Big Brave (Southern Lord) + Percolator, Bello Bar, Dublin 07/07/22

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

Enthusiastic Eunuch enthusiastically presents

Big Brave (Southern Lord)
with support from
Percolator
Bello Bar
Thursday 7th July
Doors 8pm
Tickets €18.50 + BF
https://billetto.ie/e/big-brave-southern-lord-percolator-tickets-637045

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CgK5w6E2ns

With the initial seeds planted in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession, Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together. When long time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal still remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie's acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend's electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit. Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, BB never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something BB still uses as their main MO to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1S-xH_3-qQ

After self-releasing Feral Verdure in 2014, the band had the opportunity to open for Thee Silver Mt Zion in Montreal QC. After which, Efrim Manuel Menuck found something meaningful in the members and the band and invited them to open on future shows with Mt Zion and with Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

In 2015, the band entered the studio with Menuck and recorded "Au De La". With no home for the record, they decided to take a chance in writing to Southern Lord. As luck would have it, Greg Anderson happened upon their email among hundreds and responded. Since then, the band has had a home with Southern Lord Records. (Along with Au De La, Southern Lord has released Ardor in 2017, A Gaze Among Them in 2019 and VITAL in 2021).

After Beauregard's departure in 2018, the band traveled down to Rhode Island with Loel Campbell on drums to make a first record with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. After the album's release, with Campbell unable to tour, Tasy Hudson joined the ranks and the band spent most of the year touring their 2019 album "A Gaze Among Them".

In 2020, the core trio of Ball, Wattie and Hudson once again made the trek down to Machines with Magnets to record their 5th LP "VITAL".
Since their inception, the band has had many honours and privileges of touring a number of times in North America and Europe with bands such as Sunn O))), MY DISCO, The Body, Thou, Primitive Man and Thee Silver Mt Zion.

Percolator

Since 2012, Percolator have been carefully honing their craft to become one of Ireland's most consistently arresting experimental bands, defying expectation at every turn. Masterfully navigating the spaces between subgenres, the trio's drone-laced, hypnotic motorik rhythms are offset by spontaneous, yet intuitive curveballs, elevated by their Stereolab-recalling vocal harmonies and the miasmic ecstasy of shoegaze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzVkfAnURik

[pete]

Never heard of them before but enjoying the Big Brave stuff. Will defo try to catch them

[Pentagrimes]

Saw them in Glasgow a few months ago and they ruled. Absolutely spellbinding, and also punishing at the same time. Bring ear plugs. Also any excuse to see Percolator is always welcome

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

Saw them in Glasgow a few months ago and they ruled. Absolutely spellbinding, and also punishing at the same time. Bring ear plugs. Also any excuse to see Percolator is always welcome

I've only seen them drummer-less in Montreal but I don't think drummer-less was the original plan. It was still really great but I am excited about drums. I like drums

[Pentagrimes]

The drums are particularly drummy. You'll enjoy it.

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

Next Thursday!

[Pentagrimes]

Looking forward to this tonight, two excellent bands.

[Pentagrimes]

That was great, even better than the time I saw them earlier. That drummer is a monster. Confirmed to me that they're closer to early Swans live in terms of the sheer skull-cracking power than the records.

Really enjoyed the Percolator set too, the last song in particular.