Eat Your Own Ears: Win Sleigh Bells Tickets

No, they're not some freaks who promote self cannibalism. And they're giving away tickets. So be nice.

Eat Your Own Ears put on shows in London. And they're not just any old so-bad-even-your-deaf-nan wouldn't sign bands. In the coming months they'll be bringing Caribou, Holly Miranda, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Liars and Major Lazer to the city's stages with even more planned into summer at Field Day and the Underage festival. So, to celebrate one of their best month's yet they've put together a Neu Magazine mixtape and given us some tickets to give away. First up is the scratchy electronic pop of Sleigh Bells at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green. Tuesday 18th May w/ Thisaintnodisco and some special guests, entering will save you £6.50 a ticket so it's worth a try.

Sleigh Bells are just a duo — Derek on beat production, guitars, and songwriting; Alexis Krauss on vocals — but their tracks ram together many sounds. Their electronic beats thud with gut-rattling low end; guitars are distorted siren squalls, or heavily gated and thoroughly crunched power chords, or playful, beta-band-esque strums. Krauss flips easily from hip-hop hook, to pop power, to sunshined, coquettish coos. Past members of Sleigh Bells went on to form buzz-band Surfer Blood. Derek’s old hardcore band Poison The Well toured with Give Up The Ghost, the defunct hardcore outfit of past BTW Cold Cave’s Wes Eisold. Alexis Krauss is a school teacher with a pop-singer past. All of which gives certain strength to their reinvention in this excellent new outfit. Their combustible pop is finely razed by Alexis Krauss’s outsized yet totally natural stage presence.

Tickets from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.seetickets.com

or by emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with your name, age, location and why you think you should win free entry.

Then listen to the best of the upcoming shows below. We'll be running more ticket competitions so keep your eyes [and ears] open.

1. Silver Columns - Brow Beaten
2. Caribou - Leave House [download]
3.Holly Miranda - Forest Green Oh Forest Green
4.Juana Molina - Un Dia
5.Born Ruffians - Sole Brother
6.Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Doubt/Hope
7.Sleigh Bells - Crown on The Ground [download]
8.Major Lazer - Can't Stop Now
9. Liars - I Still Can See An Outside World
10. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait [Nosaj Thing Remix] [download]

Eat Your Own Ears next shows are

MON 12TH APRIL
RAIN MACHINE (AKA KYP MALONE TVOTR)
THU 15TH APRIL
ÓLÖF ARNALDS
SAT 17TH APRIL
SILVER COLUMNS
TUE 20TH APRIL
CARIBOU
THU 22ND APRIL
KATE NASH
THU 29TH APRIL
HOLLY MIRANDA

Visit www.eatyourownears.com/ for more information

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