Moving on Music and CQAF present Blue Whale 'Last Immediate Images' Album Launch
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
Black Box | Belfast, NI
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Having underscored their status as one of Ireland’s most fiercely unpigeonholeable bands on their debut album Process, Belfast quartet Blue Whale make their highly-anticipated return with their second LP, Last Immediate Images. Recorded and produced by Gilla Band’s Dan Fox, Last Immediate Images is an expansion, and deft deconstruction, of what the Quietus hailed as their “chaotic, yet controlled experimental
rock.”
Comprising guitarists Michael O’Halloran and Ben Behzadafshar, drummer John Macormac and bassist Andrew Melville, Blue Whale were a supremely shapeshifting live proposition by the time the genre-mauling Process arrived in 2018. Andy Cairns of Therapy? was reminded of free-jazz pioneer, Albert Ayler “playing with a bunch of kids that grew up on Steve Albini records,” while The Line of Best Fit said “the mathy, jazz-flecked brew hurtles through a thorny tunnel of riffs and percussive flailing–it should be utter chaos, but Blue Whale make it honeyed.”
Fast forward to 2023 and the band’s craft is as mercurial as ever, yet elevated by taking a breather. It remains thickety and combustive in all the right places but now, Blue Whale sound like a band equally potent in restraint. Lauded for evoking everyone from Deerhoof and Swans, to Slint and Captain Beefheart, all the while sounding uniquely incendiary; with a particularly fierce and fun dynamism seen on the live stage. Some performance highlights include a fully improvised set with Krautrock legend Damo Suzuki (CAN), an original score written for archive film Hi Rise|Low Rise and performed live for the Belfast Film Festival, launching Moving On Music’s Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival and opening for Mogwai at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.
Moving on Music will host Blue Whale as they return to the Black Box for a special live performance celebrating their latest release.
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‘Fierce and playful, chaotic and under control, Process is a cunning triumph.’
– The Quietus
'Beefheartian sturm und drang' - The Wire
“Disipline-era King Crimson on speed, punctuated by explosions of punkish anarchy. Potent stuff.” – All About Jazz
“Blue Whale are steadily earning their stripes as one of the country’s most thoroughly forward-thinking bands of a generation.” – The Thin Air
8pm
May 11th 2024
Admission - £13
Admission and vinyl £25 (advance purchase only)
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Where is it happening?
Black Box, 18-22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2, United Kingdom,BelfastEvent Location & Nearby Stays: