Reminder -- MusicSnobbery.com Presents @ Joe's Pub: Lucky Soul
October 24th, 11:30pm, $12
425 Lafayette St., NYC
I'm 100% thrilled to announce that one of the most hotly-tipped new U.K. bands will be playing the Fall installment of MusicSnobbery.com Presents @ Joe's Pub. I'm also stunned and humbled that this is going to happen. No joke, if somebody asked me if I could book any U.K. act that haven't come to America yet, without hesitation, it would be Lucky Soul.
Lucky for me and lucky for you, they'll be playing a full set and they will be the only act on the bill. The band is giddy with excitement about playing in New York for the first time. Honestly, I do think this will sell out, so don't hesitate and get your tickets now.
I got wind of them before they released their debut album, The Great Unwanted, in the U.K. I wrote in that post, I described them as "The Cardigans have a dinner party with St. Etienne and The Pipettes." After hearing "Add Your Light to Mine," I was instantly smitten and rushed to ebay to pick up an import copy of the album. From front to back, it's just about as wonderful and delighful an album as one could hope for. The album is available via iTunes, if you so choose to have it in that form.
Since then, I've been checking their myspace for updates to see if they're going to get some U.S. love. It's only until the past few months, that the band's tenacity has paid off. The music was featured on ER and Men in Trees as well as a Payless Shoestore commercial. Hey, you take what you can get. So all the planets are aligning for them for you to discover them for yourself. More importantly for all us, we can see them in live form!
When I play their music to my friends, they always say, "Wow, this is awesome." It's the reason I recommend them and play their music when I appear on various radio shows.
The album has been unanimously praised by the U.K. press. Even Pitchfork gave them an 8.0, and they hate every thing. Check out these pull-quotes:
* Exquisitely understated songs about heartache, loneliness and small town despair as if Petula Clark had been touched by Phil Spector's production alchemy -- The Guardian
* Lucky Soul are a band to fall in love with. This is heartache you can sway to -- Independent on Sunday
* A glorious collection of pop symphonies it's hard not to be won over -- Uncut
* Freeway pop at its most brilliant and shameless this pitch perfect record deserves to be on the stereo all summer -- Album Of The Week, Metro
* The Great Unwanted is an immediate classic melancholia, heartache and existential angst. Marvelous -- Independent on Sunday
* Ice cream sweet, but, like Saint Etienne or The Concretes, they lace it with ground shards of bleak heartbreak and sharp lyrics that'll have your heart bleeding -- NME
* Prepare to delight in this bubblegum world with their infectious songs Lucky Soul are impossible to dislike -- The Observer
* Lucky Soul purvey purist pop not dissimilar to Belle and Sebastian. Their debut album [is] something of a 'best of' -- The London Times
* Glorious confections of classic Spector-esque pop. Almost indecently fabulous -- Guardian Guide Single of the Week
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