Dry Cleaning

Performers

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  Dry Cleaning

  As soon as Dry Cleaning finished their debut album New Long Leg – critically acclaimed across the board and number four in the UK album charts – they immediately set about moving fowards. Having already started writing their second record before their first was released, they proposed to producer John Parish that they spend twice as much time on the follow-up, Stumpwork.

  Listen to the album and you can feel that increased boldness - vocals which coil tightly around deft and complex riffs, great meshes of instrumental texture and the willingness to launch into full-on abstraction. It is a heady mix that is entirely Dry Cleaning’s own, distinguishing from their contemporaries. “We felt more confident,” says guitarist Tom Dowse. “We could see the bigger picture and knew where to focus our energy more efficiently.”

  Ultimately, what defines Dry Cleaning’s second album is the breadth of its scope. Their music is bolder and more expansive.

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  The Cure

  The Cure are a band formed in 1976 hailing from Crawley, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom. Fronted by lead singer and songwriter Robert Smith, they came from the post-punk scene of the early 80’s to become one of the biggest and most influential bands in modern rock.

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  Interpol

  The dark side of the turn of the century’s post-punk revival, Interpol formed in New York City, USA during the summer of 1997. 12 years since their debut album, 2002’s “Turn On The Bright Lights” their atmospheric and energetic indie rock continues to be a critical and commercial success.

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  Slowdive

  Formed in 1989 in the Depths of Reading, UK. We like noisy guitars and cool pedals.

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  Bertrand Belin