Andrew W.K. - Special Solo Party Performance @ King's College, London

Andrew W.K. Special Solo Party Performance

King's College London, Students' Union
September 14th, 2009

Also set to play two in-store performances September 12th at London’s Rough Trade East and Pure Groove (@12pm and 6pm respectively)

Andrew W.K., the iconic white clad-rocker best known for performing physically-punishing, party-rocking anthems plays against type on his latest album ‘55 Cadillac’ in the most dramatic fashion - with a recording of solo piano improvisations capturing the visceral excitement of his twin prized possessions, a Steinway grand piano and the legendary vintage car.

At first listen, this seems as far removed an idea as could be from the brash, rousing music that features on previous Andrew W.K. albums. Intimate, personal, unaccompanied and almost entirely unadorned, the album features 8 freeform piano pieces composed at the same time that they were played and recorded. But ‘55 Cadillac’ is driving music too, albeit a very different kind.

As Andrew explained to The Wire magazine “I just wanted to feel a certain way that I couldn’t feel from anything else. To play piano in a free way, where you could just play and feel good yourself - that to me is a good as it ever had to be. Playing solo has a different feeling than playing as part of a group. It feels more risky. But that same pressure is now exciting.”

A classically-trained musician, Andrew has been playing piano since he was 4 years old making this record, the first solo release on his new Skyscraper Music Maker imprint, not so much a left-turn in his musical career as it might first appear. Indeed in the midst of his increasingly kaleidoscopic range of activities it marks a return to the instrument that he describes as ‘the root of my whole musical experience’. Then again, since emerging in 2001 with his signature tune "Party Hard" and debut album ‘I Get Wet’ Andrew W.K. has delighted in confounding expectations.

To celebrate the release of ‘55 Cadillac’ Andrew is bringing what he describes as “a special solo party performance” to London’s King’s College on Monday, September 14, 2009.

With just Andrew and a piano onstage and featuring pieces from ‘55 Cadillac’ alongside long-time favourites, about the only thing that can be guaranteed given Andrew’s long-established appetite for pushing boundaries, is that it will be an evening entirely unlike any previous London piano recital!

As a foretaste of the gig Andrew will be doing two in-store performances on September 12th at London’s ultra cool Rough Trade East and Pure Groove (@12pm and 6pm respectively).

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"The ‘Party Hard’ dude’s amazing career - gonzo metal, leftfield noise, producing Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, motivational speaking children’s TV - moves on to solo piano jams about his car.” - UNCUT

"A connoisseur of excitement" - New York Times

TICKETING DETAILS:

Andrew W.K.
Monday 14th September, 2009
London KCLSU
Kings College London Student Union
Tickets £11 adv (subject to booking fee)
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For more information on Andrew W.K. visit:

Andrew W.K. Official Website