Das Konzert iat ausverkauft. Shilpa Ray released her album 'Teenage and Torture' in on Knitting Factory Records and found her biggest fan in Nick Cave, who started telling music journalists she was his favorite current band. From the ever-anxious city of Berlin, this post-apocalyptic no electricity song and story act provides thought-provoking minimalist entertainment and a glimpse into what bands will sound like when the power grid fails and we all revert to eating nuts and berries.
Formed in , they are based in Bologna, Italy. Their name comes from the iconic single Warm Leatherette by The Normal. Leatherette almost sounds like a mockery of rock music and its aesthetics, simultaneously embraced and rejected, shredded. Their music is a potpourri of punk outbursts, jazz atmospheres and hints of no wave, generating a rich and composite sound, sometimes warm and welcoming, sometimes harsh, scratchy and unpredictable.
In they released Mixed Waste WWNBB , a self-produced EP, followed by intense live activity throughout Italy MiAmi, Beaches Brew , Europe and the UK. In spring they embarked on a European tour that saw them play in Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the UK. Back in Italy, they continued the tour in the country by going down to Sicily and Apulia, then playing again in Valtellina and again in Switzerland.
During Iggy Pop played three singles from the Fiesta album Dead Well, So Long, Come Clean on his radio show on BBC Radio 6 music. They released their second LP, Small Talk in November via Bronson Recordings. Recorded by Andrea Cola and Bruno Dorella, mixed by Chris Fullard Idles and mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. In the autumn they took part in the M:WM festival in Berlin and the Linecheck festival in Milan. They were listed in the NME as one of the ten new releases to be discovered during the edition of Eurosonic Festival, in Groningen.
They will also play at the MENT Festival in Ljubljana in February. Drawing inspiration from the boundary-pushing artistry of David Bowie, the atmospheric storytelling of Sharon Van Etten, the ethereal intensity of Grimes, and the brooding elegance of Interpol, Mote crafts a sound that is both nostalgic and undeniably fresh.
