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Friendly Fires / The XX

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 8:00 PM CST (8:00 PM Doors)
at The Triple Rock Social Club
in Minneapolis, MN

18+ | $12 ADVANCE/DAY OF SHOW

Friendly Fires is a dancepunk/new wave band which formed in 2006 in St Albans, England. Sounding brittle, knotty and urgent, Friendly Fires are the real deal. With no fat or padding on them at all, their songs possess an elegant sparseness. As guitarist Edd Gibson notes: ?The hardest thing I think is to know what to leave out, to know when something is enough.? But amongst all the stripped-back twists, there are also moments full of deep, blissed-out melodies. ?I love lush, massive, tingly chords; the My Bloody Valentine sound,? says bassist and singer Ed MacFarlane.