Back To The Phuture Live and Dennis Music announce DJ set from Mute records founder Daniel
Miller, plus live set from the hotly-tipped Mirrors
Academy 1, Manchester: Friday
1st April
Gary Numan live / Recoil live / Motor
live / Mark Jones DJ set
The Troxy, London: Saturday
2nd April
Gary Numan live / John Foxx live / Mirrors live / Motor
live / Daniel Miller DJ set / Mark Jones
DJ set
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Dennis Music and Back To The Phuture live
are hugely excited to announce a rare (London only) DJ set from Daniel Miller,
founder of the iconic record label Mute. If that wasnt enough of a massive
cherry on the tasty cake that consists of Gary Numan, John Foxx, Motor, Recoil
and Mark Jones, the hugely-tipped band Mirrors will add even more flavour to
the London date with their stylish and cinematic synth pop.
Im so happy to be
welcoming Daniel Miller and Mirrors to the line up for the Troxy, says Back To The Phuture
creator Mark Jones. Their synthfluential
sonics will open up the experience even more. Oh, and I called Daniel at the
Mute offices asking for guest list to Depeche Modes European tour in 1983 and
he sorted me right out. So if you need any names added Daniel, just shout!
Wall of Sound founder, DJ and radio
presenter Mark Jones has announced
the first in a series of set-to-be-amazing live events.
They will take place in Manchester and
London with live performances by electro originators Gary Numan and John Foxx (London
only), alongside rising starts Motor on both dates, Recoil in Manchester, Mirrors in London plus a DJ set from Daniel Miller (London).
As well as recording as the seminal act The
Normal, Daniel Miller has been at
the helm of the utterly peerless record label Mute since 1978. A biog isnt
necessary when the roster speaks for itself like this: Depeche Mode, Yazoo,
Throbbing Gristle, Nick Cave, Fad Gadget, Kraftwerk, Goldfrapp, Liars,
Buzzcocks, Art Brut and Add N To (X) are but a few Mute bands.
Having released singles on tastemaker imprints Pure Groove and
Moshi Moshi Mirrors (AKA James,
Ally, Tate and Josef) will release their debut album Lights and Offerings on
the massive cult indie Skint. It was recorded in New Yorks underground
hub DFA Studios and is released on February 28th.
An obsessive fan of electronic music, Mark
Jones concept with BTTP was to join-the-dots between the pioneers of electro
pop, club music and experimental sounds with new blood whove taken the
blueprint and pushed the envelope in their own original direction.
On both nights Mark Jones will be spinning
seminal machine music from the past, present and future with Marks sets paying
special attention to new talent like Hurts, Villa Nah, La Roux, Little Boots,
Penguin Prison and Ellie Golding.
Its amazing to see Back To
The Phuture evolve into a live happening and to be able to present inspiring
artists thatve paved the way for all of us alongside ace current talent, says Jones.Their music has never been more relevant to
whats happening - tomorrow is
today.
Back To The Phuture is Marks
multi-platform phenomena incorporating the new BTTP live events, a BBC 6 Music
radio show, the curation of Thursday nights at Bestival and an Ibizian
residency.
The original purveyors of electronica Gary
Numan and John Foxx (formerly of Ultravox and presently in his acclaimed guise as
John Foxx And The Maths), made music that on
release sounded entirely alien and futuristic yet soon became the sound of the decade.
Still sounding fresh today, their
influence is ubiquitous. Modern R&B, pop, house, techno, indie, dubstep and
more besides, owe a massive debt to the experimental electronics with a pop
sensibility laid down by these musicians and their peers. Numan and Foxx are
still making exciting music.
Franco-American duo Motor makes
uncompromising, sleek yet spiky EBM-influenced techno and their forthcoming
album features none other than Gary Numan and Martin Gore, further highlighting
the cross-generational exchange of ideas as expressed through BTTP. Recoil, aka
Alan Wilder blurs the boundaries between cold wave, icy soundscapes, sleazy
goth and pounding beats with an expert panache that one would expect from an ex
member of Dpche Mode.
Back To The Phuture started out as a radio show on BBC 6 Music in
2009. The acclaimed program links
the synth pioneers with todays electro-pop artists in celebration of 30 years
of daring electronics. Two new very special shows for early 2011 will be
announced soon watch this space.
The show has enjoyed massive success, uniting the likes of Gary
Numan and Little Boots for a session and orchestrating a performance by Heaven
17 and La Roux at the BBCs famous Maida Vale studios. It was a definitive pop
event that drew huge audiences and broke the record for the most watched music
event ever on BBC Digital with 1.3 million hitting the red button. Jones has
delivered entertaining and educational radio shows with guests including Arthur
Baker, Andy Mcluskey and Paul Humphries from OMD, Phil Oakey of The Human
League, Gary Numan, Daniel Miller of Mute Records, Heaven 17s Martyn Ware,
Steve Strange of Visage and August Darnell of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
Ticket details are as follows:
April
1st: Academy 1, Manchester University Students Union
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR / www.manchesteracademy.net
Tickets: Standard - 25 plus booking fee
Doors: 6pm-11pm
Tel: 0161 275 2930
Tickets: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pId=1575&pType=5
Aptil
2nd: The Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, London. E1 0HX /
www.troxy.co.uk
Tickets: Standard - 27.50 plus booking fee
(Unrestricted: Circle or Stalls).
Doors: 7pm 1am
Tickets: http://www.crowdsurge.com/backtothephuture/
Tickets from the links above, plus www.backtothefuture.net, www.seetickets.co.uk, www.ticketweb.co.uk, www.wegottickets.com,
www.crowdsurge.com and the venues
box offices.
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For further information
please contact Heather Finlay or Duncan Clark at Sainted PR on 020 8962 5700 or
at heatherfinlay@saintedpr.com
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