Purveyors of the iciest disco this side of a slush puppy on ice skates, torchbearers of the neu-Italo sound and the prize horse of NYC label Italians Do It Better, Glass Candy are coming to Australia to play at the V Festival and do a couple of perfectly decadent sideshows.
Glass Candy will play headline shows in Sydney on Friday March 28 at the Oxford Art Factory and on Thursday March 3 at The Toff in Town in Melbourne.
Glass Candy have been the subject of so much internet buzz over the last six months that they had to get earplugs to keep the noise out, though thankfully they have some certified stone cold jams to justify the expense of custom hearing protection. The music of producer Johnny Jewel and siren Ida No echoes of 80’s synth pop, late 70’s Italo disco and the synth-futurism of the likes of Jean Michel-Jarre and Jan Hammer, with a hint of creepy David Lynch-ian feeling.
Glass Candy have been at the forefront of the sound that has become synonymous with Mike Simonetti’s New York-based Italians Do It Better label, largely due to the fact that Johnny Jewel moonlights as a producer for many of the labels acts. Glass Candy and the label have carved out a distinctive niche that sounds like one may have thought 2008 might have sounded like back in 1972, with it’s vintage synthesizers and elegantly vacant, entrancing vocals.
Glass Candy’s atmosphere heavy, super crisp disco act is set to be one of the more interesting and progressive V Festival sideshows and one well worth your lobster.
Friday March 28 – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
supporting Mike Simonetti and Kon Ding
Thursday April 3 – The Toff In Town, Melbourne
supporting Mike Simonetti and The Emergency
Tickets on sale Monday March 17 through Modular People and Moshtix.
