Mika Vainio aka Ø + Whirling Hall of Knives - this Sat at Twisted Pepper

shaydpromoters

Hello there,

Here is some info on our upcoming gig this Saturday with the Irish solo debut of Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), with support from Whirling Hall of Knives (aka Magnetize and The Last Sound)

Hope to see you there,

Shay



Shady Promoters present:

Mika Vainio aka Ø - LIVE [Editions Mego / Pan Sonic - Finland]
+ Whirling Hall of Knives - LIVE [Trensmat]

Doors: 8pm
Admission: €12

The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 2

Advance Tickets: http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/3588/
http://tickets.ie/event.aspx/mika-vainio-live-pan-sonic-the-twisted-pepper-dublin-12-January-2013/TFU9C

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/131750373645585


Shady Promoters kick off a series of sporadic shows with the much-anticipated visit of Mika Vainio for a rare live performance.

Mika Vainio, currently based in Berlin, was one half of the minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic from Finland, (the other half was Ilpo Väisänen). Before starting Pan Sonic in the beginning of the 90's, Mika Vainio has played electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene.

His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their analogue warmth and electronic harshness. Be it abstract drone works or minimal avant techno, Vainio is always creating unique, physical sounds.

He has released on labels like editions Mego, Touch, Wavetrap and Sähkö and he has been producing among others with Alan Vega of Suicide, Keiji Haino, Chicks on Speed, John Duncan and Bruce Gilbert.

www.discogs.com/artist/Mika+Vainio


Joining Mika at this concert will be Whirling Hall of Knives, a collaboration between Magnetize and The Last Sound named after a Butthole Surfers song. Sounding something like "A deep, foreboding pulse mongs periodically away in the background like a metronomic warning to the nation as this windy vortex of caustic despair builds slowly in urgency. Then take (what I approximate to be) the sound of elephants from an escaping zoo & frantic air-horns and hear them mingle worriedly, blended effortlessly into a steadily escalating, increasingly static-doused cyber-****storm."

Whirling Hall Of Knives' harsh smouldering circuits and eruptions of panicky white noise have a profoundly unsettling quality, a sense of gnawing paranoia but interspersed with moments of almost euphoric epiphany, as if in the grip of an unshakeable 4am psychosis a growing sense that the door will be kicked in at any second and the world outside will come pouring in. Psyche electronics of a particularly greasy and grime-flecked hue.

They have multiple releases across Nute, Reverb Worship, Munitions Family and several on Magnetize's acclaimed vinyl 7" imprint, Trensmat. You should really hear them live.

www.whirlinghallofknives.com
www.trensmat.com

LeftBlank

Is this an early gig?

shaydpromoters

It sure is, 8pm doors. Directly before the Blawan late club show. Vainio on stage at roughly 9.30, will post set times here before then..

shaydpromoters

Set time for tonight below. See you there!

Phil DeGaps 20.00
Whirling Hall of Knives 20.45
Phil DeGaps 21.30
Mika Vainio 21.50