Deaf Club: British Music Abroad

For:

SXSW 2013

Event date:

12 - 17 March 2013

Event venue:

various, Austin, Texas, USA

Find out more by visiting:

www.facebook.com/deafclubmusic

British four-piece Deaf Club have risen through their domestic scene’s indie ranks to emerge as real commercial contenders of 2013, their trio of single releases over the year having racked up both considerable radio coverage and plenty of column inches’ worth of critical commendations.

Which has, so far, attracted enviable comparisons with some starry names indeed. The Guardian proffered parallels with The Cure and Slowdive; elsewhere, Clash magazine celebrated the band’s “atmospheric and brooding” music. But as their radio reception illustrates, Deaf Club are not wallowing in any kind of self-fashioned misery. Their music, heard on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Xfm and Amazing Radio, sparkles with an accessibility and mainstream-tempting nous that’s so uncommon in bands of such relative inexperience.

With a publishing deal signed with Domino, and an EP on the cards for early 2013, Deaf Club are maintaining their course of reputation-building confidence; their songs are blooming, their sets electrifying.

SXSW is the very best place to connect the worldwide dots and achieve recognition beyond the UK scene; through funding, PRSF have enabled Deaf Club to push for these agreements in other territories, and turn existing buzz surrounding the group into certifiable reach and concrete interest.