Electro pioneers and cult bands Severed Heads and Crash Course Science sharing stages this weekend!
Two of the most legendary avant-garde Electro-Industrial bands, Severed Heads (Australia) and Crash Course In Science (USA) are currently touring Europe which is already an unique event. But i becomes even more unique when the tour schedule of both bands collides and both bands end up on the same stage on the same night! Such is the case tonight at the Amsterdam Dance Event and tomorrow at a BodyBeats night in Antwerp.
Crash Course In Science was founded in 1979 in Philadelphia and has developed a completely unique sound, some call tight ‘minimal synth electro techno body wave’. They avoided the sounds of conventional instrumentation by using toy instruments and kitchen appliances to augment the distorted guitar, drums and synthesized beats.
Their most know artefact is of course the 12” ‘Signals from Pier Thirteen’ with dance-floor-filler-songs like ‘Card Board Lamb’ and ‘Flying Turns’. CCIS has been touring again since a couple of years but EU shows are rather rare so don’t miss out!
Severed Heads from Sydney, Australia is also founded in 1979 and are important because they more or less invented the whole industrial-electronic cross-over genre. Apparently they were influencers on NIN and Skinny Puppy. At times they sounded like New Order, Erasure and Throbbing Gristle all ran into each other in a blender and then were poured over some ear splitting noise. Some of the best know songs are the dark and gloomy but more accessible New Wave club classic track ‘The Ant Cant See Legs’ and ‘Dead Eyes Open’. Severed heads played Europe (Belgium) only twice so no need to say also their passage is quite unique and should not be missed!
22.10 Amsterdam Dance Event
23.10 BodyBeats Night Antwerp
