CHROMATICS // Thursday 24th April @ Andrews Lane

Maximum Joy

Maximum Joy Presents
CHROMATICS (ITALIANS DO IT BETTER, PORTLAND USA)
DONAL DINEEN
SPILLY WALKER
MAXIMUM JOY DJs

ANDREWS LANE THEATRE, D2
Thursday April 24th, 10pm til late
ADM: 17.50

http://www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusics
http://www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub



CHROMATICS
Taking a cross section from 70's horror films, a fixation with ancient societies, and a love for percussive electronic music, founding member, Adam Miller, hooked up with Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) in the summer of 2004 to start working on a record unlike any Chromatics had done before. During the summer of 2006, Chromatics welcomed Ruth Radelet on lead vocals, and Nat Walker on percussion and saxophone.

In autumn 2007 Chromatics released "In the City" as a 12" single on ITALIANS DO IT BETTER records. Bootlegs of the demo version had been circulating across dance floors and internet radio all year. It was followed by the release of Night Drive a CD only album featuring 'Hands in the Dark' and a cover of Kate Bushes 'Running up That Hill'.
The album features Ruth sharing the spotlight with occasional bursts of vocoder. While the group experiments equally with outsider Electro and melodramatic string arrangements, she sings a tense lullaby not unlike Mia Farrow in Komeda's theme from Rosemary's Baby.

In a live setting, Chromatics keep it minimal. The synthesizers handle the Cosmic elements, the guitar takes care of the moodier edge, and the drums are stripped down to a dirty disco for dancing. What's the end result? Well, to quote the group's own blog on myspace, "Imagine if Michael McDonald accidentally crashed his yacht into a disco off the shores of Italy while staring into the horse head nebula."

SPILLY WALKER
Spilly Walker emerged in 2007 on the Donal Dineen compilation Small Hours Summer Mornings. The song “Let the Freak Come Out at Night” is an awesome marriage of pop-craft and electro intensity. The voice is unmistakably that of David Kitt who in a departure from his usual groove has unleashed this balearic monster. His accomplice is younger brother Robbie Kitt (Schooly Walker). It soon became apparent that Spilly Walker had more bangers where that came from when they took the stage at the Electric Picnic in the Foggy Notions tent and treated us to forty minutes of immense Ibiza synths and disco soul tracks with huge choruses and emotive singing.

DONAL DINEEN
At a time when Irish broadcasters were consistently failing to provide a platform for innovative music (both Irish and international), Donal Dineen helped create such a space on the national airwaves. Through his work on alternative music programme No Disco, and subsequent radio shows on Radio Ireland and Today FM, Dineen has consistently promoted music that matters in a heartfelt and honest manner.

Donal has consistently been one of the highlights at Electric Picnic over the last few years and he has made recent appearances with Jessie Evans, Milosh, Jape, Si Schroeder and Lisa Hannigan amongst others.

No slave to the vagaries of fashion or the commercial demands of radio his playlists easily glide across a variety of genres and eras. Expect to hear everything from the euphoric Northern Soul stomp of Frankie Valli, the avant garde disco of Arthur Russell through to contemporary electronic pioneers such as DJ Koze and Dabrye

Don't forget to get the Friday off.....

Maximum Joy

tickets now available at www.tickets.ie

Maximum Joy

tickets are now also available from

WAV box office (beside Whelans)
Road Records and City Discs




and here's a video preview of what to expect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOxribt3kA