Warm Drag, Live at The Brudenell

Brudenell presents...

Warm Drag
+ Special guests TBA

23.01.2019 | £8.00 ADVANCE (+stbf) | 19:30 Doors

https://www.facebook.com/warmdrag/

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The
two people in Warm Drag do specific things. Vashti Windish sings, the
way Siouxsie sang power, the way Nico sang allure, the way Patti sang
sex. Paul Quattrone makes the noise with two Akai MPC 1000 samplers.
Beats that pummel or seduce, usually simultaneously, synths that soar
like Morricone or pump like DAF, and gloriously twangy guitars that
clang and echo like Duane Eddy spiraling down a k-hole.

A
chance reunion in Los Angeles led Quattrone (of Oh Sees and !!!) and
Windish to attempt the outlandish ambition of marrying her love for the
genre-defying genius of Blondie's 'Parallel Lines' to Quattrone's love
of Bomb Squad's production styles. "Warm Drag gives me the chance to
blend genres up into a musical milkshake that remains uniform despite
all of its parts. I can scream, dance, cry, rage and seduce, all in a
single show" Windish explains.

"I basically wanna make
Bomb Squad versions of rock n roll songs," Quattrone says. "It sounds
weird but I can hear a common ground where girl groups, dub, harsh
noise, minimal synth, repetitious industrial, voodoo percussion, power
electronics, black leather jacket rock n roll and DJ Screw-inspired
slowing down/pitching down of samples all meet."

Lyrically, Warm Drag dive head-first into right now, careening from love to the
end times, broken hearts to rotting bodies, devastation, lies and
emotional self-defense. They have something to say, but they'd never be
so gauche as to over-explain.

They've been winning over notoriously-inert Los Angeles audiences just over a year now. An early
show caught the eye of Ian Svenonius. "Their cut-up collage of
electronic stomp-music embodied everything people were searching for
that summer," he remembers. "There were just two of them but the sound
was magnificent. Vashti was a revelation and Paul looked tough and cool
and preoccupied in just the right way."

Warm Drag are the soundtrack to the best night of your life. It probably hasn't
happened yet, or maybe it happened in Berlin, in 1980. You won't
remember much, but you still have this record and a few bruises to jolt
your memory. Sangfroid has never been sexier.