英国金属核班霸While She Sleeps新专辑中国巡演深圳站

时间：2017.07.22 周六 20:30

场地：B10现场 http://www.b10live.cn

地址：深圳市南山区华侨城创意文化园北区C2栋北侧

电话：0755-86337602（15:00-18:00，仅供咨询）

场地支持：华侨城创意文化园

演出不设座位，场地两旁有数十张椅子可供休息。

20:00检票入场。

购票信息

票价：预售 180 元；现场 260 元

1/预售

※截止时间：07月22日 00:00

①实体：旧天堂书店（华侨城创意文化园北区A5栋120#）

②淘宝：https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=554023711670

③秀动：http://www.showstart.com/event/29998

2/现场

地点：B10现场

※现场售票19:30开始。

While She Sleeps（以下简称WSS）于2006年在英国谢菲尔德成军，成员包括主唱Lawrence Taylor、吉他手Sean Long和Mat Welsh、贝司手Aaran Mackenzie以及鼓手Adam Savage。

在经历了乐队初期在地下圈的摸爬滚打之后，WSS获得了许多知名厂牌的青睐，2010年，他们正式签约在英国独立厂牌Small Town Records旗下，并于同年7月发表了首张EP《The North Stands for Nothing》。这是一张让WSS彻底浮出水面的唱片，之后他们获得了参加许多大型巡演和音乐节的机会，其中包括与Bring Me The Horizon一起巡演，以及参战英国最大重型音乐节Sonisphere。

2011年年底，WSS进棚录制首张专辑，在经过了录音以及后期制作的反复修改之后，他们终于在2012年8月在重型名厂Search and Destroy旗下发表了专辑《This Is the Six》。这张唱片自发表之后就以迅雷不及掩耳之势一路飙升，最高排位达到英国专辑榜第27位。主打单曲《Dead Behind the Eyes》更是力邀加拿大硬核班霸Comeback Kid主唱Andrew Neufel献声。之后WSS更是马不停蹄地开始巡演，同台乐队包括New Found Glory、The Blackout、letlive等等。年底，WSS荣膺由权威音乐杂志KERRANG!颁发的“英国年度最佳新人奖”（Best British Newcomer）。2013年夏天，WSS更是应邀全程参演北美最大音乐节巡演VANS WARPED TOUR。

2015年3月，WSS终于发表了令乐迷望穿秋水的第二张专辑《Brainwashed》。

更多信息

官网：http://whileshesleeps.com/

虾米：http://www.xiami.com/artist/112145

视频：

While She Sleeps - SILENCE SPEAKS

http://v.qq.com/x/page/q0378entprc.html

While She Sleeps - HURRICANE

http://v.qq.com/x/page/t0348s764im.html

While She Sleeps - BRAINWASHED

http://v.qq.com/x/page/b0163s33ziu.html

WHILE SHE SLEEPS China Tour Shenzhen Station

Time: 2017.07.22 Saturday 20:30

Venue: B10 Live http://www.b10live.cn

Add: Building C2, North District, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District, Shenzhen

Tel: 0755 86337602 (15:00-18:00, info only)

Venue Support: OCT-LOFT Culture Development Co., Ltd

Admittance starts at 20:00.

Open area with several seats on both sides for resting purpose.

Ticketing

Fare: Presale 180 RMB; At Door 260 RMB

1/Presale

※Presale service available until 00:00 on 22nd July

①Entity：Old Heaven Books (120#, A5, North District of OCT-LOFT)

②Taobao：https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=554023711670

③Showstart：http://www.showstart.com/event/29998

2/Booking Please send the following information to midori@b10live.cn at least ONE DAY before the concert: 1.Name 2.Phone number 3.Date of the concert 4.Quantity of tickets

Ticket reservation will be closed 15 minutes before the show starts, please pick up your ticket at B10 Live in time.

3/At Door: B10 Live

※Starts at 19:30 on the day.

‘Brainwashed’, the second full-length from Sheffield’s While She Sleeps, is not just an album. It’s a mission statement. It’s the culmination of what the band’s five members – vocalist Loz Taylor, guitarists Mat Welsh and Sean Long, bassist Aaran McKenzie and drummer Adam Savage – went through in order to make it, a physical manifestation of pure triumph in the face of adversity. It’s an album that got made both in spite of and because of the things that threatened to prevent that happening – serious trouble with Taylor’s vocal chords that required two bouts of surgery and which essentially delayed the making of the record by a whole year. Suffice to say, for everyone involved, the fact that ‘Brainwashed’ is – almost – finally here, is a both a big relief and huge cause for celebration.

“We put so much fucking time and effort into it,” laughs Adam. “It’s not gone the way we planned, but it’s come out exactly how we wanted. It’s one of those blessing and a curse situations. But I wouldn’t change anything. We needed that time for us to produce the album. It’s just a better version of us. It was a bit rough at the time but I don’t think anything’s easy if you put that much passion into it. There’s good times and bad times.” “I think,” adds Loz, “it proves that going through weird stuff that can affect the band and us as mates, is something that we can guide each other through.”

What’s truly remarkable about the whole situation is the way the band dealt with it. Rather than let it get them down, they rose to the challenge, and turned what could have been a disaster to their advantage. “Loz found out about his throat condition just before he was going in to record,” explains Aaran. “It was very weird. But it did give us more time to work on little bits and guitar parts, and I don’t think the album would be what it is if it wasn’t for the time that we had with it. So every cloud does have a silver lining.”

That’s an understatement. Produced by Colin Richardson and Carl Bown, the album’s eleven songs are a terrifying force to be reckoned with, a barrage of belligerent sound that straddles and combines a variety of genres the band would prefer you to just call “alternative rock”. Musically, it’s a sophisticated step up from their ‘This Is The Six’, their 2012 debut full-length, one that’s catchy and confrontational in equal measure. Just listen to the anthemic chug of “Four Walls’ – a song, no less, that Sean’s grandmother says she likes. The powerfully unrelenting and irascible ‘Trophies Of Violence’, or the epic grand finale of album closer ‘Modern Minds’, which soars into a crescendo full of grace and strength. Lyrically, too, and as its title suggests, ‘Brainwashed’ pulls no punches. Instead it delivers a formidable indictment of the way the media tries to control people.

“We’re trying to hit home with the message,” says Aaran. “Basically, we think the masses of people are manipulated into being economic slaves through fear-based propaganda, and we’re trying to make people wake up to the fact there are alternative realities. You don’t have to conform. We’re trying to make people aware, because people just passively accept their situation and the monetary system. We all have to participate in it, but we want to make people more aware of the shit that’s going on.”

“The title of the record,” says Mat, “isn’t something you’ve never heard before. We’re just saying it to reinstate the fact you’ve probably forgotten how brainwashed you really are. You’re so used to being constantly fed advertising and media that you almost forget how much it’s constantly around you and how much you’re essentially obeying it all. We’re not saying we’re not victims of that. We’re complete victims of that. We’re selling music. It’s the same thing. But because we know what we’re doing, it’s like how can we brainwash something positively, rather than something that’s going to kill you or isn’t going to do you any good.”

Inspired by their experiences in making this record – and their triumph at finally getting it done some 13 months after they first went into the studio in November 2013 – a sense of hope does indeed flow through these songs. Yes, there’s rage and anger, but it’s channelled into something positive, something inspiring. “I feel like there are so many bands out there,” says Loz, “in a position where they can say what they want, but I feel like a lot of the time it’s wasted. Even though it goes backwards and forwards from negative to positive, what we’re trying to do is put out a positive message at the end of it. Especially for me, when I was a young kid getting into metal, there was a real sense of unity there, and I think going to local shows and coming through that sometimes has lost its unity and it’s not for the same sort of reasons. The unity is gone, and I think we’re trying to bring it back and I think that comes through with how gang vocally the new stuff is. We just like the sense of unity and the album for me has a working together for the greater good sort of vibe. That’s kind of the long and short of it.” “We hope we can make a difference,” says Aaran. “Anybody with a platform to speak out to people, they should do the right thing, and we think this is the right thing. I’m not saying we’ve got any answers, by any means, but we just want to make people more aware.”

“There’s been a lot of support,” says Loz. “The fact that people are still buying the bands t-shirts to keep us fed and watered has given me a kick up the arse to make sure this recovery goes right so that we can get back onstage and enjoy it. Without the Sleeps fans, we wouldn’t be able to do it.”

“This album,” says Sean, “is probably the most important thing we can collectively say we’ve been a part of. So it’s quite a big deal! Given the amount of shit we’ve been through lately this album is made from our own feelings. We’ve had such a tough year and it’s all been crammed into this one thing that we’ve called ‘Brainwashed’.” “It feels like the record where everything’s come together for us as a band,” adds Mat. “It’s an honest representation of who we are as people and what we’ve been through the last few years. It’s a very definitive record. It’s everything we’ve been working towards, and we all adore it.”

A lot of that positivity comes from the band’s devoted fan base, who have stood by the band throughout the whole thing. It meant that, while the band might have lost a little bit of momentum, their fans – who they prefer to call their family – helped them out every step of the way.

Band

Lawrence Taylor Vocals

Sean Long Guitar

Mat Welsh Guitar / Vocals

Adam Savage Drums

More Information

Official Website: http://whileshesleeps.com/

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