Eat Your Own Ears presents

ANDREW BIRD
ABSENTEE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Sunday October 30th
Doors 7.30pm

The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7JR

Tel: 0207 372 8668

Tickets in advance £10.50 from:
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www.andrewbird.net
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Chicago-born ANDREW BIRD plays an intimate London show to support his recent album ‘Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs’ on Sunday October 30th at The Luminaire. Versed in a wealth of forms (from swing to Appalachian folk) and instruments (from the violin to the glockenspiel), Bird offers a mesmerizing live set of utterly riveting songs that work their magic on their own believable terms, without a hint of cloying nostalgia or riff-fueled seduction as he plays strings, glockenspiel, wurlitzer and tape loops...

Taking all the best parts of Jeff Buckley, Devandra Barnhart and Rufus Wainwright, Bird can be noisy, charming, frivolous, haunting and playful all at once, with each song an adventure and, a mystery. As compulsive as he is obsessive, Bird's attention to detail in ‘Production of Eggs’ assembles all his finest gifts into one breathtaking basket.” -Billboard, 2/5/05

"Surely one of the albums of the year (yes, already), from super-talented Chicago songman/violonist/whistler Bird. To say he combines delicate alt.country with sweet, smooth folk rather dumbs down the subtlety of these mellifluous arrangements. He's an ace lyricist too ('my skin is white as parchment, drier than a downtown office building where the air is tight'). Think Buckley a little, Rufus Wainwright, a gently crooning Thom Yorke even. But the overall effect - well that's more like the soft magic of snowfall. Honest". Time Out

"His painterly reach suggests Mercury Rev's haunted Americana; more often, he recalls Rufus Wainwright, but without the sexual theatricality. Absorbing". The Observer

“It's got some of Arcade Fire's orchestral-rock charm, but without the big production and the angst - and a lot more whistling and songs about science” New York Times

“Bird uses whistling, loops and spare instrumentation to create an atmospheric, multilayered sound that’s melodic and rhythmic but also moody and delicate. Elegant, demanding and moving.” -Q Magazine

ABSENTEE promote their mini album Donkey Stock with a live set that sees them mix poignant Smog like melodies with Bonnie Prince Billy's quirkyness with the gnarled drawl of say Tom Waits. Absentee have songs better than either of their mope-rock peers have written in years, being friends with The Magic Numbers....

Vincent Gallow's favourite band WOMEN AND CHILDREN fly in from paris to play a set of organic, lush, dusty music that's as gentle as a money spider running up your arm, its reminiscent of the 'out' times of the Velvet Underground, to the amusical mantras of the Dream Syndicate, to the sombre lamentations of Nico....