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9/10/08 - Camden BARFLY presents:

DARKER MY LOVE

“Churning thick guitar riffs over I'm-so-stoned vocals that put you on a beach somewhere between California and Newcastle. If Liam and Noel had eaten only organic veggies for two weeks straight, they might have written half of this album. The other half seems to have been written by The Beach Boys' evil twin cousin on LSD.”

“Initially, Darker My Love was a side project, started five years ago by Andy and Tim, who met one fateful day in high school and who have been a big part of each others’ lives ever since. Both were playing in other bands (The Distillers and Nerve Agents, respectively), and started Darker My Love as a side project with their new friends Jared(formerly of the band Lyres) and Rob, who had moved to Los Angeles after meeting at college in Boston. Eventually, Andy left to play with The Distillers fulltime, and Darker My Love marinated for a few years, using another drummer when they had to play shows.

Finally, however, the stars lined up and the time was now: they recorded an EP and finished their self-titled album in the course of a year. As they began to play around Los Angeles and San Francisco on a more constant basis, opening for bands like The Kills, The Warlocks and Icarus Line, their name became synonymous with a plethora of overwhelmingly positive adjectives, such as “amazing,” “awe-inducing,” and “heart-stoppingly great.”

Regular tour support for The Dandy Warhols, Nylon said: “This band sounds like Oasis on a vegan diet. You might really dig it.”

http://www.myspace.com/darkermylove

Tickets: £6 ADV (available at: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=287638)

Camden Barfly
49, Chalk Farm Road
London
NW1 8AN