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The Church Plus Special Guest Adam Franklin (Of Swervedriver) & Bolts Of Melody
Wednesday, July 8 (2009) 9:00p
at
The Fillmore At Irving Plaza,
New York,
NY
Creator: LiveNation 
Creator: LiveNation
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The Church
Best known for the shimmering "Under the Milky Way," their lone Top 40 hit, the Australian band the Church combined the jangling guitar pop of '60s icons like the Byrds with the opaque wordplay of frontman Steve Kilbey to create a lush, melancholy brand of neo-psychedelia rich in texture a
Best known for the shimmering "Under the Milky Way," their lone Top 40 hit, the Australian band the Church combined the jangling guitar pop of '60s icons like the Byrds with the opaque wordplay of frontman Steve Kilbey to create a lush, melancholy brand of neo-psychedelia rich in texture a
Adam Franklin
Although he logged time in several bands, Adam Franklin (born 1968 in Essex, England) is best known as the frontman/guitarist for Swervedriver, a seminal shoegaze group that wielded a raw, mystical rock-styled sound....
Although he logged time in several bands, Adam Franklin (born 1968 in Essex, England) is best known as the frontman/guitarist for Swervedriver, a seminal shoegaze group that wielded a raw, mystical rock-styled sound....
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The Church may be the best band in the entire world. Or maybe not. A moderately successful band that's managed to influence just about every band coming out of Australia today. They had a hit... can anyone name it? I guess they had a few more in Australia, but nothing major.
They're a musical anomally. Eternally outside of time and space, except when they want to be. I've loved them for years. Steve Kilbey would write the Dead Sea Scrolls if people hadn't already, I'm sure of that. One day he might claim to have done so in a past life. Just you see... The funny thing is, I'd believe him.
They have their moments... their pop moments, their "experimental" moments, their rock n roll moments... For a man who sings about ghosts and magicians and star crossed lover in ancient Perian myths over swirls of ambient sounds, Mr. Kilbey has a keen sense of rock n roll. At worst, an academic take on Marc Bolan and Jim Morrison... at best, hymns for a coming race. Always otherworldly, but always as intimate as a half-forgotten memory.
Everyone knows the "Starfish" album... "Under the Milky Way", "Destinations", the exquisite "Hotel Womb" (one of the best songs ever)... But "Seance", "Priest = Aura", "Hologram of Baal", "After Everything Now This"... the list goes on. Over 2 1/2 decades of music making under the pop idiom... managing to progress and evolve through all of it. Melodies copped from other worlds via a band that, if they keep it up, will one day actually turn into a ball of light (or at least convince their fans they have... not a hard task).