lebec

Unhindered by the impositions of the vocal yoke, Chicago instro-sorcerers Pelican transcend the limits of time and space to expound upon the stunning finesse and painstaking subtlety with which they command their already indelible sonic signature. Restoring instrumental composition to its former glory is no insignificant task, and to do so with such remarkable authority and presence is a testament to the sheer will and unmitigated talent of Pelican's membership. Levying cinematic melody upon glacial heaviness, they achieve the sort of inevitability usually reserved for weather systems and natural disasters. Channeling the seasonal progressions of various far-flung landscapes, the sounds of Pelican are easily adaptable to both the active and passive listening experience, but their harmonic minutiae are best appreciated in a high-volume stereophonic headphone scenario.

Pelican's seemingly sudden arrival on the Windy City's (and now the world's) underground circuit was in fact a deliberate agenda shift propagated by Laurent Lebec (guitar), Trevor de Brauw (guitar), and Larry Herweg (drums), then three-quarters of the bizarre grind squad Tusk (for further listening, procure Tusk's Get Ready on HeWhoCorruptsInc and The Tree of No Return on Tortuga). With the addition of Larry's younger brother Bryan on bass, Pelican's imposing musical quadrangle was complete. The appearance of a four-song demo, recorded and mixed for a mere $300, followed. Like a large web-footed seabird with a long straight bill from which hangs a distensible pouch of skin for catching and holding fish, Hydra Head Records swooped down from on high in 2003 to re-issue said demo as Pelican's widely-lauded Untitled EP. Within the year, Pelican would become an integral component of the now-infamous Champions Of Sound tour, in conjunction with fellow Hydra Head and Tortuga heavyweights Harkonen, Scissorfight, The Austerity Program, Old Man Gloom, and 5ive's Continuum Research Project.

Pelican's debut full-length, Australasia (Hydra Head) arrived shortly thereafter, ushering in a cyclical riptide of major-chord mastery and low-end triumph against which one could only abdicate any and all tendencies to resist total immersion. Riding high on many a 2004 year-end top 20 list in various national and international music publications, Australasia also led Pelican to the SXSW Music Festival in both 2004 and 2005, All Tomorrow's Parties (UK) in 2004, and a UK/European tour in 2004 (with Jesu, among others). A limited edition Pelican DVD followed, available exclusively through Hydra Head, in early 2005.

With their newest epic, The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, Pelican establish themselves as an inimitable force of nature, soaring skyward in triumph toward some celestial nadir, shepherding out the frost with a wash of seismic rumblings. Acoustic guitars take their place beside Pelican's traditional (read: highly amplified) power-drone majesty; the heavens part to allow full deliverance of tidal euphony, awe-inspiring instrumental anthems, and bucolic narco-rhythms. Whether this signals the end of the underground musical landscape as we know it, or the beginning of a new one, is anyone's guess. Luckily, the **** rules either way.

J. Bennett, summer 2005

Pelican just returned home from their US tour with Big Business, Breather Resist, and Red Sparowes. They are now in the process of confirming fall and winter touring, both here and abroad. Look for the Pelican/MONO vinyl split on Temporary Residence Oct. 11. Vinyl for the new Pelican album and the recent EP, as well as a repress of the DVD are soon forthcoming.
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Ten Past Seven are Matt on Bass, Ger on Drums and Rory on Guitar. Having witnessed the live monstrosity of local Cork bands such as Weevil (RIP) and Rest , they were inspired to create their own blend of instrumental madness. There followed a few weeks of intense writing, in which instrumentals were loudly and violently excreted from the artistic parts of their brains. After they had a small set together they started playing with bands such as Charlottefield, Mono, Brood, Noxagt, Berkeley, Giddy Motors, Redneck Manifesto and a **** load of other fantastic bands. There's too many to mention.


Originally from Kerry, they started the band in the month of September '02, when they moved to Cork to attend the Music, Management and Sound course in Colaiste Stiofain Naofa. They had been playing with another band called Rift for about 3 years and had enjoyed a little bit of success & did a couple of recordings, including a Dave Fanning Session for 2FM in Studio 8.


In April '03 they decided to record the music that they had so lovingly crafted during the year. So time in the college studio was booked and the instrumentals were put to tape using only 8 tracks. Five tunes were recorded live and mixed by themselves in about 3 hours. This whole episode turned into the debut release "onehundredandfiftydegrees" . They burned each CD and cut & glued each cover by hand. To date they've sold over 400 exclusively at gigs.


Ten Past Seven's debut album will be released on Out on a Limb records in early January 2006. All proceeds will go to the "SAVE THE BOG-WALRUS" campaign.