Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Thee Oh Sees - Sydney 2009

Where:: Annandale Hotel, Parramatta Rd, Annandale NSW
When:: 8am Thursday 03 December

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING w. Thee Oh Sees + guests

Annandale Hotel
Cnr. Parramatta Rd & Nelson St
Annandale, NSW
Australia

Thursday 3 Dec 2009
8:00 PM

$17 + BF

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EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING
join friends THEE OH SEES on the road.....

Hailing from San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees make straightforward good-time rock that’s heavy like hot asphalt and hard drinking. It’s music for the transformative heartbreaking virginity-losing summer you never had. It’s surf music for the hopelessly land-locked dancing waist-deep in festival dust. They’re taking the hazy garage singalongs of their latest album Help to Woolongong, Sydney and Adelaide before bringing the sun, dirt and fun back to the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre and Melbourne. Local heroes Eddy Current Suppression Ring will be sporadically joining them for the ride.

Thee Oh Sees come to Australia for the first time dripping with acclaim from critics and fans who have been avidly following the growth of the band from guitarist/vocalist John Dwyer’s solo folk project to the exploratory, reverential and revered four-piece that compares favourably to the influences they draw on; Small Faces, 13th Floor Elevators and others. Instead of plagiarising the past, Thee Oh Sees have dragged the garage sounds and dual-vocal back-and-forth into the present, casting themselves as triumphant contemporaries rather than imitators. It’s impossible to refute the confidence and economy on Help; Thee Oh Sees have distilled the form into something pure, and the lean drive and massive waves of their sound will wash over Australian audiences grateful for a taste of the eternal American summer in the sweat and desert heat of December.

There could be no better guide to the dust, heat and desperation of an Australian summer than hometown crowd favourites, the critical beloved messiahs of the Melbourne underground, Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Thee Oh Sees’ US label mates practice wide-awake, literate punk that makes crowds crazy worldwide. It’s rangy, unabashedly local and snarling with wild intent. ECSR will support Thee Oh Sees at shows in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and the Meredith Music Festival.

Thee Oh Sees and Eddy Current Suppression Ring are two of the best. They’re bringing Australians all over the country the summer everyone deserves, the summer of teenage dreams for dancing, fighting and sweating it out the old-fashioned way.

Help is out now through Stomp.