Gramme confirmed to play Hare and Hounds!

Returning after a decade of silence, Birmingham Promoters bring stripped down lo-fi disco four-piece Gramme to headline the Hare & Hounds!

After more than a decade of silence – no gigs, no music, no nothing – Gramme return with their debut album Fascination. The cult around the band and their lone release, the Pre-Release EP, continued to grow until in 2011 some mysterious 12″ bootlegs of ‘Like U’ began to appear, with edits by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip. A few months later self released white labels begin to circulate with new Gramme material. Those recent EP’s have gone on to form Fascination, the first full studio album by Gramme.

Gramme is the musically pioneering band that went missing in action sometime around 2000. Originally signed to Trevor Jackson’s Output label, the band emerged in the mid-nineties with a sound so out of step with the cultural milieu they found themselves swimming against the tide.

Originally a five piece, the band formed around a shared love of the emotional melancholy now synonymous with Factory artists such as Joy Division, Section 25 and A Certain Ratio. Gramme were attracted by Manchester’s psycho disco of the early 80′s and NY’s subterranean proto punk-funk on 99 Records and bands like Liquid Liquid and ESG. Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphyhave also acknowledged the influence of the band’s EP on the early DFA sound.

“An influence on every record you’d ever want to dance to in a sweaty room above a pub, this record deserves your attention” – The Guardian

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GRAMME HEADLINE HARE & HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM ON TUES 7TH MAY 2013. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE.

Check out the new video for ‘Too High’ below: