Line-up

Headliner
WhoMadeWho Last time in SF Bay Area: 10 months ago

Venue

Palace of Fine Arts

3301 Lyon Street, 94123, San Francisco, CA, US

www.palaceoffinearts.org

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WhoMadeWho biography

Consisting of jazz guitarist Jeppe Kjellberg, drummer Tomas Barfod and singer/bassist Tomas Høffding, WhoMadeWho is a dance punk band from Copenhagen, Denmark.

In the years since their inception WhoMadeWho have established themselves as one of the definitive underground bands of their generation, renowned for their exceptional grasp of emotional depth, heartrending melody and inspired songwriting. The Danish group, comprised Tomas Høffding, Tomas Barfod and Jeppe Kjellberg, inject their boundless energy into standout performances all over the globe, from Roskilde to Sonar and Melt! to Burning Man. They have produced seven albums and a plethora of EPs, singles and remixes on labels like Kompakt, Innervisions, Life & Death. With Barfod’s penchant for electronic music poetically juxtaposed with Høffding and Kjellberg’s respective backgrounds in rock and jazz, their music is an electrifying combination of sounds, merging a variety of influences to produce a unique sonic fingerprint that is emotive, irresistible and immensely satisfying. Their captivating hybrid DJ/live performances have become a key aspect of the group’s huge global appeal, alongside their powerful live shows.

Live reviews

Let’s get this out the way first. Whomadewho are a very, very cool band. They’re a Copenhagan based dance-punk/experimental pop trio who’ve worked with and remixed everyone from Hot Chip, to The Rapture, to Josh Homme and to Peaches. However. Whomadewho are one of the very, very few bands that don’t seem to be cool out of any sort of posture, that’s just how they roll. Which is kind of infuriating in and of itself but that’s more my problem than anything. Our problem. I meant Ours. Anyway! The other thing that makes Whomadewho as unmissable as they are is that they are unafraid of marrying experimental weirdness up with impossibly catchy tunes and ridiculous disco beats which make their live shows as much a feast for the heart and the hips as they are for the head. Teasing their tracks out to near ten minute remixes with as many badass drops as there are electronic freak outs all wrapped together with Tomas Høffding’s delectable falsetto, they’re a band one can have a lot of fun bragging to their hipper-than-thou friends about seeing, while still having a ton of fun actually going to see. We need more of their like around, and that’s without even getting to their cover of Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction. Ridiculous. Fun. Cool. Everything a band should be and a live band to see as soon as possible.

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