ARAB STRAP (UK)
'SKOTSK DUO FEJRER 25-ÅRET FOR 'PHILOPHOBIA’
Med Philophobia Undressed vil Aidan Moffat og Malcolm Middleton “quietly celebrate” albummet ved at opføre det live i sin helhed som en duo, der præsenterer de 13 numre i deres mest intime form i passende intime omgivelser på Radar d. 17 november kl. 20.00.
Selv om de aldrig dvæler for meget ved fortiden, fandt de to det svært at ignorere omfanget af netop dette jubilæum og besluttede at ære albummet med en passende hyldest. Eller som bandet selv udtrykker det:
With a new album about halfway ready for release next year, we thought we could easily ignore our second album’s 25th birthday. But we find it hard to say no to Philophobia. If our first album was a ramshackle oddity filled with in-jokes and formerly private tape moments that we never expected to bother many ears, it was Philophobia where everything started to come together, when we began to realise making music might have a future for us, and the Arab Strap sounds and themes began to take shape. If you’ve seen us play in the past few years, you’ll know we still include quite a few of its songs in our set lists. These tunes seem to have endured, and it’s probably the only album we’d ever consider performing all the way through.
But, with our new forward-facing philosophy and 8th album on the way, we didn’t want to make too big a deal of it. We hummed, we hawed. Venues for a bells-and-whistles full-band Philophobia tour were on hold for a while, but those plans were abandoned because it just didn’t feel right and, as Aidan said on our last album, we don’t really give a fuck about the past. But, as we say, it’s hard to say no to Philophobia, and we couldn’t just let its 25th birthday shuffle by unmarked … so we’ve decided to celebrate it after all, but quietly. The Philophobia Undressed tour will feature the album in full, but performed by just the two of us – Malcolm & Aidan with a guitar or two, some drum machines and probably a digital Mellotron – as we sing our old songs about being young, in intimate surroundings and, in some cases, visiting towns we haven’t played in a long, long time."
SUPPORT: ROXY JULES
ROXY JULES bevæger sig i et kontrastfyldt univers, hvor blodtørstig støjrock og forvrængede guitarer kolliderer med længselsfuld singer/songwriting, elektroniske beats og Roxy Jules’ indtagende vokal og tekster.
Flere steder fornemmer man referencer til artister som Sonic Youth, Pj Harvey og Mazzy Star. Den nye ep'en "Into The Vastness Of It All" fra Roxy Jules landede den 27. oktober, så der er både ældre og helt friske sager med på Radar.
Siden 2011 har Roxy Jules udgivet fire fuldlængde albums, og ep’en “Still Falling Through The White” fra 2021 og den helt nye "Into The Vastness Of It All" fra i år.
Singlerne “Light Pink Petals” og “Jocelyn” er blevet spillet flittigt på P6 Beat, og for nylig har Roxy Jules spillet support for Kellermensch i Danmark og Tyskland, support for Gaz Coombes (også kendt som forsanger og guitarist i bandet Supergrass) i Danmark, Norge og Sverige og for Glasvegas i Vega i København.
