Camera Obscura (UK) and Slow Club (UK)

STRANGE NEWS and Cheese on Toast are very proud to present - a double-billed international to cure your ails!

CAMERA OBSCURA (UK) with Slow Club (UK)
January 18th @ Monte Cristo Room, AUCKLAND

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Time to dust off those dancing shoes and grab your hankies- because Camera Obscura are returning to our shores this January!

Formed in Glasgow in 1996, Camera Obscura have been perfecting their style of bittersweet pop for over a decade. The creators of a truly timeless sound, their songs are packed full of verbose orchestral flourishes and soaring melodies, softening the blow of darkly realistic lyrical takes on love, being in love, falling in love and what a total shit love can be. Their latest album, My Maudlin Career (2009) is their biggest and most ambitious record to date, with Tracyanne Campbell's expressive and soulful voice sailing over the alternately brisk then weepy guitars and strings- confiding, griping, sighing and dreaming, picking at the complexity of people and romance. Camera Obscura run the gamut all the way to joy and back again- it's a whirlwind of talent and dourness that must be experienced live.

Make sure you catch Scotland's finest purveyors of gorgeously dour pop music- Camera Obscura, this January.

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And that's not all - Camera Obscura are joined by North London country rousers SLOW CLUB.

A string of single releases on their UK label home Moshi Moshi, and crucial development time on the live circuit has made [North London duo] Slow Club an irresistible prospect. Live as on record, Charles and Rebecca enrapture audiences with the same involuntary joy and simplistic rush that they themselves imbue. Their highly developed partnership delivering sweet harmonious hooks, rockabilly beats and exuberant yelps and yips, that spill out across the album. - Popfrenzy website

Their Popfrenzy release Yeah So is a cheeky country stomper that can't be denied. Check them out live with Camera Obscura (in Auckland only).
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Strange News & Cheese on Toast pr-pr-proudly present:
CAMERA OBSCURA (UK) with Slow Club (UK)
January 18th @ Monte Cristo Rooms, AUCKLAND

Tickets $45 from www.undertheradar.co.nz, Fast & Loose. and Real Groovy