BLACK MARBLE (US) NEW YORK SYNTH ACT MAKE BELFAST DEBUT THIS OCTOBER AT ULSTER SPORTS CLUB

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BLACK MARBLE (US)

NEW YORK SYNTH ACT MAKE BELFAST DEBUT THIS OCTOBER AT ULSTER SPORTS CLUB

 

Tickets for Black Marble’s show in Belfast will be available via Eventbrite on 18th July 2022

A new promotions company, Lucky Cat Events, announce its first show with New York’s synth enthusiasts Black Marble at Ulster Sports Club Belfast on 23rd October 2022. Lucky Cat is a new company formed by former Live Free Tourbooking director Steven Donnelly.

Steven was responsible for booking shows and tour legs for artists such as the iconic Gary Numan, Andy Shauf, Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum (featuring Golden Globe winning actor Michael C Hall), Emma Ruth Rundle, Less Than Jake, Billy Nomates, Drab Majesty, Priest (ex-Ghost), Harley Flanagan’s Cro-Mags, and numerous others during his almost three-year tenure with Live Free Tourbooking.  Lucky Cat aspires to run a limited number of live music and cultural events throughout the year across Ireland, collaborating with friends old and new toward bringing many exciting artists to the island. Black Marble is the first of several announcements being made in the coming weeks.

US synth act Black Marble make their Belfast debut this October at Ulster Sports Club with a local artist in support who will be announced in due course. Lucky Cat is very excited to not only begin afresh with the new company identity and approach but also to welcome such an exciting and innovative artist to their home city.

Black Marble was formed by Chris Stewart in Brooklyn, New York emerging from the city’s cold wave revival scene in the early twenty-teens. Soon after, Stewart released his first full-length ‘A Different Arrangement’ in October of 2012 via the Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art which signed him after the release of his first single. Propelled by Black Marble’s increasing profile and esteem, Stewart began to tour extensively and eventually released his second album in 2016, ‘It’s Immaterial’, which saw him exploring a slightly more melodic territory without losing the charm that gave Black Marble its initial momentum.

In 2019, Black Marble moved to Sacred Bones releasing his third album ‘Bigger Than Life’ which received critical acclaim from a number of major news outlets including Pitchfork and Clash. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the release of ‘Fast Idol’ in 2021 kept up with Black Marble’s evolving and more unexpected arrangements whilst paying homage to some of the moodier production of his earlier works. Comfortable with his place in this lexicon, Fast Idol saw Black Marble face the rising tide of uncertainty with an oblique wink and nod, leaving our future selves to trace its signal as its frequencies echo into an interstellar expanse. He says: “I want my music to stick with you after I leave and I want you to take something from it, even though you might not feel like you’ve totally unravelled it”.

Black Marble carries on the tradition of early synthwave pioneers like Martin Dupont and Modern Art who made their mark at the end of the 1970s when synths became affordable for the first time. Repurposing them from status symbols of stadium bands into cultural signifiers for bedroom artists, they sought to connect wires and twist knobs into something that felt entirely new.

 

Tickets for the Belfast show will be available via Eventbrite from 10am on 18th July 2022. [END]

Ticket link (activates 18/07/22): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/384520660647

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