OXFORD: Jericho Tavern

Wednesday 16th October, 2024

7:30pm

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Divine Schism presents

Stoked to be working with new Fire singings Memorials again as they reveal their debut album 'Memorial Waterslides' (out 4th Oct).

The duo, consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Sims (previously of Electrelane and Wire) follow their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’ with this debut album. They've been on a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and worked on a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

While they were busy working on three film soundtrack commissions concurrently, they began writing new music, with no intentions other than an escape from looming deadlines! Having been amused by the idea of waterslides as memorials, a concept they first came across on a poster for the Austin Dyke March (advertising the brilliant ‘Susan Sontag Memorial Waterslide’) they began naming new recordings after imagined memorial waterslides. At the time they did not yet exist as a band, but following a surprise invitation to perform one of their scores live at a film screening in Paris, they quickly settled on becoming MEMORIALS.
Meanwhile, the waterslides were gathering in the background, a continually spiralling cluster of moods and sounds, shaped by the duo into a wide-ranging collection of experimental pop songs, filled with the unexpected, encompassing huge variety whilst retaining a distinctive identity across the album.

Weds 16th Oct at the Jericho Tavern!

56 Walton Street
Oxford
OX2 6AE

www.thejerichooxford.co.uk

01865311775