We're bringing Extra Life to Nice N Sleazys on June 25th as part of their EU tour supporting their newest album 'The Sacred Vowel'. Tickets available through Tickets Scotland -
https://tickets-scotland.com/ext03
£12 adv / £15 on the door
Support from Civil Elegies and Sevendeaths.
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Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the main vehicle for New York-based guitarist/composer/vocalist, Charlie Looker. The band plays a fusion of aggressive math rock, dark dramatic pop, modern classical, and ancient liturgical music, bridging the worlds of abstract art music and DIY post-punk musical culture. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit Zs, frontman of industrial metal band Psalm Zero, and is a prolific collaborator across the experimental music scene, with credits including Xiu Xiu, Dirty Projectors, Lingua Ignota, Darius Jones, and John Zorn.
Between 2008 and 2012, Extra Life released four records, and toured the U.S. and Europe extensively, including appearances at Primavera Sound (Spain), Moers (DE). Villette Sonique (FR), and Bad Bonn (CH), and sharing bills with Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Deerhoof, Owen Pallett, Deerhunter, and Chelsea Wolfe. Looker put Extra Life on hiatus in 2013, to focus on his classical composition, improvisation, and his metal band Psalm Zero.
Looker reunited Extra Life in 2021, releasing Secular Works Vol. 2 (2022), to great acclaim, and The Sacred Vowel (2024), both on his own imprint, Last Things Records. International touring followed, including a slot at A Colossal Weekend Festival (DK). The current band line-up includes Toby Driver (Kayo Dot), violinist Timba Harris (Ultraphauna, Secret Chiefs 3), and drummer Cameron Wisch (Sheer Mag, Dust Star).
Civil Elegies are a local super group of sorts featuring members from: The Ninth Wave, Moni jitchell, Friends In America, Thin Privilege, Gendo Ikari, Outblinker, In Wrecks, Hunt/Gather, IDEAL and more.
Percussive guitars paired with syncopated drums through walls of sound and distortion portray a sonic canvas pulling from influences such as Godflesh, Swans and Lungfish.
Formed in 2014, they released 3 records between then and 2016 with each record growing in experimentation and intensity per release, as did their live shows including walls of amps, electronics and visuals.
After an 8 year gap, they dropped a new EP 'NO LIFE' without warning in May 2024, further expanding on their brand of chaotic, intense and syncopated heavy music.
If catharsis were a genre then Civil Elegies would define it.
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Sevendeaths is the alias of Edinburgh-based electronic musician, producer, and composer Steven Shade (previously as a member of Scottish bands American Men, Eunoia and G-Plan). Using modular synths, his live sets can be dance-like and cinematic movements - covering a wide range of textures to intense sections, that wouldn't be out of place next to artists like Blanck Mass.
His debut record 'Concreté Misery' was a concept album of doom based drone made entirely with midi & vst plugins and was included in A Closer Listen’s 2019 retrospective ‘Best drone albums of the decade’.
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