12 February 2011
Black Box, Hill Street, Belfast
(view location here)Doors open: 8.00pm
Tickets: £8
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Dublin duo Thread Pulls are nearly a rock band, stripped back to a core of drum and bass. Skewed grooves anchor their hypnotic proto-disco sound - kick-drum centred and sub-bass heavy. Roughly cut vocal layers and eastern trumpet-echoes coupling synth-drones, bring to mind early elements of future sounds.
Having acquired a considerable reputation in Dublin for their live shows, the duo are now Belfast-bound to showcase debut album 'New Thoughts' which was released in September 2010 on the Irish independent label OSAKA recordings. With echoes of Sheffield's most prolific sound processers Cabaret Voltaire and the complex polyrhythms and repetitive dance styles of New York's ESG, New Thoughts gestated and grew from extensive live shows often in galleries and warehouses in Dublin.
"Thread Pulls are the reformed, rationalised, efficient rock-making machine of the future" 4/5 - Hot Press
"This is music in thrall to the idea of rhythm. Lead guitars? No chance; they'd be a flourish too far on an album that snakes through a poisoned undergrowth of drum, bass and occassional chopped-up fragments of trumpet and synthesiser" 8/10 - AU
View Thread Pulls website here
Evolving after the trio We Are Knives dissolved in 2008, The Continuous Battle of Order, are one of the most inventive duos Ireland has seen in decades. Featuring guitarist Hornby and drummer Craig Kearney, TCBOO spent 2009 performing, rehearsing and refining a sound that matches an avalance of jazzy drums with loopy fingertapped guitar patterns in a thrilling, ever-changing explosion of sound.
Debut album 'Pattern Seekers', recorded by Dave McCullough in Belfast and mastered by James Plotkin in New Jersey, captures the ferocity of the live show that wowed audiences in 2010. Not a band to sit on ceremony, they are completing work on the follow-up record which will be released by Dublin's Richter Collective.
“Northern Ireland has always had a healthy trade in noise rock, but TCBOO’s debut long player sets a new benchmark in progressive soundcraft...a collection of fearsomely intricate guitar and drumwork, insanely complicated, but packing an emotional punch unparalleled in any of their contemporaries. This is life-affirming stuff, proof that ‘heart’ and ‘brain’ are not mutually exclusive terms." - AU
View TCBOO website here