Tolbooth Auditorium, 8pm We bring to a close thirteen years of the Le Weekend journey with a very apt performance from a band who in some way encapsulate the Le Weekend spirit. Inventors of Krautrock, iconoclasts extraordinaire, Faust are key figures in 20th century music. In the early 70s, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically European art-form. Virtually imprisoned by Polydor in their own studio for two years, they were able to revolutionise the whole process of musical production; they improvised with Industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, indulged in shockingly wilful studiobased collages, and dabbled with every conceivable musical genre, sometimes simultaneously. Their music has lost none of it’s immediacy or relevance and it seems extremely fi tting that these masterminds of cultural collaging should bring Le Weekend 2010 to a close. Jean-Herve Peron - drums & things “There is no group more mythical than Faust” “Faust are essential, not just as a history lesson, but as a living legacy and as a reproach to an underachieving age.” “Faust were fi rst!” |
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1:00 pm Notes From the Underground |
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