interesting music promotions present:
MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE + LAKI MERA + NICKY CAIRNEY
Sunday 10th February
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen AB10 1BF Phone 01224 211121
Doors 8pm Entry £5
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE
Monkey Swallows the Universe are an acoustic indiepop band from Sheffield, centred around the original founding duo of Nat Johnson & Kevin Gori, who formed the band in 2004. The band expanded in 2005 to include Catherine Tully on violin, Andy George on cello & Rob Dean on drums.
In February 2006 the band released their debut album 'The Bright Carvings', on the independent record label Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation and released a single with Thee SPC in July 2006. In the autumn of 2006, the band supported fellow Sheffield outfit The Long Blondes on several occasions during their tour, and have also previously supported Mercury-nominated Richard Hawley and Camera Obscura.
They have performed sessions on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 6 and XFM. They have been variously described as "Delightful indiepop" (The Daily Telegraph), "big big news" (Rough Trade) and "boss" (Richard Hawley). After signing with Loose at the beginning of 2007, there was a new single, Little Polveir released in April, and the band's second album, "The Casket Letters", is out now.
http://www.myspace.com/mstu
LAKI MERA
Laki Mera fell to earth in Glasgow, arriving from outposts around Europe in 2004.
Laki Mera is the sum of unique parts. Multi instrumentalist Andrea Gobbi is from Rome, where he grew up playing in various punk and reggae outfits before being taken by the lure of electronica. Singer Laura Donnelly is a former member of the car crash that never happened - Rough Trade recording artists, God's Boyfriend. Keyboard duties are shared with Kier Long - a classically trained pianist. Percussion is supplied by Tim Harbinson who learned his trade playing with the likes of Duke Special and Juliet Turner in the fertile Belfast music scene of his youth. Then there's cellist Trevor Helliwell. Trevor's musical sensitivity stands at odds with his hard-living character; a musician whose prodigious talent is put in the shade by his larger than life personality. His capacity for disorder is legendary.
Laki Mera stretch out conventional song structures into epic cinematic feature length soundtracks; lush, classical, percussive, melodic and emotional.
http://www.myspace.com/lakimera
NICKY CAIRNEY
Guitar strumming, harp plucking, scottish singer/songwriter blending folk, pop and electronica into her own little world.
http://www.myspace.com/nickycairney