Xiu Xiu/Former Ghosts: 3 more reasons to attend

In my hastiness yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/3623rj9), I neglected to add some things of importance. Namely:

Cixous Ghost will also be playing. The blurb:

"A one-woman barrage of sound, a beat séance from the edge of the etheric, not so much beyond the veil as pushing through it with glove-fingered hands - Cixous Ghost's music is music that goes dum-ba-dum-bump in the night, screeches in the early hours of the morning and hums its way through the afternoon. Muscular and driven, a fragile beauty floats above the fray, translucent and wavering, as broken toys and lost souls writhe in a dance best described as 'otherworldly' or 'obscene' or 'oh..?'. A veteran of the femino-anarcho-punko-queero-pop-rock and everything in betweeno-scene, Emily Aoibheann (Party Weirdo, Janey Mac, Holy Ghost Toast, Avanti Maria!) takes a canny ear for a catchy beat and combines it with an unvarnished and unashamed blissful weirdness to produce a solo project that spits in the eye of phallagocentric rock and offers a vigorous back rub with its cold, clammy fingers."

http://www.myspace.com/ghostchips

Also:





Xiu Xiu/Former Ghosts/Cixous Ghost play the Grand Social Friday night.

Video: Former Ghosts - Taurean Nature

'Taurean Nature' is taken from Former Ghosts' much-anticipated second album New Love, which sees release November 9th, 2010 on Upset The Rhythm. The compellingly dark, goth-tinged project of Freddie Ruppert, with contributions from Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Nika Rosa Danilova aka Zola Jesus, and Yasmine Kittles of TEARIST, Former Ghosts will be playing with Xiu Xiu themselves this Friday night in The Grand Social, Dublin as part of the Darklight Festival (with other guests to be announced). It's a Skinny Wolves-curated affair and promises to be a superb gig.



(via Pitchfork)

Freddie Ruppert has also made a free preview mixtape available on the Former Ghosts blog, and there's some great stuff on it so it's well worth downloading. http://www.formerghosts.com/

On the subject of Skinny Wolves, their latest mix was put together by Children Under Hoof and is absolutely superb stuff: taking in PJ Harvey, Silver Apples, Thread Pulls, New Order covering Keith Hudson for John Peel and a slowed-down version of a HEALTH/Pictureplane remix. Download it now:

CHILDREN UNDER HOOF - MIX // October 2010 by SkinnyWolves

http://www.skinnywolves.com/

http://www.darklight.ie/

Xiu Xiu/Former Ghosts for Hallowe'en show

Xiu Xiu will be returning to Europe later in the year with Zola Jesus and Xiu Xiu/Zola Jesus offshoot Former Ghosts in tow. Unfortunately, Zola Jesus won't be performing at the Irish date, but a double-bill of Xiu Xiu and Former Ghosts is still a pretty big deal. They'll be playing as part of the Darklight Festival 2010 (http://www.darklight.ie/) on Oct. 29th. Venue tba.

Stream Xiu Xiu's album from this year - Dear God, I Hate Myself - below:

XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself by killrockstars