Empty Bottle Presents: Roméo Poirier
November 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm CST
We’re excited to be partnering together with Empty Bottle Presents to bring you an evening of music by Roméo Poirier!
Join us for an evening of music among the looming figures of the Hall of Immortals. Show starts at 8:00pm and doors open at 7:00pm. For you early birds, we’ll have the museum open for viewing until the show gets underway!
About Roméo Poirier:
Brussels-based musician, photographer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier (aka Swim Platførm), makes sleek, subaqueous electro-acoustic music. His debut SURFACES EP was a soundtrack to four of Roméo’s favourite swimming pools. These songs glide in and out of earshot, bustling like miniature engines, finely tuned and rhythmically confounding. They echo the factory sampling work of YMO on Technodelic: industrial but somehow good-natured, a symbiosis of machinery and wildlife – like an artificial reef or propeller blades smothered in algae.
The gorgeous follow up tape, Plage Arrière, is an ode to eight Greek beaches. Poirier’s palette here is vast: a swell of strings and electronics plunging fathoms deep amongst the clicks and whirrs of creatures unknown. For his third record on Kit and first vinyl release, Kystwerk, Roméo joins forces with the poet Lars Haga Raavand, on a sonic expedition that traces the serrated coastline of Norway and the briny depths of the North Sea.
We are excited to announce that, due to popular demand, Plage Arrière will soon be reissued to vinyl, in collaboration with our friends Cold Blow Records. You can grab a copy here. Roméo also makes music with the Scottish musician Michael Marshall, under the guise of Poirier Marshall Partners.
About the Empty Bottle:
In 1992 the Empty Bottle started out as a cat-ridden hole-in-the-wall bar in Ukrainian Village (just south of Wicker Park) where you could get any one of nine beers for a buck-fifty or less, play pool for 50 cents, and find everything from Monster Magnet to Bill Monroe on the jukebox.
On Halloween of 1993, we moved two blocks up the street and threw open the doors to our new, sound-equipped, slightly larger hole with three nights of great shows, culminating with a SCRAWL performance that could have been a scene out of “Carrie.”
We’ve done a bunch of shows since then; in fact, we’ve been anything but empty these last 20 or so years, thanks to the same low prices, lack of attitude, and dedicated regulars that made the original bar such a success.