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Introducing Instrumenti
Legendary British manager Peter Jenner has declared rising Latvian electronic duo, Instrumenti the next great hope for pop music and believes the band are also an exciting possibility for the UK.
Instrumenti are set to return to UK on a whistle-stop visit, playing first in London on 29thJanuary, and then up to Boston on Thursday 30th January, with the possibility of more dates most likely to be announced in the next week.
The shows have been arranged to accompany the imminent release and distribution in the UK of Instrumenti’s debut album, ‘Procrastination’,released in Latvia earlier this year.
Jenner, credited with discovering the original Syd Barrett period Pink Floyd, and later the manager of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Billy Bragg is confident the album can do well in the UK and believes the shows in January will preempt this success.
Jenner explains“They’re not another David Bowie, or The Smiths or The Killers, playing the same old chords, imitating the same old rock idols..Anyone who plays and sings well in front of an audience and deals with all the challenges that present themselves to any new band, with efficiency and good spirit and who then delivers a great exciting aural feast and show, however small or large, is someone I am interested in. I am not interested in shallow imitation, but only in people who can create their own unique sound, based of course, on the various influences we are all exposed to. That’s what I thought when I first saw the Pink Floyd, or Billy Bragg, or Michael Franti, or Ian Dury, who I then went on to work with.”
London club night Club Radio Free Europe, who hosted the band back in May with Latvian legends Prata Vetra (aka Brainstrorm), will in January team up with Mama Group to host the band at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen on Jan 28th, and then with Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre in Boston, Lincs.
The band performed six concerts in the Latvian capital of Riga last month when they played to more than 8000 fans, in a city of half a million. And have recently opened for Depeche Mode and Kasabian.
DATES:-
The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London. January 29th
Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre, Boston, Lincs. January 30th