August is the cruellest - Album launch | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12021-11-15T08:03:40+08:00PeatixThe ObservatoryAugust is the cruellest - Album launchtag:peatix.com,2016:event-1465042016-03-18T20:00:00SGT2016-03-18T20:00:00SGTTHE EVENT IS NOT SOLD OUT. ADVANCE TICKETS ARE OUT BUT...LIMITED DOOR TICKETS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE AT $25 CASH FROM 7pm ONWARDS. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE ONLY.Recorded both in Singapore and Norway, August
is the cruellest is a work of political noise, a punishing challenge to
look inward and move forward. Poet Alfian Sa'at writes, "If you care too
much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break
your heart."More than just political indignation, we go to
the heart of destruction, societal and personal, where we confront the
irrevocable, to find renewal and a possible new lease of life.Lyrically, the album draws bleak comparisons with
the poems of T.S. Eliot and Yan Jun; outlining the harshness of the air we
breathe from our swiddening neighbours and constructing a landscape of the
inevitable, based on the choices that we and our forefathers have made. ​Musically, it is an abstraction of the blues
in the mode of C, influenced by the power of the riff and the energy of heavy
rock. The music jolts and scares through feedback and an incessant pulse, in
the hopes of toppling the apathetic stance that we, for generations, have come
to find comfortable and convenient.
CONCERT DETAILS
Friday 18 March
Saturday 19 March
The Substation Theatre
8pm Standing
room only7.30pm Doors open
$15
concession (students, senior citizens, unemployed)
$20 advance
$25 door (subject to availability)Special performances by guest musiciansVisual projection by Wu Jun Han & Video work by Eric LeeBring CASH for:Album Merchandise boothPay What You Want Beer & WaterSample the album. Preorder the new albumPhotos reproduced here, courtesy of Bjorn
Vaughn.Supported by Mackie Singapore, Pantheon
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