Twenty-nine years after its release, Young Marble Giants’ legendary ‘Colossal Youth’ – Rough Trade, recorded in 1980 in five days and mixed in 20 minutes – remains a landmark in post-punk music, an enigma of its own, acclaimed by musicians and audience over the years.
Formed in 1978 in Cardiff, the trio’s music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham on bass and guitar, supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton.
Stuart Moxham wrote the majority of the band’s songs, and his writing was often deceptively simple-seeming, giving YMG’s classic work a uniquely fragile yet powerful quality. The band split in 1980.
Reunited in 2007, the band has been since playing some rare shows around Europe, including All Tomorrows Parties, Primaverra Sounds, Villette Sonique among others. The orginal drum-machine parts are now played on electronic drums by third Moxham brother Andrew.
Since the reunion YMG played:
27 May 2007: Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, UK
28 October 2007 : Festival BBMIX, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
29 May 2008 : Auditorio Caixaova, Festival Sinsal, Vigo, Spain
30 May 2008 : Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal
31 May 2008 : Festival Primavera, Barcelona, Spain
1 November 2008: Factory Festival, Nivelles, Belgium
14 November 2008: Sun Festival, Cardiff, UK
16 January 2009: Hebbel Theater/HAU, Berlin, Germany
9 May 2009: All Tomorrow Parties Festival. Minehead, Sommerset, UK – The band performed the complete Colossal Youth album
2 May 2010: Camden Crawl Festival, London
1 June 2010: Villette Sonique Festival, Paris
16 Oct 2010: Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
10 Dec 2010: Midi Festival, Opéra de Toulon, Toulon, FR
NEXT SHOW: 9-11 March 2012 All Tomorrow Parties Festival. curated by Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Minehead, Sommerset, UK
Contact booking World : pascal@julietippex.com
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