Sad Night Dynamite • CBE • Köln

Name: Sad Night Dynamite • CBE • Köln
Start: 2024-11-02T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld | Cologne, NW

02.11.2024 @ CBE
Sad Night Dynamite
Einlass: 18:00 Uhr
Beginn: 19:00 Uhr
Tickets: 23€ zzgl Gebühren
Sad Night Dynamite have today announced details of their debut album, Welcome The Night, which will be released on September 27th. The standout British duo have also shared the project’s first official single, ‘Sugabby’, alongside news of a winter UK/European tour: sign up for artist pre-sale now, with general sale opening on June 19th at 10AM.
On Welcome The Night, Sad Night Dynamite map out a humorous soundtrack for the end of the world. Exploring themes of paranoia, dystopia, ennui and escapism, the band’s signature blend of surreal character-studies, waspish humour, and serious undertones are blown up to monstrous proportions. Theirs is an equally silly and sinister world designed to allow a disenfranchised generation some comfort in incoherence, rather than all-out chaos. And amidst such existential questions, there is at least one clear answer: whether tackling club bangers, hip-hop, trippy folk or blockbuster pop, it’s impossible to mistake a Sad Night Dynamite song for anyone else.
For Glastonbury-born childhood mates Archie and Josh, Sad Night Dynamite is an ‘anything goes’ ecosystem in which absurdism has proved a path for catharsis. It’s been the catalyst for warmup tracks like the Mafia-themed moral quandary of ‘Godfather’ and ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, but shines through on first single ‘Sugabby’: all swaggering, cinematic funk, and the unlikely tale of falling in love with your Sugamum. Upending taboo with a surrealist streak, such is Sad Night Dynamite’s commitment-to-the-bit that there’s even a real-life page for ‘Mrs. Dior’ herself (@TheMommaDior), as the band comment: “Sugabby’ was born out of genuine desperation to find a partner who would support us financially. We have a lot of friends with sugar daddies but it’s a lot rarer to find a man with an older woman who pays for everything. When we started writing, it was to manifest that happening to us, and as it happens Josh has now started dating an older lady called Mrs Dior. She’s quite brilliant.”
Liberated from the confines of reality, not to mention its moral framework, Sad Night Dynamite’s approach informs everything from the eclecticism of their music to its striking symbolism. Welcome The Night is bound by uncanny, AI-generated art that blurs the line between frivolous high jinks and hellish end-of-days. Inspired by the anarchic energy of acts like The KLF, they even bought a limousine on Facebook Marketplace reminiscent of much of their early artwork (“it's easy to hate, it's flashy, it's stupid, and it means very little. But if you’re on the inside, it’s great!”). In an apt but unintentional act of performance art, the band’s album-mascot has already blown a gasket and broken down amidst Somerset’s twisting country lanes, much to the fury of local residents. Nonetheless, the Sad Night Dynamite bandwagon moves forward; navigating modern chaos through the road less travelled, with all welcome in the passenger seat.
For Sad Night Dynamite, salvation ultimately lies in the bonds between us. The record’s “family is forever” strapline reflects not only the cult-like bond between the boys themselves, but the spirit of togetherness - and on ‘Sugabby’, love in all its forms - needed to challenge life’s uncertainties. Introducing Welcome The Night, SND comment: “This is us stumbling in the dark, trying to make sense of music, life, and our twenties. The modern world lacks a guiding light; it's fractious and bloated. Welcome the Night embraces this confusion as a knee-jerk reaction to an overstimulated world. The music is our most intense and erratic to date, accepting life's absurdity and deliberately provocative. We see it as a humorous soundtrack to our demise—if the world were to end, ‘WTN' would offer clues as to how it happened.”