Date
Thursday 14 May 2009 at 8:00pm
Location
Rockhouse
35 Babington Lane,
Derby,
DE1 1SX,
United Kingdom
Link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31740621374#/event.php?eid=88463537296
Description
Before they hit Hyde Park with Blur and numerous festivals including T In The Park, Oxygen and All Tomorrow’s Parties, Foals will take to the stage at The Rockhouse in Derby for a special one off performance.
Foals are a five-piece dance-rock band currently living in their home town Oxford. Yannis Philippakis (20, vocals/guitar), Edwin Congreave (22, keyboards), Walter Gervers (23, bass), Jimmy Smith (22, guitar) and Jack Bevan (21, drums) met in their native city, where they bonded over a shared sense of humour. Bored with the interchangeable electro records they heard at every party, they decided to make the kind of music they wanted to dance to. “We wanted to make music that was very technical, that wasn’t just party music, but at the same time you could dance to it,” explains Yannis.
Foals don’t really sound like anyone else. There are hints of other bands, but their lines are cleaner, like the schematics for a piece of precision engineering. And there’s something strange about those guitars. Foals’ nano-tech precision is a result of Yannis’ obsession with sonic tidiness and the reductive approach of the aforementioned Steve Reich, the man who introduced the concept of minimalism to popular music in the ’60s and ’70s. “I can’t stand messy music,” says Yannis. “It’s an obsessive compulsive thing. It doesn’t interfere with everyday life: it’s aesthetic. I like music that has a structure, an order and a pattern. And I like it when patterns fit together in weird ways.”
Live, Foals don’t so much fizz with energy as explode like a well-shaken bottle of champagne. “It’s like we’re all battling for supremacy on stage,” says Edwin. The dance-inflected beats have seen them rock venues ranging from the kitchen at a house party to London warehouse parties. It’s no exaggeration to say they are the best new live band in the UK.
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