Mistletone

Artwork by Bjenny Montero

Black Dice and Lucky Dragons are coming to Australia in October by invitation of Melbourne Festival plus a headline show in Sydney. Black Dice’s transformative live show will feature visuals Los Angeles filmmaker Danny Perez, best known for his work on Animal Collective’s ODDSAC film and for providing Panda Bear’s incredible live visuals.

BLACK DICE / LUCKY DRAGONS TOUR DATES:

SYDNEY, Fri 7 Oct @ Oxford Art Factory: Black Dice + Lucky Dragons + Holy Balm. Tickets $40 + BF from Moshtix.

MELBOURNE, Sat 8 Oct: Black Dice + Lucky Dragons + Kangaroo Skull @ Forum Theatre (Melbourne Festival). Tickets $40 from Ticketmaster or phone 1300 723 038. Over 18s event only.

MELBOURNE, Wed 12 Oct: Lucky Dragons supported by Geoffrey O’Connor @ The Toff. Tickets $25 from Moshtix or phone 1300 438 849.

Rightly renowned as one of the pre-eminent forces of the noise art movement, Black Dice have built a reputation as one of the most mercurial, abrasive and overwhelming live music experiences touring the world today. From their origins as an occasionally violent post-hardcore outfit in the late 90s, through to the improvised distortion epics that marked their middle years, Black Dice have emerged in 2011 as a techno-influenced amalgam of noise atmospherics, jaggedly programmed beats and snatched, scrambled sample work. Feared and respected in equal measure, Black Dice’s live shows are relentless audio-visual assaults, exercises in virtuosic musical cohesiveness and defiant experimentation that will splinter opinion and also, potentially, your eardrums.

Lucky Dragons’ live shows are the epitome of coming together – less performance, more all-in, collaborative jam session where the shape of the song is dictated by the audience as much as it is the band. Listening to Lucky Dragons is like having your preconceptions of what music should be gently disassembled and recombined by two of your oldest friends. Armed with a varied and ever-changing array of synthesisers, loop pedals, wind instruments and percussive elements, the Lucky Dragons live experience is half interactive art project, half neo-hippy freak jam, and all shimmering sonic dreamscape.