Mono
Black Dice
(Japan)
Wintercoats (Australia)
Japanese post-rock legends Mono make their
eagerly awaited return to Australia, this
time joining their singular blend of arcing
guitar and surging drums with the majesty
of a full orchestra in order to reprise their
otherworldly Holy Ground performance.
An instrumental rock onslaught with tracks
that often stretch well beyond the tenminute mark, Mono’s music plays out as a
sequence of symphonically choreographed
exercises in emotional decompression
and vast aural spectacle, journeying
from moments of haunting quietude to
emotionally charged climaxes of feedback,
percussion and prodigious guitar work. To
see Mono perform is to be transported and
overwhelmed, lost in the spell of a band
standing at the precipice of the tragic and
the sublime.
(USA)
Lucky Dragons (USA)
Mono are joined by Melbourne multiinstrumentalist James Wallace, AKA
Wintercoats. As the name suggests,
Wallace trades in a gauzy brand of wintry
intimacy – ethereal fragments of orchestral
pop that seem to channel the muted
palette of dreamed snowscapes. Armed
with violin, piano, glockenspiel, guitar, his
enveloping voice and an overworked loop
pedal, Wallace makes music that is simple
but cocooning, a gentle fire set against the
creeping cold.
Warning Contains strobe lighting
“Screw ‘Music For The People’,
this is music for the gods.”
NME (UK)
Rightly renowned as one of the pre-eminent
forces of the noise art movement, Black Dice
have built a reputation as one of the most
mercurial, abrasive and overwhelming live
music experiences touring the world today.
Event Information
Forum Theatre
Fri 7 Oct at 9.30pm
Doors open 9pm
All tickets $35
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From their origins as an occasionally violent
post-hardcore outfit in the late 90s, through
to the improvised distortion epics that
marked their middle years, Black Dice have
emerged in 2011 as a techno-influenced
amalgam of noise atmospherics, jaggedly
programmed beats and snatched, scrambled
sample work.
Feared and respected in equal measure,
Black Dice’s live shows are relentless
audio-visual assaults, exercises in
virtuosic musical coh