On The Record presents

PVT

(formerly Pivot)

THE WORKMAN’S CLUB, DUBLIN

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9^TH, 2010

Tickets €13.50 from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide & online at www.ticketmaster.ie

Dublin’s newest live music venue The Workman’s Club is very pleased to host On The Record presents PVT (formerly Pivot), who will be performing on Thursday September 9th, 2010. The Australian band return with their highly anticipated new album Church With No Magic in early August on Warp Records. In support of the release, the band are undertaking a big European tour and this date will be their only Irish appearance. Tickets are priced at €13.50 and are available from Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.ticketmaster.ie

Out on the road for the first time this year, this is a chance to be one of the first to experience the new material live. Church With No Magic is an album that builds upon the anthemic synth-driven instrumental movements for which PVT are renowned, along with the power of their visceral live shows. The sound has been brilliantly tempered and expanded by the trio into brooding, melancholic experimental pop – an amalgam of rock synthesis, propulsive rhythms and huge melodic strength.

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ABOUT PVT

‘Church With No Magic’, the follow-up to PVT’s 2008 album ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’, releasing in August through Warp Records, reflects a literal and sonic transformation for the band, demonstrated first in the form of lead single ‘Window’ and its’ powerful new video (see it here: http://pvtpvt.net/)

The track is typical of the dense collisions of PVT’s sound world. It’s a heady combination of vocal experimentation, swirling keyboard arpeggios and pounding drums, all topped by the band’s adeptness for emotive harmony and clear melodic punch, and distilled into three minutes.

Directed by Clemens Habicht (Friendly Fires, Quasimodo Jones) and edited at the Abbey Road Studios, the video for ‘Window’ uses an innovative camera technique to capture the intensity and vigor of the band’s live performance.

Inverting the experience of watching a band perform, Clemens had PVT record themselves by wearing a small point of view camera while on tour. Seen from a first person perspective, the band and sound is split visually into its three component parts, and then rhythmically layered. The result is an immersive performance video experience. We are given a unique chance to feel what it might possibly be like being in PVT, on tour, on stage.

Church With No Magic

From the start, there was an urgency to secure the sound that would become ‘Church With No Magic’. Just one month after they handed over the master of ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’ to the label boss, the three members of PVT were in the studio in Sydney with engineer Burke Reid.

‘Church With No Magic’ was a different process for PVT. For a start, they found themselves in the same countries at the same times. It took them from Sydney to a basement studio in London with one of Europe’s largest collections of vintage synthesizers – including the Yamaha CS80 famously used for the ‘Blade Runner’ soundtrack – to a grandmother’s music room in a 120 year old house in the countryside near Paris, juggling live commitments along the way.

Their efforts would take the form of ‘Church With No Magic’, an album that builds upon the anthemic synth-driven instrumental movements for which PVT is renowned, along with the power of their visceral live shows. The sound has been brilliantly tempered and expanded by the trio into brooding, melancholic experimental pop – an amalgam of rock synthesis, propulsive rhythms and huge melodic strength. It’s a dark and expansive sound that PVT has made substantial movements on this record to make their own.

The most notable development on ‘Church With No Magic’ are the vocals of multi-instrumentalist Richard Pike. While the band have often used vocals in the past, particularly live, this album sees them taking on a more central role within the songs, as layers of Richard’s voice build amongst the music, adding an intense melodic focus to the contorting rhythms and bewildering space generated by the band.

“Rich has always sung, ever since we were kids, but it’s just not something that ever happened in PVT in such a direct way until now,’’ says brother Laurence.

The other obvious change is the band name itself, from Pivot to PVT. The change was a necessary one, the result of an unexpected legal claim from a band in the United States that used the same name.

“It was frustrating and kind of ridiculous,’’ says Richard. “But it became quickly obvious that it was a legal battle in the US we may not even win, and one we just couldn’t afford to lose. So in the end, we weren’t fazed by it. Altering the name just seemed to be another step in the process for the record to come out and be heard’’, an attitude that seems to reflect the ongoing evolution and burgeoning momentum within the band. http://pvtpvt.net/