Austra (Domino Records) + Viv Albertine's Limerence + Daughter January 17, 2011

A top, top night. New Domino signings + Slits guitarist + brand new voice on the London scene!

AUSTRA (Toronto/Domino Records)
AUSTRA release their epic, dark and huge-sounding debut single 'The Beat And The Pulse' through Domino on the 10th January 2011 followed by an album later in the year.
AUSTRA is a band that believes in maximalism and high-fidelity, centred around one KATIE STELMANIS who spent her early years training immersed in opera and classical sounds before she was dragged out her to first punk gig and obtained a subsequent obsession with the likes of The Knife and Nine Inch Nails. She soon started playing with local Toronto riot grrl bands such as Galaxy and soon she was releasing. Her mix of raw talent and bewildering confidence would land her 7" singles on Vice Records and a split 7" with Fucked Up on Matador Records as well as main support slots to CocoRosie and Tegan & Sara.
The AUSTRA project is completed by classical-percussionist and skilled beat-programmer Maya Postepski and Dorian Wolf (ex-Spiral Beach) who takes charge of everything bass in live performance.
www.myspace.com/austra

VIV ALBERTINE’S LIMERENCE
Influential Slits' guitarist and her new band.
After a long time away from performing live, Viv returned to making new music and has released an EP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label and performed at ATP.
www. vivalbertine.com

DAUGHTER
"Beautifully sung, literary folk-pop with a similar ethereal melancholy to Laura Marling. A definite one to watch." - The Independent
Growing up in a quiet part of north London in the 90’s, Elena Tonra spent her days listening to her parent’s vinyl collections and older brother’s rock CDs. She later discovered the beauty of acoustic and folk inspired music and started to create stories and poems which formed the skeletons of her songs. Wearing clothes that old people may well have died in, and a bowl-cut the Beatles would be proud of, Elena tells tales of ghosts, drowning lovers and setting fire to her insides for fun. Elena’s haunting voice and delicate guitar playing make her live performances spell-binding and often difficult to breathe. She talks about unrequited love, lost hope and death… in the prettiest way imaginable.
www.myspace.com/daughterdaughter

Official Website: http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk/listings/?lgig=67da5058-cd5a-4ad5-a1f2-ff20bb1792dd&performance=1