BOREDOMS Plus very special guest MICHAEL GIRA (founder of the Swans and Angels of Light) Monday 22nd October Club Academy Manchester Tickets £14 adv. Ticketline 0161 832 1111 BOREDOMS For over 20 years, the Boredoms have been pummelling the minds of unsuspecting listeners with their blend of spastic noise and psychedelia. After releasing a series of cassettes and EPs in their native Japan during the '80s, the Boredoms began to attract the attention of an international audience. With Sonic Youth and Nirvana counting themselves among the Boredoms' fans, the group signed major-label deals during the early '90s, both in Japan and the U.S. Although the Boredoms' American deal eventually fell through, they continued to record steadily in Japan, progressing into a sort of trance-inducing, psychedelia-tinged experimental rock indebted to the '70s Krautrock movement. Japan's iconoclastic experimental music "unit", redefine the words "fringe" and "Frontier." Acknowledging no limits of taste or form, there are no boundaries, no ceiling on the possibilities of experience and expression for the Boredoms. Formed in Osaka in '86 with EYE Yamataka. Both first album ,ONANIE BOMB MEETS THE SEX PISTOLS ('88) and second album, SOUL DISCHARGE 99, ('99) were released from Japanese indie label Selfish. SOUL DISCHARGE 99 was released on Shimmy Disc in the U.S.A. which brought their name not only to Japan but to the rest of the world. Third album, POP TATARI was released on WEA in Japan in '92. In response to their recordings and live performance (US tour opening Sonic Youth in '92, Nirvana in '93, even main stage of Lollapalooza in '94) press from all over the world exhausted the full range of emotional and verbal responses. After releasing their US major debut album POP TATARI in 1993, Boredoms continue to release a series of EPs called SUPER ROOTS, with a complete different approach from their album. Their third album CHOCOLATE SYNTHESIZER ('93) was the sound that connects primitive age to future. In1998, their legendary fourth album SUPER ARE was released and trance-inducing, hypnotic VISION CREATION was released in 99. Other creative people around the world had even made recordings using the sounds of the Boredoms (Re-Bore remix series) On their own, each of the members creates staggering numbers of other sonic groups in addition to their Boredoms work. Even though some of the Boredoms left and new Boredoms arrived, that only helped them all to embrace the creative possibilities of change. Boredoms continue to move on to the other stages of the world of the sounds which no one never have been. And still seems that you've simply got to hear it, see it to believe it!!!!!!! Michael Gira is a musician, author, and artist. He was the main force behind seminal 80’s NY experimental band Swans and currently fronts The Angels of Light. He is also the founder of Young God Records which has released albums from such artists as Devendra Banhart, Mi and L'au, and Akron/Family. Crawling out of the same noisy, arty New York underground that sired Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch, Swans created a dark, abrasive, murky, slowed-down noise-rock influenced by No Wave and noise artists like Suicide and Glenn Branca. Swans' focus was raw rhythm and abrasive textures, usually eschewing melody for visceral power. They became known for their abrasive experimental and post-industrial sound. The band's lineup and sound evolved over time, most markedly with the inclusion of Gira's eventual girlfriend, Jarboe, who added her ethereal voice and synthesizers to the group in 1985. The band entered its creative peak with 1987's Children of God and the follow-up Feel Good Now, and secured a deal with MCA through a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," which became an indie hit in the U.K. Gira and Swans spent the next twelve years releasing studio, live, and side-project albums. After dissolving Swans in 1997 Gira released a solo album under his own name and began a new musical direction with The Angels of Light, which are a quieter, more acoustic-based group than Swans. Nonetheless, The Angels of Light retain much of the intensity of Gira's former project. While The Angels of Light are a rather traditional "song- based" group, Gira also spent time experimenting with soundscapes, found sound, and loops with the The Body Lovers project. He has also released several albums under his own name including Drainland (1995), The Somniloquist (2000, a spoken word album), and What We Did (2001), a collaboration with Windsor for the Derby's frontman Dan Matz. http://www.bulletsofautumn.com/boredoms/boredoms.html http://www.boredoms.co.uk/ http://www.myspace.com/boredoms http://www.myspace.com/mgira.