Foggy Notions presents Grizzly Bear, May 18

FoggyNotions

FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENT

GRIZZLY BEAR

& special guests

Whelan’s, Dublin

Friday May 18

Tickets: WAV, City Discs, Road Records & Sound Cellar

www.myspace.com/grizzlybear
www.grizzly-bear.net
www.warprecords.com

Brooklyn’s finest, Grizzly Bear finally make it to Dublin. Last November they had to cancel their Whelan’s date and remaining European tour dates due to the theft of their backline in Brussels. Since then they have been the recipient of the Foggy Notions Album of the Year 2006 accolade for their second album, Yellow House (Warp Records), as well as huge love from the likes of Pitchfork and the New York Times.

GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House (Warp)

2006 wasn’t dominated by one particular band or musical movement - it was a year for free spirits to spread their wings, and by gum did they fly, from Owen Pallett’s cascading Final Fantasy project to Scott Walker’s densely experimental audio-visual mind-fest to Joanna Newsom’s far-out pastoral paradise.

But the album that won out in the end came from a quiet corner of the music world. Ed Droste returned to his childhood home, the Yellow House in Cape Cod, with his band Grizzly Bear to record their second album. Enlivened by the atmosphere and the memories of the old house, and filtered through Grizzly Bear’s layers of detailed sound, Droste’s songs blossomed into dazzling Kaleidoscope gems.

“It was kind of weird,” Droste told us earlier this year. “It was the first time I spent an extended period of time in my childhood home since moving out. I was staying in my bedroom. None of my family was there. It was a funny experience, but it was a sort of a way to say goodbye to the house.”

The Yellow House has since been sold, yet immortalized beautifully with this psychedelic milestone.

Back in September 2006, we said: Grizzly Bear left the yellow house with a hazy masterpiece of an album. Yellow House is a fantastical maelstrom of west coast psychedelia, 1990s shoe-gaze, timeless Americana, crazy Van Dyke Parks style arrangements, Hollywood musicals, Spector and Motown…
But seriously, as much as these references swirl in and out of view throughout Yellow House, don’t read any of them literally – they are all red herrings. Grizzly Bear have a thoroughly original personality.

0ubliette

They're playing on the 18th in Whelans, think ill definitely go myself, tickets are only 18 quid. Really good band, the new album yellow house sounds amazing, you can hear a full preview of it on thier site www.grizzly-bear.net/audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYZbYtAl9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJKXqTZtdmE

lordgoat

yes

ronano

eh wanted to go but no one will go with me

if i can convince someone i'm there should be great

yevveh

Really want to go but my exams dont finish until May 19th so I have to consider it have they played here before? If I don't win tickets to Maximo Park on May 21 I'm considering heading over to London for a day to see them.

Also, type in "Grizzly bear bathroom paris" into Youtube. Yes, it is them, and yes it is brilliant

By the by, how do you embed Youtube videos into the posts here?

lordgoat

GB were ment to play here last year, but they had all their gear robbed in europe, brussels i think and they had to cancel. This is all from memory if i'm wrong i apologise!`

John

Moved to Gigs/Events

Toast

Probably gonna catch them at Primavera. The Books are playing on the Thursday before here so trying to avoid two gigs in a row.

0ubliette

yevveh wrote:

Really want to go but my exams dont finish until May 19th so I have to consider it have they played here before? If I don't win tickets to Maximo Park on May 21 I'm considering heading over to London for a day to see them.

Also, type in "Grizzly bear bathroom paris" into Youtube. Yes, it is them, and yes it is brilliant

By the by, how do you embed Youtube videos into the posts here?

yep if you search just for grizzly bear in youtube its the song 'shift', usually up retty high on the list, its amazing
Booked my tickets on wednesday, cant wait to see them now

honru

I'll be there. Only 18 quid sure.

Toast

Looks like Im going to this after all. Tickets available at the door?

lordgoat

Think it was sold out and it was an awesome gig...

honru

T'was sold out, yeah. And I didn't get in. Hopefully they'll be back for Electric Picnic.

Shít, that's the second time that's happened to me. I don't frequently get my gig tickets in the presales but I'll certainly be getting my Battles ticket now so the same thing doesn't happen next Friday. Still, it's a good sign to see these bands selling out gigs over here.

Toast

Well U:Mack posted on the Electric Picnic boards that the Battles tickets were just about to sell out so get a move on. We picked our tickets up for Grizzly Bear mid Friday and they were heavily flyering outside Whelans and it was practically empty till 9pm so I think it may have been a late surge that filled it.

0ubliette

amazing, amazing gig. right up there with sigur ros in the ambassador in 05 for sheer awesomeness. Still slightly disappointed they didnt play deep sea diver tho

Toast

0ubliette wrote:

right up there with sigur ros in the ambassador in 05 for sheer awesomeness.

Now hold on a second... it was good but it wasnt that good sonny!

0ubliette

Toast wrote:

Now hold on a second... it was good but it wasnt that good sonny!

i didnt say it was BETTER!! that was the single best gig ive ever seen, but grizzly bear were incredible, did you HEAR those harmonies?? Absolutely fantastic..some of the best vocal arrangements ive ever seen in a gig i have to say

Toast

Yeh I loved the harmonies. Reminded me a bit of some Beach Boys stuff. I felt the middle sagged a little so I dont think Id rank it as a gig ill be telling my grandchildren about but it was certainly great.

yevveh

Godamn, I'm really pissed off I missed that gig I had exams though, and they went pretty well, so it wasn't a waste. I'm going to pick up my ticket for Battles ASAP, I didn't think it would sell out!

Also, for those (like me ) who missed GB, there's some live vids here:

http://scheduletwo.com/video/grizzly_bear

Shift has to be one of my favourite songs evar.

0ubliette

yevveh wrote:

Godamn, I'm really pissed off I missed that gig I had exams though, and they went pretty well, so it wasn't a waste. I'm going to pick up my ticket for Battles ASAP, I didn't think it would sell out!

Also, for those (like me ) who missed GB, there's some live vids here:

http://scheduletwo.com/video/grizzly_bear

Shift has to be one of my favourite songs evar.

Thanks for those, great vids
i met one of the guys, daniel i think it was, at the bar before the gig and asked him to play deep sea diver
They didnt tho