Thursday, 27th June 2013
Half Moon Putney, 93 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 1EU
Indie-electro-pop hailing from South East London
Boxes collides contagious melodies with messed-up synths, guitars & punching beats.... and makes melancholy feel like a warm summers day
A delicate balance of The Postal Service, Bright Eyes and The Killers
Boxes is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Carey Willetts
Carey is no stranger to success having spent the past 10 years as the bass player in multi-platinum selling indie band Athlete
When the band decided to take a break earlier this year Carey wasted no time in getting into the studio to work on his own material
After just a few demos it was clear that he had knack for writing delicate verses, coupled with huge choruses and a voice that could send shivers down the spine
The result was that he was offered a record deal in his own right within weeks and Boxes was born
Singles, Throw Your Stones and Silent Alarm and was warmly received by both press and radio with regular plays on XFM, 6 Music, Radio 1 & Radio 2. After playing 'Silent Alarm' for the first time on Radio One's Edith Bowman said "…It's brilliant!...I think it's great
I think it's so catchy; it's a lovely, lovely song
I'd like to play that more please." Boxes live is not your regular 4 or 5 piece band with drums & guitars etc
Expect something different
Expect visuals from 80s video games on retro TVs, looped beats and keyboards controlled by iPads and loop pedals… expect intimate and anthemic
Alameins Torch: 'Epic, catchy, organic, shout out loud' - "think cinematic wide screen, huge landscapes, multiple voices (everybody sings in this 8 piece band!) a mix of punchy hooks, anthemic choruses and subtle more ambient tracks - themes touching on the whole gamut of human emotion from fear to hope, joy and pain, life and death, certainties and unanswerable questions
Punk energy, thumping bass lines, through soulful emotion to intimacy with mature orchestration"
Jon Astley; Producer (Clapton, The Who, Tunstall, Gabriel)
