Upcoming: The Veils
Finn Andrews is one of those life long musicians. As a young teenager, he had already met the current members of The Veils at grammar school in New Zealand. At 15, he had record companies on his back enticing him to move to London to record an album. It probably helps that his father, Barry Andrews, played in XTC and Shriekback. A few years later Finn signed to Rough Trade and released a record under the first incarnation of The Veils in 2001, but that band fell apart quickly. He then moved back to New Zealand and began rehearsing with old classmates Sophia Burn and Liam Gerrard.
They gave The Veils a second go with another album Nux Vomica, which was released in 2006 in the UK. I am not sure why this album was so overlooked in the US when it was released in April of 2007. The album is giddy with jangling pianos, coarse guitar strums, looming hums of strings, and Finn's possessed demeanor. One minute he is lulling you to sleep and the next he is tackling you, shrieking. The whole grand production is built on his unstable morbid optimism, where Finn's emotions gush like water and shift with the wind. Nux Vomica is soaked in the dark excesses of Romanticism and alive with pangs of joy and beauty. By the way, these crazies are on tour. Witness the spectacle.
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TOUR DATES
Jun 07 :: Mercury Lounge, New York
Jun 08 :: Union Hall, Brooklyn
Jun 09 :: Great Scott, Boston
Jun 11 :: DC 9, Washington DC
Jun 12 :: The Khyber, Philadelphia
Jun 14 :: El Mocambo, Toronto
Jun 15 :: Shelter 16, Detroit
Jun 17 :: Empty Bottle, Chicago
Jun 18 :: 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis
Jun 19 :: Grand Emporium, Kansas City
Jun 21 :: Larimer Lounge, Denver
Jun 24 :: Plaza Club, Vancouver
Jun 25 :: Crocodile Café, Seattle
Jun 26 :: Doug Fir, Portland
Jun 28 :: Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco
Jun 29 :: Spaceland, Los Angeles