65daysofstatic’s performances at Mosaic Music Festival 2010 on 13 March at 7.30pm and 10pm will be cancelled. Due to a serious family emergency, 65daysofstatic will not be playing shows in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Taiwan in the coming weeks. The band would like to express their sincere apologies to anybody who has bought tickets and been looking forward to this. All patrons who purchased tickets for the performances will receive full refunds. For more details on the refund please call us at 6828 8377 from 8:30am - 10pm Monday - Sunday.

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"The sheer intensity of the band's musical and technical prowess is projected for the world to revel in, cascading every part of their electronic orchestra around your ears and constructing immense soundscapes that defy standards or chart-humping ideals.” – Drowned in Sound

It’s a combustion of man and machine when Sheffield-based post-math-rock beast 65daysofstatic delivers barrages of atmospheric, crunched guitar, contemplative piano, electronic samples and glitches and hardcore live drums with a crackling intensity that builds up to zap you like static electricity.

Their first record, The Fall of Math (2004), was an intriguing, raw rush of sound with a stop-start structure, brooding disposition and cathartic endings similar to that of Explosions in the Sky. Their second, One Time for All Time (2005), was so fast and furious, it was described by Stylus magazine as “three men making a fast, wordless, angry and occasionally redemptive noise, part guitar, part drum(machine)s, part piano, part scree, part ****-knows-what.”. But it was their third, The Destruction of Small Ideas (2007), a surprisingly quieter and much more profound album that got critics and music lovers falling over themselves in gibbering adoration, leading to the band’s 2009 recording of a live album Escape from New York and such ornate praise as:

“The Destruction of Small Ideas is a weight, a tower of babel, a journey, learnings, understandings, communication, evolution. I’ve been waiting. I was promised this or something like it. The rise and fall. All so deep, so rich, so comically dynamic and detailed and powerful for it that it makes me want to cry.” (Stylus).

On a calmer note, Sheffield-based band 65daysofstatic’s (especially on their third album) are primarily epic instrumental tunes that solidly blend several directions, styles and moods in a distinct sound. There are the crushing guitars, fuzzy layers and twitching electronic dissonance of post-rock and the somewhat-Mogwai-like “quiet-to-loud-to-very,very loud” song structure, the thundering stomp of Krautrock-style precision drumming, and the peculiar time signatures that identify math rock as a major influence. But there are also the occasional and unexpected male and female vocals that further humanise the music, and there is the quiet, almost delicate piano that gives the music a surprisingly lovely and contemplative edge.

While the band members chop and change with speed and precision, they are also masters of the slow, suspenseful build-up. Often a piece begins with a slow opener, with atmospheric sounds playing off one another. Suddenly the pace picks up; instruments, sounds and parts are shuffled and woven into a tighter and tighter grid. But just when they have worked themselves into a perfect fit, a thunderclap of crashing dissonance and bluster fury hits; harmony is smashed to smithereens, bits of sound come tumbling down into a growing silence.

At this live concert of music a little psychotic and grippingly beautiful, as the waves of noise writhe and crash around you with strength of purpose and majesty, you may think yourself unusually, euphorically light.

65daysofstatic was formed in Sheffield, England in 2000, and is today made up of accomplished musicians Paul Wolinski (guitar and programming), Joe Shrewsbury (guitar), Rob Jones (drums) and Simon Wright (bass and programming). They like performing live and have opened for The Cure and played alongside such artists as Metallica, Lostprophets and Deftones.

7.30pm & 10pm
(60mins, no intermission)

$40*
$48* (for ticket purchased on day of performance)
(* With one complimentary drink. All patrons must be above 18 years old)

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