Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
BIG|BRAVE (Thrill Jockey/Southern Lord)
with special guests
Géis
Tuesday 4th November
Whelan's Main Room
Doors 8pm
Tickets €22 + Booking via https://billetto.ie/e/big-brave-thrill-jockey-southern-lord-geis-tickets-1308299
"I guarantee you'll not have heard anything else like it this year – or possibly ever. It's an astonishing work, full of beauty, pain, power and fragility. Utterly captivating and compelling. And more than that, it's really a folk album. A folk music wolf lurking in doom metal's clothing" – The Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY0CDcLURRU
BIG|BRAVE's music has been described as massive minimalism. Their fusillades of textural distortion and feedback emphasize their music's frayed edges as much as its all-encompassing weight. The potency of the trio's work is their singular artistry combining elements of traditional folk techniques and a modern deconstruction of guitar music. Gain, feedback, and amplitude are essential to 2024's A Chaos Of Flowers, an album that builds on their ferocious 2023 album Nature Morte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1S-xH_3-qQ
Lyrically, the songs explore the most vulnerable of human experiences, how marginalizations manifest internally and externally, the inner struggles of isolation, and co-existence in nature. A Chaos of Flowers draws on catharsis and beauty as well as the quagmire of disorientation and othering. The album is a monument of simultaneous serenity and disquiet, a subtle maelstrom of internal life.
Later this year, they release OST, their most naked and austere record to date, showcasing the trio's preternatural instincts and deep musical intuition. Conceived as a score for an imagined film, the album was born from improvisation rather than composition
Géis
Géis is a new improv trio featuring Meabh McKenna, Elaine Malone & Ellie Myler of Throwing Shapes, Pot Pot & OXN respectively.
This will be class, I reckon. They were absolutely deadly in Cork with Síoraí Geimhreadh a few years back.
Can't make the trip on a Tuesday. Impossible to get there after work and back down again the same night. (Well, it is technically possible but it would be no fun.)
Wormrot playing the Grand Social on the same night
Having seen both, I'd confidently say there's not a huge crossover in audience members here