Pitch Black

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When:

Sat 26 Nov ’11, 11:00pm

Where: Sandwiches, Cnr Kent Terrace & Majoribanks Sts, Mt Victoria, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: R18

Ticket Information:

General admission: $20.00
Booking fees may apply

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For their first Wellington performance in almost two years Pitch Black return to Sandwiches with their full audio visual video mapping show.

Prepare to be dazzled!

For this exclusive show the boys will be designing a one off stage set and will project their cutting edge visuals onto it utilising the latest in video mapping technology.... Live.

Pitch Black:
Pitch Black are award winning multimedia artist Michael Hodgson and Salmonella Dub producer Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand's electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1997, they have spent the last fourteen years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world.

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor".

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension due to Mike's cutting edge visuals, which he manipulates at the same time as mixing the sound. Not for nothing have they been hailed as the "Hexstatic of New Zealand" and have been warmly embraced by England's Big Chill - playing the festival 3 times.

They have toured the world relentlessly for the last nine years, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

Full local support to be announced.

Tickets available now through dashtickets.co.nz, Cosmic Stores, Rough Peel Music.