The Phantom Band
Saturday 22 Jan '11 - Belfast's The Black Box
- Support + Amidships
- Doors8pm
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{/map} {/venue_google_map}18 - 22 Hill Street
Belfast
BT1 2LA
T: 028 9024 4400
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Artist Bio
The Phantom Band, with their legion of musical references, managed to sound quite unlike anyone else when they released Checkmate Savage in 2009, a debut that earned mass critical applause and made them the cult success of the year. Twelve months later, they’re still in a movement of one, and their follow- up, The Wants, looks set to cement their reputation as one of the most inventive and vital units at work today
A stunning achievement, The Wants is a forest of tuned percussion, poly-rhythmic group vocals, fuzz guitars and medieval electronics. Musical inspirations included David Lynch and John Carpenter soundtracks, German kosmische music of the 70’s, Tom Waits, digidub rhythms, R&B harmonies, doo-wop and rock’n’roll. Lyrical inspiration emerged from lycanthropy, vampires, doppelgangers and the Salem witch trials.
The Wants starts strongly and never relents, all the way through to the psycho pastoral sounds of Into The Corn, and the muted John Barry references of the concluding Good Night Arrow. Compelling from start to finish.