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Posts tagged Moment Bends
Architecture in Helsinki @ Union Transfer (11/16)
If there’s one thing that an astoundingly older crowd at Union Transfer on a dreary Philadelphia Wednesday night could take away from Architecture in Helsinki’s bubbly set, it’s that the Australian five-piece doesn’t mind a bit of a boogie. With an impressive tour bus idling in the car lot and a decidedly depressing forecast keeping many punters away from a last minute, curiosity-fueled ticket purchase, it appeared from the outset that AIH had brought their A- game and the stragglers of Philadelphia could only offer up the sort of polite grooving and head-nodding that a band of far lesser repute might deserve. Taking a friend unfamiliar with AIH along to the show, I attempted to convince her that all Australians danced like the motley crew up on stage. But when frontwoman Kellie Sutherland busted out a couple of sharp elbow-jabbing moves midway through the jumping ‘Everything’s Blue’ from the band’s latest release, Moment Bends, things got slightly problematic. Regardless of whether you could stomach AIH’s synth-tastic sound, hugely indebted to the cheese-pop of the 1980s, it was hard to doubt their sincerity or dedication.
WQHS Interviews Cameron Bird from Architecture in Helsinki
On November 16th, the darlings of the Melbourne indie scene, Architecture in Helsinki, arrived in Philadelphia amidst a whirlwind US tour that featured the cheeky use of synthesizers, extremely unsafe activities performed on exercise bikes and thick, thick, thick Australian accents. In between making a creatively nutritious smoothie and gearing up for his show at Union Transfer that night, the band’s front-man Cameron Bird went on the air with S and N’s Sumi Naidoo to speak about the band, the tour, and his favourite member of the Wu Tang Clan (all of them). See the full interview after the jump.
