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Friday, February 24th, 2012
9:30pm
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CLUB NME VS OYA FESTIVAL FT YOUNG DREAMS YOUNG DREAMS:Oscar Wilde famously said, “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”For Matias Tellez and the rest of the members in Young Dreams, dawn is already here. After uploading three tracks on their Facebook page November 2010 the band quickly received an overwhelming response from both national and international music press and blogs. This included attention from The Guardian, XL Recording, Rough Trade, Nylon Magazine, The fader and national music radio shows. Two 7” was release on Tellé Records spring 2011. They also got to play key festivals like the Hove festival, By:Larm and Camden Crawl. The Bergen based Norwegian collective now just has to wait for the rest of the world to catch up. Fusing Tropicália, psychedelic rock, classical, symphonic arrangements and traditional pop recalling the classic sounds of Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, Young Dreams both adheres to and upends the conventional definitions of pop music, creating a sound that’s at once refreshingly familiar and daringly unique.As word spread of Tellez’s new music, more and more singers and musicians asked to be part of the group, thus turning a standard band into a full-fledged collective. The group locked themselves in a basement to work on new material and emerged two weeks later with a handful of songs and their sanity and friendship intact.Animal Collective will be the kneejerk comparison – though Young Dreams has only heard a few of the band’s songs – but the band’s influences go deeper than those of their Brooklyn peers. “I'm a big fan of the harmonies and arrangements of the romantic period of classical music,” says Tellez. “I love composers like Edvard Grieg and Stravinsky. But I’m also heavily inspired by people like [lounge music pioneer] Martin Denny and [Argentine composer] Waldo de los Rios.”In “Young Dreams,” vocalist Chris Holm sings, “We’re restless/That’s why we keep on moving/Not empty/Because of our young dreams.” The innate youthful urge to travel and leave home is palpable, but for Tellez and the rest of Young Dreams, this restlessness extends past geography into musicality. Young Dreams exist in their own world; one influenced by the past but always looking forward. A sovereign nation of 12 like-minded souls, restless, eager and always dreaming.BLEEDING KNEES CLUB: If ever there was a Club to sign up to, it's the one spearheaded by rip-roaring, party-hardy duo Jordan Malane and Alex Wall.An irrepressible garage-pop 'n' surf-punk pair that burst out of Australia's Gold Coast in early 2011, Bleeding Knees Club have won hearts and minds through a reckless live reputation and, on the recorded front, with a swag of super-catchy demos which quickly found champions beyond Australia's borders. The debut UK single, Have Fun, was released on the Noir label this summer and quickly struck a chord with UK tastemakers, enjoying radio support from Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens on Radio One, Lauren Laverne on 6Music and Jon Kennedy on Xfm where the song was also added to the evening playlist.The duo spent much of the summer in the UK where they shared stages with Black Lips, Cults, Toro y Moi, Blood Orange and Cerebral Ballzy. They also scored spots on The Great Escape in Brighton, and Liverpool Sound City while NME named them as one of the 50 Best New Bands of 2011.Between UK commitments, Jordan and Alex then high-tailed it to New York City, to record their forthcoming debut album with Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion and Blood Orange) as producer. The upcoming record, Nothing To Do, encapsulates everything that's making people fall in love with Bleeding Knees Club: it's a raw 'n' urgent set of super-fun songs about girls, getting high, and sticking it to The Man. The album was mixed in the UK by Dan Grech-Marguerat (The Vaccines, Chew Lips, Kaiser Chiefs). Bleeding Knees Club's debut album, Nothing To Do, will be released on IAMSOUND/Columbia in March 2012.Students - come to Club NME for £2 before 10.30pm / £4 before Midnight every Friday* with your student card.*excluding Halloween, Xmas and NYE balls.Tickets for this event are available from the venue box office, and can be purchased at face value if payment is made in cash.
