Remember Remember

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  Sunderland, Newcastle

• Posted: 23/07/2009 14:02

[b]Remember Remember[/b] Sunday 19th July // 3pm // The White Room
[i]with[/i]
Rainfalldown
Jam on Bread
Matt Riviere

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Glasgow act Remember Remember, essentially the solo project of former Multiplies and Royal We member Graeme Ronald, released a self-titled debut album in November last year through Mogwai's Rock Action label to much acclaim.

Compared to Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Animal Collective and even Michel Gondry, Ronald has received acclaim for his unique live shows where everything from hand-claps to Irn Bru are sampled, looped and blended into the performance.

Fresh from touring europe with Mogwai and the Uk with Yann Tiersen these guys are certainly not to be missed

**Note this is a matinee show starting at 3pm


Album Review: Remember Remember (Rock Action)

This debut by Remember Remember sits snugly alongside Errors’ debut album on Mogwai’s Rock Action label, proving that those wily Scots don’t just make fantastic music, they can also spot it from a mile off.

What makes this album sparkle is its prettiness. While Mogwai did sterling work smashing up the rock formulae, Remember Remember shun their patrons’ eight-minute crescendos for something far more serene and delicate. The riffs are repetitive but subtle, creating a lush, calming scene - it’s the soundtrack to a shower of rain in summer, or the sun setting behind the mountains. There are no sudden twists and turns, no outbreaks of violence, just smooth, unbroken flights of fancy.

Mainly the work of Glaswegian Graeme Ronald, Remember Remember’s tone is created through the layering of minimal riffs on top of each other: pianos, guitars, glockenspiels, violins and synths. He expands on that with plenty of homemade nonsense, listing various “instruments” such as bubblewrap, coins, Irn-Bru, a wind-up monkey and a rubber shark. The result is spell-binding.

See it like this: if Errors get you in the mood for a night out, and Fuck Buttons represent the decadent thrill-seeking as you swallow your poison of choice and clatter into the early hours, then Remember Remember are the saving grace, the headache soother, the reminder that there’s a new day dawning, full of possibilities. It’s no wonder Mogwai signed them - these are happy songs for happy people.


Alongside are:

[b]Jam on Bread[/b] makes amateurishly lo-fi ukulele pop songs about sea creatures, Swedish indie-pop labels and 80s pop singers.

[b]Matt Riviere[/b] solo dude from Norwich

Matt Riviere - Castroreale.mp3 [url]http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tqv3wtz0w5w[/url]
Jam On Bread - It's Always Sunny Inside.mp3 [url]http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tyrwwzoaizr[/url]

And from South Shields [b]Rainfalldown[/b] "South Shields-based songwriter Martin Trollope has uploaded these four songs onto his MySpace page, and they certainly show off his skill with a canny melody and a sussed understated lyrical wit. 'Message' is the best of the bunch, which sounds like Leonard Cohen having a stab at a Weezer song, only sat on a porch front in America's deep south." - James Jam, NME,

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The White Room//29 Holmeside//Sunderland//SR1 3JE

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