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Theatre of Living Arts

334 South St., 19147, Philadelphia, PA, US

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Capacity: 800

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Doors open: 19:30

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Cold Cave biography

Cold Cave (formed in 2007) is the stage name American electronic indie-rock and darkwave artist Wesley Eisold whom lends influences from the likes of Joy Division and Depeche Mode – hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Former vocalist of the hardcore bands Give Up the Ghost and Some Girls, Cold Cave represents Wesley Eisold’s earliest excursion into instrumentation. Born with one hand, electronic music production through synths and drum machines were seen as more accessible to the musician who released his earliest material on Dais Records. In 2008 Eisold issued his debut EP “Coma Potion” on Heartwood Records, which was followed by the full-length “Love Comes Close” in 2009. Led by the single “The Trees Grew Emotions and Died”, the record earned a host of esteemed reviews and spawned the subsequent singles “The Laurels” and “Life Magazine”.

A pair of EPs followed in 2010, the first a split release with Prurient entitled “Stars Explode” and the second a collection of remix for his track “Life Magazine”. The following year Cold Cave issued the sophomore studio album “Cherish the Light Years” on Matador Records. Earning posistive reviews from the likes of Pitchfork Media, the album spawned the singles “The Great Pan Dead”, “Villains of the Moon”, and “Confetti” / “Believe in My Blood”.

Initially intended to feature on an upcoming album, the singles “A Little Death to Laugh”, “Oceans with No End”, “God Made the World”, “Black Boots”, and “Nausea, The Earth and Me” appeared in 2012 and 2013. The following year Cold Cave issued a pair of compilations “Cremations” and “Full Cold Moon” both of which collected his most thoughtful and challenging tracks to appeal to a larger audience.

Live reviews

If you want to step into a little bit of a time warp then Clan Of Xymox is definitely the band that will orchestrate that experience for you, right down to their image and their presentation on stage. Their music takes the form of a sort of synthesizer driven gothic rock, which they have adhered to for the last thirty years.

With a bank of keyboards with drum triggers to trigger a variety of what would predominantly be 16th hi-hat beats a bass and a couple of guitars, Clan of Xymox walk out on the stage to perform a set made up of some dark and eerie ethereal noises, making quite an impression on this festival audience this evening, who soak up the music before them, and in turn dance along to these heavy beats. “The Host of Seraphim” which is still one of their biggest songs to date makes the audience sing along at an amicable volume. Their sound is such a minor sounding collection of beats and melodies that interweave to make a very intriguing pop sound.

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The music of Cold Cave live is a dark, synthpop, noisy affair. But that is what you are here for, right? He puts on the loudest, synthetic, noise music you will hear. Heads are banging and drinks are being poured.
The audience is rather relaxed, listening to the haunting synthetic sounds, until one woman lets out an excited yell for the musician and his sounds. Heads begin to loosen and bob a bit, and the music ends on a dark note with a short burst of applause from the audience.But that is just one, intimate affair full off the hip and the young.
When Cold Cave plays a large, concert venue the audience gets fully into it. As the lights flashed in quick time in Coppenhagen heads were banged, applause was made, and the darkness was celebrated in both the audience and the music. The light shows were nothing short of spectacular, as bright white flashes gave way to blue circles of ominous darkness. It perfectly underscored the gothic synthetic sounds that made up the musician's performance.
You could not be there without feeling like you were being hypnotized by a new wave of sound and noise.

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