The Airborne Toxic Event Unveil Acoustic Tour for DVD Documentary Release
Monday, 02 August 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Los Angeles based The Airborne Toxic Event are set to release a documentary film about their sold-out performance at the internationally renowned Walt Disney Concert Hall this October.
To coincide with the UK DVD release The Airborne Toxic Event will headline a very special acoustic British tour this autumn in non-traditional venues, leading up to the release.
Available in the UK on October 4th, All I Ever Wanted - The Airborne Toxic Event : Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the exhaustive rehearsals and preparation that went into putting on the show at the Frank Gehry-designed venue, home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The DVD features an eclectic mix of musicians and performers - ranging from a children's choir, a world-class string quartet, an high school marching band, horn players, visual artists, and Mexican folkórico dancers.
Praised by the Los Angeles Times as a "performance of genuine warmth and ambition," the concert in December of 2009 was the last of 354 shows The Airborne Toxic Event played in support of their eponymous debut release. With string accompaniment from the Calder Quartet, the show features selections from that album, as well as new songs and never-before-recorded cover versions of the Ramones' 'Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?' (with the Belmont High School Marching Band), the Magnetic Fields' 'The Book of Love' and Q Lazzarus' 'Goodbye Horses'.
View the film trailer here:
All I Ever Wanted - The Airborne Toxic Event : Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall has been accepted into the prestigious Raindance Film Festival in London (www.raindance.org). The largest independent film festival in the U.K., Raindance premiered classics like 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'Memento'. Past jury members have included Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Mick Jones, Dame Judi Dench, photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn and filmmaker Jonathan Caouette. Raindance will host the European premiere of the film on the 30th of September in London. To receive priority information about the premiere please email airborne@raindance.co.uk.
The Airborne Toxic Event's debut single 'Sometime Around Midnight' was the #1 Alternative Song of the Year at iTunes; the track also saw tremendous success at Alternative Radio as the #10 Most Played Song of 2009 and the #4 Alternative Single. The band's self-titled debut album sold more than 300,000 units worldwide and spent eight weeks at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart and hit the Top 30 in the UK whilst the band were still unsigned here. The Airborne Toxic Event have appeared at nearly all the major international music festivals, including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, T In The Park, Summerfest, Fuji Rock and Reading & Leeds, and have shared the stage with Kings of Leon, Razorlight, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, and the Ting Tings. They have appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and received countless accolades from press.
The band are currently in the studio with producer Dave Sardy, working on their new album, slated for release in Spring 2011.
Thu 30th Sep - Raindance Film Festival Premiere, London
Fri 1st Oct - Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Sat 2nd Oct - Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sun 3rd Oct - Union Chapel, London
Mon 4th Oct - Millennium Music Hall, Cardiff
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