Austin Sound

This Thursday, October 1, another installment of the locally loaded Art Disaster shows will take place at the Beauty Bar, and one of the bands that we’re most excited to see are the White White Lights. The quartet throws down brashly fueled dance-punk riffs behind a core group of Lomita’s former lineup, while Jenny Gacy feverishly balances furiously jittery howls on songs like “Space Invaders” (available for download below) and sultry, delicately intricate pop on tunes like “It’s Cold Here In Japan.” The White White Lights are anticipating delivering their debut EP by the end of the year on local imprint Indierect Records, but there will be no better opportunity to catch them than at Art Disaster 9 running across two stages at the Beauty Bar on Thursday. Rounding out the bill are the Bright Light Social Hour, The Authors, Whitman, The Steps, Speak, Wallpaper, and headliners, The Lemurs. DJ Orion and DJ Tweedy will also be spinning between sets.

Profile: The White White Lights

Year Formed:

June 2008

Members/Instruments played:

Jenny Gacy - keys, vox, occasional tambourine
Deluxe - guitar, keys, vox
Davy Hamrick - drums & percussion
Daxter McGarnigle - bass

Former Bands/Side Projects:

Jenny - Monster Girl
Deluxe - Lomita, Mike & the Moonpies, Goudie, Slow Motion Picture, Composing for film and television, Blue Train Studios (owner)
Davy - Lomita, Stereo Is A Lie, Breakup Breakdown (Brooklyn, NY)
Daxter - Lomita

Albums:
Medium Head Boy EP (upcoming) November 2009

Influences:

Violent Femmes, Robin Hitchcock & the Egyptians, The Paper Chase, David Bowie (Low era), Pavement, Sonic Youth, Björk, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum

Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music:

“Best electro band” or that we sounded like Patsy Cline

Favorite local bands:

The Happen-Ins, Built By Snow, White Ghost Shivers, Mr. Lewis & the Funeral Five

Favorite local venue:

Mohawk or Beauty Bar

Upcoming shows scheduled:

10/1 @ Beauty Bar for Art Disaster 9, 10/16 @ Beauty Bar w/ Deadbeat Darling, 10/29 @ Beauty Bar w/ Haunting Oboe Music, 11/14 @ Mohawk for ATX Converge

Shows over the next month that you’re excited to see (other bands):

Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill at Stubb’s

Some of your favorite albums from the past year:

Some that we loved this year: Howard Tate - Reactions and Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour:

The Cure, Flaming Lips, Modern Lovers or Cheap Trick

Austin Sound questions:

What can you tell us about the upcoming debut album?

It’s gonna melt your face off! It’s fun and we had a lot of fun making it. It’s reasonably silly and intentionally raw — a lot of it is from first takes that served as a foundation for us to play with and build on. We felt our demo tracks were too crispy and clean and we wanted to do something honest and weird.

Have y’all ever actually been to Japan? And how cold was it exactly?

We haven’t, actually, but Google says it can get as low as -5 degrees celsius! We hope to tour there sometime in the future.

Song Introduction:

Spaaaaace Invaaaaders! It’s complete nonsense! But it’s also truth, there are lots of people that have no concept of personal space.

Sound Off:

We are the monsters under your bed. We’re an alien invasion. We’re a gaggle of reanimated frankensteins. We want to make you question reality and reason. And we want to make you dance.

Mp3:
Space Invaders

Websites:
Myspace