Press Release
Frieze Music 2010
Frieze Art Fair announced today that Frieze Music 2010 will present two specially curated nights of very different sounds, one of disco and a second of exquisite song from a singular voice.
Friday 15 October will see Hercules and Love Affair (plus special guests) perform at Debut, one of London’s most innovative new music spaces, situated under the arches of London Bridge Station. The Guardian has described New York-based band as ‘a deliciously groovesome blend of classic disco, early house and contemporary techno.’ Their self-titled debut received considerable critical and commercial acclaim, and was named by The New York Times as the breakthrough album of 2008.
This will be a rare chance to see Hercules and Love Affair play in the UK, performing an homage to the ‘90s house scene with a celebrated new line-up. Their second album, which was recorded in Vienna earlier this year, will be released in early 2011, and new material will be debuted at the Frieze Music performance.
Saturday 16 October Frieze Music moves to Shoreditch Church for a night of ethereal music from Baby Dee, a classically trained harpist and pianist. For this one-off candlelit concert, Dee will be performing with The Elysian Quartet, one of the UK’s most innovative young ensembles and the only British quartet of its generation focused exclusively on 20th-century contemporary and experimental music. Pitchfork.com called the Cleveland-based singer’s story ‘one of the most fascinating you’ll ever hear in indie rock’, having performed in a Coney Island sideshow, as a church organist and as an arranger for the first incarnation of Antony and the Johnsons.
Hercules and Love Affair and Baby Dee have both collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Antony Hegarty.
Frieze Music is curated by Sarah McCrory (curator of Frieze Projects) and Sam Thorne (Associate Editor of frieze magazine).
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Editors’ Notes
Hercules and Love Affair (plus special guests)
Friday 15 October
Debut, London SE1
Tickets: £15.00 plus booking fee
Baby Dee + The Elysian Quartet
Satuday 16 October
Shoreditch Church, London E1
Tickets: £15.00 plus booking fee
Tickets available from 6 August 2010 via seetickets.com
For more details: friezefoundation.org/music
Frieze Music is the off-site music programme of Frieze Art Fair, one of the world’s best known and most influential international contemporary art fairs. Frieze Music has previously played host to diverse acts including: Martin Creed, Glenn Branca, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franz Ferdinand. Frieze Music was originally conceived by Dan Fox and Steve Mackey.
Frieze Music is presented by Frieze Foundation and is supported by Arts Council England