Date
Thursday 14 August 2014 at 7:30pm
Location
Castle Hotel
66 Oldham Street,
Manchester,
M4 1LE,
United Kingdom
Tel: 0161 237 9485
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Drop City was a community formed by a small group of American artists in 1965. It was the first real commune, pre-summer of love, inspired by the happenings of Allan Kaprow, Fluxus and John Cage. The artists’ most celebrated collaboration was a piece they called ‘The Ultimate Painting’.
Ultimate Painting are James Hoare and Jack Cooper. They’re a band. ’James and I started talking about making music while we were on tour with our other bands,’ says Jack. ‘We’d known each other to say hello to for about four years and saw each other other regularly at shows in London. I’d always enjoyed seeing him and chatting, but I found him to be an tricky character; he had a habit of threatening to get me and being abusive. I took it as a sign of endearment.’
The seeds of the band and friendship were sewn in Europe whilst Jack’s band Mazes were on tour supporting James’ band Veronica Falls. 'After a fairly disastrous first attempt at recording, we reconvened and recorded what became the song Ultimate Painting, a vague theme song for the band,’ Jack continues. 'Everything began to fall into place; us both singing and playing guitar, me playing drums and James playing the bass. Our ethos was; if it wasn’t working, don’t push it; so some sessions ended before they began… oh and the music won’t be touched by anything digital till it needs to go online or something.’
Initial plans to record a couple of tracks together became an EP and then a full album, which will be out via Chicago’s Trouble In Mind (Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, Jacco Gardner) this Autumn. The album – five songs from James and five from Jack – is very much a product of their collective taste… obviously. That’s what records usually are right? Yo La Tengo, Red Krayola, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stereolab, Townes Van Zandt, Velvet Underground… some sense of space and feel.
Support comes from WAITERS and Aldous RH.
Price: £5 adv
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