Ladytron
Forgive the members of Ladytron, one of England's foremost connoisseurs of electroclash and soundtrack-ready music for the hours of the night between midnight and sunup, for being surprised to experience a fondness for American cities such as Cleveland and Lawrence, Kan. Both are found at opposite sides of the Heartland and they're largely known for being huggable and kissable with a more straightforward, dirty-bird rock 'n' roll that's been marinated with Pabst-fueled thinking.
The four members, all originally from Liverpool but now scattered, got to those places for the first time on their current tour and found there was a kind of fever for them and their synthesizer-centric moodiness in both places. Keyboard and rhythm box player Daniel Hunt called Lawrence a "bastion" and was braced for a lackluster show in the city "co-owned" by Cavalier basketball superstar LeBron James before "people just came out of the woodwork."
"Everywhere we haven't been before on this tour, we've sold out," Hunt said Monday from Denver. "We can't wait until we get to the West Coast. Southern California's usually the best for us. Everyone seems to have taken very well to us there."
Hunt and the rest of the group vocalists Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo and fellow keyboardist Reuben Wu just recently learned that those rabid Southern Californians would get to see them in an entirely different light at the end of this month when they play a Halloween show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The band's never performed a gig on Allhallows Eve and are looking forward to mixing their own figurative black magic with that generally associated with the night itself. They have the luxury of not having to jet off to the next city and they're planning to close the evening with some personally overseen DJ sets.
The four members, all originally from Liverpool but now scattered, got to those places for the first time on their current tour and found there was a kind of fever for them and their synthesizer-centric moodiness in both places. Keyboard and rhythm box player Daniel Hunt called Lawrence a "bastion" and was braced for a lackluster show in the city "co-owned" by Cavalier basketball superstar LeBron James before "people just came out of the woodwork."
"Everywhere we haven't been before on this tour, we've sold out," Hunt said Monday from Denver. "We can't wait until we get to the West Coast. Southern California's usually the best for us. Everyone seems to have taken very well to us there."
Hunt and the rest of the group vocalists Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo and fellow keyboardist Reuben Wu just recently learned that those rabid Southern Californians would get to see them in an entirely different light at the end of this month when they play a Halloween show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The band's never performed a gig on Allhallows Eve and are looking forward to mixing their own figurative black magic with that generally associated with the night itself. They have the luxury of not having to jet off to the next city and they're planning to close the evening with some personally overseen DJ sets.
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