New shows for 2010.
March 18th – The Mill, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh.
April 22nd – *CANCELLED*
April 23rd – The Retro Bar, Manchester. <– tickets from Wegottickets.com and seetickets.com
The Gothenburg Address will be in Session on Radio1 (Vic galloway) 21st January.(evening of the 20th at midnight till 2am.)
Launch show photographs by Heidi Kuisma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mybitofsky
Remember! Our debut Album is now available to download from ITUNES, HMV, PLAY.COM and all good download sites !!!
DEBUT ALBUM NOW AVAILIBLE TO BUY IN AVALANCHE, EDINBURGH. ITS ALSO GOING ON THE LISTENING POST IN THERE SO GO ALONG AND HEAR WHAT YOUR MISSING!!
NEW ONLINE SHOP.
THE KIND FOLK AT JETPACE ARE NOW LOOKING AFTER OUR CDS AND TSHIRTS. HEAD OVER TO THEIR WEBSITE TO RECIEVE FREE GIFTS WITH YOUR TGA ORDERS (WHILE STOCKS LAST)
Launch show review – 4/5
Gig review: The Gothenburg Address
Published Date: 09 December 2009
By Malcolm Jack
MONO, GLASGOW
****
WITH former members of Arab Strap and The Zephyrs both on hand, Edinburgh quartet The Gothenburg Address have individually been around the block a few times. So it felt curious to find them launching their self-titled debut album to such minimal fanfare – on a Monday night in front of just a handful of people at Mono.
It didn’t seem to do their music much justice. While they don’t bring anything especially new to the instrumental post-rock table – and few bands do – on the evidence of this performance they approach their craft with a sonic and emotional precision that adds up to something visceral and pretty fantastic.
The quiet/loud dynamic that Mogwai made their own early in their career is The Gothenburg Address’s template and they’re sticking to it, right down to the long-winded song-titles.
But there are some tweaks: a driving rhythm section, and a tendency towards bright, chiming melodies, rather than lurking too long in the minor key shadows.
For every bit of slow-building tension there was a speedy release – From Med to Lay, for instance, was endowed with a soaring hook that almost acted as wordless chorus.
Nervy silences between the tunes generated an awkward atmosphere, but what little patter there was from guitarists Luke Joyce and Chris Bathgate revealed the band’s members to be softly-spoken chaps who are perhaps just content to sit back and trust that their music is loud and insistent enough to speak for itself. The cacophonous final medley of Leaving the Last Behind and the sludgy I Am Made of Hearts + Fire suggested that might not be a forlorn hope.