Showstar
Alternative / Indie / Pop Huy, Belgium |
Billboard
Showstar started playing together ten years ago in a small garage somewhere in Belgium. They signed to Huy-based label Anorak Supersport and their first album, We Are Ready, was highly acclaimed as regular touring built up a dedicated following in northern Europe. Singles followed - Little Bastard, Out Of My Head, I'm Back, Baby Blue Eyes and Leave Me Alone - as the band honed and hardened up their sound.
The music is classic hard-edged pop with bittersweet vocals, scything guitars and glorious melodies. It is guitar-based music with a wholly fresh sound, moving between the massively joyous noise of songs like Mad On Your Sister and Day By Day and intricate, delicate guitar, keyboard and percussion patterns on tracks like Dan and Stereo Songs.
"Dot" covers a whole soundworld of moods within its ten songs, produced with crystalline precision by in-demand London-based producer Gareth Parton. Gareth has worked with the Rakes, the Futureheads, Placebo, the Beta Band, the Polyphonic Spree, the Go! Team, Death In Vegas and many others. The album was recorded at Polysound Studio (Brussels) and Fortress Studio (London) over 25 days. It was mastered at Optimum Studio, Bristol by Shawn Joseph (Primal Scream, New Order, Ian Brown, Therapy and Aphex Twin).
Showstar have supported acts such as Stereophonics, The Thrills, Ash, The Rakes, The Charlatans and Maxïmo Park.
You can find the album in the Benelux (Anorak Supersport / Bang!), France (Le GrandBag / Differ-Ant), UK (Summerhouse Records), Japan (Fabtone Records), Thailand (Smallroom), USA (Not Lame Recordings and Kool Kat Musik), Italy (IndieCD.net) and Sweden (Delicious Goldfish Records).
"Superlover" appears on the tracklist of "Radioactive (The Future is here)", a compilation released on SmallWorld (Thailand).
"Day by Day" appears on "De Afrekening 43" (Studio Brussel).
Listen to our album and remixes on www.showstar.be
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Oct 25 |
Opglabbeek, Belgium |
8:00pm |
Comments - see all 10
Merci à vous de m'avoir fait vibrer le 24/11/07 à Mons. Je n'avais jamais eu l'occasion de vous voir en concert franchement vous assurer. Merci, encore.
posted Oct 26
thanks for the add
posted Aug 24
Thank u Guys Cheerz
posted Jun 14
J'aime bien votre musique =) Si vous passez un jour en France, à Paris, faites moi signe ! =)
posted Jun 1
HEY LES MECS!! Je rallonge le remix vous avez ca tres bientot!! comment ca va?
posted Jun 1
Thank you ever so much for the request. It's great to be friends, isn't it? Love from Napoleon Fantastic XxX
posted May 29
hola from jakarta indonesia :)
posted May 28
thanks for the add come to the u.s!
posted May 25
Thanks for the add, I'm enjoying the tunes. : )
posted May 24
MASHINS says:
Ooahhajha ! Vous passez à Paris en décembre ! On vous attend.
posted Nov 27