PLAID Live A/V

Plaid Live A/V
2nd December 2019
Temple Athens
21:00

Electronic and innovative music duo Plaid, a truly groundbreaking act, is coming to Athens with their brand new A/V show putting together hyper-melodic experimental electronic music and promises to lure you into unpredictable rhythms and melodies on Monday 2nd December 2019 at Temple Athens.

The innovative duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner have been expanding the realm of electronic music as Plaid since they diverged from trio The Black Dog in the early 90s. In 2019, Plaid stand alongside the likes of Aphex Twin, Autechre and Nightmares on Wax as mainstays of the Warp label as it reaches its 30th anniversary, celebrating achievements in music like few others. Their adventurous and playful approach has taken them to working with Björk and drawing comparisons to fellow collaborators Mark Bell, Arca, Haxan Cloak and more recent Releases by Skee Mask and Daniel Avery. They’ve worked with the London Sinfonietta, the Southbank Gamelan Players, composed for Felix’s Machines robotic sculptures, and soundtracked events as diverse as reindeer migration in northern Europe to a level in popular platformer Little Big Planet 3. In a live capacity their show straddles both a contemporary and club capacity, able to pack venues from Sydney Opera House and Southbank to Bloc and Berghain.

Forging ever bolder and emotive paths through electronic music, Plaid are set to release their 10th studio album ‘Polymer’ on June 7th via Warp Records. Covering a wide range of emotions, influences and inspirations; ‘Polymer’ is an album for modern times. It’s creation was informed by a manifesto of Polyphony, Pollution and Politics; clashing themes of environment, synthetics, survival/mortality and humanity’s (dis)connection. The album’s 13 tracks cover energetic bangers, bright melodic visceral rhythms and hypnotic wombic textures to create perhaps their most cohesive, direct album to date.

Plaid say:
“The problems and benefits of Polymers felt like good themes for this album, their repetitious strength, endurance and troubling persistence, the natural versus the synthetic, silk and silicone, the significant effect they have on our lives.”

Links:
Website: www.plaidmusic.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/plaidofficial
Twitter: www.twitter.com/plaidmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/plaidmusic
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/plaid

Ticket Prices:
Early Bird – 17€
Presale – 20€
Box Office – 23€

Ticket Presale:
Viva Network:
Online: www.viva.gr/tickets/music/temple/plaid-en
By phone: 11876

Points of sale:
Reload
Seven Spots
Wind Stores
Yoleni’s (Solonos 9)
Evripidis Bookstores
Viva Spot Technopolis City of Athens (entry via Persefonis str., Mon-Sat 11:00-19:00)

Venue:
Temple Athens
Iakhou 17
Athens 118 54
+30 697 941 7274
www.thetemple.gr