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16.05.2011, Words by Charlie Jones
Ten interesting facts about Gang Gang Dance
- Their previous band name was Death And Dying.
- They pulled off an elaborate audio-visual presentation at the Whitney Biennial in New York.
- They conducted an 88-minute long orchestra of 88 drummers on the Brooklyn waterfront in an epic cross-country collaboration with legendary Japanese band Boredoms.
- They also played a gig with Boredoms on a Russian Cruise Ship during an eclipse.
- Brian DeGraw DJ-ed for New York City Mayor Bloomberg and played Born in the USA on national television when he got elected.
- Band member Brian Degraw soundtracked a video, Sonic the Warhol, for artists Nick Relph & Oliver Payne in 2005, which originally debuted at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
- Brian DeGraw may well have synesthia and sees bass notes as a slug melting after being salted.
- Tim DeWitt was shot in a bar, but went drinking the next night, and apparently forgave the the assailant, declining to press charges.
- The artwork to each album previous to ‘Eye Contact’ features the eyes of late bandmate Nathan Maddox, who was killed after being struck by lightning in 2002.
- They have a full time vibes-man-cum-spiritual advisor called Taka Imamura.
4AD released Gang Gang Dance’s album ‘Eye Contact’ on 9th May 2011
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