Oct
23
with PINS, Marissa Nadler, MONEY, Ballet School & DJ sets by Wild Nothing and Simon Raymonde
Thu October 23rd, 2014
10:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: 18+
Doors Open: 10:00PM
Show Time: 10:00PM
An Evening with Bella Union Official CMJ Showcase
Featuring live performances by*
Ballet School 10PM
Money 11PM
Marissa Nadler 12AM
PINS 1AM
*set times are tentative and subject to change
DJ sets by Wild Nothing and Simon Raymonde
This is a general admission, standing event.
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Bella Union Official CMJ Showcase
Bella Union is a UK independent label formed in 1997 by members of Cocteau Twins. Run by Simon Raymonde, it has grown into one of the UK’s top independent labels, discovering and developing many American artists like Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Father John Misty, Midlake, John Grant, Explosions In The Sky, Australian trio Dirty Three, and now working with bands of the calibre of The Flaming Lips, M Ward, The Walkmen, to name just a few. This year the label finally set up offices in America and have released debut records from Manchester bands MONEY and PINS, North East of England’s Lanterns on the Lake, Berlin’s Ballet School, Swedish artists I Break Horses & Sumie, and is readying for new releases from 2:54 and Radiohead’s Philip Selway before the year is out. Bella Union is Music Week‘s INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL OF THE YEAR 2014.
PINS
PINS are Faith, Anna, Lois,and Sophie and mix together post punk, fuzzed up garage, and rock and roll. They have created a distinct sound, and secured their place in the burgeoning Manchester new music scene. 2014 saw PINS release their debut full length Girls Like Us stateside in March on Bella Union accompanied by a string of shows at SXSW including one with Green Days’ alter ego band Foxboro Hot Tubs. They also re-recorded “Shoot You/ Eleventh House” for a limited edition Record Store Day release on a heart shaped vinyl. PINS have toured extensively through the UK and Europe supporting Warpaint, Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles and Sleigh Bells. PINS are heading back to America for their west coat tour in October including Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles and CMJ in New York.
“A dark and seriously addictive collection of post-punk riffs and girl-gang vox.” Rookie Mag
“After listening to their debut album Girls Like Us, you’ll see what makes this indie punk outfit stand out from the pack.” NYLON
“Super fierce… They tore it up.” NPR
“Direct descendents of Manc rabble-rousers The Fall (in sneery attitude), with a scratchy dose of C-’86 style pop hooks.” Brooklyn Vegan
Pins official site
Pins on Twitter
Pins on Soundclound
Marissa Nadler
For over two decades, Marissa Nadler has carved out a singular place in the musical landscape, where ethereal folk, shadowy Americana, ambient soundscapes, shoegaze and experimental textures converge. Anchored by her unmistakable mezzo-soprano and intricate fingerstyle guitar, Nadler’s music conjures vivid emotional worlds—intimate, otherworldly, and timeless.
A prolific songwriter, Nadler has built a discography defined by spectral beauty and haunting lyricism. Her songs, dreamlike and lush, are rich with painterly imagery and emotional nuance. As The New Yorker writes, “To luxuriate in the spectral croon of Marissa Nadler is to step into a noirish world of mystery and glamour,” while AllMusic praises her “epic, aching songs, which refuse to keep tragedy at arm’s length.”
Shortly after earning her bachelors and masters degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nadler released her breakthrough debut Ballads of Living and Dying (2004), a collection that announced her as a major voice in the underground. A skilled visual artist as well, Nadler’s background in painting and drawing deeply informs the cinematic scope of her songwriting.
Following her early releases, she partnered with Sacred Bones and Bella Union for July (2014), marking a new chapter in both creative clarity and critical acclaim. Albums like Strangers (2016), For My Crimes (2018), and The Path of the Clouds (2021) further expanded her sonic palette while preserving the deep emotional resonance at the core of her work. As Brooklyn Vegan notes, “Just about everything she puts out is truly mesmerizing.”
Her tenth full-length album, New Radiations, arrives August 15th. Expansive, melodic, and emotionally vivid, it captures Nadler at her most personal and visionary—an artist continually evolving, yet unmistakeable.
MONEY
MONEY is comprised of Jamie Lee, Charlie Cocksedge, Billy Byron and Scott Beaman. They formed in Manchester and embody the passion, creativity and optimism of a new generation of artists and musicians from there. “It’s an extraordinary, poetic city,” frontman Jamie says, “You feel like you can do anything here”. Selling out shows before they’d even released a single, MONEY have drawn devoted fans to strange, beautiful and passionate gigs. A band on a quest to discover new values, new ways of being, for these spiritually impoverished times. As Jamie says, “Our aim with this band – in all things we do – is to create the world afresh on our own terms.” The band return to the states in support of their debut album The Shadow of Heaven out now on Bella Union.
“a majestic, spiritual debut. It’s as close to a religious experience as any indie album will come this year.” Time Out
“Their secret weapon is frontman Jamie Lee, who despite a very London upbringing comes off like the last of Britrock’s great northern romantics: a dark theatrical man in the Ian McCulloch mould.” NME
“The Shadow of Heaven sounds like it could be one of those albums that’s the start of something: there’s a sense of a band that is both instantly familiar but refreshingly different from its contemporaries” The Guardian
“An audacious and exquisite work of gloomy beauty that should see MONEY on a fast ascent, leaving grand sonic architecture in their wake” Under The Radar
“An exquisite album by anyone’s standards.” Drowned In Sound
“The Shadow of Heaven throws down the gauntlet for what a truly organic and emotive album should be. A thing of beauty, it gets better with every listen… Spectacular.” DIY
“MONEY’s debut album reverberates and billows as if written to be performed amongst the pillars and pews of a church. They have made something special and, maybe, even sacred.” The Fly
Money official site
Money on Twitter
Money on Soundcloud
Ballet School
Ballet School wooed America with last year’s critically acclaimed EP, Boys Again, and are finally hitting our shores once more with their brilliant LP debut, The Dew Lasts An Hour which hit September 9 via Bella Union. The critically acclaimed album from the Berlin-based multi-nationals is a fresh, vibrant take on the lush, emoting tropes of Eighties pop and rock, all while sounding resolutely 21st century. The album’s diverse influences place the trio at the forefront of pop’s new alternative.
“Ballet School sounds like wild enthusiasm coursing through the internet and spilling out breathlessly into real life.” Stereogum
“Take one part Cocteau Twins’ genre-bending gleam pop, add in a dash of late-night rebellion, and top it all off with the kind of exuberance that comes from a truly epic weekend, and you’re well on your way to Ballet School.” Nylon
“Pop group Ballet School may be from Berlin, but their music pays homage to 80s American pop—a vibrantmelange of synths and elastic, soaring vocals.” Noisey
Ballet School official site
Ballet School on Twitter
Ballet School on Soundcloud
DJ sets by Wild Nothing and Simon Raymonde
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