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Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one band in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather a lot of late. Here, in the very first instalment of a feature that should run and run, we look a little closer at Brooklyn quartet Yeasayer (pictured), who arrive in the UK this week for a series of London shows, including a set at DiS’s own DiScover Club.
Yeasayer
From: Brooklyn, New York
Line-up: Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, Luke Fasano
This four-piece share a selection of artsy similarities with fellow townsfolk Oneida and Liars (presuming you still categorise the latter as a New York outfit), but inject their wandering, dream-adelic arrangements with a starry-eyed affection for retro-rock of the 1970s – think the Fleetwood Macs of this world, alongside a smattering of other plastic-sleeved LPs you might’ve flicked through as a kid while your dad’s back was turned. Soon-to-be-released single ‘2080’, backed with ‘Sunrise’, is out later this month via We Are Free, and is reviewed here. With appeal enough to connect to stoners and more-focused souls alike, current hopes for Yeasayer are riding high, particularly around the DiSopolis. To say that we’re excited about the below dates would be, well, telling the truth – let’s try not to shoot too large a load too early, eh.
Available now: ‘2080’ / ‘Sunrise’ (single; We Are Free; out August 20)
MySpace here
Dates follow…
August
13 London Camden Barfly with Home Video + Down I Go
14 London Brixton Windmill with Home Video
15 London Old Blue Last with Home Video
17 London Pure Groove
18 London DiScover Club, Notting Hill Arts Club with Public Relations Exercise and Mandelbrot Set
20 London The Social
21 London Dublin Castle
Expect next week’s pick of the DiScover Diary bunch to be rather less London-centric…! Other choice gigs - where new DiScoveries are sure to be made - around the country over the next seven days…
Monday August 13
zZz at Glasgow Barfly (MySpace)
P.G. Six at Manchester King’s Arms (MySpace)
Piney Gir at Manchester Roadhouse (MySpace)
Blakfish at Birmingham Barfly (MySpace)
The Zico Chain at Newcastle Academy (MySpace)
Vetiver at Leeds Faversham (MySpace)
Tuesday August 14
Nanobots at Edinburgh Cellar Bar (MySpace)
Assembly Now at London Proud Galleries (MySpace)
Health and Crystal Castles at London Rough Trade East (MySpace)
Monkey Swallows The Universe at York Basement Bar (MySpace)
Seasick Steve at Edinburgh Liquid Room (MySpace)
Wednesday August 15
Tegan & Sara at Leeds Cockpit (MySpace)
Jeans Goes Pop at Newcastle Bernaccia (MySpace)
Alela Diane at Derby Susumi (MySpace)
Gin Panic at London Pool Bar (MySpace)
LostAlone at Cardiff Barfly (MySpace)
Sleeping States at London Industry (MySpace)
Thursday August 16
The Ghost Frequency at Nottingham Social (MySpace)
PRE at London Barden’s Boudoir (MySpace)
Frightened Rabbit at Glasgow 13th Note (MySpace)
Set Your Goals at Belfast Black Box (MySpace)
Friday August 17
Rick Witter & The Dukes at Newcastle Academy (MySpace)
Diane Cluck at Exeter Cavern (MySpace)
Joeyfat and Soeza at London Buffalo Bar (MySpace)
Mother & The Addicts at Glasgow Classic Grand (MySpace)
Saturday August 18
Eugene McGuinness at Leeds Faversham (MySpace)
Bearsuit at Exeter Cavern (MySpace)
Dead Meadow and Youthmovies at Oxford Cellar (MySpace)
It Hugs Back at Bristol Louisiana (MySpace)
Look See Proof at Glasgow King Tut’s (MySpace)
Sunday August 19
The Black Daliha Murder at Sheffield Corporation (MySpace)
Tiny Masters Of Today at York Fibbers (MySpace)
Tokyo Police Club at Nottingham Social (MySpace)
The Needles at Glasgow Blackfriars (MySpace)
This is, of course, just the tip of one enormous iceberg. Help us help you with future DiScover Diary articles by sending details of gigs to listings@drownedinsound.com, or simply by posting them below. Bands, promoters, managers, labels: if you’ve something worth a little DiS attention, we need to know.
