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DATE
16 MAR 2010, TUE
TIME
8pm
(90mins, no intermission)
(90mins, no intermission)
VENUE
Theatre
PRICE
$40*, $60**, $80, $100
(Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens at $25*, $40** respectively)
Early Bird Special for Mosaic Friends
Get 10% savings for full-priced tickets purchased for all the shows in the festival. Offer ends 5 Feb 2010.
Terms and conditions
Each Mosaic Friend is only limited to a maximum of four tickets per show. Please present your Mosaic Friend card when you purchase the tickets at Esplanade Box Office and all SISTIC’s authorised agents. Online booking is available with a password.
To sign up to be a Mosaic Friend, please visit www.mosaicmusicfestival.com Upon sign up, you will receive your Mosaic Friend card in two weeks’ time.
Mosaic Savings Get 15% savings for a pair of top-priced tickets for any Concert Hall shows. Online booking is available.
Visa Infinite and Visa Signature Card Specials
Use your Visa Infinite or Visa Signature cards to enjoy a complimentary glass of champagne with every ticket purchased for performances at the Concert Hall (except for concession tickets). The champagne is redeemable with your promotion ticket stub at the foyer bars on the day of the performance.
Early Bird Special for Mosaic Friends
Get 10% savings for full-priced tickets purchased for all the shows in the festival. Offer ends 5 Feb 2010.
Terms and conditions
Each Mosaic Friend is only limited to a maximum of four tickets per show. Please present your Mosaic Friend card when you purchase the tickets at Esplanade Box Office and all SISTIC’s authorised agents. Online booking is available with a password.
To sign up to be a Mosaic Friend, please visit www.mosaicmusicfestival.com Upon sign up, you will receive your Mosaic Friend card in two weeks’ time.
Mosaic Savings Get 15% savings for a pair of top-priced tickets for any Concert Hall shows. Online booking is available.
Visa Infinite and Visa Signature Card Specials
Use your Visa Infinite or Visa Signature cards to enjoy a complimentary glass of champagne with every ticket purchased for performances at the Concert Hall (except for concession tickets). The champagne is redeemable with your promotion ticket stub at the foyer bars on the day of the performance.
SYNOPSIS
"Dinosaur Jr. set the standard for convulsive indie-rock guitar fireworks in the Eighties. Incredibly, the band's original lineup - guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph - hasn't lost a thunderous step." – Rolling Stone magazine
They were the alt-rock pioneers of their day, their simple alt-rock-folk-country songs spiked with massive amounts of guitar noise, a quiet-loud dynamic, metal riffs, long, wild lead solos and nasal drone. Despite their famous apathy, they became a cult phenomenon, their sludgy, noise-drenched sound influencing bands like Nirvana and Pixies and sparking the grunge revolution of the early 90s. They are Dinosaur Jr., slacker revolutionaries of a new crushingly loud sound and underdog heroes of the American indie underground.
They were the alt-rock pioneers of their day, their simple alt-rock-folk-country songs spiked with massive amounts of guitar noise, a quiet-loud dynamic, metal riffs, long, wild lead solos and nasal drone. Despite their famous apathy, they became a cult phenomenon, their sludgy, noise-drenched sound influencing bands like Nirvana and Pixies and sparking the grunge revolution of the early 90s. They are Dinosaur Jr., slacker revolutionaries of a new crushingly loud sound and underdog heroes of the American indie underground.
In the beginning, in the mid-80's, Lou Barlow held down the bass, Murph joined as drummer and J switched from playing the drums to playing the guitar. He played the guitar in a style that emulated the way he played the drums thus giving birth to his decibel-defying guitar sound.
Between 1985 and 1997, they released seven milestone albums, the earliest of which saw them launching into the freeform noise and unrestrained yet melodic solos which earned them a loyal following. In that time, around 1989, the original parties of Mascis and Barlow parted ways: Barlow finding success with Sebadoh, and Mascis enjoying further success throughout the early nineties with Dinosaur Jr - and a succession of bass players - before finally embarking on a solo career.
Between 1985 and 1997, they released seven milestone albums, the earliest of which saw them launching into the freeform noise and unrestrained yet melodic solos which earned them a loyal following. In that time, around 1989, the original parties of Mascis and Barlow parted ways: Barlow finding success with Sebadoh, and Mascis enjoying further success throughout the early nineties with Dinosaur Jr - and a succession of bass players - before finally embarking on a solo career.
Then in 2007, almost 20 years after they had parted ways un-amicably, they shocked oldtime fans – who might have given their ratty flannel shirts to the Salvation Army long ago but had not forgotten – with the release of a new album Beyond. Going beyond being a throwback album, Beyond was what NME critics called “a genuine monster”, picking up from where the original three had left off two decades ago and, this time, delivering the goods with an even tighter cohesion and dynamism.
Two years later, deep in the heart of Amherst, Massachusetts, past the apple farms, hiking trails, farmers’ markets, college campuses, New England homesteads, vintage guitar stores and hay rides, all three huddled in the cosy warren of J Mascis’ home studio, set up mics, plugged in the fuzz boxes, and recorded to Pro Tools yet another bunch of songs that harked back to the day when they hated one another’s guts and made fuzzed-out alt-rock the rage.
Two years later, deep in the heart of Amherst, Massachusetts, past the apple farms, hiking trails, farmers’ markets, college campuses, New England homesteads, vintage guitar stores and hay rides, all three huddled in the cosy warren of J Mascis’ home studio, set up mics, plugged in the fuzz boxes, and recorded to Pro Tools yet another bunch of songs that harked back to the day when they hated one another’s guts and made fuzzed-out alt-rock the rage.
The result, 2009’s Farm, has since become their most critically-lauded effort since 1988's breakthrough effort, Bug. Farm captures the energy of a band 20 years their junior and with majestic solos, tightly-locked-in rhythms, fantastic songwriting and furious shredfests, shows the band to be in better form than ever.
