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Swans @ The Corner
0 Comments. 212 Views. Posted 12 Mar 2013 @ 5:55pm.
As the Corner fills with Swans fans, Christoph Hahn sits on a stool and smiles benignly at the audience, plucks a gentle pastoral on his guitar. He is a skilled player but coughs a lot. Surprisingly, he suppresses it long enough to wrap his deep resonant voice around a cover of Astronomy by the almost forgotten Thin White Rope. Soulfully singing an original in German, he wonders if... Read More
ATP I'll Be Your Mirror @ Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception
0 Comments. 848 Views. Posted 26 Feb 2013 @ 10:56am.
Precursor to everything, it was hot! Held in the scant, industrial confines of Altona North, the site for ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror was a wonderfully dated oasis, desperately in need of refurbishment on the outside, sparsely adorned inside: no doubt a hub for gymbaroos, bookish tennis and '80s consumerism.   Rolling into the large Stage One at the most intense moment of the day I’m witness... Read More
Swans
0 Comments. 413 Views. Posted 5 Feb 2013 @ 12:53pm.
For a long while there, it looked like revered American outfit Swans was well and truly dead and buried – as claimed by progenitor Michael Gira since the band’s late-‘90s demise. Unexpectedly, Gira revived the project in 2010 with the resounding LP My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, and continued their forward trajectory this year with the acclaimed album The Seer. Following on from... Read More
Swans : The Seer
0 Comments. 533 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2012 @ 10:54am.
Hot on the heels of the live We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head comes The Seer – the brand new Swans offering. For 30-odd years Michael Gira has staged a personal vendetta against hearing. Thankfully, as some respite, his mission is no longer utilised on the sprawling, ominous explorations of the recorded form, but live shows remain another matter and remain designed to provoke,... Read More
Swans ATP Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,410 Views. Posted 9 Sep 2012 @ 11:54pm.
One of the most influential bands to emerge from New York’s ‘No Wave’ movement of the early 1980s, Swans have announced a sideshow to their All Tomorrow's Parties appearance next February. Since front man and driving force Michael Gira decided to reconvene the group in 2010 after over a decade hiatus, Swans have released two studio albums and one live recording, the latest of which, The Seer,... Read More
My Bloody Valentine, GY!BE, Swans And More For ATP
4 Comments. 2,759 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2012 @ 12:47am.
All Tomorrow's Parties have revealed that they'll be returning to Australia under the I'll Be Your Mirror banner with a lineup curated by themselves and The Drones. The Saturday February 16 lineup (curated by ATP) features My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Swans, The Dead C, HTRK, Thee Oh Sees, Sleepy Sun and Standish Carlyon.   The Sunday February 17 lineup (curated by The... Read More
Brace Yourself For Swans
0 Comments. 1,381 Views. Posted 3 Mar 2011 @ 8:59am.
Swans are still peddling their iconic brand of darkly haunting post-punk after more than twenty years in the business. With a new album out and a mind still firmly planted in the dark imagery of previous albums Swans are taking to the stage to show that age has certainly not wearied them.   And it's only taken them almost thirty years to get here. Despite... Read More
Swans : My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
0 Comments. 1,583 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
It’s very rare that you listen to an album and believe that it might well be a masterpiece. There’s no shortage of great albums around, but the long awaited Swans album deserves more than passing congratulations.   It’s been 14 years since Michael Gira and his band of artful gentlemen last put out a record; under this name anyway. Indeed, after such a... Read More
Swans: My Father Will Guide me up by a Rope to the Sky
0 Comments. 731 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:20am.
The unexpected arrival of the new album from Michael Gira and Swans aligns with a revelation I had recently, a realization that it is the music which speaks loudest to me speaks of the raw humanity of 'us', but even more so the ability for us to create artworks transcending humanity and yet speaking loudly of it.   Swans are one such beast, and My Father Will Guide Me Up By A Rope To The... Read More
Swans First Ever Tour
0 Comments. 1,741 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
The hugely influential and much lauded Swans will tour Australia & New Zealand for the first time in March 2011.   Emerging from the early '80s New York No Wave scene alongside such artists as Sonic Youth, 8-Eyed Spy and James Chance, Swans' seminal and confronting sound has had a profound impact on the music world. The various styles they explored often cited as an influence for a... Read More
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