Vieon, Madmoizel, Jan Doyle Band + Morocco Dave
03/11/2018
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
£7.50 advance / £10 door
VIEON is the electronic musical project of Matt Wild, based in Coventry, UK. Expanding to a live three-piece including recently hired sound engineer Stephen Dorphin and VJ Adrian Brian Thompson, their sound is inspired heavily by the 70s and 80s European art electronica pioneers (Jarre, Moroder, Kraftwerk), combined with the more recent influences of contemporary synthpop artists (Daft Punk, Royksopp, Justice) as well as infusing aspects of dance, post-rock and ambient music.
Signed to Manchester label AnalogueTrash in 2014, VIEON’s first release came immediately with the lauded 9-track album THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE, spanning genres as diverse as synthpop, drum and bass and sample-driven ambient house. Follow-up concept album FLY BY LIGHT dropped in early 2016, dealing with themes of exploration, loss and opportunity; an immediate hit with critics including Emily Oldfield of LOUDER THAN WAR who described it as “a trip you certainly won’t regret taking… powerful music opening up new mind space”.
VIEON have raised their profile dramatically throughout 2015-18 with a series of engaging audio-visual shows famed for their ambitious scope, including banks of synthesizers, theremin, keytar, live-produced projections and synchronised light display. 2018 sees VIEON not only embark on their most intense set of live dates yet, including their first ever UK tour (appropriately named OHM FROM OHM) and a return to playing in Europe, but also the public release of LIVE IN MANCHESTER and remix album LOST WORLDS.
MADMOIZEL is a french synth-vocalist composer & performer.
A classically trained pianist who began playing at six.
From punk to queer, from expressionism to dandy-synth, from neo-classical to machine-vocal, MADMOIZEL works from different influences.
Known for her captivating and powerfull live-act, the artist plays the machines & synthesizers as a conductor directed his orchestra. MADMOIZEL’s lyrical & sliced voice turns her electronic music into a drama scene & a dancefloor new-wave.
Both unclassifiable and recognisable, MADMOIZEL makes a music of her own.
“MADMOIZEL opens the doors of her underground, disturbing theatre, in its icy lightning which nevertheless attracts us in an irresistible way. The main actress uses every piece as an act from the play. To serve the story, she brilliantly handles the synthetic tools so much so that she humanizes her electronics which are nevertheless very frontal and very clear-cut”.
Les sons cosmochroniques (Fr)
Location
The Coal Vaults
