Airship + Screaming Maldini @ Forum

This is a FREE gig at Forum
127-129 Devonshire Street
Sheffield
S3 7SB

/// Airship
“Manchester’s best-kept secret.”
Like M83, they’re taking the hidden melancholia of the ’80s with shivering Morten Harket style vocals…and a collection of catchy hooks mix beautifully with the guitar work reminiscent of Modest Mouse and the Pixies.
With a Mercury Rev tinged rock sound (and shades of really early Idlewild too) expect anthemic choruses, and a fair degree of thrashing about.

"There’s nothing like a band that cares about their craft. The huge amount of attention that Airship have put into their music pours out of every song, be it in the shimmering restrained quiet moments or the mighty, thrilling rock explosions. This is heady stuff, as exciting as it is intelligent, and it’s waiting patiently to fill your heart with joy." BBC

"...sounds like Messerschmitts crashing into the world's largest underground cavern or squadrons of Virgin Galactics diving into the sun. " NME

This will be their first headline tour after coming off a massive tours with Editors, Frightened Rabbit & The Joy Formidable.

/// Screaming Maldini

Screaming Maldini is doing something fairly singular by mixing the widescreen ADD tendencies of Scritti Politti and electropop savant Max Tundra with the vintage soundtrack work collected on that The Sound Gallery comp -- and then there's a bit of Frank Zappa thrown in as well. It's quite difficult to peg. But we think you will be completely sold...

“WOW!...assertive, assured, different, free-ranging...it's an amazingly sure-footed debut record...one of the most exciting things I've heard for months.” - Tom Robinson speaking about Secret Sounds on BBC6Music

"Charged with energy, rhythmic wizardry and brightly busy songs with an advanced melodic repertoire fit to give your auditory system the ride of its life." Hit The Floor Magazine

"If Beethoven went on a little absynth session with George, Zippy and Bungle from Rainbow whilst listening to The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, this is something that they might come up with" The Social, Ipswich Radio

“Orchestral, lush and endlessly inventive...alternatingly suave and relaxed and then inquisitively scatterbrained.” - ANewBandADay.com

“...its free flowing melody and inventive layering make it stand out in territory they could if they tread very carefully mark out as their own.” - Sweeping the Nation Blog

"A little too Hall & Oates for my liking." - Sandman Magazine