5.10.2008 Electric Moon @ The Gaelic Theatre

UTBM & Rivetting Promotions are presenting the biggest industrial-dark electro goth gig you will ever see At the Gaelic Theatre, an 18+ show.....

Covenant (Sweden)
Diary of Dreams (Germany)
Destroid vs Haujobb (Germany)
Voices of Masada (UK)
IKON (Melb)
Tycho Brahe (Bris)
Vertigo Nation (Syd)

DOORS AT 5:30PM Tickets $65
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Band: Covenant
Location: Sweden
Website:www.myspace.com/covenant
Style: Electro / Industrial / Pop

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became a preferred musical style among European underground culture. It gained favor initially within major cities and eventually trickled into the continent's more socially secluded regions. This new wave of music was discovered at different instances by a group of young friends living among the shadows of Helsingborg, a scenic municipality in southern Sweden. Eskil Simonsson, Joakim Montelius, and Clas Nachmanson, three teenagers with mutual, youthful curiosities for science, philosophy, and matters of existence, were enthralled by the unique presentation and the emotional content offered through the music, specifically by that of bands such as Kraftwerk, The Human League, and by EBM pioneers Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb.

Band: Diary of Dreams
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website: www.diaryofdreams.de
Style: Gothic / Electro

Diary of Dreams is a German electronic music group.Their 2004 'Nigredo' (a concept album inspired by a mythology the band designed themselves) saw a move back towards the more subtle, sparse concepts of old, but still featuring bursts of their more recent, dance-oriented sound. Songs from the Nigredo tour were later released on the live CD 'aLive' and the companion DVD 'Nine In Numbers'. The most recent Diary of Dreams album 'Nekrolog 43' was released in 2007, offering a greater variety of moods and concepts than previous works. Adrian Hates claimes to be influenced, both lyric wise and artwork wise, by the German 1909-1935 expressionism and the "beauty of ugliness" in the course of his work.Recently, on the band's official Myspace, a new album was announced for a release date "definitely in 2009."

Band: DESTROID
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website:www.myspace.com/destroidmusic
Style: Industrial / Electro / Alternative

Destroid, fronted by Yamazaki and Haujobb-mastermind Daniel Myer, do not give a damn about the conventional approach and will render all attempts on categorizing their style utterly futile. They feel at home in hardfloor, the classic EBM-style, in Synth- and Futurepop, and are not in fear of churning out the odd dark ballad either. The concept of Destroid is about breaking these conventions - they thus manage to create one of the most exciting releases to hit the Electro-scene for a long time.

Band: Voices of Masada
Location: London, United Kingdom
Website:www.myspace.com/voicesofmasada
Style: Gothic

Band: Tycho Brahe
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/tychobraheaustralia
Style: Electro / Pop / New Wave

Based in Brisbane, Australia, Tycho Brahe produces electronic pop music that harks back to the '80s glory days of electro luminaries such as New Order, Human League, Depeche Mode, and Giorgio Moroder. A regular fixture on their local live music scene, the band uses vintage electronic gadgetry to produce tunes ranging from uptempo classic synthpop, to moody atmospherics, to grinding synthrock, with a blatant disregard for the latest fads and fashions in the FM pop fodder world.

Band: IKON
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/ikonwave
Style: Post punk / Indie / Gothic

The new EP League of Nations (2007) is testament to progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (anticipated release mid-2008). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands.

Band: Vertigo Nation
Location: Sydney New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/vertigonation
Style: Electronica / Alternative / Industrial

Take your record collection and pull it apart. Put it back together mismatching all the pieces. This is VertigoNation. Here dark Electronic meets jagged Industrial and they all go for a drink with Alternative Rock. We don’t mean to defy genres, it just happened that way. VertigoNation incorporate rawness and gloss into a tight musical package. Here rough guitars are mixed with synths and a live vocal. But it’s been a road worth traveling as they find it’s this journey that has provided fuel for their new material. The feedback from fans has been overwhelming as has been the ability to connect to new ones from every country you can think of.