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| 65daysofstatic | ||
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 65days
at Truck 8 festival in 2005
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Sheffield, England | |
| Genre(s) | Instrumental
Rock Post-Rock Math Rock Experimental Rock Electronica |
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| Years active | 2001 - present | |
| Label(s) | Monotreme Records | |
| Associated acts |
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| Website | http://www.65daysofstatic.com | |
| Members | ||
| Joe-Fro Paul Wolinski Rob Jones Simon Wright |
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| Former members | ||
Iain Armstrong Gareth Hughes |
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65daysofstatic (also known by the
abbreviations 65dos, 65days, or
simply 65) are an instrumental
post-rock
band from Sheffield,
England.
Their debut album, The Fall of Math,
was released to critical acclaim. Their second album,
The band intersperses heavy, progressive, guitar-driven instrumental sections with live drums and off-beat sampled drums akin to those of Aphex Twin. Their albums, as a result, maintain a distinctively gritty, almost industrial feel.
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The band was originally formed in 2001 as a three-piece, consisting of Joe Shrewsbury, Paul Wolinski, and Iain Armstrong. One of the several stories circulating as to the origin of their name is that they formed to provide the soundtrack for the unreleased and little known (and almost certainly fictional) John Carpenter film Stealth Bomber starring Kurt Russell. The film was set over '65 Days of Static' a period of time after some unknown global breakdown in communications and infrastructure, from which the band supposedly took their name [1].
The lineup of the band has changed significantly since its
initial formation. Armstrong left in May 2003, and later went on to
form a new band,
In 2005 they remixed Alkaline Trio's single "Burn" from the
album Crimson. The track appears on one 7" vinyl
out of a set of 2. In the same year, the band also remixed "...Spooks
the Horse," a track by
Their 3rd album, The Destruction of Small Ideas,
was released on 30th April 2007. It features
They played SXSW in March 2007, and are touring the UK and Ireland in April and May in support of the new album [3]. Throughout September and October they will be supporting The Cure in their North American tour.
The band have repeatedly stated that they love playing live. Towards the end of 2005, in a mailout to subscribers of their newsletter, they said that they were "a little disappointed" to have only played 91 shows in that year [4]. They have received critical acclaim from independent music websites, such as Drowned in Sound, for their live shows [5].
In 2006, they played to their biggest crowd yet at that year's Summer Sonic festival in Japan, alongside such bands as Metallica, Lostprophets, Linkin Park and Deftones. 2006 also saw their first European tour, playing in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy and France.
Frequently they perform with live visuals from Medlo, long time
collaborators with the band. They appeared on a UK tour in 2006 and are
set to tour with the band again in 2007. Medlo have also produced the majority of their
music videos, including Radio Protector,
Having played their first American shows at SXSW in March
2007, they will embark on their first American tour supporting
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