Missed a performance? Never fear – the Live Lunch Archive is here!
March 12 – Civil Twilight
WFPK Presents w/Company of Thieves Sat. March 13th at Headliners!
The three lifelong friends—brothers Steven and Andrew McKellar and Richard Wouters—who make up the Wind-up Records recording group Civil Twilight have been playing music together since they were teenagers growing up in South Africa, emulating the rock music they heard coming out of Europe and America, from Oasis, U2 and Nirvana to The Verve, The Police, Muse and Radiohead.
“We were always really influenced by British and American artists,” says Wouters.
Which is why you don’t necessarily hear a whole lot of the music of Africa on the band’s self-titled debut, but you can hear the continent itself in Steve McKellar’s ambitious lyrics, their existential questioning and spiritual longing the perfect correlative to the music’s expansive atmospheric soundscapes, at once lush, feverish and exotic like a jungle, with the vast, arid spaciousness of a desert. From the dramatic flourish of “Anybody Out There,” with its plea for communion, the Beatlesque melodies-meet-grunge dynamics of “Next to Me” and the nervous apocalyptic jangle of “Trouble” to The Police-like world beat of “Soldier” and its chilling depiction of wartime, the moody “Save Yourself” and the wide-screen canvas of the closing “Quiet in My Town,” Civil Twilight envelopes you in its multi-layered sound and vision. The band’s name itself a reflection on that in-between time, not quite daylight, not quite darkness, but rather a shifting shade of gray.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
March 12 – Civil Twilight
March 19 – Will Hoge (on location from earX-tacy…official drive kick off!)
March 26 – David Gray (no audience…membership drive in progress…)
About Live Lunch WFPK Radio Louisville hosts “Live Lunch” every Friday at noon. Come see your favorite local and touring artists perform live at the Louisville Public Media performance space at 619 S. Fourth Street in downtown Louisville. Due to fire code regulations, space in the performance studio is limited to 70 people.Doors open at 11:30 am. Brown bag your lunch, and join us for this free performance. If you’re a member of WFPK at the $52 level or higher, call to reserve a free lunch from the City Café! (First 50 callers receive a lunch.) Also, Family level members ($120) and above can call to enter for a chance to reserve a seat for the show! (Reserved seating is limited.) Call (502) 814-6565 to reserve your lunch or to enter for a chance to reserve a seat; lunch reservations will be taken from 1pm the Friday before the show to noon the Thursday before the show. Reserved seating entries will be taken from 1pm the Friday before the show to noon the Monday before the show. If you can’t make the performance in person, listen live at 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville.
All “Live Lunch” concerts are subject to change.
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